MobileHCI
Encyclopedia
The Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) series of academic conference
s is hosted in cooperation with ACM
SIGCHI
, the Special Interest Group
on Computer-Human Interaction, and ACM SIGMOBILE
, the Special Interest Group on mobility of systems, users, data and computing. MobileHCI has been held annually since 1998. The conference is reasonably competitive, with an acceptance rate of 25% in 2006 and 21.6% in 2009.. MobileHCI 2011 was held in Stockholm
, Sweden, with MobileHCI 2012 due to be held in San Francisco, USA.
and held at the University of Glasgow. In the following year the workshop was held in conjunction with the Interact conference and was organized by Stephen Brewster
and Mark Dunlop. In 2001 MobileHCI was again organized by Brewster and Dunlop in association with a major conference. This was in conjunction with IHM-HCI in Lille
, France.
In 2002 MobileHCI was held independently from an associated conference as a stand-alone symposium in Pisa
, Italy, organized by Fabio Paternò
. In 2003 the conference was organized by Luca Chittaro in Udine
, Italy. In 2004 it was again organized by Brewster and Dunlop, this time at the University of Strathclyde
. In the following years the conference took place in Austria, Finland, and Singapore. MobileHCI 2008 has been organized by Henri Ter Hofte from the Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands.
For 2008 the conference's steering committee agreed to award a prize for the most influential paper published at MobileHCI ten years ago. The price should recognises the longevity of impact papers from the first MobileHCI have had on the research community. The 2008 prize was awarded to Keith Cheverst for the paper Exploiting Context in HCI Design for Mobile Systems written together with Tom Rodden, Nigel Davies, and Alan Dix
.
MobileHCI 2009 was organised by Fraunhofer FIT and University of Siegen, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. The general chair was Prof. Dr. Reinhard Oppermann from Fraunhofer
FIT, and the program chairs were Dr. Markus Eisenhauer, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, and Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf. The 2009 prize for the most influential paper from ten years ago was awarded to Albrecht Schmidt for his paper Implicit human-computer interaction through context. The acceptance rate was 24.2% for full papers and 18.5% for short papers.
The 12th MobileHCI took place in Lisboa, Portugal, from September 7–10, 2010. The conference's general chairs were Marco de Sá and Luís Carriço from the University of Lisboa
. The theme of the conference was a mobile world for all. The acceptance rate was 20% for full papers and 22% overall .
MobileHCI 2011 took place in Stockholm, Sweden from 30 August to 2 September 2011. The 13th in the series was chaired by Markus Bylund (Swedish Institute of Computer Science
) and Maria Holm (Mobile Life Centre
) with Oskar Juhlin and Ylva Fernaeus also from Mobile Life Centre
as programme chairs. The full paper acceptance rate was 27% with an overall 23% . The Most influential Paper from MobileHCI 2001 prize was awarded to Simon Holland for his paper AudioGPS: Spatial Audio Navigation with a Minimal Attention Interface .
Topics considered relevant to date are, for example, audio and speech interaction, designing Web sites for mobile devices, evaluation of mobile devices and services, and multimodal interaction. Examples of topics that emerged in the last years are Wearable Computing, Mobile social networks, and studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors).
Academic conference
An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
s is hosted in cooperation with ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
SIGCHI
SIGCHI
SIGCHI is the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction, one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups....
, the Special Interest Group
Special Interest Group
A Special Interest Group is a community with an interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences...
on Computer-Human Interaction, and ACM SIGMOBILE
SIGMOBILE
SIGMOBILE is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, which specializes in the field of mobile computing and wireless networks and wearable computing....
, the Special Interest Group on mobility of systems, users, data and computing. MobileHCI has been held annually since 1998. The conference is reasonably competitive, with an acceptance rate of 25% in 2006 and 21.6% in 2009.. MobileHCI 2011 was held in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden, with MobileHCI 2012 due to be held in San Francisco, USA.
History
The MobileHCI series started in 1998 as a stand-alone Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices organized by Chris JohnsonChris Johnson (researcher)
Chris Johnson is a British computer scientist and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is head of the Accident Analysis Group at the university, his main research interest being to better understand the failure of complex systems, including emergency response and...
and held at the University of Glasgow. In the following year the workshop was held in conjunction with the Interact conference and was organized by Stephen Brewster
Stephen Brewster
Stephen Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. His main research interest is Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction, sound and haptics and gestures. Brewster received a PhD in the Human-Computer Interaction Group...
and Mark Dunlop. In 2001 MobileHCI was again organized by Brewster and Dunlop in association with a major conference. This was in conjunction with IHM-HCI in Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, France.
In 2002 MobileHCI was held independently from an associated conference as a stand-alone symposium in Pisa
Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
, Italy, organized by Fabio Paternò
Fabio Paternò
Fabio Paternò is Research Director and Head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems at Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Pisa, Italy....
