From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Thu May 1 03:51:59 2008 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:21:59 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] SA CHI next meeting 27th May + advance notice of June meeting Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F0170C3B3@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> When: Tuesday 27th May from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start Title: Luminance, Contrast and Character Size Requirements for Naval Combat System Displays Speaker: Kingsley Fisher, DSTO Where: Excom - Ground Floor, North Lobby, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts) Parking: There is a lot of parking either on Pulteney and Flinders St or in Hindmarsh SQ - its metered but generally only until 6pm (so not much money) and frees up at the right time :-) Format is intended to be fairly informal: drinks and nibbles on arrival Presentation from about 5:45 followed by a discussion Finally networking and more drinks and nibbles RSVP: to karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise). If you don't remember to RSVP you are still most welcome :-) Food and nibbles: gold coin donation to cover costs or if you are able to assist in providing food or nibbles please let me know in your RSVP. Abstract Naval combat system displays aim to provide operators with the information necessary to successfully achieve mission objectives. Increasing the information displayed per screen can potentially improve operator performance by reducing the need to search multiple screens. Reducing text and symbol size is one method of increasing information density, but text that is too small is difficult to read and can lead to delays and errors. Existing military and civilian standards provide recommendations on minimum character heights, but these standards appear to be based on the results of studies using low-resolution CRT displays. Thus the recommendations may not be applicable to modern high-resolution LCD screens. The standards also appear to be based on studies performed under bright ambient lighting and may not be directly applicable to naval operations rooms which often operate under darkened conditions. Results will be presented from a series of studies that aimed to identify the required luminance, contrast and size of white and coloured characters to optimised speed and accuracy of identification when displayed on a high-resolution LCD under both low and high ambient lighting conditions. The studies were performed in both on-land and at-sea conditions in order to identify whether a larger character size is necessary to maintain identification performance in an at-sea environment. Bio Kingsley Fletcher is a Research Scientist with the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organisation's Maritime Operations Division. 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URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Thu May 1 18:00:00 2008 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:00:00 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City Message-ID: <10A82D61-A9B7-4DC6-8049-10B3CE4A3DCA@qut.edu.au> Pre-publication announcement Foth, Marcus (Ed.) (2008, in press). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. ISBN 978-1-60566-152-0. Scheduled to be released December 2008. Table of contents and further information at: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/book/ Please help spread the word. Abstracts, foreword, preface, acknowledgements and contributors' biographies can be downloaded from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00013308/ If you are interested in this book, please ask your library to place a prepublication order with their preferred distributor using this form: http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/pdf/LibRecForm_booksEnc.pdf If you are on facebook, please join the Urban Informatics group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2493830797 thank you all and best wishes, marcus -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/ From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Fri May 2 04:10:22 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 18:10:22 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] 2 positions available in Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing Message-ID: <48DE7C72BF55C345A4E1E60CA37CFB2A01913E85@exnswn1-syd.nexus.csiro.au> Positions Available: Postdoctorate Fellows and Research Scientist - Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart, Tasmania The CSIRO ICT Centre is building a role for Australia as a global ICT innovator by delivering leading-edge Information and Communication Technology solutions for industry and society. The Centre has over 250 researchers across Australia working on a wide range of ICT technologies and application areas. The Centre is expanding into Tasmania, and has established a major research facility. The Centre will work closely with Tasmanian industry, universities and the community to deliver technological solutions that further Tasmania's economic, environmental and social goals. The Centre has a key role in supporting the National Research Flagship Program, and actively collaborates with external partners and other CSIRO divisions. As part of the Preventative Health Flagship we are developing knowledge systems that bring together information to improve well being and health outcomes. We are seeking researchers with strong experience in natural language processing, user modelling, human-computer interaction and adaptive hypermedia to assist us in delivering these outcomes. We seek highly motivated and enthusiastic researchers to join this team and to provide strong scientific and project leadership in developing and nurturing professional skills in the science area, as well as the pursuit of excellence in this field. We expect that the successful candidates will have completed a PhD and will be results driven, multidisciplinary and able to create and conduct innovative research to real world problems. Additionally the successful candidates will be required to communicate the outcomes of their research to the wider scientific community. 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OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. We look forward to your involvement at this year?s OZCHI conference. The conference will be from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2008, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December 2008. The conference is located at James Cook University?s Cairns campus in the tropics of North Queensland, Australia, with accommodation at the Palm Cove resort. The long and short papers accepted in the conference will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Conference Chair: Nic Bidwell Email: conf.chair at ozchi.org ================= CONFERENCE TOPICS We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) including practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects. Topics of special interest include the role of technology in supporting and enhancing our relationships with, and within, the settings we inhabit and designing interactions that can sustain affective and diverse cultural and environmental dimensions. This extends across work, domestic, and playful settings and may encompass, for example, those experiences in life that we sense or are enchanted by or provide us with communal trust or sense of self. We also welcome contributions that explore developing technologies and interactions for rural and dispersed populations, supporting those working, living and travelling to remote regions and responding to issues of community, environmental and economic sustainability. Special-theme Conference Topics: - Cultural and Diversity Aspects of HCI - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Beyond the City - Felt-life, Affective HCI, Emotion, Motivational Aspects - Simple Technologies in a Complex World - Methods for Design and Evaluation Across Cultural Boundaries General-theme Conference Topics - Augmented Reality and Tangible UIs - Collaborative System UIs - Computer-Mediated Communication and Online Communities - Design Methods - End-User Programming and Adaptation - Ethnography and Design-Oriented Fieldwork - Ethnomethodology in Systems Design - Evaluation Methods - HCI Education - Human Factors in Health Care Informatics - Human-Centred Software Engineering - Hypermedia and Web Design and Usability - Intelligent User Interfaces and User Modelling - Location-Aware Interaction - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Social Computing - Theoretical Approaches to Design - Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing - Universal Usability & Accessibility - Video Methods in Interaction Design - Virtual Reality and 3D Interfaces - Visualization Techniques =========== SUBMISSIONS Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English. Accepted long papers, short papers and doctoral consortium, will be available in the digital proceedings. Industry case studies, Panels and Demonstrations will be included as abstracts only. At least one author of any accepted submission must register, attend and present at the conference. For all guidelines and submission details, please see the conference web site: http://www.ozchi.org/. Both long and short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel of experts and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. =============== IMPORTANT DATES Initial Submissions Long Papers/Tutorials/Workshops: 27th June 2008 Short Papers/Demos/Doc Consortium: 1st September 2008 Notification of Acceptance Long Papers/Tutorials/Workshops: 22nd August 2008 Notification of Acceptance Short Papers/Demos/ Doc Consortium/Student Volunteers: 29th September 2008 Camera Ready Papers Long Papers/Short Papers/Tutorials Workshops/Demos/Doc Consortium: 10th October 2008 =========== LONG PAPERS Long-length papers, up to 8 pages, on original and substantive new work in any area of HCI are invited. Long papers should describe work that makes a significant contribution to HCI and/or describe broad insights gained from practical applications of HCI. Long paper Co-Chairs: Frank Vetere, Christine Satchell & Connor Graham Email: prog.chair at ozchi.org ============ SHORT PAPERS Short-length papers present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and novel concepts and approaches. Papers in this category are a maximum of 4 pages in length. Short-Paper Co-Chairs: Carrie Lui & Ralf Muhlberger Email: sd.chair at ozchi.org ============================= DEMOS & INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES Demonstration sessions offer interactive opportunities to showcase research prototypes, finished devices, processes, methods, services and industry applications. We invite demos of all approaches across the full range of HCI related topics. These may be related to submitted papers or completely independent of other submissions to the conference. We encourage you to make your demo visually, or otherwise, appealing and present it in an innovative, engaging way. Industry Case studies are reflective pieces by practitioners or academics about an experience related to HCI. Demos and Case study submissions should be a maximum of 2 pages (including figures) indicating any infrastructure and equipment requirements. Demonstration Co-Chairs: Carrie Lui & Ralf Muhlberger Email: sd.chair at ozchi.org ============================= WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROGRAM Workshops and Tutorials are scheduled prior to the main conference program on the 8th and 9th December 2008. A workshop proposal should be aimed at a community with a common interest. A tutorial proposal should provide participants with clear outcomes. The workshop and tutorial program is not included in the main conference fee. WORKSHOPS are a chance for members of a community with common interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in HCI, consider organizing a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build community. OZCHI workshops might address basic research, applied research, HCI practice, new methods or methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organizational issues, or HCI education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the HCI community a new, organized way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the design of your workshop. TUTORIALS are one day or half-day events designed to offer a small number of participants the opportunity to learn about specific HCI related concepts, methods and techniques. They are one of the best means of conveying introductory and advanced instruction on specific topics to an interested audience. Tutorials are a significant attraction to attendants and provide exposure in depth and breadth to HCI topics. We welcome both research and industry tutorial submissions. It is important that you specify the audience for your tutorial, as we will select reviewers of your proposal based on the expertise you indicate is relevant. Tutorial submissions should include a clear list of outcomes for participants. SUBMISSION Workshops: (3 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions on topics that include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and that support active participation beyond presentation are welcome. Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions for teaching conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel approaches. Workshop and tutorial Co-Chairs: truna aka j.turner & Rod Farmer Email: wtp.chair at ozchi.org =================== DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on the 9th December 2008. The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where they can present and discuss their research plans and progress with peers and established senior researchers. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a research proposal in the format given on the OZCHI08 website by the date below. Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Doctorial consortium Chair: Wally Smith Email: doct.chair at ozchi.org ================= STUDENT VOLUNTEERS OZCHI actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference: being a Student Volunteer is a great way to enter the HCI research and practitioners community, meet other students in the field, and attend the premier conference in HCI in the country. You will help the conference organizers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations, workshops etc. You will get to meet many people from the field, see the latest in HCI, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration, so submit to become a Student Volunteer! Student Volunteer Chair: Florian ?Floyd? Mueller Email: student.chair at ozchi.org ================= For further details please check the conference web site: http://www.ozchi.org or contact the appropriate conference chairs for specific enquiries, as indicated above and on the conference website) or the Program Co-Chairs for General enquiries on the technical program (prog.chair at ozchi.org). We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in the Australian tropics. Regards Frank Vetere, Christine Satchell, Connor Graham OZCHI 2008 Technical Program Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au Mon May 5 22:02:51 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au (Imalka Nilma Perera) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:02:51 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] =?iso-8859-1?q?IDG_seminar=3A_A_New_Approach_for_Eva?= =?iso-8859-1?q?luating_the_Mobile_and_Ubiquitous_User_Experience_in_the_W?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ild__-__Kasper_L_=F8__vborg_Jensen?= Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Kasper L?vborg Jensen TITLE: A New Approach for Evaluating the Mobile and Ubiquitous User Experience in the Wild VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 9th May 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Emerging paradigms such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing promise to change the way people think about and use computers. With these paradigms comes a wave of novel application build on, e.g., context-awareness and adaptive interfaces. A great challenge for HCI researchers and practitioners is to evaluate the user experience of such applications to ensure that they are and will be both useful and usable. A very important issue with mobile and ubiquitous applications is that the user experience is more complex and context-sensitive and thus arguably more difficult to evaluate. The nature of these applications suggests that they should be evaluated in the wild, i.e., in the context they are supposed to be used. However, this has proven to be very difficult and cumbersome, and it is highly debated whether such evaluations should be performed in the field or in the lab. The focus of this study is to try to step away from methods inherited from user evaluation in ?desktop HCI? such as direct observation, video capture, thinking-out-loud etc. and making the experiments more autonomous and remote. Specifically this study is focusing on how to utilize automatic capture and analysis of quantitative and objective usage and context data on mobile devices in the field to evaluate the user experience. The aim is to investigate and develop a new framework which makes large scale user studies in the field more feasible, and to provide a complimentary method to the more qualitatively oriented methods e.g. interviews and questionnaires. Two case studies of mobile and ubiquitous applications form the empirical basis for the study: ? DiasNet Mobile: A mobile diabetes management and advisory service using a server-based expert system ? Car Rental: A mobile multimodal (stylus/speech/text) car rental application using distributed speech recognition BIO: Kasper is currently visiting DIS as part of his PhD studies. 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You might also want to post a little note to the CHISIG mailing list: chisigmail at chisig.org (Join at chisig.org) Keep me posted! Shane -----Original Message----- From: Russ [mailto:russ9595 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Russ Sese Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 1:11 AM To: shane at echointeraction.com.au Subject: Business card follow-up Hi Shane, We met briefly at a workshop at the BCS HCI 2006 conference in London. I mentioned that I was thinking about living and working in Australia, and you gave me your business card. I have now finished my Masters in Human-Centred Systems and am looking into finding a User Experience role in Australia, probably Sydney or Melbourne. I was wondering if you knew of any User Experience-focused recruitment agencies or consultancies I could look into. Or if you knew of any junior-to-mid-level User Experience roles coming up at the moment. I read on your web site that you are now at Microsoft. Congratulations! I hope you are enjoying your time there. 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Shane -----Original Message----- From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Shane Morris Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 1:42 PM To: Russ Sese Cc: chisigmail at chisig.org Subject: Re: [chisigmail] Business card follow-up Hi Russ, congratulations on the Masters! Xpand seem to do a lot of recruiting in UX in Melb and Sydney. A couple of contacts attached. But first I would directly contact: Stamford Interactive Melbourne The Hiser Group Melbourne and Sydney Different Sydney (Do this first, because no doubt Xpand will try and introduce you into these firms. Tell Xpand you are already talking to them.) You might also want to post a little note to the CHISIG mailing list: chisigmail at chisig.org (Join at chisig.org) Keep me posted! Shane -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 1:11 AM To: shane at echointeraction.com.au Subject: Business card follow-up Hi Shane, We met briefly at a workshop at the BCS HCI 2006 conference in London. I mentioned that I was thinking about living and working in Australia, and you gave me your business card. I have now finished my Masters in Human-Centred Systems and am looking into finding a User Experience role in Australia, probably Sydney or Melbourne. I was wondering if you knew of any User Experience-focused recruitment agencies or consultancies I could look into. Or if you knew of any junior-to-mid-level User Experience roles coming up at the moment. I read on your web site that you are now at Microsoft. Congratulations! I hope you are enjoying your time there. Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you. Kind regards, Russ Sese From mjm-chisig at opinios.com Thu May 8 00:52:48 2008 From: mjm-chisig at opinios.com (Matthew Magain) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 14:52:48 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] May 15: Melbourne Web Standards Group (joint event with Web Directions) Message-ID: <48228720.6040000@opinios.com> On Thursday, May 15, the Melbourne Web Standards Group is hosting a special joint presentation with Web Directions. Jos? Manuel Alonso, the eGovernment lead for the W3C, and Richard Ishida, internationalization lead for the W3C, are both in Australia and have kindly agreed to speak for us. Note it is a Thursday night, and due to the anticipated high demand for this event we will be hosting it at a new venue: The Order Of Melbourne, a pub in the city better suited to a large audience than our regular venue. DETAILS AND RSVP: EVENT: Jos? Manuel Alonso - How to make the most out of eGovernment Richard Ishida - Introduction to Internationalization DATE: Thursday, May 15 TIME: 6.30pm for 7pm start VENUE: The Order Of Melbourne Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 COST: FREE (finger food provided) RSVP: http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/?event_id=154 Hope to see you there, Cheers Matt & Will -- Matthew Magain Organizer, Melbourne Web Standards Group http://webstandardsgroup.org/ From f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Thu May 8 22:09:49 2008 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 12:09:49 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Prof. Paul Dourish - seminar at University of Melbourne Message-ID: Hi You are invited to attend two seminars by Prof. Paul Dourish (http://www.isr.uci.edu/~jpd/formal/) at the University of Melbourne on Friday 16 May ***************** Session 1: Department of Information Systems Seminar TITLE: "Storied Spaces: Cultural Accounts of Mobility, Technology, and Environmental Knowing" TIME: 11.15 am - 12:30 pm VENUE: University of Melbourne, 111 Barry Street Carlton, Theatre 3, Level 2, (details in attachment) ***************** Session 2: Interaction Design Group Seminar TITLE: "Resistance is Futile": Reading Science Fiction alongside Ubiquitous Computing" TIME: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm VENUE: University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St. Carlton, IDEA LAB, level 4, ABSTRACT Design-oriented research is an act of collective imagining - a way in which we work together to bring about a future that lies slightly out of our grasp. In this talk, based on joint work with Genevieve Bell, I examine the collective imagining of ubiquitous computing by bringing it into alignment with a related phenomenon, science fiction, in particular as imagined by a series of shows that form part of the cultural backdrop for many members of the research community. A comparative reading of these fictional narratives highlights a series of themes that are also implicit in the research literature. I'll argue both that these themes are important considerations in the shaping of technological design, and that an attention to the tropes of popular culture holds methodological value for ubiquitous computing. ***************** All Welcome. Please forward to others who may be interested. 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Robust solutions exist to display audio and haptic feedback in many forms - for instance as speech and non speech sounds and through tactile and force feedback sensations. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the novel interactions supported by these modalities can confer benefits for all users. However, many questions remain concerning the appropriate use of haptics and audio in interaction design. These questions are related to design methods, appropriate application areas and the integration of haptics and audio, possibly with other modalities. HAID'08, the third in a series of workshops inaugurated in Glasgow in 2006 and continued in Seoul in 2007, will bring together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in finding out how the haptic and audio modalities can be used together in human computer interaction. The research challenges in the area are best approached through user-centred design, empirical studies or the development of novel theoretical frameworks. HAID'08 seeks contributions from all these perspectives. In particular we highlight two themes. The first is fundamental conceptual analysis and contributions to theoretical models. Such developments are currently required to constructively explain the characteristics of haptic and audio based interaction and how to best integrate these two modalities. The second is situated field evaluations. Mobile applications are a key domain for haptic and audio interaction, but the utility of traditional lab-based studies in such scenarios is in doubt. It is unclear whether interfaces which work well in the lab are suitable for use in everyday life. Contributions addressing these two issues are especially encouraged. Topics Contributions are welcomed in (but not limited to) the following areas (please note that in all of these areas both theoretical and empirical approaches are encouraged): - Novel haptic, audio and multimodal interfaces and interactions - Evaluating multimodal interactions, especially in real contexts - Design principles for multimodal user-interfaces - Multimodal visualisations - Affective roles of haptics and audio in interaction - Cross-modal interactions - Auditory and haptic displays for visually impaired people - Safety critical multimodal applications (monitoring, controlling, alarming) - Designing haptics and audio for touch screen - Multimodal gaming and entertainment - Interaction in physical exercise - Collaborative multimodal systems - Mobile multimodal interactions - Emulation and simulation of real world with audio-haptic design - Novel systems and interactions using other modalities (e.g. taste, smell) Submission Guidelines Submissions will be 2 page papers in the ACM format, and authors are expected to bring a demo/poster describing their work to HAID'08. More detailed guidance can be found at http://www.haid2008.org/submission.html Publication The papers will be distributed in the HAID'08 ancillary proceedings and there will be dedicated poster and demo sessions in which authors can present and discuss their work Important Dates Please note that all dates are currently provisional and may be subject to change. - 12th May 2008: First call for posters and demos - 23rd June 2008: Papers due for submission - 8th August 2008: Notification of acceptance - 15th ? 16th September: Haptic and Audio Interaction Design Workshop Location The 3rd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design will be held at the Hotel Laajavuori in Jyv?skyl?, Finland. Session Chairs Andrew Crossan (University of Glasgow, UK) Topi Kaaresoja (Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland) email ac(at)dcs.gla.ac.uk Program Chairs Antti Pirhonen (University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland) Stephen Brewster (University of Glasgow, UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From silvias at hiser.com.au Sun May 18 22:32:49 2008 From: silvias at hiser.com.au (Sanchez, Silvia (Hiser)) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:32:49 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG Victoria PANEL: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects - Tues 27 May Message-ID: Hi everybody, An excellent event is coming up and you shouldn't miss out! CHISIG Victoria has organised the following panel for you: Panel: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects Tuesday 27 May 6 pm (for 6.30 start) Panel participants are: * Shane Morris from Microsoft * Brett Collinson from SEEK * Kirsten Mann from MYOB * Janet Brunckhorst from Lonely Planet The panel will be moderated by Andrew Sweany from Monash University. Our panel guests will debate the pros and cons of user-centred design on Agile development projects. We have got an exciting list of questions for the debate. Don't miss out! Date and Time - Tuesday 27 May 6pm for 630pm start Venue: - Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Silvia Sanchez on behalf of VIC Chisig Committee ***Disclaimer*** This email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material and/or material subject to copyright; it is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not a named addressee you shall not use, retain or disclose such information. