* Accepted Mobile Experiences for MobileHCI 2008 can be found here *

Because actions speak louder than words, it is the pleasure of MobileHCI 2008 to challenge researchers to walk their talk, to practice what they preach, or even better: to let others experience what they talk about. Mobile Experiences is a large-scale field test for mobile applications, in the field of human-computer interaction, that are still in R&D phase.

MobileHCI 2008 offers Mobile Experiences to enable researchers to test their applications in a real-life setting in a potential user group of hundreds of conference attendees. The test period is not only during the conference, but also before and after the conference, so that the users can take advantage of the applications in their daily life. Mobile Experiences can be regarded as a display window where you are not only allowed to look but also to experience the best, most innovative and smartest mobile applications installed on your own mobile phone or PDA. All users will provide valuable feedback to the designers and implementers of the mobile application.

The rules are intentionally kept simple:

• Your mobile application should be available for a period of 6 months, and free of charge to the conference attendees
• Users should be able to install the application on their mobile phone or PDA by themselves, and the application should scale to 500 users without problems. (This is the difference with the demonstration session, where a successful one-time demonstration on the presenter's own device is sufficient).
• You need to deliver an appealing description of your application, that will be published on this website
• This description contains at least
  
  • the application name
  • abstract (400 words max)
  • keywords (3 max)
  • a link to an installation and usage manual
  • a link to a feedback form
  • a list of supported devices and/or operating systems
  • name, affiliation and email of the responsible researcher

• You need to present your application in a 1-minute talk in the poster and demo madness session during the MobileHCI conference.

On the MobileHCI 2008 website all submissions are publicly displayed, encouraging users to install the applications on their own phones, and to try them in practice. The users will be able to rate the different applications on the MobileHCI website. During the conference, we will already present the half-time score, and after the test period has ended, the top 3 rated applications will be publicly announced and earn a highly visible place on the conference website. But the main award for all displayed applications is the feedback from the conference attendees who used your ideas and implementations in practice. We do expect that this provides new ways to convey your message and ample inspiration for the future development of the mobile applications in your line of research.

The time schedule for Mobile Experiences is:

• Submission Deadline: Monday 28 April 2008 (passed)
• Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 13 May 2008 (passed)
• Start of experience period: Tuesday 13 May 2008 (passed)
• Conference: Tuesday 2 September - Friday 5 September 2008
• End of experience period: Monday 10 November 2008

Submit your proposals to mobile-experience@mobilehci2008.org on or before the deadline of Monday 28 April 2008 (5:00pm CEST) (passed), and use this Word template: MobileExperiencesTemplate.doc for your submission.

If you have questions about the Mobile Experiences for MobileHCI 2008, contact the Mobile Experience Chair, Johan Koolwaaij at mobile-experience@mobilehci2008.org

We are looking forward to your submissions!

MobileHCI 2008 Mobile Experiences Chair
Johan Koolwaaij, Telematica Instituut