Workshops

We are happy to host the following workshops:

(All workshops are held on August 30, 2011)

1. AUTOMobileHCI CANCELLED!
2. Mobile Family Interaction: How to use mobile technology to bring trust, safety and wellbeing into families
3. IwS: Interacting with Sound- A Workshop Exploring Context-aware, Local and Social Audio Applications
4. Mobile Interaction in Retail Environments
5. SiMPE: 6th Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments
6. Mobile Work Efficiency: Enhancing Workflows with Mobile Devices
7. Exploring Design Methods for Mobile Learning
8. Please Enjoy! Studying playful experiences with mobile technologies
9. Mobile technologies to support an ageing population: potential, challenges and vision CANCELLED!
10. Mobile Augmented Reality: Design Issues and Opportunities
11. Internet of Things marries Social Media
12. Mobile Wellness – Collecting, Visualizing and Interacting with Personal Health Data
13. Designing and Evaluating Mobile Systems for Collocated Group Use
14. Body, movement, gesture & tactility in interaction with mobile devices

 

1. AutoMobileHCI CANCELLED!

2. Mobile Family Interaction: How to use mobile technology to bring trust, safety and wellbeing into families

Workshop website: http://familyinteraction.wordpress.com

Recent studies have demonstrated that children’s use of mobile devices has rapidly increased, especially with smartphones, i.e. devices that are capable to connect to the Internet. This has lead to increase interest from regulators and policy makers in the field to understand the nature of opportunities and potential threats of these new mobile forms of communication. However, what has been indicated in many reports is that the research conducted regarding these matters is parse, needing attention from several fields.

This workshop focuses on the use of mobile communication by and among children (6-12 years), and within families. We invite empirical studies of the usage, threats and opportunities of mobile computing with children. We also invite theoretical works and more practice-orientated case studies about improving media literacy skills, child-child mediation as a method for cooping with the risks and other related topics. The focus should be on how the parent-child mediation is affected by ongoing technological changes in our society, and moreover how the mobile interaction can be used to improve family life.

Interested researchers are invited to submit 2-4 pages, outlining current research formatted according to the MobileHCI 2011 Archive Format.

Submission deadline: April 8

Organisers:

• Jofish Kaye (Nokia)
• Matti Nelimarkka (Nokia),
• Pekka Isosomppi (Nokia),
• Sini Vartiainen (Nokia)
• Riitta Kauppinen (Save the Children Finland)

3. IwS: Interacting with Sound- A Workshop Exploring Context-aware, Local and Social Audio Applications

Workshop website:http://iwsws.wikidot.com

In this workshop, we explore novel applications, services, tools, and systems that take advantage of the audio channel on mobile devices to feed users with a flow of information. We call for innovative ideas to introduce ambient context-aware, location-aware,and/or social audio as a more effective means of communicating information and providing experiences to mobile users.

We are interested in submissions of novel, previously not published work on relevant topics including: Hands-free LBS, Location-aware Music/News/Audio, Car/Bike/Walk/Run Audio Guides, Pervasive Games, Applications for Vision Impaired, Real-time Audio and Location-casting

The papers should present novel ideas and concrete implementations of innovative mobile sound interaction solutions. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers and evaluated based on their originality, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the workshop.

Interested researchers are invited to submit 2-4 pages, outlining current research formatted according to the MobileHCI 2011 Archive Format.

Submission deadline: April 8

Organisers:

• Thomas Sandholm (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
• Elsa Kosmack Vaara (Mobile Life Center)
• April Mitchell (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
• Jonas Söderberg (Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB)
• Alex Vorbau (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

4. Mobile Interaction in Retail Environments

Workshop website: http://www.dfki.de/mire

The workshop on mobile interaction in retail environ- ments (MIRE) brings together researchers and practi- tioners from academy and industry to explore how mo- bile phones and mobile interaction can be embedded in retail environments to create new shopping experiences and mobile enhanced services.

Interested researchers are invited to submit 2-4 pages, outlining current research formatted according to the MobileHCI 2011 Archive Format.

