Human Workshop Mobile
Gaynelle Alnutt
The Health Permit Workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at Admiral Kidd Park (2125 Santa Fe Ave.). People can RSVP by calling 562.570.4132 or emailing Environme...@longbeach.gov. RSVP is appreciated, but not required. Spanish, Khmer and Tagalog interpreters will be on site during the workshop.
The workshop will cover the Health Permit application process and provide an overview of Senate Bill (SB972) and Senate Bill (SB946), both of which lower barriers to operation for mobile food vendors. SB972 will take effect on Jan. 1, 2023.
In addition to the presentation, food vendors will be able to ask questions at the workshop. Those who cannot attend, or who have questions in advance of the workshop, can call 562.570.4132 or email Environme...@longbeach.gov for assistance.
Additionally, the City is currently gathering information and input to help inform the development of a sidewalk vending ordinance in Long Beach. The community survey is available now through Dec. 18.
The combination of mobile with Internet and IP-based technologies, and the integration of fixed and mobile technologies, raises a host of possibilities for innovative applications and new modes of interaction. Wireless applications of pervasive or ubiquitous technologies conjure up images of intelligent homes and always-on human monitoring. Already, location-based technologies can help police and parents protect children from abductions or other forms of crimes. Combined with customized advertising, such location technologies can be a boon to retailers wishing to promote their products to potential buyers passing by. Multimedia messaging services (MMS) and streaming mobile video are opening up more exciting person-to-person services and customized entertainment. Although predicting the future is a risky business in the telecommunication industry, an understanding of the key technologies for "everywhere, anytime" mobile that are being developed can allow us to have some grasp on the shape and direction of the future mobile information society.
The question that is raised is whether we are well-equipped as a society, and as individuals, to live in a world of technological ubiquity, a world in which an intelligent microwave warms up your dinner before you get home, or your mobile phone tells you that your husband is still at the supermarket. Consider the use of tiny Radio Frequency ID tags imbedded into clothing to help retail businesses track inventory. Will these remain active once the item has been purchased and what kind of information will be collected? The new generation of always-on, anytime, anyplace technologies may allow for levels of convenience, but also of surveillance, unknown and unimagined by earlier generations. At the dawn of this new age, it is important to consider what effect these technologies are having on the way we grow, interact, socialize and learn.
A New Initiatives Workshop (see Agenda) on "Shaping the future mobile information society" was held 4-5 March 2004 in Seoul (Korea, Rep. of), hosted by Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC). This joint ITU-MIC Workshop followed an ITU-MIC New Initiatives Symposium (See Programme ) held on 3 March 2004 on "Shaping the future broadband convergence network". Both events were made possible through close collaboration between the ITU's Strategy and Policy Unit and Korea's MIC and International Cooperation Agency for Korea IT.
This topic, i.e. what happens next in the mobile information society, was selected on the basis of priorities expressed by ITU Member States and Sector Members. This and other topics under the New Initiatives Programme are chosen on the basis of a regular questionnaire sent to all ITU Member States and Sector Members.
The proliferation of smart devices, mobile applications, and IoT systems in our daily lives has created significant opportunities for a more efficient, productive, healthy, and sustainable society centered in short and long term human needs. To translate those opportunities into reality, we have seen increasing research attention from a number of disciplines. As human activity, behavior, and user experience become important factors in smart services and mobile applications, the research will bring a new focus on human-centered sensing, networking, and systems.The HumanSys workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in related fields from academia, industry, and service providers, to share idea and experience related to human-centered technologies and applications. We are also interested in work that tries to understand the implications of human and user-centered focus on system design. For example, traditional hardware or software optimizations in memory, speed, and form-factor may no longer be sufficient for a system to be successful.Both visionary white papers and technical papers are encouraged. To that end, papers are solicited from all related areas, including, but not limited to the following topics:
A number of developers of conversational voice applications feel that themodel of human language currently supported by W3C standards such as SRGS, SISRand PLS is not adequate and that developers need new capabilities in order tosupport more sophisticated conversational applications.
The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations of the current W3Clanguage model in order to develop a more comprehensive model. We plan tocollect and analyze use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately willbe used to identify improvements to the W3C language model. Just as W3Cdeveloped SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for which SSML is useful, thiseffort will result in improved support for language capabilities that areunsupported today.
Position papers will be the basis for the discussions at the workshop.Individuals wishing to participate must submit a position paper by the dateshown below. The program committee will select papers that provide insight intothe requirements and use cases for improving the W3C language model.
Position papers must be written in English. Examples may be illustrated withnon-English languages with an English explanation. All papers should be 1 to 5pages, although they may link to longer versions or appendices. Allowed formatsare valid HTML or XHTML, PDF, or plain text. Papers in any other format(including invalid HTML/XHTML) will be returned with a request for correctformatting.
The Program Committee will ask the authors of particularly salient positionpapers to explicitly present their position at the workshop to fosterdiscussion. Presenters will be asked to make the slides of the presentationavailable on the workshop home page in HTML, PDF, or plain text.
On October 20 and 21, the Design Lab jointly organized a workshop with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at their headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop focused on Human Systems Integration (HSI), which is a rapidly growing field involving the analysis, design and assessment of human interactions with complex sociotechnical systems and products (e.g., aircraft, spacecraft, mobile devices, web sites). NCI is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of 11 agencies that comprise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In Bethesda, the Design Lab had the unique opportunity to help the Healthcare Delivery Research Program (HDRP) at NCI plan for a new set extramural funding opportunities associated with HSI in healthcare. Prior to the meeting, the Design Lab held frequent conference calls with NCI over a period of months to select the participants for the workshop and devise a schedule. In total, the Design Lab brought together approximately 20 cancer researchers, healthcare delivery experts and HSI designers from UC San Diego, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas, University of Maryland, University of Toronto, Georgia Institute of Technology, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and other institutions including attendees from the Federal Communications Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The workshop generated considerable interest among health policy makers in Washington, D.C. and follow-up efforts are already underway. In fact, the Design Lab will host a Spring 2017 meeting of West Coast stakeholders in the HSI and cancer research fields.
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