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Call for Participation: MobileHCI Design Competition
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Important dates:
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- 1st submission of IDEA DOCUMENTATION: April 22nd, 2011
- Notification of acceptance & review feedback: May 31st, 2011
° If you are selected for poster booth exhibition
- Camera-ready submission of IDEA DOCUMENTATION + POSTER: June 27th, 2011
° If you are selected for presentation:
- Camera-ready submission of IDEA DOCUMENTATION + PRESENTATION: June 27th, 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
• Android phones for the winners
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