Call for Papers
IMCL2015 – "Issues, Infrastructures and Applications"

Focus

The 9th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, IMCL2015, is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering world-wide. The IMCL2015 conference will cover all aspects of mobile learning as well as the emergence of mobile communication technologies, infrastructures and services and their implications for education, business, governments and society. The IMCL2015 actually aims to promote the development of mobile learning, to provide a forum for education and knowledge transfer, to expose students to latest ICT technologies and encourage the study and implementation of mobile applications in teaching and learning. The conference will also aims to stimulate critical debate on theories, approaches, principles and applications of mobile learning among educators, developers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

IMCL2015 will be held on 19-20 November 2015, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Conference Proceedings

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Topics

The special focus of IMCL2015 is on the following topics:

Mobile Learning Issues:

• Dynamic learning experiences
• Large scale adoption of mobile learning
• Performance support in the workplace
• Ethical and legal issues
• Assessment, evaluation and research methods in mobile learning
• Mobile learning models, theory and pedagogy
• Life-long and informal learning using mobile devices
• Open and distance mobile learning
• Social implications of mobile learning
• Design of adaptive mobile learning environments
• Cost effective management of mobile Learning processes
• Quality in mobile learning
• Case studies in mobile learning

Interactive Communication Technologies and Infrastructures:

• Wearables & Internet of things
• Tangible, embedded and embodied interaction
• Location-based integration
• Cloud computing & Future internet research and experimentation (fire) environments.
• Emerging mobile technologies and standards
• Interactive and collaborative mobile learning environments
• Crowd sensing
• 5G Network Infrastructure

Mobile Applications

• Smart cities
• Online laboratories
• Game based learning
• Mobile health care and training
• Learning analytics
• Mobile learning in cultural institutions and open spaces
• Mobile systems and services for opening up education
• Social networking applications
• Mobile Learning Management Systems (mLMS)

Important Dates

11 May 2015	1. Submission of structured abstracts for the main conference 2. Special Session proposals
18 May 2015	Notification of acceptance for Special Sessions proposals
03 Jun 2015	Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference
07 Sep 2015	Submission of complete papers for Special Sessions and the Main Conference: Full Papers (5 pages), Short Papers (3 pages), Posters (2 pages)
17 Sep 2015	Submission of complete papers for the Doctoral Consortium
21 Sep 2015	Notification of acceptance
09 Oct 2015	Author registration deadline
16 Oct 2015	Camera-ready due
19 Nov 2015	Conference Opening