Tutorials at mobile HCI

This was the second year that there was a full day of tutorials at mobile HCI, and the slides are quite a good resource for anyone, who's interested in a particular topic in mobile HCI.

• Enrico has uploaded the slides from this year here
• Albrecht is hosting the slides from last year on his blog

Should be a good read for anyone looking for related work or a head start in a particular area.

Mobile HCI 2009

Mobile HCI is held at Bonn this year, with quite a few papers (that Albrecht is summarising nicely in his blog). I'd like to add the one on GraspZoom by Miyaki and Rekimoto, which I thought was a very simple yet effective and practical solution to overcome the problem of using touchscreen-based phones with one hand. Calli also presented our paper, which was based on her MSc thesis which she completed last year. I guess she also found out the hard way that a good way to make sure you get many questions after your talk is to finish ahead of time.


Partially due to the CHI deadline yesterday, the demand for caffeine was quite high amongst many of the participants but luckily, there was an ample supply of nice coffee places right next to the conference site. The photo to the right shows 'Einstein Kaffee', which does not only serve pretty good coffee in a decidely retro-chic style but which probably can claim to be the unofficial second site for mobile HCI this year.