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Workshop on "Mobile Tourism Support Systems" - 1st Call for Papers.
17 September 2002, Pisa, in adjunction to MobileHCI '02
This workshop aims to bring together R&D projects that develop and
evaluate tourism support systems for use on mobile devices. The focus on
this specific application domain and user group should allow us to
become more concrete about usability issues. Reviewed papers will be
presented at the workshop and the time schedule will allow for
discussion among participants.
Today's nomadic users expect to get access to the services and
information from various devices, whenever and wherever they need it.
They often try to combine several purposes of travelling, such as
business and edutainment. They may want to tailor their visit and to
dynamically change their itinerary based upon their current context, so
the usefulness of preplanned intentions may be limited.
Mobile terminals, such as mobile phones or PDAs, open up new and
enhanced ways to support tourists while on tour. Mobile devices, with an
internal or external positioning system, coupled to back-end information
services about users and the locations, are currently being investigated
as a means to deliver location-based and personalized tourism
information to tourists. While the new technologies promise benefits and
added values, they also raise challenges concerning usability,
accessibility and trustworthiness.
This workshop aims at bringing together experts form R&D projects that
develop systems to support travelling people, which are accessible on
mobile devices. Aspects of use and usability ought to be addressed
explicitly, reports of empirical studies are especially welcome.
Topics relevant for this workshop are, for instance,
- on-tour support for travellers
- access to tourist support, e-content and e-business via mobile devices
- facilitate access to heterogeneous, distributed services
- location-awareness and personalization
- context-awareness, considering a wider range of travelling conditions
- social awareness
- user evaluation of tourist support systems
- novel infrastructures, such as agent based technology
- fault tolerance, trustworthiness, and security
- support all phases of travelling, including preparation and post-tour
activities
- roaming between devices
Authors are asked to send a paper (max. 6 pages), which will be
reviewed. Accepted papers are to be presented on the workshop. These
papers will be published online. The workshop organizers aim at editing
a special issue of a journal; the authors of the accepted papers are
invited to elaborate their paper to a full journal paper after the
workshop.
The workshop is open to a limited number of 25 participants, including
those who present their paper, to allow a focussed discussion of issues
and ideas. Workshop deadlines, format, and publications. It is our aim
to have as short a review and submission process as possible to support
the dynamic nature of the research area. Therefore, all deadlines are
likely to be strictly enforced and are as follows:
* 15 June 2002 Submission of papers for workshop presentation.
This should be 4-6 pages in the format of Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submission should be in PDF format (preferably) or Microsoft Word (any
version, no macros). Please send as email attachment to
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of and authorized by her or his co-authors.
* 15 July 2002 Notification to authors of outcome of review process.
15 August 2002 Final version of accepted papers for online publication;
authors should take into account their reviewers' recommendations. The
paper should be finished in PDF format, max. 6 pages, to be sent to
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* 17 September 2002 Workshop (i.e. the day before Mobile HCI 2002)
* October 2002: further procedure towards special issue of journal will
be communicated to authors (Final papers should be up to 12 pages in
length (format as requested by journal), should take into account
reviewers comments from the first round and will be subject to a second
round of reviewing.)
Please note that it will be obligatory to register for the workshop,
though not for the whole
conference MobileHCI'02.
For registration details and fee see
http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html.
Program Committee of Workshop:
- Barbara Schmidt-Belz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany,
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- Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK, <[log in to unmask]>
- Elke-Maria Melchior, ACIT, Germany
- Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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