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Call for Participation: MobileHCI Design Competition
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Important dates:
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• Submission of IDEA DOCUMENTATION (EXTENDED): May 18, 2011
• Notification of acceptance & review feedback: June 1, 2011
• Submission of camera ready material (IDEA DOCUMENTATION + POSTER
or PRESENTATION): June 18, 2011
Website: http://www.mobilehci2011.org/node/34
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Design brief: The Essence of Mobile Communication and Connectivity.
Mobile technology is very close to everyday lives, for more than half of the
world’s population. It is reflected well by the fact that we hear about it
very often. However designers, researchers, technologists and journalists
alike tend to give too much highlights on what’s new, especially around
high-end, so-called ‘Smart phones’. Arguably, smart phones embody the
exciting future of mobile connectivity, but they may not reflect the reality
of mobile connectivity for majority of users around the world for many years
to come, due to affordability, infrastructure, total cost of ownership, and
simply, user preference.
Overall, people’s behaviors around mobile communication devices have
certainly changed over the past decades. People have experienced a
considerable diversity of mobile phones, hence it is logical to assume that
what people may consider as essential features of a mobile phone would have
been diversified and changed as well.
Thereby we challenge contestants to define the essence of mobile
communication and connectivity and demonstrate what, why and how to design
it. Most importantly, contestants need to think about a mobile device that
is not about extra new features but is rooted on the good design of its core
essential functionalities and experience they will create. Perhaps we can
think about a phone that uses the exact same hardware features of existing
basic phones but with a completely redesigned user experience. Perhaps we
can think about a phone that “pushes” some of its intelligence to the cloud.
Or a phone that can be operated with voice and that does not require a
display.
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Organizers:
* Younghee Jung
* Mauro Cherubini
Winners will get…
• A certificate of acknowledgment presented at the closing session
of the conference
• Acknowledgment on the conference web site
• Smart phones for the winners
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