HotMobile 2025: Call for Papers and Demos

The 26th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2025) will be held February 26-27, 2025 in Palm Springs, CA.

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE.

Call for Posters and Demos

HotMobile'25 seeks proposals for posters and live demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services. Posters and demonstrations will be presented during a reception at the workshop.

The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas that have not been thoroughly evaluated. Live demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research.

Accepted posters and demos will be published in the proceedings. This year's poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award.

Submission Guidelines (Posters and Demos)

• Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references.
• The poster/demo should be uploaded to https://hotmobile25-posterdemo.hotcrp.com/
• Please set up your page to be US letter size, 8.5x11 inches, two columns, using 10-pt font size for the text body, with at least one-inch margin on all sides.
• Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format.
• Please include the title of the poster/demo and the author list, including affiliations in both the PDF file and in the body of the email. Prefix your title with “Poster:” for a poster submission and “Demo:” for a demo submission. Please do not anonymize your submissions.
• The accepted posters and demos will need to submit a one-page version using 9-pt font size, which will provide more space for authors to accommodate reviewer feedback.
• For demo submissions, we encourage the submission of an optional companion video that illustrates the demo. The companion video should highlight the technical contributions of the demo and should be no more than one minute in length. Include the YouTube URL of the companion video in the extended abstract.

Call for Papers

ACM HotMobile 2025 continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches.

We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice.

We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes:

• Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility.
• Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing.
• Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness.
• HCI issues related to mobile computing.
• Security and privacy of mobile computing.
• Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility.
• Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications.
• Social issues related to mobile computing.
• System and application support for the use of ML and AI on mobile platforms.

Submission Guidelines (Papers)

• Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables.
• The submissions should not be anonymous.
• The submissions must meet the following formatting requirements:
  • Font size no smaller than 10pt.
  • Font size of the bibliography no smaller than 9pt.
  • Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column.
  • Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches).
• We recommend the use of the "sigconf" ACM proceedings template, available at: http://www.acm.org/, with the font size of the main body amended to 10pt. An example Tex document can be found here.
• Submit your papers at the HotMobile 2025 submission server: https://hotmobile2025.hotcrp.com/. Please, note that you will need to create an account on the submissions site, before you can upload your manuscript.

Important Dates

• Paper submission (hard deadline): October 11th, 2024, 11:59pm AoE
• Acceptance notification (Papers): December 16, 2024
• Poster/Demo submission (extended): January 20, 2025
• Notification of acceptance (Posters/Demos): January 22nd, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline (Posters/Demos): January 24th, 2025
• Workshop: February 26-27, 2025