Advance Program - Workshop

8. Future Mobile Device Interfaces

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Organizers
Satu Ruuska, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland
Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Siemens, AG, Germany
Bruno Von Niman, Ericsson, Sweden

The goal is to create an understanding of the special characteristics of users' activities in the mobile contexts of use in which personal devices fit in the future. The aim is to elaborate on the consequences of the user interface design for future communication devices. In the first phase of the workshop we will try to find answers to a number of questions in the four major topic areas:

• Physical, social and cultural context and their effects on the design of mobile devices
• Personalization of mobile devices
• Applications and services for mobile devices
• Connectivity and interoperability of communication devices

The following questions will be answered:

• What will the main characteristics of mobile devices be regarding the topic areas?
• Will we see a trend towards multifunctional devices or will there be many different personal information appliances with different user interfaces?
• How will these future communication devices interact?

In the second workshop phase we will develop a number of paper prototypes of mobile devices. Finally we will try to consolidate our findings in one prototype of a future mobile user interface.

Each applicant should submit a 1-3 page position paper where a view of one or more of the above-mentioned topics is presented. These papers will be reviewed by the organizers for their relevance and originality. Selected participants will be asked to bring their ideas and solutions in the form of paper prototypes to the workshop.

Contact
Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt
Siemens AG, ICP CD TI 3
Hofmannstr. 51
D-81359 M�nchen, Germany
Tel: +49 89 722 21906
Fax: +49 89 722 31416
Email: msch@acm.org