Mobile Interaction with the Real World
Mobile devices have become a part of our everyday lives as most people rely on mobile phones, PDAs, and multimedia player as personal and pervasive information devices. Over the last years, there has been an increasing interest in extending this interaction to the interaction with objects from the everyday world using mobile devices. The Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW) workshop 2008 is following the successful MIRW workshops at MobileHCI 2006 and MobileHCI 2007. The 3rd workshop in the MIRW series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for interaction between people, devices, and real world objects. The complete Call for Papers is available here.
The workshop welcomes all contributions that are related to mobile interaction with the real world. This includes new techniques, technologies and scenarios for physical mobile interaction, distribution of mobile interfaces between mobile devices and real world objects, security and privacy issues, using different sensors for mobile interaction, multimodality or authoring support. This 1-day workshop will combine technical presentations with the presentation of prototypes and focused discussions to drive interaction between participants. Authors are invited to submit contributions that follow the Mobile HCI 2008 proceedings format and consist of up to four pages. At least one author of accepted papers needs to register for the workshop and for one day of the conference.
Possible topics for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
The workshop will feature presentation of research results, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, and critical questions related to mobile interaction with the real world. Every presentation will be followed by a corresponding discussion. Furthermore we invite the presenters to show their demonstrators during their presentation and in the breaks.