Dear colleagues, We remind those of you who consider to participate in the AoIR conference 2004 at Sussex University that it's possible to sign up for a pre-conference workshop. We invite all interested to register for our workshop on the mobile Internet (see below) and to send us a brief position paper when you have registered for the conference and the workshop on the official conference website. Anxo Roibas and Gitte Stald "You've got the whole wide world in your hand - what u wanna do now?": Relevant socio-cultural and HCI issues in future scenarios of mobile Internet Organisers: Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás, a.c.roibas@brighton.ac.uk Gitte Stald, stald@hum.ku.dk The workshop will explore and analyse crucial socio-cultural implications and related HCI issues in the design of scenarios of ubiquitous interactive communication. Recent developments in communication technologies will strongly extend communication possibilities in ubiquitous contexts. Thus convergent media is becoming one of the main relevant HCI issues. Companies will be able to provide their services holistically across different channels and this will imply a strong integration between all the platforms and interfaces involved (i-TV, PCs, handhelds, etc.). In the users' side, this will imply a seamless and pervasive connection possibility to the Internet and to all its applications and services in the different spheres (leisure and gaming, communications, health, learning, business or their combination as busitainment, edutainment, etc.). Telecommunication companies (network operators, handset manufacturers, service providers, etc.) are investing now in technologies for transmission of multimedia files across mobile phones. But, will users need these applications, if yes, why, when and how will they use them? In order to be able to prospect realistic and relevant future scenarios for this technological -landscape, it is required a strong research in socio-cultural trends. This kind of studies for example, would allow foresights on the unexpected boom of SMS in Europe as well as the mob-logging phenomenon. Objectives of this workshop are: to develop a socio-cultural trends research agenda for this specific issue, to identify and extend the research community in this topic. Moreover, to sensitise designers, sociologists, psychologists, marketers to the particular socio-cultural and interaction-design issues in these kinds of communication scenarios. Participants should submit, to the organisers, a brief position paper of 1-2 pages, or a reference to a socio-cultural issue related to a mobile product or application in which they have been involved. Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest in and familiarity with the topic. No particular skills or knowledge of socio-cultural trends or HCI are required.