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Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" - 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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