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Mobile HCI and Sound Workshop
A Workshop at Mobile HCI 2004 The 6th International
Conference on Human Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services.
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Monday 13th September 2004 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Friday 16th July 2004
1 Introduction
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Sound plays an increasingly varied and vital role in mobile and ubiquitous
user interaction. One reason is the limited screen real-estate available in
typical mobile devices. Another reason is that many mobile devices are used
in minimal attention situations. These are situations in which the user has
only limited attention available for the interface: the user's eyes may be
busy elsewhere; and the user may be busy avoiding the normal hazards of
moving around, and engaging with real-world tasks. In many circumstances,
such interactions will involve non-speech audio and gesture to afford
natural means of access to information, to other people, and to services and
situations in the environment.
A complementary set of issues concerns Mobile HCI and Music. Mobile
interaction technologies will create new opportunities for musicians to
compose and perform music on the move and away from studios and concert
halls, including in new shared ways. The new technology will also create
opportunities for listeners; for new approaches to music education, and for
the spontaneous sharing of music by all. The workshop will actively seek to
benefit from cross fertilisation between researchers involved in both areas.
The workshop will seek to gather researchers from a variety of disciplines,
to examine challenges, issues, problems, principles, findings, new
applications and demonstrations related to Mobile HCI and Sound.
2 Topics
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Topics of interest will include, but not be limited to:
. Sound as an interaction element in minimal attention interfaces
. Spatial sound in mobile HCI
. Auditory displays in mobile & ubiquitous user interaction
. Sound and gesture in mobile interface techniques
. Sound for sighted mobile users
. Sound for mobile users with visual disabilities
. Sound in social navigation
. Complementarity between non-speech and speech audio
. Complementarity between audio and haptic mobile interfaces
. Mobile, Ubiquitous and Tangible HCI in music performance
. The Mobile Musician Machine Interface
. Innovative Mobile Musician Machine Interfaces
. Music as an interaction element
. Mobile HCI and music composition
. Spontaneous music, mobility and audio sharing
. Mobile collaborative and distributed composition
. Mobile collaborative performance
. Mobile digital technology in music education
. Nomadic composition.
3 Aims
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This workshop aims to promote dialogue on Mobile HCI and Sound, encourage
research in the area and to share experiences to mutual advantage among
people addressing the topic from different perspectives.
4 Intended Participants
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We specifically wish to foster exchange and interaction among participants
from different communities, including, but not limited to, designers,
developers, computer scientists, musicians, evaluators, psychologists, and
ethnographers, thus fostering cross-fertilization among research
communities. Participants at all stages in their research are encouraged to
participate. Research based on implemented systems will be particularly
welcome.
5 Demonstrations
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Demos and experiences based on implemented systems, (including those that
integrate mobile technologies with fixed ones - e.g. large projection
screens, synthesizers, input devices etc) are warmly welcome. It is
anticipated that a surround sound system will be available if required for
demonstrations. We particularly encourage demonstrations that allow
individuals and small groups to gain hands-on experience.
Format and Submission
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The workshop will be held as a full day event, and will provide time for
presenting papers, demos, discussing posters and for focused discussion
groups covering issues identified in the workshop.
We invite papers of a maximum of six pages, formatted according to the
standard LNCS workshop style (see below). The deadline for submission is
Friday 16th July 2004. The workshop organizers will select participants
based on the papers, taking into account quality and relation to the
workshop topics. Some, but not all, of the accepted papers will be selected
for presentation. We will also select posters and two kinds of
demonstration: those designed to be presented in a plenary session, and
demonstrations designed for presentation to individual or small groups of
participants.
Posters and Demos should be submitted together with an accompanying two-page
paper for inclusion in the self-published workshop proceedings. A surround
sound system has been arranged for the workshop.
Notification of acceptance will be mailed to the contact author by 1st
August 2004. A self-published proceedings will be available for registered
attendees on the day, and the proceedings will also be published in advance
on the web. Provided the quality and volume of submissions merit, we will
invite selected authors to revise their papers after the workshop for a
published workshop proceedings or journal special issue.
Attendees can either register for the full conference (?300 before 11th
June) and take part in the workshop free of charge, OR register for one day
of the conference (?100 before 11th June) and only attend the workshop.
Useful URLs
Mobile HCI 2004 http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/mobilehci04
Mobile HCI Workshops
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/mobilehci04/programme.php
Mobile HCI and Sound Workshop http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mobsound/ (after 8th
June).
Paper Format and Submission
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Please submit papers in pdf format (and word format, if available) without
numbering of pages. LNCS Format templates are available for Latex or MS Word
from this website:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.h
tml
Please submit papers to g.leplatre with napier.ac.uk, or see the workshop
website http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mobsound/ for fuller submission details.
Important Dates
- June 11, 2004. Deadline for early discounted registration to the
conference or workshop. Attendees can either register for the full
conference (?300 before 11th June) and take part in the workshop free of
charge, OR register for one day of the conference (?100 before 11th June)
and only attend the workshop.
- July 9, 2004. Deadline for standard registration to the conference and
workshops (full conference rate ?350, OR one day/workshop fee only, ?120).
- Friday 16th July 2004. Deadline for submissions (6 pages maximum).
- Sunday 1st August 2004. Notification of acceptance.
- September 13, 2004, 9am-5pm. Workshop takes place in Glasgow.
- September 14-16 2004. Mobile HCI Conference takes place in Glasgow.
Organizing Committee
Simon Holland
Department of Computing,
The Open University, Milton Keynes.
Email: s.holland with domain open.ac.uk
Robert Day
Department of Computing,
The Open University, Milton Keynes.
Email: r.h.day with domain open.ac.uk
Gregory Leplatre
School of Computing
Napier University, Edinburgh
Email: g.leplatre with domain napier.ac.uk
Alistair Edwards
Department of Computer Science
University of York
Email: alistair with domain cs.york.ac.uk
Preliminary Agenda
Workshop date: September 13, 2004, 9am-5pm:
09:00 Welcome, Introduction, Overview
09:15 - 10:00 1st themed Paper Session
10:00 - 10:30 2nd themed Paper Session
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break, posters and demonstrations
11:15 - 12:00 3rd themed Paper Session
12:00 - 12:45 Demonstration Session
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch Break and Poster Exhibition
14:15 - 15:00 4th themed Paper Session
15:00 - 15:45 Form Discussion Groups, Discussions
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition and Demonstrations
16:15 - 15:00 Discussion Presentations, End.
The poster exhibition will be open to all conference participants. Poster
viewers will be given the opportunity to talk to the authors of posters.
Posters will be on display until the workshop closes.
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