Introduction
Being in nature is typically regarded to be calming, relaxing and purifying. When in nature, people often seek to be mobile through physical activity such as hiking. But also, nature provides an opportunity for meditative, mindful or inspiring experiences remote from the urban everyday life. Mobile Technologies such sports tracking technologies, electronic tourist guides, mobile phone integrated cameras and omnipresent social media access, have potential to both enhance and disrupt a user’s interaction with and experience of nature. This MobileHCI workshop follows on from the first successful NatureCHI workshop by focusing on the challenges associated with the design of mobile technologies that support unobtrusive interaction in nature.
Call for paper
Submission Topics
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following:
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Design and use of unobtrusive technologies and services for interacting in nature
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Novel UI mechanisms and metaphors for interacting with nature
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Nature integrated UIs and technologies
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Cultural aspects of interactions in nature
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Social acceptance of technology use in nature
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Non-use of technology vs. the use of enabling technologies in nature
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Technologies that enable going into nature but do not interrupt the user’s experience in nature
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Reliance on technology in nature, and its potential consequences
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Value based design and respect for nature
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Temporal design aspects and ephemeral user interfaces with nature as the use context
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Designing for individual users vs. travelling together, and converging and diverging user group behavior in nature
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Recommendations for being in nature in the relevant context, e.g. weather, floods, ground saturation
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Important Date
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Sep 04
2017
Conference Date
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Sep 04 2017
Registration deadline
Sponsored By
Future Interaction Technology Lab，Swansea University
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