MUM2005

MUM2005 is the leading conference for presenting recent research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, and for bringing together experts from both academia and industry for an exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. The program includes keynote presentations and tutorials by leading experts and contributed papers describing recent progress in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia.

MUM 2005 will be held in conjunction with ICAT 2005 which is also being held in Christchurch 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 Interactive Experiences. See http://www.icat2005.org/ for more information.

MUM 2005 will be two days of technical papers, and one day of tutorials and workshops. Attendees will in addition be able to register and attend tutorials, workshops and paper sessions as part of ICAT 2005.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The conference will have presentations on the following topics on mobile multimedia:

• Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, roaming, limited 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 modeling of the environment
• Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
• Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment
• Novel adaptive/context-aware/mobile/ubiquitous/wireless multimedia applications and systems
• Streaming mobile multimedia
• Media analysis on mobile devices

For more information please email mum2005@hitlabnz.org