ANN: Latest Issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)

I am delighted to announce the latest issue of the International Journal
of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) - the details of the
latest issue are as follows:

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 1, Issue 4, October-December 2009
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1942-390x EISSN: 1942-3918
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijmhci<http://www.igi-global.com/ijmhci>

Editor-in-Chief: Joanna Lumsden, Aston University, UK

Special Issue: Mobile Internet User Experience

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

Mobile Internet User Experience: Introduction to the Special Issue

Virpi Roto, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

This special issue of IJMHCI is on Mobile Internet User Experience (MIUX). This issue was inspired by two MIUX workshops (Roto & Kaasinen, 2007; Roto & Kaasinen, 2008) held in conjunction with the 2007 and 2008 Mobile-HCI conferences in Singapore and Amsterdam, respectively. In the workshops, researchers and practitioners presented different solutions for improving user experience when using the internet on mobile devices. This special issue continues the work on these topics and includes fully-fledged articles from some of the workshop attendees, as well as papers from other researchers working in this field.

To read the guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of IJMHCI in your library.

PAPER ONE

How It Started: Mobile Internet Devices of the Previous Millennium

Evan Koblentz, Consultant, USA

Internet access on cellular phones, after emerging as a new technology in the mid-1990s, is now a thriving activity despite the global economic recession. IDC reported smartphone sales of 1.18 billion units in 2008 (IDC, 2009), compared to the unconnected personal digital assistants approaching merely 1 million units per quarter in the second half of 2003; however, the concept of using handheld devices for wide area data applications began 25 years prior to the beginning of the end of PDAs. The key year in the history of PDA devices is 1978. That year, a start-up called Lexicon sold its handheld electronic language translator (Levy, 1979) called the LK-3000. Its interchangeable modules included database and notepad applications, and the product was licensed by Siemens-Nixdorf. Meanwhile independent inventors Robert Hotto and Judah Klausner patented what may be the world's first PDA (Klausner & Hotto, 1977). Toshiba acquired the rights and produced it as the Memo Note 30 model LC-836MN. Data advances in handheld devices finally began changing from wired into wireless in the first half of the 1990s.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34976

PAPER TWO

User Experience of Mobile Internet: Analysis and Recommendations

Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Virpi Roto, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Kristin Roloff, Swisscom(Switzerland) Ltd., Switzerland
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Teija Vainio, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Wolfgang Maehr, Opera Software ASA, Norway
Dhaval Joshi, Nokia Research Center, India
Sujan Shrestha, Brunel University, UK

Mobile access to the Internet with handheld devices has been technically possible for quite a while and consumers are aware of the services but not so ready to use them. A central reason for the low usage is that user experience of the mobile Internet is not yet sufficiently good. This article analyses the mobile Internet from the end-user perspective, identifying factors and solutions that would make the Internet usage on a mobile device an enjoyable experience. User experience can be improved by a better understanding of users and usage contexts, developing mobile services that better serve the needs of mobile users, easing service discovery, and developing the infrastructure needed for the mobile Internet. This article discusses all these aspects and gives development recommendations.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34977

PAPER THREE

Always On: A Framework for Understanding Personal Mobile Web Motivations, Behaviors, and Contexts of Use

Carol A. Taylor, Motricity, Inc., USA
Nancy Samuels, University of Washington, USA
Judith A. Ramey, University of Washington, USA

Mobile data services offer a growing alternative means of accessing the Web and have drawn significant attention from the mobile industry; however, design efforts are hampered by people's motivations, behaviors, and contexts of use when they access the Web on their phones. To help address this need, the authors conduct a study to explore the following questions for U.S. mobile phone users: 1) What motivations lead people to access the Web on their mobile phones?; 2) What do they do?; and 3) Where do they do it? Based on the findings from part one of the study, the authors construct a taxonomy of behaviors, motivations, and contexts associated with mobile Web usage. In parts two and three, the authors validated the taxonomy as well as compared iPhone versus non-iPhone user behaviors. This article concludes by considering the design implications of our findings and future research directions.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34978

PAPER FOUR

Improving the User Experience of a Mobile Photo Gallery by Supporting Social Interaction

Elina Vartiainen, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Today, image gallery applications on mobile devices tend to be stand-alone and offline. For people who want to share photos with others, many add-on tools have been developed to connect the gallery applications to Internet services to enable photo-sharing. In this article, the authors argue that photo-centric social interaction is best supported when the gallery application is fully integrated with an Internet service. In this case, no additional tools are needed and the user's image content is fully synchronized with the service. The authors design and implement a service-integrated mobile gallery application with a corresponding Internet service. Moreover, they conduct a field study with ten participants to compare our application with a state-of-the-art gallery application combined with an add-on photo-sharing tool.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34979

