Topics include:

• Support of creativity, complexity and innovation
• Multi-sensorial input, visualization and virtual prototyping
• Technologies and methods for virtual engineering
• Sensor technologies and sensor networks
• Transmission and communication technologies
• Next generation Internet and ad hoc networking
• Interaction with ubiquitous/pervasive products
• Designing and validating smart and intelligent products
• Emerging issues of ubiquitous engineering in education
• New processes for embedded systems and application
• Strategic and incremental innovations in social context
• Knowledge and information as basis for product innovation
• Approaches for virtual and physical unerring system validation
• Advances in integrated global and base of the pyramid product development
• Human aspects of omnipresent product innovation
• Industrial application case studies