“Beyond the desktop, Out of the Office…” Designing Interactive Graphics Applications for Mobile Devices [KEYNOTE TALK]

The recent availability of increasingly powerful PDAs and mobile phones is making it possible to develop new applications based on interactive (2D as well as 3D) graphics. However, limitations of mobile devices and the peculiar needs of users on-the-go require a careful design of applications that are specifically thought for mobile devices and users [8]. Mobile graphics applications become even more innovative and provide functionalities that were unavailable on desktop systems when they are integrated with various sensors (e.g., GPS, accelerometers, heart rate monitors, pulseoximeters,...) that allow one to adapt the behavior of the application according to position in space (location-awareness) and other parameters (context