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Call for Conference Posters & Participation
Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms
March 22 - 25, 2007, Toronto, Canada

The Ontario College of Art & Design, the Mobile Digital Commons Network, and the Canadian Design Research Network is hosting Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms, an international conference of experts in research, design and engineering for mobile experiences. The conference will focus on the methods that different sectors and disciplines bring to the challenge of designing for mobile platforms.

Mobile Nation will provide an important forum to engage designers, engineers, research and industry in the exciting potential offered by mobile platforms, such as cellular telephones, MP3 devices, Personal Digital Assistants, and mobile game systems.

A special poster session will be held during the conference to demonstrate undergraduate and graduate excellence in the area of mobile experience design and research. A devoted session will offer students the opportunity to personally present their work to distinguished conference participants, leading researchers, and industry experts.

Current students are invited to submit posters addressing one of the following broad thematic areas of inquiry:

The multi-platform context and challenges of media and place
Participatory culture, ethnography, participatory design and the end-user
Mobile communication and education
Pervasive and social computing
Engineering and social science methodologies in mobile contexts

Submissions

Submission Deadline: Poster submission deadline extended to March 19th.
Submission Format: Portable document format (pdf)
For initial consideration, documents should be submitted at low resolution,
A4 size (210mm x 297mm or 8.3'' x 11.7'') at no larger than 3 MB file size.
Final size: A1 (594mm x 841mm or 23.4'' x 33.1''')
Winning posters will be printed by Mobile Nation for exhibition at
the Conference.