Workshop at UbiComp 2010, Sept 26, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Accepted workshop papers

Evaluating Mobile User Experience In-The-Wild: Prototypes, Playgrounds and Contextual Experience Sampling - Karen Church, Mauro Cherubini - Telefonica Research

Challenges in Developing an App Store for Public Displays – A Position Paper - Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Sarah Clinch- Lancaster University, Albrecht Schmidt - University Duisburg-Essen

Bootstrapping Your Mobile Application on a Social Market - Andrea Girardello, Florian Michahelles - ETH Zurich

Understanding Use Situated in Real-world Mobile Contexts - Matthias Korn - Aarhus University

iPhone Software Distribution for Mass Participation - Donald McMillan - University of Glasgow

Getting closer to reality by evaluating released apps? - Florian Michahelles - ETH Zurich

Research in the App Store Era: Experiences from the CenceMe App Deployment on the iPhone - Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Andrew T. Campbell - CS Dartmouth College

Experiences of Mass Participation in Ubicomp Research - Alistair Morrison, Stuart Reeves, Donald McMillan, Matthew Chalmers - University of Glasgow

SGVis: Analysis of Mass Participation Trial Data - Alistair Morrison, Matthew Chalmers - University of Glasgow

WorldCupinion: Experiences with an Android App for Real-Time Opinion Sharing during World Cup Soccer Games- Michael Rohs, Sven Kratz, Robert Schleicher - Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin - Alireza Sahami, Albrecht Schmidt - University of Duisburg-Essen

Call for papers

The distribution of mobile applications has been greatly simplified by mobile app stores and markets. Both lone developers and large research and development teams can now relatively easily reach wide audiences. This provides a huge opportunity for both iterative development and gathering research data. Evaluation and research methods have to be adapted to this new context. An overview of successful strategies and ways to overcome the challenges inherent to wide deployment in a research context ranging from platform characteristics to gathering reliable research data however is not yet available. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and developers from academia and industry to exchange experiences, insights and strategies for wide distribution of applications. We aim at building an understanding of the opportunity of the different channels and the issues and obstacles involved in a research context.

We're interested in contributions from developers and researchers in both industry and academia. Themes include:

- Strategies for wide distribution of research applications
- Methods & experiences with research through app stores and other distribution platforms
- The impact of differences between distribution platforms
- Analysis of the various sorts of data, logs and feedback resulting from publicly releasing applications
- Effects of mobile ecosystem features (distribution, payment, service providers etc) on research and evaluation results
- New developments of distribution channels (including those for other devices)
- Potential heading towards an 'app store bubble'
- Ethical & validity concerns in research on such a large scale

Workshop contributions are expected in the form of four-page papers in UbiComp format addressing previous experiences and for example case studies, or two-page position papers on the opportunities and challenges ahead. Submissions will be reviewed by a program committee consisting of both industry and academia partners. Submission deadline: June 25, 2010. Send submissions to henriette  at  mobilelifecentre.org.

Deadlines are:
July 9, 2010 - Submission deadline of workshop papers
July 26, 2010 - Notification of acceptance of workshop papers
August 06, 2010 - Camera-ready deadline
September 26, 2010 - Workshop!

You can read the workshop proposal here.

Participants in the workshop are invited to also submit to an associated special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (call for papers here)