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Call for Papers
The Third International Workshop on: "HCI in Mobile Guides"
September 13th 2004, in adjunction to mobileHCI '04, in Glasgow
This third workshop in this series of workshop's once again aims to
bring together both researchers and practitioners who develop and
evaluate mobile guides, i.e. systems designed to guide a user who is
moving in a physical environment by giving directions and supplying
relevant information and access to services via some form of mobile
device. Application examples of mobile guides include: mobile tourism
services, museum/exhibition guides, support for building communities and
context-aware directory services. The particular focus of this workshop
is on HCI issues relating to the design and practical use of mobile
guides through actual deployment and evaluation. Following review by the
program committee, accepted papers will be presented and discussed at
the workshop.
For details of this and previous workshops in the series see:
www.mguides.info
Today's mobile user demands easy access to relevant information services
from a variety of devices (both personal and situated/public), whenever
and wherever they need them. Example applications for mobile guides
include: mobile tourism services, indoor and outdoor
museum/exhibition/event guides and context-aware directory services.
Although the latest mobile devices and information services offer new
and enhanced ways to support nomadic users, they also raise challenges
concerning interaction modalities, usability, accessibility and
trustworthiness.
Topics relevant for this workshop include (in no particular order):
. Accessibility for particular groups, e.g. older users, visually
impaired etc.
. Suitability of different interaction metaphors, e.g.
anthropomorphic approaches that cope with the limitations imposed by
mobile devices.
. Visualization of the spatial environment, Augmented Reality.
2D/3D maps etc.
. Implications for adaptive behaviour, e.g. location awareness.
. Handling and conveying dynamic information, e.g. changes to
available services.
. Leisure/entertainment use (e.g. by games on treasure hunts or to
support spontaneous social gatherings).
. Techniques to facilitate access to heterogeneous and/or
distributed services.
. Support for both traditional and social navigation, e.g.
supporting anonymous recommendations etc.
. Personalization of services, e.g. use of user modelling
techniques.
. Techniques for and experience of user evaluation of mobile
guides.
. Novel infrastructures, such as agent-based technology, and their
implications for interaction.
. Fault tolerance, trustworthiness, and security.
. Approaches to (and results of) requirements capture for mobile
guides.
. Information retrieval and display whilst faced with changing
infrastructure conditions.
. Design solutions for "baby interfaces", i,e, small buttons,
small screens and small interaction devices (tiny joysticks and tiny
pens).
. Introducing the services to use; out-of-box experience.
. Issues arising from the opportunities and challenges provided by
multimodal user interfaces.
. Designing for the wild: new and innovative methods that explore
the design of mobile guides in the wild.
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. The workshop is
open to a limited number of 30 participants, including those who present
their paper, to allow a focused discussion of issues and ideas.
Please note that participants need to register for the whole
MobileHCI'04 conference. For registration details and fee see:
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/mobilehci04/registration.php.
Important Dates and Submission Instructions
4 June: deadline for submissions
5 July: author's notification of acceptance
20 July: camera ready paper due
Submitted papers should be of 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. Submissions should
be in PDF format (preferably) or Microsoft Word (any version, no
macros), and sent as email attachment to the workshop organisers. 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.
Workshop Organisers
Keith Cheverst:
kc (at) comp.lancs.ac.uk
Barbara Schmidt-Belz:
Barbara.Schmidt-Belz (at) fit.fraunhofer.de
Programme Committee:
Lynne Baillie (FTW, Vienna)
Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University),
Fabian Hermann (Fraunhofer IAO, Germany)
Eija Kaasinen (VTT Information Technology, Finland)
Chris Kray (Lancaster University, UK)
Elke-Maria Melchior (ACIT, Germany)
Stefan Poslad (Queen Mary University of London)
Barbara Schmidt-Belz (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
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