Workshop on
Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access

Call for participation

http://www.dimi.uniud.it/workshop/mir/

September 8, 2003 -- Udine (Italy)

[Overview] [Focus and aims] [Topics] [Submissions] [Dates]
[Organizing committee] [Program committee] [Final program]

Overview

***Post-workshop proceedings are being published by Springer, as LNCS 2954.

The ongoing migration of computing and information access from the desktop and telephone to mobile computing devices such as PDAs, tablet PCs, and next generation (G3) phones poses critical challenges for research in information access and, in particular, for Information Retrieval (IR). These devices offer limited screen size and no keyboard or mouse, making complex graphical interfaces cumbersome. This change in information access devices is also reflected by a radical change in IR user groups and tasks. Most future IR users will have low levels of IT literacy and will not be information access professionals, but casual users.

Therefore, these mobile devices will be used in situations involving different physical and social environments and tasks, and they will need to allow users to interact wherever he/she is and using whichever mode or combination of modes are most appropriate given the situation, their preferences and the task at hand. Furthermore, unlike traditional library or office settings, users of mobile IR devices will, typically, be subject to much higher levels of interruption and task switching - thus needing very different interface designs.

Focus and aims

The workshop aims to be a forum for the presentation of current research and exchange of experiences into technological and usability aspects of mobile information access. The workshop is interesting for both researchers and practitioners in all the above mentioned communities (information retrieval, digital libraries, HCI, mobile devices, and so on). To maximise information and idea exchange and foster future collaboration, we aim at a very informal atmosphere: we will have a single track session style, short presentations of the submitted papers, with extended time for discussion; we will also encourage submissions of panels, work groups, and posters.

The accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed on the workshop Web site. We also aim at a high quality event, leading to the preparation of a special issue of an internationally recognised journal, where selected papers will be invited to submit.

The topic of this workshop is a very lively research issue. In recent time, the following 2 workshops have been discussing (or are going to discuss) similar topics:

Topics

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

The workshop will discuss these topics in terms of existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical foundations, and on emerging directions of research.

Submission Instructions

In addition to paper presentations, we are also considering invited talks, demos of working prototypes, discussion workgroups, and panel discussions addressing hot topics. We will consider:

Electronic submission is required. Submissions should be formatted according to at ACM SIG style, using A4 paper. You can download templates and instructions from http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Electronic submission is by email. All submissions should be in PDF (preferred) or Postscript format and submitted as standard email attachments. You must submit an anonymous version of your paper/proposal, to allow blind reviewing. In the body of the email message you must specify the names of all the authors of the paper. Upon receipt the sender of the email will be considered as corresponding author during the review process. The submission email should be sent to mdd+mirsubmissions@cis.strath.ac.uk and will be automatically acknowledged upon receipt and later personally upon successful printing of your submission. Only submissions should be sent to this email address.

If any of these requirements are a problem for you, please contact the workshop organizers. Also, if you have any questions, just ask!

Note: Participants are expected to register for the main MHCI 2003 conference in addition to the workshop. Also note that the authors of accepted workshop papers have an extension of the early registration fee until July 10.

Important Dates and Deadlines

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

Final Program

This is still draft... Each presenter has 15' for paper presentation and 10' for questions. Each demo, and the short presentation, is given 10' in total. At the end of each session, a 5' to 15' group discussion is scheduled.

9:00 - 9:10 Introduction

9:10 - 10:30 Session 1

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee!

11:00 - 12:30 Session 2

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch!

14:30 - 16:00 Session 3

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee!

16:30 - 17:50 Session 4

17:50 - 18:25 Demos

18:25 - 18:30 Workshop closing

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