You are invited to submit to MobileHCI 2008 in one of the following categories:
(click on the name of the category to see detailed submission information):

1. Full papers
2. Short papers
3. Posters
4. Demonstrations
5. Panels
6. Workshop proposals (organizers)
7. Workshop position papers (participants)
8. Industrial Case Studies
9. Doctoral Consortium
10. Student Design Competition
11. Mobile Experiences

Important deadlines

• Monday 21 January 2008 (5:00pm CET): Workshop Proposals due (passed)
• Monday 4 February 2008 (5:00pm CET): Full Papers due (passed)
• Monday 3 March 2008 (5:00pm CET): Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Doctoral Consortium Abstracts, Student Design Competition Entries due (passed). The deadline for Industrial Case Studies is extended to Monday 17 March 2008 (5:00pm CET).(passed)
• Monday 17 March 2008 (5:00pm CET): Industrial Case Studies due (passed)
• Monday 28 April 2008 (5:00pm CEST): Mobile Experience Proposals due (passed)

Important dates

• Monday 3 March 2008: notification of acceptance for workshop proposals (done)
• Monday 7 April 2008: notification of acceptance for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Industrial Case Studies, Doctoral Consortium, Student Design Competition (done)
• Friday 9 May 2008 (5:00pm CEST): final, camera-ready version and signed copyright forms due for Full Papers and Short Papers (passed)
• Friday 9 May 2008 (5:00pm CEST): final, camera-ready version and signed permission and release forms due for Workshop Abstracts, Poster Abstracts, Demonstration Abstracts, Panel Abstracts, Industrial Case Studies, and Student Design Competition Design Documents (passed)
• Monday 2 June 2008 (23:59pm CEST): Presenter registration deadline: at least one presenting author of each accepted submission should register by the early registration deadline. Accepted submissions without a paid registration at this time are subject to exclusion from the conference proceedings (passed)
• Wednesday 4 June 2008 (5:00pm CEST): final, camera-ready version and signed permission and release forms due for Doctoral Consortium Abstracts (passed).

Conference Proceedings

• Accepted Full Papers and Short Papers will appear in the printed conference proceedings.
• Accepted Full Papers, Short Papers, Workshop Abstracts, Poster Abstracts, Demonstration Abstracts, Panel Abstracts, Industrial Case Studies, Doctoral Consortium Abstracts and Student Design Competition Design Documents will be published in the supplementary proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Accepted Full Papers, Short Papers, Workshop Abstracts, Poster Abstracts, Demonstration Abstracts, Panel Abstracts, Industrial Case Studies, and Doctoral Consortium Abstracts will be available via the ACM Digital Library.

Topics

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• Audio and speech interaction
• Context-dependent systems
• Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices
• Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
• Evaluation of mobile devices and services / Usability of mobile devices and services
• Group interaction and mobility
• Intelligent environments
• Location-aware interaction
• Methods to evaluate mobile usability / User experience research for & with mobile devices
• Model-based design of interactive mobile systems
• Mobile phenomena
• Mobility and work environments
• Multimodal interaction
• Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques
• Perception and modeling of the environment
• Safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments)
• Specific classes of handheld devices (PDA, Pocket PC, WAP phone, etc.)
• 3D graphics on mobile devices
• 3G/4G devices and services
• Visualization techniques for the mobile context
• Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects)
• User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems
• Wearable computing
• Mobile Entertainment
• Urban and Location based gaming
• Smart clothes
• Mobile social networks
• Mobile persuasion
• Personal monitoring & coaching with mobile devices
• Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services
• Implicit interaction styles for mobile devices
• Studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors)