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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.mguide.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)