About
The Third Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch (PROMOTO 2015) will be held at SPLASH 2015 in Pittsburgh on October 27th.
Today, mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc.) are the main target platforms for developers. To support the new challenges,
traditional programming languages are not enough anymore and new ones are emerging to enable programmers (and even end-users) to develop software
taking advantage of the most recent hardware capabilities.
Since the first edition in 2013, PROMOTO has brought together researchers interested in exploring new programming paradigms and embracing the new
technologies in the area of touch-enabled mobile devices.
Apart from paper presentations, there will be ample time at PROMOTO to discuss the issues surrounding touch and mobile programming and to plan future directions.
Call for Papers
We would like to invite contributions covering technical aspects of multi-platform development, mobile-cloud computing, social applications, and security. Topics of interest include:
- Mobile and touch-oriented programming languages
- Programming languages using innovative input mechanisms
- Programming environments on or for mobile devices
- Teaching of programming on or for mobile devices
- Programming tools such as debuggers on or for mobile devices
- Libraries and programming frameworks that simplify programming for mobile devices
- Very large screens and very small screens
- Gestures, haptics and sound
Submission
We accept two types of contributions:
- Research papers up to eight pages that describe original work in the area of mobile and touch development.
- Short papers or tool demos of up to four pages of emerging ideas, research in progress, and in-practice experience.
Your paper must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format.
Submit your paper in PDF via EasyChair.
Accepted papers will be published as part of SPLASH 2015 in the ACM Digital Library.
Important dates
Submission: 7th August 2015 21st August 2015 (Extended)
Notification: 7th September 2015
Camera ready: 14th September 2015
Workshop: 27th October 2015
Program
09:00-09:30 Introduction (Steven Fraser and Alberto Sillitti) 09:30-10:30 Keynote: The BBC micro:bit (Jonathan Protzenko, Microsoft) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 Session 1
- Benjamin Xie, Isra Shabir and Hal Abelson: Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile Applications
- Jesse Zaman, Lode Hoste and Wolfgang De Meuter: A Flow-Based Programming Framework for Mobile App development
- Peter Simonyi, Jeff Wilson, Judith Brown and Robert Biddle: Supporting ``What-If'' in Touch-Screen Web Applications
- Miran Mirza, Jeff Wilson and Robert Biddle: Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications
- App Inventor
- Ra
- Strata
- DisCoPar
Organization
Program co-chairs
Steven Fraser (sdfraser@acm.org), Innoxec, USA
Alberto Sillitti (alberto@case-research.it), Center for Applied Software Engineering, Italy
Program committee
Hal Abelson, MIT, USA
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, USA
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Elizabeth Churchill, Google, USA
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada
Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon - Software Engineering Institute, USA
Florian Michahelles, Siemens, USA
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Rahul Pandita, North Carolina State University, USA
Arno Puder, San Francisco State University, USA
Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy
Honna Segel, Alcatel Lucent, USA
Wolfgang Slany, Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Anthony Stevens, IBM, USA
Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research, USA
Kuldeep Yadav, Xerox Research Center, India