From inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Oct 6 18:38:59 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Nilma Perera) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:38:59 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Peter Benda - Understanding Informational and Social Activity in Mobile Computing Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) **** Please note that there are two interesting seminars this Friday; the IDG seminar by Peter Benda and the Information Systems departmental seminar by Prof. Margot Brereton. Please read on for more details ***** You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Peter Benda TITLE: "YourtextmessagesarethetackiestpiecesofmotivationalcrapiveeverreadIwanna quitbutyourenothelping": Understanding Informational and Social Activity in Mobile Computing VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 10th October 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: In this seminar, Peter will present some of the ideas he is working with in developing his PhD topic. In particular, he is seeking to gain an understanding on the commonality between the two sets of studies he has been involved in and teasing out some of the commonalities and tensions between the eQuit work and Nokia work. Is the commonality best pulled through an examination of support and social support in particular? Can the notion of ambient social presence be used to understand the role of phatic exchanges in informationally-oriented interactions, as well as the role of informational exchanges in phatic interactions? BIO: Peter Benda is currently research fellow / sessional lecturer in the Department of Information Systems. His main project is "Maximising the effectiveness of interactive automated programs for smoking cessation". He has also worked on a Nokia-funded project on intergenerational play. These two projects form the empirical basis of Peter's proposed PhD work. Prior to joining the department in 2006, Peter worked for Sensis as manager of the HCI team (1999-2004) and then at Telstra as a User-Centred Design Research Leader.. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm l **************************************************************************** *** DIS SEMINAR SERIES 2008 Speaker: Prof Margot Brereton Queensland University of Technology Topic: Margot works in the area of interest to those in the Interaction Design group. She is still finalizing the topic for her presentation. 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URL: From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Wed Oct 8 19:15:56 2008 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:45:56 +1030 Subject: [chisigmail] SA CHI meeting 28th October + advance notice of November meeting Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F024A206F@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> When: Tuesday 28th October from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start Title: New Jobs for Thinking Heads Speaker: Prof David M W Powers, Director, AI and Language Technology Laboratories, School of CSEM, Flinders University Where: new location same building: Centrelink Useability Centre, Level 1 South side, 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, more drinks and nibbles and dinner for those who want to continue discussions RSVP: to Karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise and how many to book for dinner). 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 this month please let me know in your RSVP. Dinner after the meeting: For those who are interested a table will be booked at Caffe Amore (across Pulteney St), please indicate in your RSVP if you would like to come to dinner afterwards and continue discussions (please indicate if a partner or friend will be joining you for dinner). Abstract The Thinking Head, in the persona of Performance Artist Stelarc, has been gaining attention around the world, including at the Beijing Arts Festival in the lead in to the Olympics. However we are grooming the Head for a number of other roles and persona, including as a Teaching Head in a hybrid real/virtual environment, with initial applications focusing on teaching English and German as a foreign language. However, we keep getting new job offers and new variants on the Teaching Head idea, and will show demonstrations for some of these applications: Aboriginal Heads of various ages and sexes for teaching Literacy, Numeracy and Health skills, Social Heads for helping people with various kinds of physical or social disability, and Aging Heads to help people in their transition from retirement and in maintaining independent living. Bio David Powers is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology Laboratories at Flinders University. Since the 1970s, David has been focused on the idea of getting computers to communicate in everyday language, and to learn about the world like babies. This includes learning about the sound systems and grammars of languages as well as about the way meaning connects to the world. For this reason, much of David's focus has been on using real and simulated robots to ground meaning, and more recently the Thinking Head. David has also worked on developing psychologically plausible models of child learning, using techniques from neuropsychology to monitor and understand the learning process. However, much of David's research is about user-centric applications of his research, including several products in various stages of commercialization. Applications include controlling your home or your wheelchair by talking or thinking; searching the web by exploring the universe star-trek style; and correcting typing, recognition and translation errors using syntactic and semantic information. November Meeting details: 25th November (same time and place) Title: Tracking Patients: redesigning patient tracking in a busy pre-anaesthetics department Presenter: Alan Boldock, Senior Analyst Programmer, Royal Adelaide Hospital Dates for the remainder of the year: Maybe a Christmas get together at the caf? across the road from Excom on 16th Dec? Tentative 2009 dates (any opinions, suggestions or volunteers?): 27th January 24th February 31st March 28th April 26th May 30th June 28th July 25th August 29th September 27th October 24th November 15th December Xmas show Thanks Karen Hughes SA Representative CHISIG mob: +61 -4 1788 