GENERAL INFORMATION

MUM, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies that drive innovation in mobile and multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM academics and practitioners gather to present and discuss achievements and challenges from diverse perspectives, in a comfortable and effective single track conference format.

The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2009) is held in Cambridge, United Kingdom, between November 22th - 25th, 2009. It is organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge, in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (pending).

Accepted papers and technical notes will be published in the MUM 2009 Conference Proceedings and MUM 2009 DVD Proceedings and aim is to include them in the ACM Digital Library (pending). Accepted demos and posters will be included in the DVD proceedings and published as MUM Conference Notes.

All the submissions should be anonymous.
PAPERS

Deadline: August 03, 2009

Full paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages in the ACM publishing format. Submissions should describe original and unpublished work. The intended topics include but are not limited to

* User research and methods for user-centred design of new concepts, applications, and services in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, ranging from ethnographic research and case studies to field trials and usability evaluations.
* Enabling technologies for novel mobile and ubiquitous multimedia applications, including protocols, algorithms, architectures, and middleware for mobile roaming, bandwidth and connectivity management, media streaming, storage, and integration, user authentication, identity and profile management, social interaction, distributed computing, and other aspects of ubiquitous media access that are essential for emerging applications.
* Innovative designs and implementations of user interfaces, applications, and systems that address challenging issues in mobile interaction and ubiquitous media access across devices with different form factors, seamless transition between computing platforms, context aware UI and content presentation, management of large user populations and complex service interactions.
* Applications of research methods and techniques from social network analysis, machine learning, information retrieval, computer graphics, computer vision, speech processing, user interfaces and interaction design to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia.

Relevant dates:

* September 11, 2009 – Author notification
* Authors will be notified of the program committee decision about the acceptance of their full paper submissions. All acceptances will be conditional pending the changes that the papers committee requested for the final camera-ready draft of the paper.
* October 16, 2009 - Final camera ready papers due.