MobileHCI is a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential
solutions for e?ective human-computer interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers
the design evaluation and application of te- niques and approaches for all mobile computing
devices and services. MobileHCI 2004 was the sixth in the series of conferences that was
started at Glasgow U- versity in 1998 by Chris Johnson. We previously chaired the conference in
1999 in Edinburgh (as part of INTERACT 1999) and in 2001 in Lille (as part of IHM-HCI 2001).
The last two years saw the conference move to Italy ?rst - der the chairmanship of Fabio
Patern` o in Pisa then under Luca Chittaro in Udine. In 2005 the conference will move to
Austria to be chaired by Manfred Tscheligi. Each year the conference has its own website hosted
by the conference chair however the address www. mobilehci. org will always point to the next
(or current) conference. The number of submissions has increased every year. This year we
received 79 full papers (63 were received last year) from which we accepted the best 25. We had
81 short papers and posters submitted (59 last year) and accepted 20 of these as short papers
and 22 as posters. We received 9 workshop 4 tutorial and 2 panel proposals from which 5 2
and 2 respectively were accepted.
