Call for Posters and Demos

The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021)

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
February 24-26, 2021, Cyberspace

ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services.

Given the current circumstances, live poster presentations and demos will run in parallel over video link during a dedicated session, with participants being able to drop in and out, as they would in an in-situ setting. As backup, authors of posters and demonstrations will be required to have pre-recorded versions of their poster presentations/demos.

The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research.

We are looking for new ways of presenting demos and posters, exploiting the possibility of a video link in original and novel ways. For example, demos can be video streamed from labs (where local provisions permit), outdoors, using web portals/Jupyter notebooks/Colab, or involve app downloads via links provided and user testing.

The poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award.

Call for Papers

The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021)

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
February 24-26, 2021
Cyberspace

ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches.

We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a “6-pages conference paper.”

We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes:

• Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility.
• Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing.
• Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness.
• HCI issues related to mobile computing.
• Security and privacy of mobile computing.
• Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility.
• Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications.
• Mobile and wireless technologies on lessening or resolving various issues related to COVID-19 and future similar epidemics/pandemics.

Important dates:

• Deadline for submissions (extended): November 6, 2020, 11:59pm EDT
• Acceptance notification: December 23, 2020

Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and mature ideas to warrant publication.