UsabilityNews: Paper Calls (full)

CfP: HCI2010 Doctoral Consortium - Abertay, Dundee

Tom McEwan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 30 July 2010
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

HCI2010 Doctoral Consortium
Abertay, Scotland, UK
September 6th (eve) and 7th (day) 2010

OVERVIEW
The doctoral consortium is intended to provide a forum for PhD candidates to discuss their work with one another and with the expert panel. As well as having presentations and discussion from the students, the consortium will also feature guest events from well known HCI academics from the UK and further afield. The consortium is partially funded by the BCS (British Computer Society) and to that end, participants are expected to support the aims of the BCS and will be offered, and expected to take up, a special rate for BCS membership.

WHO IS IT AIMED AT?
Submissions to the PhD consortium are invited from PhD candidates from any country. Candidates are expected to be at a stage in their studies where they have at least developed a proposal for their research, and should ideally also have a problem statement, one or more research questions and an idea about an appropriate methodology. Normally students within six months of completion get little from the DC as they are too close to completion. Application to the DC requires an abstract of the research done to date as well as a supporting letter from a supervisor or director of the PhD programme.

ORGANISATION
The DC is a friendly event that aims to give all students participating a chance to critically reflect on their PhD work. In order to ensure this, numbers are limited. The event is over a single day (7th September) but students participating are expected to be available to attend the DC dinner on the evening of the 6th September (eta 7.30pm) and are expected to participate in the full conference programme as student volunteers.

LOCATION AND COSTS
The consortium will be held at the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. There are no fees for DC candidates and accommodation will be included for the period 6th – 9th September. Travel to the event is NOT included, however it can be possible to make an application for support if travel costs might prevent attendance.

SUBMISSION
Submissions by PhD candidates are sought which include a research proposal by the PhD candidate which includes motivation, research question, research design /methodology (min 2, max 4 pages, ACM format). A statement by the supervisor or PhD programme director about the status of the PhD candidate and a recommendation that he or she will benefit from the consortium.

This should be sent by email to jcread@uclan.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions is 30th July 2010 – acceptance will be confirmed by the 7th August 2010.
Consortium chair: Dr Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

CfP: SenseCam 2010

SenseCam 2010 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 1 August 2010
ABOUT
The SenseCam 2010 Symposium will be held in one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions, the Guinness Storehouse. The two-day event will feature scientific presentations on SenseCam and its use in a variety of applications. This spectacular location will also be the base for relaxed social events with an opportunity to network with others interested in memory, cognition, rehabilitation, epidemiology, ethnography, visual lifelogging, image processing, sensor fusion and other Sensecam related domains. Members of the Vicon Revue and Microsoft Research SenseCam teams will also be on-hand to answer questions following the wider availability of the Revue to researchers, clinicians and end-users with memory loss.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
If you are interested in presenting your work with the SenseCam at the Symposium, either as a presentation, poster or system demonstration, we invite you to submit a 500 word abstract on or before the 1st of August 2010. More information can be found on the symposium website at: http://www.clarity-centre.org/sensecam2010/submission/

Workshop: Observing the Mobile User Experience

Benjamin Poppinga — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 27 August 2010
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Call for Papers for the International Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 2010)
In Conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
October 17, 2010
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Workshop Theme and Goals
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Nowadays the number of sold smart phones as well as the number of features of those devices is steadily increasing. Mobile applications are one of the major driving factors, as they can easily be distributed through dedicated mobile application distribution platforms, e.g. Apple's App Store, Google's Android Market. Additionally many smart phones have a lot of sensors integrated, which makes them more and more aware of the situation a user is in.

At the same time the usage of mobile devices is rapidly becoming an integrated part of everyday life. This means that in order to understand the user experience and the usability of a product it is in general not enough to perform studies in the laboratory. Instead the mobile context needs to be taken into account explicitly, and one needs to be able to study users and usage "in the wild". The challenge of understanding a mobile user experience is a rapidly evolving field, and it is the purpose of this workshop to bring together people from industry and academia in order to exchange methods and experiences related to understanding the mobile user and the mobile usage.

In this workshop we want to discuss the most important factors, parameters, and research questions about how to study and involve users in a truly mobile setting. The goal of the workshop is to provide an overview of available methods and techniques, but also to produce a set of guidelines for studying and interacting with users in a mobile setting. The workshop will focus on the process and methodologies and will not go into deeper technical details (e.g. algorithms for activity recognition).

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Observing and interacting with a user on the move
* Unsupervised data gathering
* The mobile device as a platform for user studies
* Specific situations and key parameters
* Mixed methods in a mobile setting
* Ethical considerations
* Safety and security of study participants

Submission details
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Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a position paper or an industrial case study to the workshop organizers. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop by giving a 10-15 minutes presentation.

Submissions of papers covering the topics of the workshop should be submitted by 27th of August 2010. Position papers (2 to 4 pages) and industrial case studies (1 to 2 pages) should be submitted in NordiCHI ACM format.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out 10th of September 2010. At least one author from each accepted submission is expected to attend the workshop. Accepted submission will be compiled in the workshop proceedings which will also contain the guidelines resulting from the workshop activity. The proceedings will be made available at the workshop website.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Benjamin Poppinga (poppinga@offis.de).

Schedule
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August 27, 2010 - Submission Deadline
September 10, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
October 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Deadline
October 17, 2010 - Workshop Date

Organising Committee
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Benjamin Poppinga, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University
Wilko Heuten, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
David McGookin, University of Glasgow
Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg
Ginger B. Claassen, C-Lab, Siemens AG
Martin Pielot, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Hakan Eftring, Lund University
Jarn Peters, Soest District

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project: http://www.haptimap.org/ - FP7-ICT-224675

CfP: EuroSOUPS

Linda Little — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 1 October 2010
EuroSOUPS (European Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security): Workshop on the development of EuroSOUPS - Northumbria University, 24th November, 2010.

Contributions in the form of 2-page position papers are invited for a one-day workshop at Northumbria University, UK. Information privacy and security requires technology, people, processes and policies. To design and deploy private and secure systems, we require an understanding of how people perceive, understand, and act on privacy /security risks and threats.

The first Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) was held July 6-8, 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. SOUPS has grown with regard to the amount of submissions and number of attendees. Although SOUPS is an international conference, it is based in the USA. During the last five years the number of European’s attending has increased and as a result we have collaborated with the SOUPS team and agreed to the formation of a EuroSOUPS. EuroSOUPS will offer the opportunity for academics, researchers and developers in the fields of privacy and security to discuss and present their work. This workshop is intended to bring together people with an interest in usable security and privacy from a wide variety of backgrounds to discuss, plan and develop EuroSOUPS into a working group.

ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION INCLUDE:
1) Discussion on how to run EuroSOUPS in collaboration with SOUPS
2) Bring together a multidisciplinary community to organise and plan EuroSOUPS events
3) Bring together a broad base of European usable privacy and security practitioners (currently mainly an American focus)

GOALS:
The following are the goals of the workshop:
1) Identify members and structure for the working group
2) Form collaborative networks for future research

EXPECTED STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION
The workshop will provide a forum for those interested in privacy and security to interact and discuss the development, structure and organisation of EuroSOUPS. The first session will include an overview of SOUPS and EuroSOUPS followed by a series of short presentations. Participants will be asked to give a brief overview of their work and ideas on how best to develop EuroSOUPS. Small, hopefully multidisciplinary, groups will use brainstorming activities to develop EuroSOUPS. The groups will swap ideas, evaluate and then refine them reaching agreement on how best to develop EuroSOUPS.

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS
The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the privacy and security and the development of EuroSOUPS. Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest and familiarity with the topic. Contributions will be circulated beforehand and posted on the workshop website (http://www.cocolab.org/soups/eurosoups).

FORMAT AND SUBMISSION
The workshop is designed as a one-day mix of presentations and group discussions. Please send your contributions by 1st October 2010 to l.little@northumbria.ac.uk
The 2-page submission should include a brief overview of the participants own research in the areas of privacy and/or security, their contribution to the fields and ideas on how to develop EuroSOUPS. Acceptance notifications will be sent on or before 22nd October 2010. Linda Little is also the point of contact for further information and informal expressions of interest.

KEY DATES
1st Oct 2010 : Position Paper deadline
22nd Oct 2010: Paper acceptance notification
10th Nov 2010: Accepted paper distribution
24th Nov 2010: Date of workshop

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Linda Little, Northumbria University, UK
Lynne Coventry, Northumbria University., UK
Liz Sillence, Northumbria University, UK
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, UK
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andrew Patrick, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Mike Just, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Karen Renaud, Glasgow University, UK
AaD van Morsel, Newcastle University, UK
Jeff Yan, Newcastle University, UK
Angela Sasse, University College London, UK
Please contact Linda Little for further information l.little@northumbria.ac.uk

CfP: IJMHCI Special Issue on "Research in the Large"

Henriette Cramer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 14 October 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: International Journal of Mobile HCI (IJMHCI)

"Research in the large: using app stores, markets, and other wide distribution channels in mobile HCI & UbiComp research"

The distribution of mobile applications has been greatly simplified by mobile app stores and markets. Both lone developers and large research and development teams can now relatively easily reach wide audiences. This provides a huge opportunity for both iterative development and gathering research data. Evaluation and research methods have to be adapted to this new context. An overview of successful strategies and ways to overcome the challenges inherent to wide deployment in a research context ranging from platform characteristics to gathering reliable research data however is not yet available.

We invite you to submit your work for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction. We invite researchers and developers from academia and industry to share experiences, insights and strategies for wide distribution of applications. Our focus is on building an understanding of the opportunity of the different channels and the issues and obstacles involved in a research context.

THEMES
Themes include:
- Strategies for wide distribution of research applications
- Methods & experiences with research through app stores and other distribution platforms
- The impact of differences between distribution platforms
- Analysis of the various sorts of data, logs and feedback resulting from publicly releasing applications
- Effects of mobile ecosystem features (distribution, payment, service providers etc) on research and evaluation results
- New developments of distribution channels / app stores (including those for other devices than mobile phones)
- Potential heading towards an 'app store bubble'
- Ethical & validity concerns in research on such a large scale

SUBMISSIONS
Submissions will be reviewed by a program committee consisting of researchers from both industry and academia. Submissions should be 5000-8000 words in length. Final submissions should be sent to Henriette Cramer (henriette@mobilelifecentre.org) before Oct 14th, 2010.

If you have any questions about the special issue or plan a submission, please email your questions or a preliminary abstract (around 150 words) to the same address. Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS THE LINK BELOW PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Program Committee for a double-blind, peer review. A final decision regarding acceptance /revision /rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.

DEADLINES
October 14, 2010 - Submission deadline
November 5, 2010 - Notification of acceptance November 20, 2010 - Camera-ready deadline

PUBLISHER
The International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.

MORE INFORMATION
More information about both the special issue and an associated UbiComp 2010 workshop can be found at http://large.mobilelifecentre.org Submissions are also welcomed from authors not participating in the workshop.

CfP: EuroITV 2011 - 9th European Interactive TV Conference - Lisbon, Portugal

Celia Quico — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 7 January 2011
Call for Papers: EuroITV 2011 - 9th European Interactive TV Conference - Lisbon, Portugal: June 29th to July 1st 2011

EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. The 9th EuroITV conference will take place in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal, on June 29th to July 1st 2011. The EuroITV 2011 hosts are Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute.

CONFERENCE THEME
The special theme is "Ubiquitous TV", with a focus on the redefinition of the concept of television itself, as it now refers not to a specific device, but rather a specific kind of content present almost everywhere, from the traditional TV set, to the PC, passing through the mobile phone or the screens in taxis and throughout the city, freeing television from the TV set and bringing it out of the home. Ubiquitous TV’s key aspects will be considered, such as mobility, interactivity, personalization, empowerment (control, participation and UGC), and the social network mediation of communication practices.

CONFERENCE TRACKS
This year’s conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and separate track chairs, coordinated by three overall program chairs. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work.

Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies
Track 4: Interactive Content & Arts

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorials and Workshop Proposals - deadline: November 12th, 2010
Full Paper Submissions - deadline: January 7th, 2011
Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos - deadline: February 11th, 2011

More information about other sessions, eg for business oriented work, will follow soon.

CfP IJMHCI: Introducing a new submission category for PhD students

Jo Lumsden — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 1 January 2015
As Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mobile HCI (IJMHCI) it gives me great pleasure to draw to your attention an exciting new submission category for the journal. This new category is specifically targeted at the newest members of the academic /scientific community, that is, recent PhD graduates. A lot of PhD work gets published in a somewhat disjointed fashion as a series of papers, each covering distinct sub-components of the bigger PhD research picture.

The IJMCHI invites (on an ongoing basis) researchers who have recently (within 12 months) graduated with a PhD in a Mobile HCI-related topic to submit a comprehensive overview article of their PhD research. This category of submission to the IJMHCI will provide a unique opportunity to showcase, in a comprehensive and centralized fashion, the newest work of the newest members of the Mobile HCI research community. Submissions to this category will be processed on a rolling basis (ie no deadline) and must be accompanied by a letter of reference from the PhD supervisor to confirm that the PhD has been successfully awarded within the previous 12 months. The intention is that future issues of the IJMHCI will regularly contain a PhD overview article that will serve to introduce new members to the community and bring their fresh, new research themes and associated challenges into the collective consciousness of the community at large.

To this end, if you are a PhD student nearing completion or having just graduated, please do submit to the IJMHCI under this submission category. Alternatively, if you are the supervisor of eligible PhD students, please encourage your students to submit an overview article to the IJMHCI to showcase their research in a comprehensive fashion to the Mobile HCI community.

The general CfP and submission information is noted below. I hope this CFP also encourages the rest of the community to consider submitting to the IJMHCI – and we look forward to receiving your submissions in the future!

Dr. Joanna Lumsden
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction

CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (IJMHCI)
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Joanna Lumsden
Published: Quarterly (both in print and electronic form)

MISSION OF IJMHCI
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction. The primary objective of IJMHCI is to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the issues associated with the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies. The journal will focus on human-computer interaction related 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. It will also consider issues associated with the social and /or organizational impacts of such technologies.

COVERAGE OF IJMHCI
Journal topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Non-speech audio-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Speech-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Graphical interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Gestural interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Tactile interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Multimodal interaction on mobile technologies
• Other emerging interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Design methods /approaches for mobile user interfaces
• Issues of heterogeneity of mobile device interfaces /interaction
• User interface migration from desktop to mobile technologies
• Mobile commerce application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile healthcare application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile learning application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile advanced training application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile assistive technologies design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile technology design, evaluation, and use by special (needs) groups – eg elderly, children, disabled
• Mobile interactive play design, evaluation, and use
• Context-aware /context-sensitive mobile application design, evaluation, and use
• Wearable technology /application and interaction design, evaluation, and use
• User aspects of mobile privacy, security, and trust
• Technology acceptance as it relates to mobile technologies
• User interface architectures for mobile technologies
• Mobile HCI lab design /set-up
• Lab-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Field-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Lab v. field evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Ethical implications of mobile evaluations
• Case studies and /or reflections on experience in any of the above – eg descriptions of successful mobile user interfaces, evaluation set-ups, etc.
• All other related issues that impact the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies.

SUBMITTING TO IJMHCI
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS THE LINK BELOW PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. A final decision regarding acceptance /revision /rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to ijmhci@igi-global.com. Submissions will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

PUBLISHER
The International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Dr. Joanna Lumsden
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction
E-mail: ijmhci@igi-global.com
www.igi-global.com/IJMHCI

CfP: International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)

Joanna Lumsden — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Deadine: 1 January 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (IJMHCI)
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJMHCI

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Joanna Lumsden
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJMHCI:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction. The primary objective of IJMHCI is to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the issues associated with the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies. The journal will focus on human-computer interaction related 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. It will also consider issues associated with the social and/or organizational impacts of such technologies. To showcase the research of new PhD graduates, the IJMHCI also includes an exciting submission category for PhD overview articles.

COVERAGE OF IJMHCI:
Journal topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Non-speech audio-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Speech-based interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Graphical interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Gestural interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Tactile interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Multimodal interaction on mobile technologies
• Other emerging interaction techniques for mobile technologies
• Design methods/approaches for mobile user interfaces
• Issues of heterogeneity of mobile device interfaces/interaction
• User interface migration from desktop to mobile technologies
• Mobile commerce application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile healthcare application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile learning application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile advanced training application design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile assistive technologies design, evaluation, and use
• Mobile technology design, evaluation, and use by special (needs) groups – e.g., elderly, children, disabled
• Mobile interactive play design, evaluation, and use
• Context-aware/context-sensitive mobile application design, evaluation, and use
• Wearable technology/application and interaction design, evaluation, and use
• User aspects of mobile privacy, security, and trust
• Technology acceptance as it relates to mobile technologies
• User interface architectures for mobile technologies
• Mobile HCI lab design/set-up
• Lab-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Field-based evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Lab v. field evaluations and evaluation techniques
• Ethical implications of mobile evaluations
• Case studies and/or reflections on experience in any of the above – e.g. descriptions of successful mobile user interfaces, evaluation set-ups, etc.
• All other related issues that impact the design, evaluation, and use of mobile technologies.

SUBMITTING TO IJMHCI:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/IJMHCI PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. A final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to ijmhci@igi-global.com. Submissions will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Dr. Joanna Lumsden
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction
E-mail: ijmhci@igi-global.com
www.igi-global.com/IJMHCI