The Telecooperation Lab organizies the "2nd Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects" which will be held in conjunction with the IUI 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal. IUI is a top-rated international conference on intelligent user interfaces.
After a successful first workshop at the IUI 2011 in Palo Alto, California, USA which resulted in the preparation of a special issue of the TIIS journal, Max Mühlhäuser, Dirk Schnelle-Walka and Daniel Schreiber decided to continue these efforts.
Homepage: http://www.smart-object.org
Call for papers: http://www.smart-objects.org/CfP-InterSO.txt

Andreas Petter's PhD thesis "Modell-zu-Modell-Transformation von Modellen von Benutzerschnittstellen" was published.
http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/2884/