Workshop IV: Interface Design for Mobile Devices
Nuno Correia and Mónica Mendes
Dates: October 13 – 14
Hours (tentative): All day, 9:30-12:30; 2-5:30
Presentation of work: October 16 (PM)
Location: University of Porto
Language: TBA
Maximum number of participants: 20
Registration Fee: €50
Summary: Mobile devices and network infrastructures open the possibility for new forms of information access or storytelling while visiting physical places. This workshop addresses this new trend by exploring the user interface design opportunities and challenges for different devices, taking also into account the underlying information architecture or storyline. In the workshop participants will have the opportunity to develop a project in user interface design and information structuring for exploring a physical location.
This workshop is intended for designers, illustrators, programmers interested in information structure and visual design, and content producers including photographers, video artists and sound designers. Working knowledge of image processing and vector drawing using tools such as Photoshop or Illustrator is required. Knowledge of Flash or Flash Lite is a plus but not a necessity. Participants should bring their own equipment (e.g, personal computer and camera) but projects will be done in groups that can share resources.
Mónica Mendes is an Assistant at the Multimedia Arts degree of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), and a member of the CIEAM research group on Interactive Environments. She’s now a researcher holding a PhD fellowship in Digital Media (UT Austin-Portugal Program), and she has a Masters in Multimedia Educational Communication and degree in Communication Design. As an educator, she was a lecturer of Interface Design for Mobile Devices seminars and Implied Technologies master courses, and also taught Models, Introduction to Multimedia, Multimedia Programming and Typography, among others. Additionally, she was a designer at Atelier B2 with José Brandão and a free-lancer design consultant. She has also participated in research projects on augmented environments and mobile storytelling of the IMG, and on experimentation in alternative media at altLab.
www.monicamendes.info
Nuno Correia is a Professor at the New University of Lisbon, where he teaches Multimedia Computing and Image Processing, and heads a research group on multimedia information processing and interaction – Interactive Multimedia Group (IMG). He was a researcher at Interval Research, Palo Alto, CA, and a researcher at INESC, Portugal. He participated in several EU funded projects, including Euromath, MADE that provided the foundation for the international standard PREMO (Programming Environment for Multimedia Objects) and D-ARTS (DVD Authoring Tools). He has worked and directed projects on augmented environments and mobile storytelling funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation and on multimedia for learning funded by HP. Nuno Correia is co-director of the national program on Digital Media in cooperation with UT Austin and member of the editorial board of the Computers and Graphics journal published by Elsevier. He will be Program Chair of MobileHCI 2010.