4876 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Mon Oct 13 19:41:03 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:41:03 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] Call for participation: Design to Read workshop Message-ID: <002701c92d8d$27790110$766b0330$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear all, (My first post on CHISIG, so my apologies if I've contravened any list conventions). Reading is a skill that most of us take for granted, but many people do not read easily. If you are a designer, practitioner, or researcher who is interested in how to design for people who do not read easily, then please think of coming to the Design to Read workshop that I'm leading at OzCHI in Cairns, 9th December 2008. This is the second in a series that started at HCI2008 in Liverpool in September. We had a fascinating, varied group of people with expertise in different parts of this problem space: designing for people with low literacy, the difficulties of people who are aging, the use of controlled vocabularies, reading difficulties caused by stressful environments - and many more. So why come to the Australian workshop? Well, there are certainly many more aspects of the problem that we didn't have a chance to explore. For example, what about designing for people who are learning to read later in life, or for children who are learning to read as children, or for people who are reading in a second language? And I'm really keen to get a wider critique of the framework that we came up with in Liverpool. If you're a designer, is there any use in such a framework or guidelines in general? Would you like to share some tips on how to involve people with reading difficulties in the design process? If you'd like to see more about the work so far, there's more information on our wiki: http://designtoread.editme.com/ If you'd like to come to the workshop, please contact me: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk best Caroline Jarrett Effortmark Ltd Usability - Forms - Content Phone: 01525 370 379 Mobile: 0799 057 0647 International: +44 152 537 0379 16 Heath Road Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 3AB UK From inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Oct 13 22:52:39 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Nilma Perera) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:52:39 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Jon Pearce - To search or to explore - that is the question: a study in mindful engagement Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Jon Pearce TITLE: To search or to explore ? that is the question: a study in mindful engagement VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 17th October 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: It?s easy to attract someone?s attention on the web ? seductive animations using software such as Flash make this all too easy. But how do you retain their interest and, more importantly, keep their focus on the task at hand? We have approached this question by producing a research tool called iFISH that enables us to quickly construct environments in which users explore a range of outcomes based on their dynamic changes to personal preference settings, together with reflections on the consequences of these changes. I will first describe a study using this tool in the context of students given the task of making a selection from a large range of university subjects, and later introduce other uses of such a system. This talk will be based on a paper to be delivered at OzCHI in December. BIO: Jon Pearce is a senior lecturer in the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne and a member of the Interactive Design Group. He has a background in education, physics and multimedia. His current research interests focus on interactive online systems and issues relating to the balance between mindful engagement and affect. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm l ----------------------------------------- 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 inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Wed Oct 15 18:03:46 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Nilma Perera) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:03:46 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: DIS Research Seminar: Kenton O'Hara - Collaborative Play on a Large Urban Screen Game In-Reply-To: <280A01DC3C32B64889B34B588A261292032AF26D@IS-EX-BEV3.unimelb.edu.au> Message-ID: FYI ? please note this a Departmental seminar at the Department of Information Systems (not an IDG seminar). However, I believe this maybe of interest to some of you. ************************************************************************** NOTICE: DIS SEMINAR SERIES 2008 Speaker: Kenton O?Hara Topic: Collaborative Play on a Large Urban Screen Game Date: Friday 24 October 2008 Time: 11.15 am Venue: Alan Gilbert Theatre 2, Level 1 Corner Grattan & Barry Street Abstract In recent years there has been a growing interest in Urban Screen applications. While there have been several deployments of these technologies in our urban environments, surprisingly little research effort has aimed to explore the detailed material practice of people?s engagement and interaction with these urban screen applications. In this paper, we present a study of collaborative game play on large urban displays situated in three city locations in the UK. The study highlights ways in which collaborative play is initiated and coordinated within the context of an urban environment. These experiences are related to physical characteristics of the architectural spaces, the people populating these spaces and the interactive properties of the game itself. The study moves on to discuss issues relating to audience and spectatorship, an inherent feature of interaction in urban environments. The issues of audience and spectatorship are discussed in their own right but also in terms of their relationship to the playing experience. Finally the study considers these interactive experiences in the contexts of being hosted by a professional compere and also with no host present. Through the study we highlight factors to consider in the design of collaborative urban screen applications. From peripheral and passive engagement to more interactive engagement, participation is an important consideration for the design of successful