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 20176 bytes Desc: image002.jpg Url : From inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au Tue May 20 02:03:03 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au (Imalka Nilma Perera) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:03:03 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG seminar: Picture scenarios for representing dynamic use context in mobile design - Sonja Pedell Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Sonja Pedell TITLE: Picture scenarios for representing dynamic use context in mobile design VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 23rd May 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: My research extends scenario-based methods for the design of mobile technologies. Central to the contribution is the representation of ?dynamic use context? via picture scenarios. These scenarios depict real-life use of technology and propose an encoding scheme for explicitly representing important contextual dimensions of people?s use of mobile devices. The research demonstrates that picture scenarios help designers to take greater account of these contextual issues. The results have significant implications for those creating mobile and ubiquitous technologies. BIO: Sonja recently submitted her PhD thesis, supervised by Frank Vetere. In this talk she will give a brief overview of both her PhD research and the rocky journey towards submission. *** We will be also celebrating another successful semester of presentations a tad early this time around. Please join us for some drinks and nibbles. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm l Cheers Nilma --------------------------------------- Nilma Perera PhD Candidate Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Tue May 20 09:01:15 2008 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:01:15 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] HCI 2008 Tutorial Programme 1st and 2nd September 2008, Liverpool, UK Message-ID: <730c6ae10805200601r74860375ibeaa6b7c259573ff@mail.gmail.com> Hi with the usual apologies for cross posting. HCI 2008 runs from the 1st -5th September in Liverpool, European City of Culture. The first two days of the week are given over to workshops, tutorials and the ever important Doctoral consortium. This email serves to provide an overview of the Tutorial programme. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER T1: LOW COST PROTOTYPING Stephen Brown, Andreas Holzinger This hands-on tutorial provides practical guidance on how to resolve web design issues quickly using paper prototypes. Delegates work in teams to produce and test paper-based micro Website designs. T2: RESEARCH METHODS FOR HCI Paul Cairns, Anna L Cox, Harold Thimbleby, Natalie Webb A one-day tutorial on research methods for HCI presented by contributors to the forthcoming "Research Methods for HCI" book, Cambridge University Press. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER T3: PROVOKING CREATIVE DESIGN: MAKING IT SCALE (1/2 DAY) Neil Maiden, Sara Jones Creativity is indispensable for innovative interactive system development, and this tutorial is relevant to anyone involved in large projects that are exploiting new technologies or developing new interactive systems and media. T4: USING PERSONAS EFFECTIVELY Peter Bagnall Learn to conduct user research aimed at persona creation, and to effectively use those personas on large and small projects, from an experienced designer who worked with their inventor, Alan Cooper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full day tutorial delegates ?220.00 Half day tutorial delegates ?130.00 There is no compulsion to attend the main HCI conferences however we do recommend HCI 2008, as it remains the premier European HCI conference attracting and international array of presenters and attendees. Peter J Wild & Abdennour El Rhalibi HCI 2008 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Tue May 20 13:07:14 2008 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:07:14 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] HCI and the Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Services (Workshop at HCI 2008, 2nd September 2008) Message-ID: <730c6ae10805201007y17464ehe76e31dd7f445abd@mail.gmail.com> HCI and the Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Services Peter J Wild Institute for Manufacturing and the Engineering Design Centre University of Cambridge INTRODUCTION As well as becoming an ever more important part of local and global economies; Services and Service Design are emerging, crossing, and in some cases redefining disciplinary boundaries. A number of papers are emerging in HCI venues that have explicitly examined services. Service has emerged as a frequent metaphor for a range of computing applications, both web based, pervasive and ubiquitous; here researchers and practitioners often talk of services instead of applications. In addition Service-oriented architectures receive continued attention in Computing but research is often divorced from issues of concern to HCI. In turn the user, value, and worth centred ethos of HCI of existing and emerging approaches, and is making its way into Service design approaches (for example the use of personas in Parker and Heapy's Journey to the Interface). Service definitions and Service design has often stressed the intangible, activity and participatory nature of service acts. Vargo and Lusch define Services as "the application of specialized competences (knowledge and skills), through deeds, processes, and performances for the benefit of another entity or the entity itself." This definition stresses the activity based nature of services. HCI has much to offer in this area, from the foundation principles espoused by Gould and Lewis, through to approaches that provide sophisticated analysis of tasks / activities. In addition characterisation of Service such as Service as experience, Service as journey, overlap with experience oriented approaches that have emerged for analysing and designing computing. In turn many approaches to Service design either borrow, overlap or complement HCI's design focus and academic rigour. For example Parker and Heapy's use of prototypes, personas, and measurement of the service experience. However, explicit links between work on Service definition, Service Design and HCI are limited. There has not been any great discussion on the complements and possible tensions between the areas. The time seems appropriate for a workshop on what HCI can give to Service Design and what Service Design can give to HCI. This workshop will undertake such an activity. GOALS The following are goals of the workshop: :- to bring together researchers and practitioners to inform both research and practice into Service Design :- to explore in more depth the relationships between HCI (and its manifestations such as Interaction Design, User experience) and Service Design : to bring together people in different disciplines to discuss and address HCI issues in relation to Service Design; and Service Design issues in relation to HCI; :- to explore the wider implications of Service Design. :- to start to build a community of people with interests in the areas. TOPIC RELEVANCE The workshop relates to existing work and workshops on Services. Outside of HCI several major research projects and programs are undertaking research into Services in relation to products (e.g. KIM, IPAS, S4T). A recent AHRC network on service design has also been undertaken at Oxford. The workshop also builds on the work that has attempted to look at Services issues in public services; on existing general interest in HCI; existing general interest in service design; research into the definition of services; and emerging paradigms for Services. In addition the emergence of design consultancies focussed around services and the wider design and engineering communities growing interest in the topic. TOPICS The workshop aims to include rather than exclude. Possible (contradictory) topics include: :- Do HCI approaches shed new light on definitions of service? :- Reports of experiences applying HCI approaches (e.g. Personas) to the design of services. :- Reports of experiences using Services Marketing (e.g. Blueprinting) approaches in HCI contexts. :- Service Quality (e.g. SERVQUAL) in relation to Usability / User Experience measures. :- Conflicts and complements between Service as Experience and 'harder' measures of Service quality. :- Adaptation of existing perspectives to the analysis and design of Services (e.g., task analysis, Activity Theory, Distributed Cognition) :- Why Services mean that existing perspectives can no longer apply. :- From Service to e-Service and back again. :- Educational perspectives. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE Participants will be invited to submit a 4 - 6 page position paper on their work, along with a candidate service for additional activities. The morning session will be given over to the presentation and discussion of these papers. The afternoon session will be split between analysis / design of two service examples using constructs explored in the morning. In addition there will be a workshop site linked into the main conference site that will remain active as a resource for the community. PARTICIPANTS Participants would be expected from industry and academia, invites to those in the Service Design community would also be made. PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS In the first instance through submission of a submission paper is a requirement. These should be sent to pw30 at cam.ac.uk DEADLINES 19th July Expression of interest / Submission of Position Paper 26-July Notification of Acceptance EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Should be sent to pw30 at cam.ac.uk As soon as possible. WORKSHOP ORGANISER Peter J Wild Institute for Manufacturing and the Engineering Design Centre University of Cambridge pw308 at cam.ac.uk WORKSHOP URL http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Epw308/workshops/HCI&Services/ From chisig.20.moz at spamgourmet.com Fri May 23 03:30:08 2008 From: chisig.20.moz at spamgourmet.com (Ming Lee) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:30:08 +0300 Subject: [chisigmail] Can someone record this? Fwd: CHISIG Victoria PANEL: Agile or Fragile? Practicing (trusted: hiser.com.au) UCD on Agile development projects - Tues 27 May Message-ID: <20080523103008.luf51t8c0s0wk840@webmail.tuffmail.net> Hello, Sounds like another very interesting topic. Unfortunately I'm still far away in Helsinki. Any chance again that someone can video this or take an audio recording, if the panel does not mind? I discussed with Patrizia Bordignon, but she's got something else on the Tuesday so she most likely cannot make it (and she would prefer not to become the defacto video recorder :) Regards, Ming Lee p.s. Patrizia and I will put Luke's presentation video onto the Internet. We will let you know when it's ready. ----- Forwarded message from Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:32:49 +1000 From: "Sanchez Silvia Hiser - silvias at hiser.com.au" Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG Victoria PANEL: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects - Tues 27 May To: chisigmail at chisig.org Hi everybody, An excellent event is coming up and you shouldn't miss out! CHISIG Victoria has organised the following panel for you: Panel: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects Tuesday 27 May 6 pm (for 6.30 start) Panel participants are: * Shane Morris from Microsoft * Brett Collinson from SEEK * Kirsten Mann from MYOB * Janet Brunckhorst from Lonely Planet The panel will be moderated by Andrew Sweany from Monash University. Our panel guests will debate the pros and cons of user-centred design on Agile development projects. We have got an exciting list of questions for the debate. Don't miss out! Date and Time - Tuesday 27 May 6pm for 630pm start Venue: - Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Silvia Sanchez on behalf of VIC Chisig Committee ***Disclaimer*** This email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material and/or material subject to copyright; it is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not a named addressee you shall not use, retain or disclose such information. The views expressed in this email are those of the originator and do not necessarily represent the views of The Hiser Group or its parent company, Serco Group Pty Ltd. Nothing in this email shall bind Hiser or Serco in any contract or obligation. Hiser cannot guarantee that the email or any attachments are free from viruses or errors and will not be responsible for loss or damage resulting either directly or indirectly from any such virus or error. If this is a commercial electronic message within the meaning of the Spam Act, you may indicate that you do not wish to receive any further commercial electronic messages from us by sending an email to mailto:nospam at hiser.com.au The Hiser Group Pty Ltd. Incorporated in NSW, November 1990. ACN 050 327 716 Registered office: Level 10, 90 Arthur Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- Hi everybody, An excellent event is coming up and you shouldn't miss out! CHISIG Victoria has organised the following panel for you: Panel: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects Tuesday 27 May 6 pm (for 6.30 start) Panel participants are: * Shane Morris from Microsoft * Brett Collinson from SEEK * Kirsten Mann from MYOB * Janet Brunckhorst from Lonely Planet The panel will be moderated by Andrew Sweany from Monash University. Our panel guests will debate the pros and cons of user-centred design on Agile development projects. We have got an exciting list of questions for the debate. Don't miss out! Date and Time - Tuesday 27 May 6pm for 630pm start Venue: - Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Silvia Sanchez on behalf of VIC Chisig Committee ***Disclaimer*** This email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material and/or material subject to copyright; it is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not a named addressee you shall not use, retain or disclose such information. 