Mobile and ubiquitous information access : Mobile HCI 2003 international workshop, Udine, Italy, September 8, 2003 : revised and invited papers

The Ongoing Migration Of Computing And Information Access From The Desktop And Te- Phone To Mobile Computing Devices Such As Pdas, Tablet Pcs, And Next-generation (3g) Phones Poses Critical Challenges For Research On Information Access. Desktop Computer Users Are Now Used To Accessing Vast Quantities Of Complex Data Either Directly On Their Pc Or Via The Internet – With Many Services Now Blurring That Distinction. The Current State-of-practice Of Mobile Computing Devices, Be They Mobile Phones, Hand-held Computers, Or Personal Digital Assistants (pdas), Is Very Variable. Most Mobile Phones Have No Or Very Limited Information Storage And Very Poor Internet Access. Furthermore, Very Few End-users Make Any, Never Mind Extensive, Use Of The Services That Are Provided. Hand-held Computers, On The Other Hand, Tend To Have No Wireless Network Capabilities And Tend To Be Used Very Much As Electronic Diaries, With Users Tending Not To Go Beyond Basic Diary Applications. The Concept Of Relevance In Mobile And Ubiquitous Information Access / Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero And Stefano Mizzaro -- Conversational Design As A Paradigm For User Interaction On Mobile Devices / Mun-kew Leong -- One-handed Use As A Design Driver : Enabling Efficient Multi-channel Delivery Of Mobile Applications / Mikko Nikkanen. Fabio Crestani, Mark Dunlop, Stefano Mizzaro (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages - The Concept of Relevance in Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access....Pages 1-10 Conversational Design as a Paradigm for User Interaction on Mobile Devices....Pages 11-27 One-Handed Use as a Design Driver: Enabling Efficient Multi-channel Delivery of Mobile Applications....Pages 28-41 Enabling Communities in Physical and Logical Context Areas as Added Value of Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications....Pages 42-53 Accessing Web Educational Resources from Mobile Wireless Devices: The Knowledge Sea Approach....Pages 54-66 Spoken versus Written Queries for Mobile Information Access....Pages 67-78 Focussed Palmtop Information Access Combining Starfield Displays with Profile-Based Recommendations....Pages 79-89 Designing Models and Services for Learning Management Systems in Mobile Settings....Pages 90-106 E-Mail on the Move: Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices with the ifMail Prototype....Pages 107-123 Mobile Access to the Físchlár-News Archive....Pages 124-142 A PDA-Based System for Recognizing Buildings from User-Supplied Images....Pages 143-157 SmartView and SearchMobil: Providing Overview and Detail in Handheld Browsing....Pages 158-171 Compact Summarization for Mobile Phones....Pages 172-186 Supporting Searching on Small Screen Devices Using Summarisation....Pages 187-201 Towards the Wireless Ward: Evaluating a Trial of Networked PDAs in the National Health Service....Pages 202-214 Aspect-Based Adaptation for Ubiquitous Software....Pages 215-226 Context-Aware Retrieval for Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 227-243 Ubiquitous Awareness in an Academic Environment....Pages 244-255 Accessing Location Data in Mobile Environments – The Nimbus Location Model....Pages 256-270 A Localization Service for Mobile Users in Peer-to-Peer Environments....Pages 271-282 Sensing and Filtering Surrounding Data: The PERSEND Approach....Pages 283-297 Back Matter....Pages - The ongoing migration of computing and information access from the desktop and te- phone to mobile computing devices such as PDAs, tablet PCs, and next-generation (3G) phones poses critical challenges for research on information access. Desktop computer users are now used to accessing vast quantities of complex data either directly on their PC or via the Internet {u2013} with many services now blurring that distinction. The current state-of-practice of mobile computing devices, be they mobile phones, hand-held computers, or personal digital assistants (PDAs), is very variable. Most mobile phones have no or very limited information storage and very poor Internet access. Furthermore, very few end-users make any, never mind extensive, use of the services that are provided. Hand-held computers, on the other hand, tend to have no wireless network capabilities and tend to be used very much as electronic diaries, with users tending not to go beyond basic diary applications This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access held in Udine, Italy in September 2003 during Mobile HCI 2003. Besides selected and revised workshop papers, several papers were specially invited to complete coverage of all relevant issues and extend the volume to a more representative survey of the state of the art in the area. The 21 articles in the book are organized in topical sections on - foundations: concepts, models, and paradigms; - interactions; - applications and experimental evaluations; - context and location It may surprise you, but we can hardly imagine what information overload is.