Emotions as such is a research topic with a lot of coverage in various domains (neuroscience, psychology, medicine, criminology and more recently in user experience research). This workshop addresses multidisciplinary approaches, discussing ways of ...

Context-awareness is one of the rising trends of future mobile technology, and due to advances in technology development, new application and service concepts are being developed and demonstrated in an ever-increasing manner. This workshop brings ...

In a Mobile Living Lab, mobile devices are used to evaluate concepts and prototypes in real-life settings. In other words, the lab is brought to the people. This workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to share experiences and issues ...

The workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW 2009) will invite papers which focus on new mobile and wearable input and output interfaces which allow simpler and straightforward interactions with mobile services and applications. An ...

The development of locative media applications is not simply about the physical location or social setting in which the interaction occurs, but rather about situating the media within a community of practice. This workshop will provide the environment ...

With the proliferation of pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities, client-side speech processing has been emerging as a viable alternative.

SiMPE 2009, the fourth in the series, will continue to explore issues, possibilities, ...

In this workshop we are interested in usability, context and user practices related to uses of social mobile media for sharing human experiences. There is a growing trend pointing to life publishing and life logging using mobile devices. Users are ...

In my thesis I address the topic of mobile attachment. I provide a theoretical framework for mobile attachment together with influencing factors that indicate user's emotional attachment (EA) to mobile devices and services. I investigate how the concept ...

Every day about 1 million people become mobile phone users - 85% of these live in the developing world. The biggest potential of future mobile development will not be in the already saturated 1st economy market but in the market of about one billion ...

The goal of this research is the establishment of a usable and accessible mobile learning system for the inclusion of both blind and vision-impaired students within mainstream education through independent, collaborative and ubiquitous mobile learning ...

The PhD research explores the design space of mobile wellness applications by utilizing design research methods. Several case studies are included in the research, e.g. [1],[2],[3],[4]. The main focus of the research is on the aspects, considerations ...

The aim of this PhD-project is to establish new knowledge in design methodology of user-interface on mobile terminal-based self-help tools that are easy and intuitive to use and unobtrusive in daily life, and that enhance motivation in self-management ...

This study aims to develop design principles for outdoor mobile multimedia guides in cultural heritage.

In this paper, we introduce Flashlight interaction, a new approach to light-based interaction between mobile phones and large screens by using the phone camera flashlight. Using a mobile phone as an interaction device with large screens has been ...

This paper outlines the design requirements of a GPS car navigation system for the elderly and the young by proposing a set of new guidelines for designing such systems. Our study revealed that younger drivers had a more positive user experience as ...

In this paper, we present ongoing research concerning the interaction between users and autonomous mobile agents in the environmental monitoring domain. The overarching project, DIADEM, deals with developing a system that detects potentially hazardous ...

We present a technique in which physical controls have both normal and voice-enabled activation styles. In the case of the latter, knowledge of which physical control was activated provides context to the speech recognition subsystem. This context would ...

We outline two new auditory interaction techniques which build upon existing visual techniques to display off-screen points of interest (POI) in map based mobile computing applications. SonicPie uses a pie menu and compass metaphor, allowing a user to ...

In this poster we present findings of a study focusing on touch based interaction using a three display interface design on a mobile phone. We aimed to reveal users' individual preferences and methods for mobile device personalization; to find out to ...

With SeCuUI we present a solution that aims to increase security of data entry on public terminals. The user can enter all data requested by the terminal using her mobile device. Sensitive data can be hidden from prying eyes by exclusively showing it on ...