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Mobile Living Labs 09: Methods and Tools for Evaluation in the Wild

A one-day workshop at MobileHCI09, September 15th, 2009, Bonn, Germany.
http://mll09.novay.nl

Workshop Agenda

The workshop will be structured in four sessions of roughly 1.5 hours, with breaks in between.

In the first morning session, after a welcome and explanation of the workshop’s agenda by the workshop organizers, each participant will get one minute to introduce themselves in a one-minute madness-style presentation about their motivation to attend and what they hope to bring home from the workshop.

This will be followed by an introduction by the workshop organizers and a condense overview of the field of methods and tools for Mobile Living Labs, in which they will position the accepted position papers and provide an overview of the key challenges raised by the participants in the survey. In a group exercise, the challenges will be further discussed and mapped (clustered and rated) with respect to relevance and difficulty.

After the morning break, in the second session, smaller groups will be formed and each group is asked to discuss a different sub-set of methods and tools. For each method or tool discussed, groups are asked to report back in a plenary presentation at the end of the morning session about a fixed set of questions, like: what the strengths and weaknesses of this method/tool, for which situation(s) is the method/tool suitable, , which other methods and tools does it combine with well, etc.

After lunch break, in the third session, we will revisit the challenges identified in the first morning session and discuss to what extent the challenges have been met with current methods and tools, mapping methods and tools from session 2 visually to the map of challenges, while identifying best practices based on the experiences of the participants.

After the afternoon break, in the fourth session, we will identify the remaining challenges in a plenary discussion. We briefly split up in groups again; each group is asked to dream up ideal methods and tools for one challenge (“blue-sky brainstorming”) and report back in plenary . The workshop is wrapped up with a discussion about the first steps we should take as a community in the area of methods and tools for Mobile Living Labs to get there.

Social Event

Schedule permitting, we will organize an informal (pre-)workshop dinner on the night before or after the workshop to enable informal socializing among participants.