Demos

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025

MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences.

The MUM demo track gives you the chance to show your working systems, prototypes, applications, or research projects to the MUM community. MUM maintains an open and experimental attitude to demos, welcoming demos from researchers, students, and industry practitioners with different backgrounds and expertise. Whether you have built a mobile app, designed a new device, created an interactive system, or developed innovative software, we want to play and interact with it. We encourage making your demonstration visually or otherwise appealing to attract attention from conference attendees.

Important Dates

TOPICS

Demo topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges
• Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications
• Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services
• Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field
• Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services
• Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems
• Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
• Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising
• Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems
• Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems
• Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems
• User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems
• Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation
• Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems
• Fabrication and device prototyping

Preparing the submission

Demo submissions should not exceed ~3000 words (excluding references). The submission should be prepared as a PDF file, in single-column format, using either the Word or LaTex version of the ACM Primary Article Templates.. If LaTeX is used to prepare the submission, single-column mode should be configured by using \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} as document class setting. Submissions will undergo a review process managed by the demonstration chairs. Demos must be submitted via EasyChair.

Authors are required to submit a three minute video with their submission showing a detailed hands-on presentation of their demo as well as an additional document (.pdf or .txt) with the list of hardware they would need to bring to the venue.

Demo submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission elsewhere. Demo submissions should not be anonymized and will undergo a single-blind review process. Final camera-ready versions of accepted submissions must be accompanied by a signed copyright form. Accepted demos will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.

Please be aware that ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library, unless one of their co-authors' institutions is a member or they qualify for a waiver. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.

Final checklist and summary

• Non-anonymous submissions (single-blind review)
• Length: Maximum ~3000 words (excluding references)
• Required: 3-minute demonstration video + hardware requirements document
• Timeline (all deadlines are AoE)
• Submission Platform: EasyChair
• If accepted: you must present your demo at the conference

Demo Chairs

Giulia Barbareschi
University of Duisburg-Essen
giulia.barbareschi@uni-due.de

Moreno La Quatra
Kore University of Enna
moreno.laquatra@unikore.it