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First Announcement and Call for Papers

11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2012)

www.mum2012.org

December 10-13, 2012 in Essen, Germany

Organized by University of Duisburg-Essen
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MUM 2012, the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on December 10-13, 2012 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany.

Import Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2012 (23:59 EST).
Notification of review decisions: October 12th, 2012.
Conference dates: December 10-13, 2012.

MUM 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 discuss challenges and achievements from diverse perspectives, in a single track conference format. This year's conference aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. In addition to the peer-reviewed accepted papers, the conference program will include keynote presentations, posters, demos, an industry track, and a doctoral consortium.

We welcome high quality full and short paper submissions that offer an original contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Successful full paper submissions typically represent a significant advance for the field. Short papers offer a focused contribution to the research program. Short papers are not work in progress reports but offer completed, rigorously researched/developed work that makes a significant contribution to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Short papers are likely to have a smaller scope of contribution than full papers, but they are expected to make a solid contribution to the field. Paper topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

- Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia applications and systems
- Mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques
- Mobile games, entertainment and advertising
- Mobile social network and multimedia services
- Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services
- Mobile Augmented Reality systems and applications
- Architectures, systems, and algorithms tackling technical challenges of mobile systems
- Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
- Tools and development systems for building mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems
- Case studies, field trials, and user experience evaluations of new applications and services
- Social and privacy implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems

We welcome submission of high quality papers, either in full paper format (max 10 pages ACM format) or short paper format (max 4 pages ACM format), that describe original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Papers should be grounded in existing mobile and ubiquitous multimedia literature and knowledge, and should be written for an interdisciplinary mobile and ubiquitous multimedia audience.

Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission elsewhere. Papers must be anonymized and must contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long and clearly states the paper's contribution to the field. Submitted PDFs must be no larger than 10 megabytes. Authors are encouraged to submit an illustrative video (max 40 megabytes) to accompany their paper and to demonstrate their system - if possible - at the conference.

Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process, managed by the Technical Program Chairs. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be accompanied by a signed copyright form. Accepted full and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

We welcome you to submit to MUM'12!

Florian Michahelles, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Mark Billinghurst

Technical Program Chairs of MUM'12
Questions about this call can be directed to pcchair@mum2012.org

Program Committee (tentative list):
- Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK
- Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK
- Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA
- Andreas Bulling, University of Cambridge, UK
- Antonio Krüger, DFKI, Germany
- Antti Salovaara, HIIT, Finland
- Daniel Ashbrook, Nokia Research Center Hollywood, USA
- Daniel Gatica-Perez, EPFL, Switzerland, Switzerland
- Derek Reilly, Georgia Institute of Technology, Canada
- Eamonn O'Neill, University of Bath, UK
- Eija Kaasinen, Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT), Finland
- Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Fengyuan Ren, Tsinghua University, China
- George Roussos, Birkbeck College London, UK
- Henriette Cramer, MobileLifeCentre, Sweden
- Jarmo Laaksolahti, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Johannes Schoening, DFKI, Germany
- Jonna Hakkila, University of Oulu, Finland
- Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
- Karmen Franinovic, ZHdK, Switzerland
- Kristof van Laerhoven, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, Germany
- Lambros Lambrinos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
- Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Maria Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy
- Markku Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland
- Matthias Kranz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Michael Rohs, University of Munich, Germany
- Mikael Wiberg,, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK
- Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
- Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life Centre, Sweden
- Paul Coulton, Lancaster University, UK
- Paul Holleis, Docomo Euro Labs, Germany
- Petra Sundström, Mobile Life Centre , Sweden
- Rene Mayrhofer, University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Roderick Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
- Tao Mei, Microsoft Research, China
- Thomas Olsson, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Timo Ojala, University of Oulu, Finland, Finland
- Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Vassilis Kostakos, University of Oulu, Finland
- Yanqing Cui, Nokia Research Center, Finland