Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices

It was a wager, but it has worked. MobileH CIuse dt obe a w orkshop,of ten heldi n conjunction with other events. Instead, this time it was a true symposium. I felt there was a need for this change because ofth e ever increasingin terestp romptedb yth e issues involved in interactive mobile systems and the lack of specific eventsf ocusing on such aspects. Although there are eventsa ddressing thebr oad areaof ubi quitous computing, they tend to concentrate on other topics. For example, a paper on criteria for the design of interactive mobile phone applications would bec onsidered inappropriate for such events, whereas it would certainly be relevant for Mobile HCI. The response to the symposium has been positive in terms of submissions and participation. The contributions, especially the long papers, werese lected carefully by the International Program Committee. The result is a set of interesting and stimulating papers that address such important issues as location awareness, design criteria for PDAs, context dependent systems, innovative case studies, usability evaluation in small devices, and novel interfaces for mobile devices. The interest shown in the symposium has truly been worldwide: we have authors from 16 countries on three continents. There is a good balance of contributions from academia and industry.

Invited Speakers.- Mobile Devices for Control.- Building Usable Wireless Applications for Mobile Phones.- Location Awareness.- A Diary Study of Rendezvousing: Group Size, Time Pressure and Connectivity.- Automated Multimedia Diaries of Mobile Device Users Need Summarization.- Personal Location Agent for Communicating Entities (PLACE).- Distributing Event Information by Simulating Word-of-Mouth Exchanges.- Design Support for PDAs.- A New Transcoding Technique for PDA Browsers, Based on Content Hierarchy.- Sorting Out Searching on Small Screen Devices.- Context Dependent Systems.- Adapting Applications in Mobile Terminals Using Fuzzy Context Information.- Direct Combination: A New User Interaction Principle for Mobile and Ubiquitous HCI.- ASUR++: A Design Notation for Mobile Mixed Systems.- Innovative Case Studies.- Designing LoL@, a Mobile Tourist Guide for UMTS.- Location-Aware Shopping Assistance: Evaluation of a Decision-Theoretic Approach.- handiMessenger: Awareness-Enhanced Universal Communication for Mobile Users.- Usability Evaluation in Small Devices.- An Empirical Study of the Minimum Required Size and the Minimum Number of Targets for Pen Input on the Small Display.- KSPC (Keystrokes per Character) as a Characteristic of Text Entry Techniques.- Lost or Found? A Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Navigation and Location-Based Service.- Towards an Improved Readability on Mobile Devices: Evaluating Adaptive Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.- Novel User Interfaces for Mobile Devices.- Mobile and Collaborative Augmented Reality: A Scenario Based Design Approach.- The Unigesture Approach One-Handed Text Entry for Small Devices.- Short Papers.- “Just-in-Place” Information for Mobile Device Interfaces.- Pushing Web Pages into Personal Digital Assistants: Need, Tools and Solutions.- Émigré: Metalevel Architecture and Migratory Work.- Interactions Model and Code Generation for J2ME Applications.- An Interface with Weight: Taking Interaction by Tilt beyond Disembodied Metaphors.- UML Modelling of Device-Independent Interfaces and Services for a Home Environment Application.- iTutor: A Wireless and Multimodal Support to Industrial Maintenance Activities.- ArtemisExpress: A Case Study in Designing Handheld Interfaces for an Online Digital Library.- Addressing Mobile HCI Needs through Agents.- Consistent Multi-device Design Using Device Categories.- New Generation of IP-Phone Enabled Mobile Devices.- A Content Provider-Specified Web Clipping Approach for Mobile Content Adaptation.- Case Study: A PDA Example of User Centered Design.- Leveraging the Context of Use in Mobile Service Design.- A Ubiquitous Computing Environment for Language Learning.- XHTML in Mobile Application Development.- Understanding Contextual Interactions to Design Navigational Context-Aware Applications.- Towards Scalable User Interfaces in 3D City Information Systems.- Mobile Image Messaging — Anticipating the Outlines of the Usage Culture.- Remote Control of Home Automation Systems with Mobile Devices.- Low-Resolution Supplementary Tactile Cues for Navigational Assistance.- Mobile Interface for a Smart Wheelchair.- Utilizing Gaze Detection to Simulate the Affordances of Paper in the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Format.- On Interfaces for Mobile Information Retrieval.- User Requirement Analysis and Interface Conception for a Mobile, Location-Based Fair Guide.- A Cross-Modal Electronic Travel Aid Device.- Globalization of Voice-Enabled Internet Access Solutions.- Map-Based Access to Multiple Educational On-Line Resources from Mobile Wireless Devices.- Supporting Adaptivity to Heterogeneous Platforms through User Models.- Visualizing Bar Charts on WAP Phones.- Structured Menu Presentation Using Spatial Sound Separation.- “Do as I Say!... But Who Says What I Should Say - or Do?” On the Definition of a Standard Spoken Command Vocabulary for ICT Devices and Services.