Submission deadline: April 8

Organisers:

• Sven Gehring (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
• Markus Löchtefeld (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
• Carsten Magerkurth (SAP)
• Petteri Nurmi (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
• Florian Michahelles (Auto-ID Labs, ETH Zurich)

5. SiMPE: 6th Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments

With the proliferation of pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities, client-side speech processing has been emerging as a viable alternative. The SiMPE workshop series started in 2006 [5] with the goal of enabling

speech processing on mobile and embedded devices to meet the challenges of pervasive environments (such as noise) and leveraging the context they oer (such as location). SiMPE 2010, the latest in the series brought together, very success-

fully, researchers from the speech and the HCI communities. We believe this is the beginning. SiMPE 2011, the 6th in the series, will continue to explore issues, possibilities, and approaches for enabling speech processing as well as convenient and eective speech and multimodal user interfaces. Over the years, SiMPE has been

evolving too, and since last year, one of our major goals has been to increase the participation of speech/multimodal HCI designers, and increase their interactions with speech applications.Given the multi-disciplinary nature of our goal, we hope

that SiMPE will become the prime meeting ground for experts in these varied fields to bring to fruition, novel, useful and usable mobile speech applications.

Papers should be of 4-8 pages in length in the MobileHCI publication format. All submissions should be in PDF and  should be submitted electronically through the workshop submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpe11.

Submission Deadline: April 8, 2011

Organisers:

• Amit A. Nanavati (IBM Research, India Research Lab)
• Nitendra Rajput (IBM Research, India Research Lab)
• Alex Rudnicky (United States CMU)
• Markku Turunen (University of Tampere)
• Andrew Kun (University of New Hampshire)
• Tim Paek (Microsoft Research)
• Ivan Tashev (Microsoft Research)

6. Mobile Work Efficiency: Enhancing Workflows with Mobile Devices

This workshop will be a forum of multi-disciplinary discussion on how mobile devices can increase perceived work efficiency (PWE), as well as how this subjective enhancement can be measured. It brings together practitioners and researchers from different domains interested in researching perceived workflow efficiency in the mobile context. The overall aim is to create a common base, as well as further extend the research agenda for work efficiency enhancement with the assistance of mobile devices both from a scientific, as well as from an industrial perspective.

Interested researchers are invited to submit 2-4 pages, outlining current research formatted according to the MobileHCI 2011 Extended Abstracts Format.

Extended! Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011

Organisers:

• Alexander Meschtscherjakov (University of Salzburg)
• Christiane Moser (University of Salzburg)
• Manfred Tscheligi (University of Salzburg)
• Erika Reponen (Nokia Research Center)

7. Exploring Design Methods for Mobile Learning

This full-day workshop aims at discussing how different accounts of mobile interactions can assist in designing technologies for learning at several locations. Whereas pedagogical theories provide a set of tenets to frame and organize educational objectives, designing supporting technologies requires understanding the nature of the mobile interactions entailed in learning at several sites. The workshop intends to create a dialogue between researchers in mobile HCI and in Mobile Learning. Such an inter-disciplinary dialogue could assist pedagogical design by bringing to the forefront the social, spatial, temporal and contextual issues related to people’s active engagement with the “here” and “now” of specific learning experiences.

Contributors are invited to submit position papers of max 4 pages following the MobileHCI template to:

Extended! Submission Deadline: April 30

Organisers:

• Chiara Rossitto (Dep of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University)
• Teresa Cerratto-Pargman    (Dep of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University)
• Daniel Spikol (School of Comp Science, Physics and Mathematics, Växjö University) Leif M Hokstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

8. Please Enjoy! Studying playful experiences with mobile technologies

Workshop website: http://playfulmobilehci.wordpress.com/

This workshop aims to explore different approaches and challenges in studying playfulness as a mode of interacting with mobile technology. Researchers, designers and developers with interest in this theme are welcome to participate in a full day activity of demos, presentations and discussions. In particular, our emphasis is on how to introduce, explore and understand playful interaction in mobile applications used in the wild.

Interested researchers are invited to submit a 4 page submission paper, outlining current research formatted according to the MobileHCI 2011 Archive Format.

Extended! Submission Deadline: April 30

Organisers:

• Ylva Fernaeus (Mobile Life at SICS)
• Jussi Holopainen  (Nokia Research Centre)
• Tilde Bekker (Tu/e Eindhoven)

9. Mobile technologies to support an ageing population: potential, challenges and vision CANCELLED!

10. Mobile Augmented Reality: Design Issues and Opportunities

Workshop website: http://www.elizabethchurchill.com/MARWorkshop/index.html

With the rapid evolution of mobile devices, smart- phones in particular, comes the ability to create new experiences that enhance the way we see, interact, and express ourselves, within the world that surrounds us. We can blend data from our senses and our devices in myriad ways that simply weren’t possible before. This workshop explores the current and future state of Mobile Augmented Reality. We will promote discussion about issues and opportunities in the space. We will explore potential for innovation and opportunities for collaboration between researchers working on augmented reality. We envision a lively discussion on the different approaches, challenges and benefits that may arise from the use of mobile Augmented Reality in the near future from an HCI perspective. We also aim at fostering new collaborations and establishing a research agenda within the field of mobile augmented reality.

