Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services -- MobileHCI 2012. MobileHCI is the world's leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction concerned with portable and personal devices and with the services to which they enable access. Mobile HCI provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. The conference continues to attract a significant number of submissions; this year we received 212 valid paper submissions. We have continued our commitment to improve the quality of the review process. A senior program committee of 38 internationally renowned scientists from academia and industry was assembled. Each paper received 3 or more high-quality peer reviews, as well as an additional meta review by the assigned PC member. Following last year's successful cross-Atlantic, split committee meeting, the 38 committee members assembled in two locations (Palo Alto and Berlin) that were linked by audio and video connections. This provided an opportunity for the papers and reviews to be discussed in detail and all final decisions to be agreed upon by the Program Committee as a whole. The outcome of this process was that 54 of the 212 submissions were accepted (25%) for inclusion in the final Program, to be presented in San Francisco in September 2012. Of these, 39 were full papers and 15 were notes. A shepherding process was also used in which 6 of the 54 accepted papers were revised and improved under the expert guidance of a dedicated committee member. In our commitment to continually improving the quality of the Program, 8 papers/notes were given special recognition of excellence by being nominated for consideration as a Best Paper. A jury, consisting of 5 members of the Program Committee, was established to judge which of these papers represented the highest caliber of research in the field to be deserving of the Best Paper award. The final decision is to be revealed at the conference itself.