Call for Paper
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 2009 is following the successful MIRW workshops at MobileHCI 2006-2008. The 4th 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 2009 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.
Topics
Topics of the workshop are applications, interaction techniques, frameworks, and user studies in the area of mobile interaction with the real world. Possible research themes include (but are not limited to):
- Extending the user interface beyond the mobile device
- Mobile interaction with real world objects and smart objects
- Wearable computing and wearable input devices
- Multimodal interaction techniques using mobile phones
- Augmented and mixed reality on mobile devices
- Interaction techniques using external displays, projector phones or floor displays
- Using mobile device's sensors for pervasive applications
- Novel interfaces for conveying spatial information
- Pervasive interaction metaphors
- Guidelines and standards for mobile interactions with the real world
- Interaction techniques using multiple mobile devices
- Support of knowledge processes and collaboration through mobile and wearable technologies
Workshop Format
The workshop will feature presentations of research results, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, and critical questions related to the use of mobile and wearable devices as user interfaces in the real world. Every presentation will be followed by a corresponding discussion. We invite the presenters to show their demonstrators in a dedicated demo session. Results of the workshop and future research will be discussed in a panel-like style.