PAPER FIVE

Touch-Based Access to Mobile Internet: User Experience Findings

Minna Isomursu, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Mari Ervasti, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

This article reports user experience findings from two field trials where Mobile Internet access was supported through near field communication (NFC)-based tag infrastructure. The problems related to service discovery can be solved by providing location-based access, and by using visual cues embedded into the environment for discovering content and services. Mobile Internet access through touch solves the problem of memorizing complicated URLs and the challenge of typing with a mobile device keypad. As touch-based access builds a semantic bridge between the physical context of use and the Mobile Internet experience, the user experience converges seamlessly into one where both the physical and digital worlds play a role.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34980

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.infosci-journals.com<http://www.infosci-journals.com>.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJMHCI:

The primary objective of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (JMHCI) is to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the issues associated with the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies. This journal focuses on human-computer interaction related to the innovation and research in the design, evaluation, and use of innovative handheld, mobile, and wearable technologies in order to broaden the overall body of knowledge regarding such issues. IJMHCI also considers issues associated with the social and/or organizational impacts of such technologies.

Coverage of IJMHCI:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are limited to) the following:

Case studies and/or reflections on experience (e.g. descriptions of successful mobile user interfaces, evaluation set-ups, etc.)
Context-aware/context-sensitive mobile application design, evaluation, and use
Design methods/approaches for mobile user interfaces
Ethical implications of mobile evaluations
Field-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
Gestural interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Graphical interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Issues of heterogeneity of mobile device interfaces/interaction
Lab v. field evaluations and evaluation techniques
Lab-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
Mobile advanced training application design, evaluation, and use
Mobile assistive technologies design, evaluation, and use
Mobile commerce application design, evaluation, and use
Mobile HCI lab design/set-up
Mobile healthcare application design, evaluation, and use
Mobile interactive play design, evaluation, and use
Mobile learning application design, evaluation, and use
Mobile technology design, evaluation, and use by special (needs) groups (e.g. elderly, children, and disabled)
Multimodal interaction on mobile technologies
Non-speech audio-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Other emerging interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Other related issues that impact the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies
Speech-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Tactile interaction techniques for mobile technologies
Technology acceptance as it relates to mobile technologies
User aspects of mobile privacy, security, and trust
User interface architectures for mobile technologies
User interface migration from desktop to mobile technologies
Wearable technology/application and interaction design, evaluation, and use

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijmhci<http://www.igi-global.com/ijmhci>.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Joanna Lumsden at ijmhci@igi-global.com<mailto:ijmhci@igi-global.com>

CfP: CSCW 2010 Workshop - The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations

Second Call for Participation

** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 **

CSCW 2010 Workshop, Sunday, Feb 7, 2010

The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations

The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading
to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative
technologies. A new generation of scientists, working in large-scale
collaborations, is repurposing social software for use in
collaborative science. Existing social tools such as chat, IM, and
FriendFind are being adopted and modified for use as group
problem-solving facilities. At the same time, exponentially greater
and more complex datasets are being generated at a rate that is
challenging the limits of current hardware, software, and human
cognitive capability. A concerted effort to create software that will
support new scientific practices and handle this data tsunami is
redefining the collaboratory and represents a new frontier for
computer supported cooperative work.

This follow-on event to a similarly themed workshop at CHI 2009 is
intended to foster community among researchers and practitioners from
multiple disciplines interested in the changing dynamics of scientific
collaborations.

We encourage papers on the following topics, especially those with a
focus on changing practices in these areas:

* Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering,
analysis, sharing, and visualization
* Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization
* Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations
* Social networks of scientists
* Repurposing social software for science
* Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software
* Distributed data gathering and analysis
* Time-critical scientific applications
* Studies of generational differences in how science is done
* Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to
a non-scientific field

Paper Submission Instructions:

Submissions should be position papers 2-4 pages in length. Please use
the ACM SIGCHI Template (Word version:
http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.doc or LaTeX
version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.cls) .
All submissions will be reviewed. The possibility of a journal special
issue or book based on expanded versions of the submissions will be
explored following the workshop.

Papers (in .pdf or .doc format) should be submitted via email to
CRAragon@lbl.gov. Please put "CSCW 2010 Workshop Submission" in the
subject of the email.

** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 **

Notification of acceptance will be sent out on or before December 18, 2009.

For more information, please see the workshop web site:

http://www.sci.utah.edu/cscw2010/

Organizers:
Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CRAragon@lbl.gov
Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University, jheer@cs.stanford.edu
Charlotte Lee, University of Washington, cplee@u.washington.edu
Claudio Silva, University of Utah, csilva@sci.utah.edu

CFP: ICISO2010 in Reading - Int Conf on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pervasive Informatics in the Digital Economy
12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in
Organisations

July 19-21, 2010, Reading, UK
http://www.orgsem.org/2010

The 12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in
Organisations, (ICISO 2010), previously named International Conference
on Organisational Semiotics (ICOS), is the twelfth in a series of
international events devoted to the latest research in informatics in
organisations and organisational semiotics.