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PRESENTER: Jon Pearce, Wally Smith & John Murphy TITLE: "All green fingers and no thumbs!": Reflections on multidisciplinary design for a garden watering system VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 30th May 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: There were these three guys in a pub: a horticulturist, and HCI academic and a consultant... Well ? it was a bit like that. We will talk about the development of a software tool to advise Melburnians on how much water to put on their gardens. The story begins at Burnley Horticultural College with an investigation of various facets of how to water gardens efficiently and effectively, and ends (hopefully) with an innovative, engaging design of a decision support tool to facilitate the task. Our interest in this talk is trickiness of this apparently simple design journey and the emergence of a unsuspected minefield of concepts like soils, mulches, crop factors, sprinklers, garden zones, standard drinks, schedules, and plant performance. We will discuss the collaborative design process, the conversion of horticulturists? model into a Web application, and the research agenda that we hope to leverage from the endeavour. BYO watering can ;) BIO: Jon Pearce and Wally Smith are both senior lecturers in the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Jon?s research interests are in the areas of engagement and online learning. Wally?s interests are in the design of socio-technical systems. John Murphy is an HCI consultant who has a long history of research involvement with this department. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm l Cheers Nilma --------------------------------------- Nilma Perera PhD Candidate Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jessica at formulate.com.au Tue May 27 02:08:26 2008 From: jessica at formulate.com.au (Jessica Enders) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:08:26 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Is RTF accessible? Message-ID: Hello I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered accessible, to the extent that Australian federal government agencies must provide electronic documents in an accessible format. RTF is owned by Microsoft, but most word processors can read it. Apparently if styles are used correctly, RTF files can be used well by screen readers. Also, section 2.3 of the World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes (from 2002, mind you) on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission website (http:// hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html) suggests that RTF is considered acceptable. Any views? Jessica Enders Director Formulate Information Design ---------------------------------------- http://formulate.com.au ---------------------------------------- Phone: (02) 6116 8765 Fax: (02) 8456 5916 PO Box 5108 Braddon ACT 2612 ---------------------------------------- From rscherer at seek.com.au Tue May 27 02:12:18 2008 From: rscherer at seek.com.au (Rob Scherer) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:12:18 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Is RTF accessible? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jessica, Great question! I think the guys at Vision Australia would be experts in this area and so should be able to proivde you with an answer: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=573 1300 367 055 webaccess at visionaustralia.org Regards Rob Scherer User Experience Designer SEEK Limited Level 6, 541 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria, 3004 P : +61 3 8517 4153 M: +61 412 925 027 www.seek.com.au Please consider the environment before printing emails. -----Original Message----- From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Enders Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 4:08 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org; wsg at webstandardsgroup.org; canberra_ia_community at yahoogroups.com.au Subject: [chisigmail] Is RTF accessible? Hello I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered accessible, to the extent that Australian federal government agencies must provide electronic documents in an accessible format. RTF is owned by Microsoft, but most word processors can read it. Apparently if styles are used correctly, RTF files can be used well by screen readers. Also, section 2.3 of the World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes (from 2002, mind you) on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission website (http:// hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html) suggests that RTF is considered acceptable. Any views? Jessica Enders Director Formulate Information Design ---------------------------------------- http://formulate.com.au ---------------------------------------- Phone: (02) 6116 8765 Fax: (02) 8456 5916 PO Box 5108 Braddon ACT 2612 ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ chisigmail mailing list chisigmail at chisig.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/chisigmail From jessica at formulate.com.au Tue May 27 02:56:22 2008 From: jessica at formulate.com.au (Jessica Enders) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:56:22 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Clarification: Is RTF accessible? References: Message-ID: I should clarify that I'm not a Microsoft-basher! The only reason I mentioned it is that ownership of a standard might be considered, by some, to compromise accessibility. Also, if it helps, I'm thinking about RTF for /forms/, not general text documents. I think this makes the situation a little bit messier. Finally, I would definitely recommend semantic HTML as a first choice - we're just looking at the other options that might be available if it isn't. Thanks again for all your help, Jessica Enders Director Formulate Information Design ---------------------------------------- http://formulate.com.au ---------------------------------------- Phone: (02) 6116 8765 Fax: (02) 8456 5916 PO Box 5108 Braddon ACT 2612 ---------------------------------------- Begin forwarded message: > From: Jessica Enders > Date: 27 May 2008 4:08:26 PM > To: chisigmail at chisig.org, wsg at webstandardsgroup.org, > canberra_ia_community at yahoogroups.com.au > Subject: Is RTF accessible? > > Hello > > I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered > accessible, to the extent that Australian federal government > agencies must provide electronic documents in an accessible format. > > RTF is owned by Microsoft, but most word processors can read it. > Apparently if styles are used correctly, RTF files can be used well > by screen readers. Also, section 2.3 of the World Wide Web Access: > Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes (from 2002, mind