To participate, please submit a 2 to 4 page paper using MobileHCI’s extended abstracts template .

Submission deadline: April 5

Organisers:

• Marco De Sa (Yahoo! Research)
• Elizabeth F. Churchill (Yahoo! Research)
• Katherine Isbister (NYU Polytechnic Institute)

11. Internet of Things marries Social Media

What happens when non-human objects enter social me-dia and start imitating social relations with people? Starting from a social networking stance towards connected objects this workshop looks at the challenges of designing for the dualism in objects consisting of a physical thing and a digital representation online, and how we could develop user interaction models that are understandable, liberates from the screens and move out in the physical world.

To participate, please submit a 2 to 4 page position paper using MobileHCI’s extended abstracts format to

Extended! Submission Deadline: April 30

Organisers:

• Joakim Formo (Ericsson Research)
• Jarmo Laaksolahti (Mobile Life at SICS)
• Marcus Gårdman (Ericsson Research)

12. Mobile Wellness – Collecting, Visualizing and Interacting with Personal Health Data

Workshop website: http://www.ict.kth.se/mw2011/

Mobile devices are now able to connect to a variety of sensors and provide personalized information to help people reflect on and improve their health.  For example, pedometers, heart-rate sensors, glucometers, and other sensors can all provide real-time data to a variety of devices. Collecting and interacting with personal health or well-being data is a growing research area. This workshop will focus on the ways in which our mobile devices can aggregate and visualize these types of data and how these data streams can be presented to encourage interaction, increased awareness and positive behavior change.

Submissions should be 4-6 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format and should briefly describe the author’s work in related domains and their goals for participation in the workshop.

Submission Deadline: April 8

Organisers:

• Konrad Tollmar (KTH)     
• Frank Bentley (Motorola Mobility)
• John Moore (MIT Media Lab)               
• Alex Olwal (MIT Media Lab)

13. Designing and Evaluating Mobile Systems for Collocated Group Use

Workshop website: http://nirmalpatel.com/mobile_collocated/index.html

With the proliferation of mobile devices it has become common to see groups of users working or playing together using multiple mobile devices. While much effort is exerted to ensure that interaction with a mobile device is useful for each individual user, less effort has gone into considering how to design and evaluate mobile interfaces and platforms for group use. Recent improvements in the interaction, computing, connectivity and general flexibility of mobile devices make them an ideal, yet underutilized, platform for group level interaction. Our goal with this workshop is to bring together researchers who have started to investigate the collocated group use of mobile devices and to shed light on the challenges of designing and evaluating mobile collocated group experiences.

Position papers should be 2-4 pages, addressing the general area of interest.

Submission deadline: April 30

Contact:

Organisers:

• Nirmal Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology, Google)
• James Clawson (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Mobile Gestures

Workshop website:  http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/mobilegestures2011/

In the search for novel and more expressive interaction techniques for mobile devices, bodily aspects such as movement, gesture, and touch based interfaces are prominent. For instance, touch-screen gestures have found widespread application in mobile device interfaces while bodily gestures involving device movement are successfully applied in gaming scenarios. Other modalities, like pressure, free-hand and on body interaction are increasingly being explored in research systems in mobile settings. This is becoming possible through current developments that have made sensing and actuating technologies cheaper and more easily integrated in mobile and handheld devices. The turn towards experiential, embodied, enacted perspectives on cognition and action has also contributed to a shift in what aspects of interaction focus upon in interaction design. This has lead to HCI-researchers to explore now only how the whole human body can be taken into account in design, but also to explore new domains of application for instance in leisure, entertainment and public urban environments.

Organisers:

• Sven Kratz, Media Informatics Group, University of Munich, Germany
• Michael Rohs, Media Informatics Group, University of Munich, Germany
• Katrin Wolf, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
• Jörg Müller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories TU Berlin, Germany 
• Mathias Wilhelm, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory TU Berlin, Germany
• Jakob Tholander, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
• Jarmo Laaksolahti, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
• Carolina Johansson, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University