WiMob 2008

First International Workshop on Context-awareness and User Interfaces for Professional Applications of Mobile and Wearable Computing will be held at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
October 12 - 14, 2008
Avignon, France

From the program: The benefits of context awareness and the critical role of user interfaces for mobile and in particular for wearable computing applications have been widely discussed in the academic world for well over 10 years. Nevertheless, we see limited adoption of these findings in the implementation of both professional and consumer applications. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the reasons and gain a better understanding of the techniques available, their benefits and limits. The focus on professional applications is based on the assumption that these applications, the activities of the end users and the circumstances under which these activities are performed are well defined and thus yield a good basis for research activities such as qualitative and quantitative evaluation.

Organizing Committee
- Prof. Michael Lawo, TZI, Universität Bremen
- Dr. Holger Kenn, Microsoft EMIC

Areas of Interest
Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Design methods for context awareness
- Sensor-based context recognition
- Case studies of context awareness in professional applications
- Evaluation of the benets of context awareness
- User interfaces for divided attention situations and dual task scenarios
- Evaluation of mobile and wearable user interfaces
- Novel evaluation methods and tools
- Context-aware and context-adaptive user interfaces
- User interfaces for safety-critical applications
- Context sensing through mobile ad-hoc networks