CFP: Theme Issue on Personal Projection in Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/call.html

Mobile projection interfaces are no longer fiction. Integrated pico projectors in mobile and wearable devices could make mobile projection ubiquitous within the next few years. Walls, desks, or t-shirts will act as projection surfaces for these kinds of new devices. Several projector phones (mobile phones with built-in projectors) are already commercially available, with additional phones either demonstrated or announced. It is expected that such projector phones will be integrated into many of the next generation mobile handsets. Furthermore, we have seen the first research towards the integration of pico projectors and cameras into various wearable systems, such as pendants or headsets, leading to new form factors, interaction techniques and applications. These mobile projection and camera units have great potential to overcome limitations of mobile and wearable devices, especially their limited input- and output capabilities. They offer a large projection area and are able to project virtual interfaces where multiple people can spontaneously interact with it. The aim of this special issue is to report on current research on mobile projection interfaces and applications in the area of pervasive computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications and interaction techniques for mobile and wearable projection.
• Personal projection in augmented reality.
• Interaction with projected interfaces.
• Projector phones and wearable projectors.
• Multi-user interactions and applications with mobile and wearable projection.
• Multimodal and personalized (mobile) user interfaces using personal projection.
• Guidelines for mobile projection interfaces.
• New application areas of mobile projection.
• Artistic and unusual ways to utilize mobile projection.

The issue is linked to the Ubiprojection 2010 workshop: the first workshop on personal projection via mobile and wearable pico projectors. The workshop was organized in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 and its webpage can be found at http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/.

Important dates:

• Full manuscript due: 22.10.2010
• Acceptance notification: 10.12.2010
• Final manuscript due: 30.01.2011
• Publication date: summer 2011 (tentative)

Submission guidelines:

Submissions should be prepared according to the author instructions available at the journal homepage, http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779. Manuscripts must be submitted as a PDF to ubiproject@comp.lancs.ac.uk. Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author’s contact, abstract, and keywords) must be included in the submission email. Reviewing will involve at least two reviews. Submissions should be no more than 8000 words in length.

Guest editors:

• Enrico Rukzio, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) & Lancaster University (UK)
• Johannes Schöning, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Germany)
• Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (Germany)
• Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research Center Tampere (Finland)
• Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany)

Information about Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing:

• Editor-in-Chief: Peter Thomas
• Journal web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779
• Facebook web site: http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp