Submissions opened for Industry Demos, October 30, 2009

MUM 2009 SUBMISSION DEADLINES

All deadlines are midnight Pacific Day Time (PDT).
Long paper, short paper, poster and demo submissions should be anonymous.

Other important Dates:

In cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE, papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

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, 22nd - 25th November, 2009. It is organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge, in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE.

Accepted papers and technical notes will be published in the MUM 2009 Conference Proceedings and MUM 2009 DVD Proceedings and included in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted demos and posters will be included in the DVD proceedings.

Long paper, short paper, poster and demo submissions should be anonymous. We only accept electronic submissions through the MUM 2009 MUM 2009 Paper Sumbission site, in pdf format.

Contact:
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge,UK

PAPERS

Deadline: September 3, 2009

Full paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages in the ACM publishing format. Submissions should describe original and unpublished work. They should be made in electronic form, through the MUM 2009 Microsoft Research CMT, in pdf format.
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 25, 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 15, 2009 - Final camera ready papers due.

Contact:
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK.

SHORT PAPERS

Deadline: September 3, 2009

Short papers are an opportunity to publish late breaking results, system implementations and practical approaches that would be beneficial to the community of researchers and practitioners and have not been published elsewhere.

MUM Short paper are rigorously reviewed as shorter and focused submissions that enable the authors to disseminate technical insights as well as to receive community feedback in early research stages. Technical notes should not exceed 4 pages in the ACM format.

Relevant dates:

• September 25, 2009 – Author notification
  Authors will be notified of the program committee decision about the acceptance of their short paper. All acceptances will be conditional pending the changes that the program committee requested for the final camera-ready draft of the paper.
• October 15, 2009 - Final camera ready papers due.

Contact:
Eamonn O'Neill,University of Bath, UK.

TUTORIALS

Deadline: September 3, 2009

We invite proposals for a half-day tutorial related to the topics of the conference. The tutorial will be held on Sunday, November 22’09, from 1pm until 5pm, in parallel with the Doctoral Consortium. Please send the proposal directly to the Tutorial chair. Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.

The cover sheet should specify:

• The title and the length of the tutorial
• The intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced)
• Any background knowledge or skills required
• Complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters
• A brief biography (maximum 2 paragraphs) for each presenter

The extended abstract should provide sufficient information about the scope of the topic and the depth to which it will be covered:

• A description of the coverage
• A description of the tutorial objectives
• An outline of the tutorial
• Its relevance to the community

The abstract should not exceed 2 pages.

Send the proposal to Ahmed El Arabawy, the Tutorial Chair by Aug 31, 2009 (Midnight PDT).

Relevant dates:

• September 25, 2009 – Authors will be notified of the poster acceptance.

Contact:
Ahmed El Arabawy, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Centre, Egypt.

POSTERS AND DEMOS

Deadline: October 4, 2009

Posters provide authors with an opportunity to present their new work or work in progress to conference attendees during an interactive poster session. A poster submission should be in the form of a two-page paper in ACM abstract format (doc, pdf), describing the research problem, contribution, and value to MUM community.

The poster submission are not anonymous. For the presentation at the conference, the authors should prepare A1 size poster. A preview of the poster should be submitted with the final version of the poster abstract.

Accepted poster abstracts will be published together with demonstration and doctoral symposium abstracts in the MUM Conference Notes and DVD, and distributed to conference attendees. Poster abstracts and previews should be submitted electronically to Precision Conference.

Through peer-reviewed demonstrations, the authors can show early implementations of novel and important concepts, applications, and services for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. They can also showcase technology toolkits, research tools, and commercial products not previously described in the research or technical literature. We particularly encourage demos with which attendees can interact.

A demo submission consists of an extended abstract in ACM abstract format (doc, pdf) that should be no longer than two pages. The demo submissions are not anonymous. Accepted demonstration abstract will be published in the MUM Conference Notes and included in the DVD proceedings. The demo abstracts should be submitted electronically to Precision Conference.

Relevant dates:

• October 8, 2009 – Authors will be notified of acceptance.
• October 15, 2009 - Final version of the abstract is due.

Contacts:
Sean Gustafson, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Antti Virolainen, Nokia Research Center, Finland.

INDUSTRY DEMOS

Deadline: November 4, 2009

We invite proposals for an interactive demonstration session of novel systems and applications relevant to MUM. Appropriate demonstrations would present applications, technologies, and prototypes, including novel commercial products. They should be interactive and provide attendees with a hands-on experience.

The interactive session is not an opportunity for marketing or sales presentations. Presenters must have been directly involved with the development of the system and be able to explain the unique and novel contributions of the system.

The interactive demonstration session will be held on Wednesday, November 25, before the closing keynote.

Submission Materials
Submit up to one-page system summary via e-mail to Gayle Hughes gaylehu@microsoft.com. The summary should indicate the novelty of the technology, its relevance to MUM, the technical and space requirement, and any other relevant information.

Relevant dates:

• November 13, 2009 – Notification of demo acceptance.

Contacts:
Rachel Jones, Instrata Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Gayle Hughes, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM

Deadline: September 30, 2009 October 10, 2009

The MUM Doctoral Symposium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced MUM researchers and practitioners in an informal and interactive setting. We welcome applications from current Ph.D. students who are studying in disciplines and approaches that contribute to the MUM community. Each applicant should provide a short written paper, up to four pages in ACM abstract format (doc, pdf).

The Doctoral Symposium submission are not anonymous. The Doctoral Symposium committee will select approximately 6 students to participate. Each student will be expected to give a short presentation of their work, which will be followed by the discussion with the panel and other student participants.

Each student is encouraged to present a poster describing his or her work during the poster session.

Relevant dates:

• October 8, 2009 – Students will be notified of their submission for the doctoral symposium.
• October 15, 2009 – Students should submit final version of their submission.

Contact:
Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Application Instructions

To apply to be a student volunteer, please email the information below directly to Kharsim Yousef, the Student Volunteers chair with the following information:

Name:
Email:
City, Country:
University:
Degree Program:
Year in program:
Advisor:
Number of previous MUM attended:
Have you been a MUM student volunteer before (when):
Have you been a student volunteer for other conferences which ones):
Language(s) spoken:

Benefits and Duties
As MUM Student volunteer you will get:

• Free conference registration and conference material
• Free T-shirt

Student volunteers will be required to help set up and perform needed work during the conference. Duties include: bag stuffing, registration desk, AV assistance, poster and demo setup, badge checking, break monitoring, etc. Volunteers will also need to be available during the conference if tasks come up.

Relevant dates:

• Application deadline: September 30, 2009
• Results notification: October 8, 2009

Contact:
Kharsim Yousef, University of Cambridge, UK.