. In 2003 the conference was organized by Luca Chittaro in Udine
Udine
Udine is a city and comune in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border. Its population was 99,439 in 2009, and that of its urban area was 175,000.- History :Udine is the historical...
, Italy. In 2004 it was again organized by Brewster and Dunlop, this time at the University of Strathclyde
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...
. In the following years the conference took place in Austria, Finland, and Singapore. MobileHCI 2008 has been organized by Henri Ter Hofte from the Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands.
For 2008 the conference's steering committee agreed to award a prize for the most influential paper published at MobileHCI ten years ago. The price should recognises the longevity of impact papers from the first MobileHCI have had on the research community. The 2008 prize was awarded to Keith Cheverst for the paper Exploiting Context in HCI Design for Mobile Systems written together with Tom Rodden, Nigel Davies, and Alan Dix
Alan Dix
Alan Dix is an expert in the field of human-computer interaction. He is co-author of a widely-used university level textbook, entitled Human-Computer Interaction. He is currently a professor at Lancaster University.-External links:* * * *...
.
MobileHCI 2009 was organised by Fraunhofer FIT and University of Siegen, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. The general chair was Prof. Dr. Reinhard Oppermann from Fraunhofer
Fraunhofer
Fraunhofer, , may refer to:*Joseph von Fraunhofer , German physicist*Fraunhofer , a lunar crater*Fraunhofer Society , a large German research organization with 59 institutes throughout Germany...
FIT, and the program chairs were Dr. Markus Eisenhauer, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, and Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf. The 2009 prize for the most influential paper from ten years ago was awarded to Albrecht Schmidt for his paper Implicit human-computer interaction through context. The acceptance rate was 24.2% for full papers and 18.5% for short papers.
The 12th MobileHCI took place in Lisboa, Portugal, from September 7–10, 2010. The conference's general chairs were Marco de Sá and Luís Carriço from the University of Lisboa
Lisbon University Institute
The ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, abbreviated ISCTE-IUL , is a Portuguese public university institute, located in the centre of Lisbon in the University City campus....
. The theme of the conference was a mobile world for all. The acceptance rate was 20% for full papers and 22% overall .
MobileHCI 2011 took place in Stockholm, Sweden from 30 August to 2 September 2011. The 13th in the series was chaired by Markus Bylund (Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
The Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS, is an independent non-profit research organization with a research focus on applied computer science. The institute carries out research in a number of areas, including networked embedded systems, future Internet technologies, large scale...
) and Maria Holm (Mobile Life Centre
Mobile Life Centre
The Mobile Life Centre at Stockholm University in Kista, Sweden, does research in mobile services and ubiquitous computing. The topic of the Centre includes research on consumer-oriented mobile and ubiquitous services spanning all areas from entertainment and socialization to work and society...
) with Oskar Juhlin and Ylva Fernaeus also from Mobile Life Centre
Mobile Life Centre
The Mobile Life Centre at Stockholm University in Kista, Sweden, does research in mobile services and ubiquitous computing. The topic of the Centre includes research on consumer-oriented mobile and ubiquitous services spanning all areas from entertainment and socialization to work and society...
as programme chairs. The full paper acceptance rate was 27% with an overall 23% . The Most influential Paper from MobileHCI 2001 prize was awarded to Simon Holland for his paper AudioGPS: Spatial Audio Navigation with a Minimal Attention Interface .
Topics
In its early years, the conference had a limited number of unspecific topics. The list of topics grew over the years.Topics considered relevant to date are, for example, audio and speech interaction, designing Web sites for mobile devices, evaluation of mobile devices and services, and multimodal interaction. Examples of topics that emerged in the last years are Wearable Computing, Mobile social networks, and studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors).
Workshops
Since 2002 workshops have been held prior to the main conference. Workshops focus on specific topics related to the conference's main theme. To participate in a workshop it is often necessary to submit a paper and present it during the workshop. Usually around 20 persons participate in a workshop. Besides the presentations there is typically more room for discussions than during the main conference. Successful workshops are often repeated in the following years. Some examples are the workshops on HCI in Mobile Guides, Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW), and Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE).Tutorials
Tutorial days have been held at Mobile HCI 2008 and 2009. After more than 10 years of Mobile HCI, providing an overview of the state of the art becomes more and more challenging. During the tutorial days, a number of well-known researchers in Mobile HCI gave overviews of the state of the art and cover many of the relevant topics. The tutorials also introduced the “must read” papers in this domain. The audience varied and included new students starting a PhD in Mobile HCI, practitioners wanting a quick survey of the state of the art and educators wishing to get an overview of Mobile HCI for their own teaching.External links
- Website of the MobileHCI conference series
- Website of the MobileHCI 2012 conference
- Website of the MobileHCI 2011 conference
- Website of the MobileHCI 2010 conference
- Website of the workshop HCI in Mobile Guides 2005
- Website of the workshop Mobile Interaction with the Real World 2009
- Mobile HCI 2009 tutorial day slides
- Mobile HCI 2008 tutorial day slides
- Website of the workshop Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments