Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2008)

UPDATE: Permid 2008 will be joined with the Second International Workshop on Improved Mobile User Experience - IMUx 2008 .

Theme

Mobile devices have become a pervasive part of our everyday live. People have mobile phones, smartphones and PDAs with them nearly always and everywhere. So far these mobile devices have been mostly used for phone calls, messaging and organizer functionalities. However, mobile multimedia features, device-integrated sensors and improving data transfer capabilities are expanding their use to ever increasing application areas.

Interaction research on the pervasive mobile devices is a rather young and rapidly developing field. Mobile devices offer great potential to develop new interaction methods and applications for pervasive computing. They can function as a mediator between the virtual and the physical world, as an accessible user interface for smart environments, and platforms for location or context-aware application, to mention a few.

PERMID 2008 seeks to follow the sequence of earlier PERMID workshops, being the fourth of the kind since 2005. The workshop has a solid track record of interesting, high-quality presentations, lively discussions, and 20-25 participants each year.

Topics

Possible topics for the workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Interactions between mobile devices and the real world
• Interactive context-aware services on mobile devices
• Augmented, virtual and mixed reality on mobile phones and PDAs (tracking, markers, visualisation)
• Using mobile devices as user interfaces for terminals and vending machines
• Portable music players (e.g. iPod Photo) and personal servers as mobile interaction devices
• Multimodal interaction taking mobile devices into account
• Usage of sensors of mobile devices (camera, microphone, GPS, etc.) for pervasive applications
• Interaction metaphors for pervasive applications and services
• Gathering, management and usage of context information
• User experience, user studies
• Applications and scenarios

Joint Schedule for Permid 2008 and IMUx 2008

PERMID 2008 and IMUx 2008 will be organized as a joined, full-day workshop at Pervasive 2008. Every PERMID presentation will last 20 minutes including a 15 minutes talk and 5 minutes discussion. IMUx presentations will last 25 minutes including a 20 minutes talk and 5 minutes discussion. Please see below for details on the different talks including the papers. You can also download the complete workshop proceedings for Pervasive 2008.

10:00 - 10:30 / Coffee break

12:00 - 13:30 / Lunch

15:00 - 15:30 / Coffee Break

15:30 - 18:00 / Joint Demo and Discussion Session

20:00 - open end / Joint Workshop Dinner

Organizers

The workshop organizers represent several areas of interests related to interaction research with mobile devices, covering the topics of interests listed above.

Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research Center (Finland), jonna.hakkila (at) nokia.com
Gregor Broll, Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich (Germany), gregor.broll (at) ifi.lmu.de

Important Dates

January 25, 2008: Deadline for submissions of workshop papers
February 8, 2008: Extended deadline for workshop papers submission
February 29, 2008: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers
March 21, 2008: Deadline for preparing camera-ready copies
May 19-22, 2008: Pervasive 2008

Goals

The main goal of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how mobile devices (particularly mobile phones, smartphones and PDAs) can be used as interaction devices. We will provide a forum to share information, results, and ideas on current research in this area. Furthermore we aim to develop new ideas on how mobile phones can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the environment. We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned with design, development, and implementation of new applications and services using personal mobile devices as user interfaces.

Participation & Process

The number of participants should be limited to 25 people. Prospective authors are invited to submit their contribution, in PDF format conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings format electronically to permid.organizers (at) gmail.com no later than January 25, 2008. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by two of the organizers and based on this the organizers will select circa 10 papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers should have a length of about 4 pages.

Workshop Format

The workshop will feature presentation of research results, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, and critical questions related to the use of mobile devices as user interfaces in 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.

Publication

The proceedings of Permid 2008 will be either published as a technical report of the University of Munich (ISSN Number) or as part of the workshop proceedings which will be provided by Pervasive 2008. The electronic version of the complete workshop proceedings for Pervasive 2008 are already available for download.

last modified May 1, 2008