After 10 years of mobile HCI, providing an overview of the state of the art becomes more and more challenging. This year, a number of well-known researchers in mobile HCI give overviews of the state of the art and cover many of the relevant topics during the tutorial day. Each tutorial will be 1 hour and will address selected topics in detail. The lecturers will also introduce you to the “must read” papers in this domain.

The expected audience is varied and includes 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.

Tutorials will be held on Tuesday 2 September 2008, from 9:00 – 17:30 in the Mauritsroom. The tutorial day registration fee is €95, and includes access to all the tutorials listed below, as well as coffee/tea and lunch during the breaks. If you wish to register for the tutorials, you should register for the conference as well.

Tutorial Slides 

*NEW * All tutorial slides are available online.

Tutorial Program

9:00 - 10:00 Text input for mobile devices (Mauritsroom)

by Scott MacKenzie, PhD

Scott will give an overview of different input means (e.g. key-based, stylus, predictive, virtual keyboard), parameters relevant for designing and assessing mobile text input (e.g., writing speed, cognitive load) and issues related to the context of use (e.g., walking/standing).

10:00 - 11:00 Mobile GUIs and Mobile Visualization (Mauritsroom)

by Patrick Baudisch, PhD

Patrick will introduce different approaches for creating mobile graphical user interfaces. He will talk about the design process, prototyping and assessment of user interfaces, trade-offs related to the design of mobile GUIs and different possible interaction styles. As one specific topic in mobile GUIs he will address concept for mobile interactive visualization (e.g. maps).

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break (Onder de Bogen)

11:30 - 12:30 Understanding Mobile User Experience (Mauritsroom)

by Mirjana Spasojevic, PhD

Mirjana will discuss different means for studying mobile user needs and evaluating the user experience. This includes explorative studies and formal evaluations (in the lab vs. in the field), including longitudinal pilot deployments. The lecture will discuss traditional HCI methods of user research and how they need to be adapted for different mobile contexts and products.

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Onder de Bogen)

14:00 - 15:00 Context-Aware Communication and Interaction (Mauritsroom)

by Albrecht Schmidt, PhD

Albrecht will give an overview of work in context-awareness and activity recognition that is related to mobile HCI. He will discuss how sharing of context in communication applications can improve the user experience. The lecture will explain how perception and sensing can be used to acquire context and activity information and show examples how such information can be exploited.

15:00 - 16:00 Haptics, audio output and sensor input in mobile HCI (Mauritsroom)

by Stephen Brewster, PhD

Stephen will discuss the design space for haptics, audio output as well as sensor and gesture input in mobile HCI. Furthermore he will assess resulting interaction methods and implications for the interactive experience.

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee/tea break (Onder de Bogen)

16:30 - 17:30 Camera-based interaction and interaction with public displays (Mauritsroom)

by Michael Rohs, PhD

Michael will introduce you camera based interaction with mobile devices; this includes a assessment of optical markers, 2D-barcodes and optical flow as well as techniques related to augmented reality. In this context he will address interaction with public displays, too.