In the present era, information and knowledge are key to the development
of the current society and economy. The digital economy is driven by the
effective use of information and communication technology to help
enhance the quality and transform the lives of individuals, society and
business. Information is the critical resource on which humans are
constantly dependent in conducting purposeful activities and achieving
their objectives.

Pervasive Informatics, as an emergent discipline, studies how
information affects humans in built environments. The built environments
provide spatial contexts for business organisations, government
institutions, commercial enterprises, and other business settings, as
well as buildings and spaces for working and living. The majority of
human activities (e.g. related to social, economic and scientific
purposes) take place in a built environment. Increasingly, information
is provided pervasively to the users within the built environment. With
the support of appropriate technology, the users can access to the
information as they need; although often they may also have to face with
the information even if not wanted. A user may therefore be immersed in
the field of information whether or not it is desired by the user. Such
a phenomenon of pervasiveness has been bringing revolutionary impact to
the human society. Pervasive Informatics helps us to understand the
nature and characteristics of information from its creation,
representation, processing and utilisation, embedded within the complex
interactions between humans and built environments. It is concerned with
approaches and methods on how information can be managed and used to
enhance the effectiveness of work and quality of life.

Following tradition, ICISO 2010 aims to provide a focal forum for active
researchers, practitioners, business and industrial professionals and
academics from diversified domains of information management and
information systems, and from business and engineering. They will be
able to share their latest research achievements and practical
experiences, to exchange in-depth findings and innovative ideas, and in
particular to harness the greatest challenges in the changing era and
thinking seriously into the future. The ICISO 2010 will also continue
the effort of the international research community in the development of
the emergent discipline of informatics and its applications. It will
focus not only on theory building, but also on the practical benefits
gained so far through applications of methods and techniques derived
from various approaches.

Research papers describing original work in relevant areas are invited.
Industrial and work-in-progress papers are also welcome.

Topics
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Organisational Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and
techniques, and their practical applications
* Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems
* Pragmatic web and context-aware approaches and applications
* Semantic web and applications
* Service-oriented architecture, design and implementation
* Business and IT strategies
* Alignment and integration of business and technical systems
* Adaptive architecture for information systems
* Enterprise information systems and value chain management
* Enterprise applications for logistics, customer relationship
management and supply chain management
* Information engineering and complex systems
* Agent-based information systems and business intelligence in
organisations
* Collaborative systems for organisations
* E-government, e-commerce, mobile and pervasive commerce
* Business process and workflow modelling, analysis, integration
and management
* Digital economy: theory, methods and techniques for design and
applications
* Pervasive informatics in organisations
* Intelligent spaces and built environments for working and living

* Construction informatics for sustainable environment
* Information utilisation and technology management for
sustainable economy
* Digital content management

Important dates
Full paper submission: 1 February, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2010
Camera-ready version: 15 May 2010
Conference: 19 - 21 July 2010

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that
must not be published elsewhere and not currently under review for any
other publication. The manuscripts in English must be submitted in the
provided format (both as Word and Adobe PDF files) and may not exceed 8
pages.

Publication
The papers will be selected based on a peer review by three independent
members of the program committee. This review process will be anonymous
in order to ensure quality and to avoid prejudice. At least one author
per accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference.

Conference proceedings will be published by Aussino Academic Publishing
House. Same as previous conferences, all accepted papers will be
submitted to ISTP and EI for indexing.

Invitation for Proposals of Workshops and PhD Consortium
The ICISO 2010 invites proposals for workshops and PhD consortium.
Please contact the Conference Secretary if anyone intends to submit a
proposal.

It is intended to have parallel teleconference sessions in Beijing for
attendance and paper presentations. More details will be soon available
at the conference website.

Conference Co-chairs
Rene Jorna, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, England

Secretariat
Hubert Grzybek, University of Reading, England

Host institution
Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, England

Conference Contact Details
Conference website:
www.orgsem.org/2010

Conference email address:
ICISO@reading.ac.uk

CFP: IUI '10 Workshop on Social Recommender Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

IUI 2010 Workshop on Social Recommender Systems

(in conjunction with 2010 ACM International Conference on
Intelligent User Interfaces http://www.iuiconf.org <http://www.iuiconf.org/>
)

Hong Kong, February 7th, 2010

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~lichen/srs2010/

Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2009

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Social media sites have become tremendously popular in recent years.
Prominent examples include photo and video sharing sites such as Flickr and
YouTube, blog and wiki systems such as Blogger and Wikipedia, social tagging
sites such as Delicious, social network sites (SNSs), such as MySpace and
Facebook, and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter. Millions of users are
active daily in these sites, creating rich information online that has not
been available before. Yet, the abundance and popularity of social media
sites floods users with huge volumes of information and hence poses a great
challenge in terms of information overload.

