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MUM 2005

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA

8th-10th DECEMBER 2005 IN CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND

CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.hitlabnz.org/mum2005/



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The goal of the MUM2005 conference is to provide an international forum
for presenting recent=20

research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, and to bring
together experts from both=20

academia and industry for an exchange of ideas and discussion on future
challenges.  The=20

program includes keynote presentations and tutorials by leading experts
and contributed papers=20

describing recent progress in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The
papers presented in the=20

conference will be published in the conference proceedings, and the best
papers will be=20

considered for a special issue of the journal of Pervasive and
Ubiquitous Computing.



MUM 2005 will be held in conjunction with ICAT 2005 which is also being
held in Christchurch=20

during the first part of the week. ICAT 2005 is the International
Conference on Augmented Tele-

existence and is a premiere conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual
Reality, Robotics and=20

Interactive Experiences. See http://www.icat2005.org/ for more
information.

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MUM 2005 will be two days of technical papers, and one day of tutorials
and workshops.=20

Attendees will in addition be able to register and attend tutorials,
workshops and paper sessions=20

as part of ICAT 2005.



CONFERENCE TOPICS

Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics
on mobile and ubiquitous=20

multimedia:

	- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with
mobility, roaming, limited=20

		bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity

	- Case studies, field trials and evaluations of new applications
and services

	- HCI, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies

	- Intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments,
perception and=20

		modeling of the environment

	- Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and
ubiquitous=20

		multimedia

	- Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment

	- Novel adaptive/context-aware/mobile/ubiquitous/wireless
multimedia=20

	applications and systems

	- Streaming mobile multimedia

	- Media analysis on mobile devices



PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions are requested in form of a 6-8 page full paper, submitted
electronically via the=20

Conference WWW Site.  Although the final format is not required at the
time of submission,=20

authors are encouraged to use the SIGGRAPH style. For those interested
in submitting a tutorial=20

or workshop proposal please contact the Program Chair, Mark Ollila,
marol@i .........



IMPORTANT DATES

	Submission deadline: September 2nd, 2005 (extended to 12th
September)

	Notification of acceptance: October 1st, 2005

	Final version and early registration due: October 28th, 2005



VENUE

The conference will be held at the University of Canterbury in
Christchurch, New Zealand.=20

Christchurch is a beautiful city that is the gateway to the South Island
of New Zealand. Is it easily=20

accessible by air and is close to many popular tourist and site seeing
spots. More information can=20

be found at: http://www.christchurch.org.nz/



PROGRAM COMMITTEE



Mark Billinghurst, University of Canterbury (NZ) Sam Bucolo, Queensland
University of Technology (Australia) Alan Chalmers, University of
Bristol (UK) Tim Wright, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) David
Doermann, University of Maryland (USA) David Ebert, Purdue University
(USA) Jonathan Hull, Ricoh (USA) Timo Ojala, University of Oulu
(Finland) Mark Ollila, University of Linkoping (Sweden) Ee Peng,
Nangyung Technological University (Singapore) Jari Veijalainen,
Information Technology Research Institute (Finland) Kari Pulli, Nokia
Research Center & MIT CSAIL (USA)=20




INFORMATION


http://www.hitlabnz.org/mum2005


For further information please contact



         Mark Billinghurst, mark.billinghurst@h ...........

         General Chair, MUM 2005

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         Mark Ollila, marol@i .........

         Program Chair, MUM 2005