W4: Second Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices

31 August 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland

This workshop has now passed but will be re-run in 2001 - see Mobile HCI 01 for details.

An Workshop

Aims and objectives

The last 3-4 years have seen the development and marketing of a vast array of mobile computing devices. These systems herald what we believe to be a new era of `ubiquitous' computing. The utility of these devices is reduced by the problems of accessing information resources through tiny displays. This can be especially problematic where that information is `perishable'; where its value is only relevant to particular locations and times. The utility of mobile devices is further reduced by the problems of manipulating miniaturised versions of `standard' keyboards and pointing devices. Users are also forced to perform numerous, delicate operations by selecting very small icons. This workshop will provide a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and builds on the success of the First Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices held in Glasgow in May 1998. The workshop is intended to cover not only PDAs but also voice terminals, smart phones and laptops.

Attendance will be limited in order to encourage interaction. It will be possible for people to attend the workshop even though they have not submitted a paper.

Workshop Content

As we had so many good submissions we have accepted 11 papers and 6 posters. Our draft plan for the workshop is below. This is likely to change as we go along but it will give you an idea for what we hope the day will be about. Each author will get 30 minutes to present his/her work:15 - 20 minutes of presentation and 15 - 10 minutes of discussion.

Over lunch and coffee breaks we will run a poster session in a break-out room near the main workshop room. The authors of the posters will be there to present them over coffee breaks but the posters will be up all day for people to look at during lunch. We hope that the long lunch and coffee breaks will lead to considerable discussion amoungst attendees as we received too many papers to allow in meeting discussion bar through questions.

Papers are available in postscript format either individually or in two grouped zip archives: papers.zip and posters.zip 1340K and 725K Save these to your local hard disk.

As we had so many papers we have decided to do away with the idea of discussion groups to get more papers and posters in.

The proceedings of the workshop were published in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 4(2&3), 2001.

Contact and more information

Stephen Brewster
Department of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.

e-mail: stephen@dcs.gla.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0)141 330 4966
fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913

Programme Committee

Joint programme chairs: Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow, and Mark Dunlop, Risø Danish National Laboratory.

Peter Brown, University of Kent.
Elisa Delgaldo, Cambridge Technology Partners.
Mikael Goldstein, Ericsson
Phil Gray, University of Glasgow.
Steve Hodges, ORL.
Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.
Matt Jones, Middlesex University
Peter Johnson, QMW.
Bruno von Niman, Ericsson
Judith Ramsay, Nortel Networks
Satu Ruuska, Nokia.
Meurig Sage, University of Glasgow
Peter Thomas, University of The West of England.

Last updated 12/July/2001

This meeting is jointly organised by the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, the British HCI group and the INTERACT 99 Conference.

Partly supported by EPSRC Grant GR/L66373.