2009-01-20

[Mycolleagues] WWW - Mobile Widgets 2009 Call For Papers

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                     Workshop on Mobile Widgets

                  

                  April 21, 2009 - Madrid, Spain

                        http://www2009.org

 

             In conjunction with the World Wide Web conference 2009

 

The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers and technologists

to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in

emerging innovative applications for mobile users with a focus in mobile widgets, mashups

and interactive media.

2009 will be a year for users to create their own personalized mobile applications. A Mobile Widget is a small application that does one simple function well. Users can now choose to combine multiple widgets to create their own personalized mashup. Developers are challenged more than ever to provide richer innovative services via widgets.

*** TOPICS ***

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-    Mobile Widgets and Mashups

-        Widget engine interoperability

-        Widget packaging and rendering technology

-        Mobile Ajax, JSF, SVG-T etc. What role do Ajax toolkits have to play in bringing rich experience to the mobile browser?

-        Looking beyond Ajax for asynchronous communication, mobile p2p applications

-        Mobile browser as a rich application environment

-        Role of voice and multimodal technologies/applications

-        Media adaptation and content filtering

-        User Generated Content, content authoring from a mobile phone

-        How can a widget behave consistently in case of network disruptions

-        Offline widget operation and maintaining interactivity in disconnected scenarios

-        Communication efficiency for mobile widgets

-        Usability of mobile widgets

-        Widget interaction with local devices and resources

-        Mobile phone advertising, rich media and advertising

-        Models for rich media client (thin / thick)

-        Mobile widgets to leverage the use of mobile web in Developing Countries

-        Mobile gaming and location based services

-        Cross platform services (e.g. 3 screen services (TV, PC, phone))

-        Mobile Virtual World and 3D technologies

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

 

- Submission deadline: February 12th, 2009

- Notification of acceptance: March 2nd, 2009

- Camera ready version: March 16th, 2009

 

 

*** PAPER SUBMISSION ***

Paper submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work

and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. The

format of submitted papers must follow the same style as regular WWW2009 papers, including

no page numbers. You are invited to submit a full paper describing completed work (up to 5 pages)

or a position paper describing work in progress (up to 2 pages), 8.5 x 11-inch pages (including

figures, tables and references) in 10 point font. Include an abstract, five to ten keywords,

and the corresponding author's e-mail address.

Submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobeavii2009

At least one author of accepted papers must register for the workshop. 

Registration information will be available at the conference web site:  http://www2009.org

 

 

*** WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ***

Rittwik Jana

AT&T Labs Research

180 Park Ave

Florham Park, NJ, 07932

Email: rjana@research.att.com

 

Daniel Appelquist

Vodafone Group Service

The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2FN

United Kingdom

Email: Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com

 

Francois Daoust

W3C

2004, route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis

France

Email: fd@w3.org

 

Dirk Kutscher

Center for Computing Technologies

Universitat Bremen

Postfach 330440

28334 Bremen

Germany

E-Mail: dku@tzi.org

 

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