you) > on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission website > (http://hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html) > suggests that RTF is considered acceptable. > > Any views? > > Jessica Enders > Director > Formulate Information Design > ---------------------------------------- > http://formulate.com.au > ---------------------------------------- > Phone: (02) 6116 8765 > Fax: (02) 8456 5916 > PO Box 5108 > Braddon ACT 2612 > ---------------------------------------- > From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Tue May 27 20:44:56 2008 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:14:56 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] SA CHI next meeting 24th June + advance notice of July meeting Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F019A3F11@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> When: Tuesday 24th June from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start Title: Usability and Application of Speech Technology in Smart Meeting Rooms Speaker: Dr Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari, Human Interaction Capabilities, C3I Division, DSTO Where: yet to be confirmed, however hopefully - Excom - Ground Floor, North Lobby, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts) Parking: There is a lot of parking either on Pulteney and Flinders St or in Hindmarsh SQ - its metered but generally only until 6pm (so not much money) and frees up at the right time :-) Format is intended to be fairly informal: drinks and nibbles on arrival Presentation from about 5:45 followed by a discussion Finally networking and more drinks and nibbles RSVP: to karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise). If you don't remember to RSVP you are still most welcome :-) Food and nibbles: gold coin donation to cover costs or if you are able to assist in providing food or nibbles please let me know in your RSVP. Abstract In this seminar an overview of research in speech processing to enhance collaboration will be given. The presentation looks at how automatic speech-to-text transcription is combined with integrated audio and video capture and playback during meetings. In order to improve the quality of transcripts speech pre-processing techniques, such as co-channel speaker separation and echo cancellation are applied. To further enhance human computer interaction using audio, optimal speaker scheduling and queuing for speaker-dependent speech recognisers, microphone position calibration, and speaker localisation and tracking are being investigated. In ending the talk, speaker-independent speech recognisers will be mentioned. These recognisers do not require user training prior to operation and hence have been potentially identified for command and control applications where limited vocabulary is required. Bio Dr Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari is a Science Team Leader in Speech Processing with Human Interaction Capabilities Discipline of Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence (C3I) Division in DSTO Edinburgh. His areas of interest are in human computer interaction using speech and language technology, and in audio and speech processing for C3I. July Meeting details: 29th July (same time and place) Title: Head Tracking for Virtual Portals Presenter: Assoc Prof Paul Calder, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University Thanks Karen Hughes SA Representative CHISIG mob: +61 -4 1788 4876 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greg.wadley at unimelb.edu.au Wed May 28 02:39:25 2008 From: greg.wadley at unimelb.edu.au (Greg Wadley) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:39:25 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] cfp: the Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 References: Message-ID: <7B433C3F76F2764E97A4AC040DC6AE5501BF0ECE@IS-EX-BEV1.unimelb.edu.au> This workshop, to be held at Swinburne University in November 08, might be of interest to ChiSig members using virtual worlds for research, education, or business. More details at http://avww.org. -Greg -------------------------- The Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop is an event for Australasian researchers, educators and business people involved in virtual worlds, to meet and discuss topics related to virtual worlds. The aim of this workshop is to build local capacity and virtual world expertise that connects with global expertise. This workshop builds upon foundations established by the Second Life Discovery Day held in 2007 at Monash University, Australia. Proceedings from that workshop are available at the website avww.org . Participants are encouraged to submit an abstract, presentation or panel proposal. Presentation formats that encourage active participation by attendees are preferred. Selected authors may also be invited by the conference committee to write up their presentations for publication in a special issue of a journal after the workshop. The workshop discussions will be mixed reality events held both at Swinburne and in Second Life to faciliate local and international participation. == Important Dates == Submissions Open: June 2nd 2008 Submission Deadline: August 1st 2008 Email Notification: September 15th 2008 Workshop Dates: 28th and 29th November 2008 Journal publication: late 2009 == Presentations being accepted == You can submit a 30 minute presentation proposal on a topic related to virtual worlds. Suggested areas are: - Using virtual worlds for education - Current research into virtual world technology and the uses of virtual worlds - Virtual world implementations - Conducting business using virtual worlds - Tools for working in and with virtual worlds (hardware & software) The proposal should be submitted at http://avww.org/?q=cfp == Contact == Lead conference organiser: Sukunesan Sinnappan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower individuals and groups to gain an awareness of their surroundings, engage in grassroots activism to promote environmental change, and enable a new social paradigm - citizen science. This workshop brings together fresh ideas and approaches to help elevate individuals to have a powerful voice in society, to act as citizen scientists, and collectively learn and lobby for change worldwide. Full call for papers and the accepted workshop proposal submission: http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Ubicomp2008/ Key Dates: 27 June: Submission deadline for workshop position papers (2-4 pages) 25 July: Notification for position papers 21 Sept: Day of workshop If you are on facebook, please join the Urban Informatics group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2493830797 and rsvp for the workshop at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22061180539 Organizers: Eric Paulos Intel Research Berkeley, USA Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology, Australia Christine Satchell QUT and The University of Melbourne, Australia Younghui Kim Hongik University, South Korea Paul Dourish University of California, Irvine, USA Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Queensland University of Technology, Australia -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/