Physical Interaction (PI03) –
Workshop on Real World User Interfaces

The workshop is held at the MobileHCI conference 2003 in Udine (Italy)

**** submission is closed - deadline was June 10, 2003 ****

Theme - Topics of Interest - Submission - Dates - Organizers - Contact - Call in PDF

Theme:

Mobility inevitably moves computing and interaction into real world. Exploiting the physicality of the environment as means for interaction brings opportunities but also creates new challenges.

 Physical user interfaces facilitate new ways of human-computer interaction. The real world becomes the user interface. Interaction occurs by manipulating the physical world. By moving interaction from the screen into the physicality of the real world the design space is extended allowing new and richer forms of interaction.

 The workshop is concerned with how physical user interfaces can replace, enhance, and complement traditional WIMP (Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer) based interaction.

Topics of interest:

• physical user interfaces for acquiring information (input)
• physical user interfaces for providing information (output)
• experience of creating everyday objects that become user interfaces
• sensing technologies for physical and mobile user interfaces
• activators for physical and mobile user interfaces
• models for off-screen real world interaction
• software models and frameworks for physical user interfaces
• experience reports on building, using, and deploying physical user interfaces
• co-existence of physical and screen based interfaces
• design guidelines for physical interaction
• evaluation of physical user interface
• specific issues of physical user interfaces in mobile settings

Aims & Participants & Submission

The workshop seeks to bring together researchers, designer and practitioners from academia and industry who are concerned with creating physical user interfaces. The workshop will provide a venue to present novel research on physical user interfaces and to openly discuss ideas and problems on the topic. By bringing together different viewpoints, e.g. the design perspective, the technology, and the software side, a common understanding can emerge. The overall aim of the workshop is to foster a community on physical user interfaces particularly for the mobile user.

 The number of participants will be limited to 20 people to enable intensive discussions. Participants will be selected based on their submission. Two types of submissions are encouraged (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html for a style template):

• research paper describing original late breaking work in the area of physical user interfaces (about 4 pages). Authors of selected papers will have 15 minutes to present the paper.
• a short research question, position, or claim on the topic accompanied by max 1 page outlining the question, position, claim which is providing a basis for discussion. Authors of selected questions are expected to lead a 10 minutes plenary discussion on the topic.

Please submit your contribution not later than June 10, 2003 by email to albrecht.schmidt@acm.org

Deadlines:

• June 10, 2003 – submission of research paper and research questions

• July 5, 2003 – notification of authors

• July 20, 2003 – camera ready version of submissions due

• September 8, 2003 – one day workshop at the MobileHCI 2003 conference

How the workshop is organized:

The workshop is a one-day workshop held at the MobileHCI 2003 conference in Udine (Italy). The schedule will be announced after submissions have been reviewed. Participants for the workshop are selected based on their submissions. All workshop participants are required to register for the MobileHCI 2003 conference. The workshop proceedings will be available in paper at the MobileHCI 2003 conference and will be published online. Authors of outstanding research papers will be encouraged to submit an extended version of their papers to the special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on “Tangible Interface in Perspective” which has the deadline after the workshop (note that there will be a separate review process for the special issue).

Organizers:

• Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany, Albrecht.Schmidt@acm.org

• Steve Benford, Nottingham University, UK, sdb@cs.nott.ac.uk

• Andreas Butz, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, butz@cs.uni-sb.de

Contact and further Information:

• Workshop web page: /en/events/pi03/

• Albrecht Schmidt, Albrecht.Schmidt@acm.org