MobileHCI is the forum that provides academics and practitioners a valuable place to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. Beyond mobile devices and services, the conference covers issues in the whole ecosystem of mobile, smart and embedded devices and the related services. The exact nature of a bid can of course include and seek to extend or focus this as the proposers envisage.

A call for bids for Mobile HCI(n+2) is issued by the SC Chair in April of year n and sent to all the members of the MobileHCI Program Committee and the wider MobileHCI community. Bidders must send their bids no later than August 31^st to marcos.serrano@irit.fr. After receiving bids, the steering committee will consider and vote on the bids and everyone who submits will be advised by September 22^nd. The form of the bid is fairly open but we do need the following information in order to make an informed decision (in a single PDF document):

• Intended location for the conference
• how will the conference be organised? That is, will there be program chairs who manage the entire program or only papers chairs who manage the papers while the conference chairs manage the conference and program. Ideally, programme chairs should manage the main papers track and the entire program while the conference chairs manage the logistics of the conference
• who will be programme chair – inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle
• who will be conference chair – inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle
• brief statement of chairs' experience of running conferences
• who will edit the proceedings (default = both chairs)
• Dates for submission that are in accordance with the PACM journal procedures (this includes a commitment for ACs and Paper Chairs to serve for 2 years)
• what are the initial planned dates for the conference and paper submission, which should include a 8 week revise and resubmit timeline
• a draft program for the conference
• which research groups will support the conference
• which sponsors are likely and how will you attract sponsorship
• any letters of support from local entities offering help
• a plan on how to increase diversity
• a plan on how to increase accessibility
• a plan on how to make some or all of the conference sessions deliverable online
• any direction/theme change you would envisage for MobileHCI (default = none)
• any new features/tracks you would like to include or other changes you would like to make to the conference (default = none)
• brief description (1/2 – 1 page) of conference venue
• brief description (1/2 – 1 page) of conference city and region/country
• rough idea of likely costs of (estimates only):
  • registration rates (normal is to include everything inc workshops and dinner for all delegates, bar one-day attendees)
  • venue hire
  • travel costs and rough times from main world cities, say, London, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo and Sydney
  • a basic decent hotel for 5 nights
• bidders can include a full budget (using their own or the ACM TMRF budget templates) which can include costs such as food, AV, room rental, registration, badges, PC meeting, speakers, conference management and ACM overhead (16‰) and revenue details including registration, tutorials, workshops, sponsorship, etc.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact any of the steering committee members. You can request an example of an earlier successful bid from marcos.serrano@irit.fr.

Bids for MobileHCI (n + 2) are considered by the committee with the decision formally announced at MobileHCI (n).

The voting process begins on June 23^rd of year n and concludes on June 30^th of year n.

Votes for bids are sent to the SC Chair only. Every SC member assigns a rating (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and unacceptable) to each of the bids. Each of the 5 possible choices has a score: 1^st = 1.00, 2^nd = 0.50, 3^rd = 0.25, 4^th = 0.125, unacceptable = 0.00, and the total score for a bid is obtained by summing the individual voters' scores. At the end of voting, all the voting forms are made available by the SC Chair to the SC in de-personalised format (through a unique ID so that each voter can check his/her vote). Normally the top two bids will be taken forward as a short list for discussion with the steering committee.