Social Recommender Systems (SRSs) aim to alleviate information overload over
social media users by presenting the most attractive and relevant content,
often using personalization techniques adapted for the specific user. SRSs
also aim at increasing adoption, engagement, and participation of new and
existing users of social media sites. In addition to recommending content to
consume, new types of recommendations emerge within social media, such as of
people and communities to connect to, to follow, or to join.

This workshop desires to bring together researchers and practitioners around
the emerging topic of recommender systems within social media in order to:
(1) share research and techniques used to develop effective social media
recommenders, from algorithms, through user interfaces, to evaluation (2)
identify next key challenges in the area, and (3) identify new cross-topic
collaboration opportunities.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Social recommender technologies and applications

* Model of recommendation context (e.g., types of information needed)
for social recommender systems

* New algorithms suitable for social recommender systems

* New recommender applications for social media sites (e.g., people and
community recommenders)

* Recommendations for individuals and communities

* Social recommender systems in the enterprise

* Diversity and novelty in social recommender systems

* Recommendations for diverse user groups (e.g., new users of social
media sites versus frequent users)

User interfaces in social recommender systems (SRSs)

* Transparency and explanations in SRSs

* Adaption and personalization for SRSs

* User feedback in SRSs

* Trust and reputation in SRSs

* Social awareness and visualization

Evaluation

* Evaluation methods and evaluations of SRSs

* User studies

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* November 30th, 2009: Submission of long, short, and demo papers

* December 18th, 2009: Author notification

* December 25th, 2009: Submission of camera-ready workshop abstract

* February 7th, 2010: Workshop held

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PAPER SUBMISSION

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Papers should be submitted in PDF format by email to

ido@il.ibm.com

All submissions should be prepared according to the standard SIGCHI
publications format (see http://www.iuiconf.org/cfp.html). Paper selection
will be based on a peer review process; there will be no blind review
process - author names and affiliations should be included in the paper.

Paper categories:

* Long papers (up to 10 pages) - submissions should report on substantial

contributions of lasting value.

* Short papers (up to 4 pages) - submissions typically discuss work in

progress that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. describing
preliminary results or

* Demo papers - presenters of demo systems are asked to submit short papers

describing their system.

Authors of high-quality workshop submissions will be invited to submit an
extended version of the paper to a special issue of ACM journal.

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Organizers

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Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Michelle X. Zhou, IBM China Research Lab, China

CFP: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Call for Papers: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Special Issue on: Hypertext and Web Science: Emergent Structures,
Communities and Collective Intelligence

Guest editors: David Millard and Weigang Wang

David Millard, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of

Southampton, dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Weigang Wang, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester,
weigang.wang@mbs.ac.uk

Submission deadline: 4 January 2010

Acceptance notification: 19 March 2010

Final manuscripts due: 30 April 2010

Hypertext has always been about people and their relationships with
information. The Hypertext Community has over thirty years of experience
of exploring hypertext interfaces, infrastructures and usage. Now Web
2.0 technology and practice has greatly promoted this sort of
interactive collaboration and social networking, resulting in large
scale collaborative knowledge creation and e-democracy activities.
Semantic Web technologies and the Linked Data Web could impact even more
strongly. Imagine if most personal and organisational data were
available on the Web and analysable with the help of software agents,
how would people and organisations run their businesses, how would they
identify, select, and collaborate with their partners and customers to
face shared challenges?

Web Science is a proposed new discipline to study the continuing impact
of the Web on people, business and society. Web Science is about
understanding how technical innovation changes practice, and how
behaviour in the small translates to behaviour in the large.

This special issue is for people who believe that their work is at the
intersection of Hypertext and Web Science. We invite papers on a variety
of technical topics with a personal, cultural or societal slant. Topics
may include (but are not limited to) the following:

- New ways of collaborative working enabled by the latest Web
Technologies

- New approaches to personal information management or learning

- Technical and social protocols underlying emerging web technology and
practice

- Novel community interaction, such as e-democracy, collaborative
decision making, or knowledge elicitation

- Virtual and emergent structures that have changed the way that we view
or organise our lives or businesses

- Changes in traditional roles and expectations, for example, notions of
authorship and ownership

- Studies of on-line communities and their behaviour

- Characteristics and novel applications of collective intelligence

- Innovative social or knowledge interfaces

Papers should describe completed work with well-evidenced conclusions,
and interdisciplinary work will be particularly welcomed.

Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical
notes and should be submitted electronically at the Journal's Manuscript
Central site

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham

Questions and enquiries concerning this call should be directed to the
guest editors. Open topic papers meeting NRHM's scope in general are
also welcome.

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by
Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp