Mobile HCI Tutorials (files from the presentations)

If you want an introductory overview to the state of the art of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, the Mobile HCI conference series  is pursuing an initiative that provides you exactly with that, and for free. On September 15, 2009, the Mobile HCI 2009 Tutorial Day took place in Bonn: a number of well-known researchers in Mobile HCI covered many of the relevant topics, and Enrico Rukzio, who organized the day and invited the tutorialists, has convinced them to make their presentations publicly available.  In the following, you find the links to download the files together with short abstracts that describe what each presentation is about.

Mobile Search [click HERE to DOWNLOAD]
By Matt Jones, University of Swansea, UK
Desktop search is the most popular interactive web-activity with billions of interactions daily. Mobile search is increasing in significance and this tutorial reviews the state-of-the-art knowledge touching topics such as: user motivations for mobile search; query capture; and, search result visualisation and interaction. While it of course considers query-result, screen-based mobile systems, the tutorial also explore more adventurous visions for seeking and finding including those involving multimodal elements (such as audio and gestures) and social-network based schemes.

Information Visualization and
Visual Interfaces for Mobile Devices [click HERE to DOWNLOAD] 
By Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy
Mobile devices have now powerful graphics capabilities that enable the creation of novel visual interfaces – based on 2D (or even 3D) graphics - to help users on the move in dealing more quickly and easily with larger amounts of information. This tutorial introduces participants to what we can learn (and what we need to adapt) from the field of visualization to build effective visual interfaces on mobile devices. It also introduces future challenges and briefly show how information visualization techniques are useful to create new tools for studying the behaviour of mobile users. No particular background in information visualization is required.

Mobile Guides [click HERE to DOWNLOAD]
By Chris Kray, Newcastle University, UK
Mobile guides are one of the most widely used location-based services, and are now being rolled out commercially on a large scale. Often, mobile guides are thought of as just being ‘maps with a few markers and a highlighted route’ but this is a very narrow perspective - they can be much more. This tutorial provides a systematic overview over the large body of research in this area. Topics covered include psychological foundations of way finding and producing directions, different means to convey route instructions through a mobile interface as well as ways to represent and deal with location.

Mobile Privacy [click HERE to DOWNLOAD]
By Marc Langheinrich, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Mobile applications that go beyond simple GPS-enabled maps often involve significant privacy issues. This tutorial first frames the problem associated with mobile applications and personal privacy, i.e., why should we care about privacy issues when designing mobile applications? It then summarizes the current state-of-the-art in location privacy, i.e., computational countermeasures, consumer attitudes, and legal realities. Last but not least, it also tries to offer a somewhat larger view of privacy in general: what is it, and why should we want it?

Mobile Interaction with the Real World [click HERE to DOWNLOAD]
By Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Over the last years, there has been an increasing interest in extending the interaction between users and mobile devices to the interaction with objects from the everyday world. For example, people can use their mobile phones to take pictures of visual markers and have their codes recognized. A further example is the usage of RFID/NFC that is gaining popularity as it can reduce payment, identification or access control by simply swiping a mobile phone over a reader. This tutorial provides a systematic overview of such interaction techniques, discusses different technologies that are used for their implementation and presents applications areas and upcoming trends.

Modelling and Developing Mobile Applications [click HERE to DOWNLOAD]
By Paul Holleis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
The development of mobile, pervasive applications is still a difficult task. Although by now there have been introduced APIs and several studies explored many aspects of mobile interfaces and services, it is often a complex and time-consuming task to create mobile applications and evaluate their usability properties. In this tutorial we will see current research and results about how to use usability models for easily and automatically evaluating certain aspects of mobile interfaces. Concentrating on the time to completion of tasks, I present approaches of how to integrate such methods into the development process and thus remove some of the burden from the developer. 

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