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Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" - 1st Call for Papers
8 September 2003, in adjunction to mobileHCI '03, in Udine (Italy)
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who
develop and evaluate mobile guides, i.e. systems to guide a user who is
moving in a physical environment by giving directions and supplying
relevant information and services, accessible on mobile devices.
Application examples of mobile guides include: mobile tourism services,
museum/exhibition guides, facility management, group meeting support.
The focus of this workshop is on HCI issues relating to the design and
use of mobile guides. Following review by the program committee,
accepted papers will be presented and discussed at the workshop.
Today's nomadic users demand access to relevant information services
from a variety of devices (both personal and situated/public), whenever
and wherever they need them. Examples of applications for mobile guides
include: mobile tourism services, museum/exhibition guides, and
navigation assistants for business use (e.g. by utility companies to
help locate assets in the field) or leisure use (e.g. by games on
treasure-hunts or to support spontaneous social gatherings). Although
the latest mobile devices and information services offer new and
enhanced ways to support nomadic users while on tour, they also raise
challenges concerning interaction modalities, usability, accessibility
and trustworthiness.
Topics relevant for this workshop are, for instance,
- access to tourist support, e-content and e-business via mobile devices
- techniques to facilitate access to heterogeneous, distributed services
- navigation support and visualization of the spatial environment
- accessibility of mobile guides
- context awareness, location awareness and social awareness
- social navigation through anonymous recommendations etc.
- personalization of services
- user validation of mobile guides
- novel infrastructures, such as agent-based technology
- fault tolerance, trustworthiness, and security
- information retrieval and display whilst faced with changing
infrastructure conditions
This workshop aims to bring together experts who develop or evaluate
mobile guides and wish to share and discuss their experiences in this
workshop. Aspects of human-computer interaction are to be addressed
explicitly, empirical studies are especially welcome.
Authors are asked to send a paper (max. 6 pages) for review. Accepted
papers are to be presented on the workshop. These papers will be
published online.
The workshop is open to a limited number of 30 participants, including
those who present their paper, to allow a focussed discussion of issues
and ideas.
Deadlines and format
* 30 May 2003: Deadline for submission of papers for workshop
presentation, length 4-6 pages A4, formatted according to the ACM SIG
style. You can download templates and instructions from
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Submission should be in PDF format (preferably) or Microsoft Word (any
version, no macros), to be sent as email attachment to
<[log in to unmask]>. The submitter of this email
will be considered the corresponding author, whom we assume to act on
behalf of and authorized by her or his co-authors.
* 5 July 2003 Notification to authors.
* 20 July 2003 Final version of accepted papers for online publication
due. Authors should take into account the recommendations of reviewers.
Final paper max. 6 pages in PDF format, to be sent to
<[log in to unmask]>.
* 8 September 2003 Workshop (i.e. the day before MobileHCI 2003)
Please note that participants need to register for the whole
MobileHCI'03 conference. For registration details and fee see
http://hcilab.uniud.it/mobilehci/registration.html.
Program Committee of Workshop:
- Barbara Schmidt-Belz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany,
mailto:[log in to unmask]
- 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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