urban screen content. Speaker Kenton O'Hara is the new research director (since March 2008) of the HxI Initiative of the CSIRO/DSTO/NICTA in Sydney. According to the website, the "term ?HxI? denotes humans interacting with each other, with information and with technology. It focuses on augmenting their cognitive abilities and social interaction. The ?x? describes the search for an ?x factor? ? something that makes interacting with technology more effective." Kenton has a PhD in the Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Cardiff. Prior to joining the HxI Initiative and CSIRO, he was at HP labs in the United Kingdom. Peter Seddon Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Email: p.seddon at unimelb.edu.au Phone: + 61 3 8344 1576 ------ End of Forwarded Message ----------------------------------------- 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 gerry at infodesign.com.au Sat Oct 18 06:13:38 2008 From: gerry at infodesign.com.au (Gerry Gaffney) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:13:38 +1200 Subject: [chisigmail] Usable Forms in UX magazine - call for submissions Message-ID: <8dbf2da60810180313h33d8a521u2da2eb53a774df2d@mail.gmail.com> User Experience (UX) is the the print magazine of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA). Issue 8.2 is themed "Usable Forms". Guest editors Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney are seeking submissions on the theme. For more about the magazine, and for submission guidelines, see: http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/user_experience/index.html The audience is usability practitioners; the magazine has a global distribution. Although the official submission date is listed as January 2, we suggest aiming for early November, as we expect to receive a large number of high-quality submissions. You can submit an outline proposal - or queries - by email to Caroline or Gerry: caroline.jarrett (at) effortmark.co.uk gerry (at) infodesign.com.au We would particularly value articles that are practitioner-focused, include case studies, and are well-illustrated. Articles are typically 1500 or 2250 words in length. - Gerry & Caroline _____________________ Gerry Gaffney Information & Design +61 3 9600 3333 +61 409 424 404 mobile Web: www.infodesign.com.au User Experience Podcast: www.uxpod.com Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability: tinyurl.com/44muxd Usability Kit: www.theusabilitykit.com PO Box 1255 Windsor VIC 3181 Australia _____________________ From gerry at infodesign.com.au Sat Oct 18 17:04:35 2008 From: gerry at infodesign.com.au (Gerry Gaffney) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:04:35 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: OzCHI 2008 Workshop: Design to Read - Cairns, Australia Message-ID: <8dbf2da60810181404s551f781cnf9606f02754a3aa2@mail.gmail.com> Posted on behalf of Caroline Jarrett: *** If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. Date: Monday 9th December 2008 Location: Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.com/ Cheers Caroline From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Sun Oct 19 02:58:59 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:58:59 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: LoCA 2009 Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724400E204621@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> ************************ CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Submission deadline: December 18, 2008 ********************************************************************* The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: - New hardware platforms for sensing location and context - Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data - Location and context representation, management, and distribution - Privacy policies & communication protocols for location & context information - User studies of location- and context-aware systems - Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce radically new concepts, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited to 18 pages. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee Hamid Aghajan, University of Stanford, USA Christian Becker, Universit??t Mannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, Georgia Tech, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates 18 December 2008 Submission Deadline 13 February 2009 Author Notifications 27 February 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) http://loca2009.context-aware.org Dr. Aaron Quigley aquigley at ucd.ie Principal Investigator TRIL Centre, Technology Platform UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory School of Computer Science & Informatics University College Dublin Dublin 4, Ireland Phone (+353) 1 716 5357 http://casl.ucd.ie/people/aquigley From inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Oct 20 02:22:11 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Nilma Perera) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:22:11 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Two IDG presentations by Dip Nandi and Geoffrey Findlay Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... *** Please note that there will be two presentations this week. Read on for more details. **** (Presentation one) PRESENTER: Dip Nandi TITLE: Evaluating quality in online asynchronous interactions on online discussion forums between students and students? facilitators VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 24th October 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: The advancement of technology and improvement of computer skills of students has made it possible for online learning to develop quickly. The increasing use of information technology in providing education means that the interaction between teachers and learners are now happening increasingly online. Because of its potential benefit online discussion forums are becoming a common feature even in university courses as it allows students and instructors to interact with each other regardless of time and space. This presentation will discuss the set of criteria depending on which participation in discussion forums can be evaluated. In doing so it will discuss the findings from a case study carried out for this research and how it matches and differs from the analysis of literatures. BIO: Dip Nandi is doing a Masters in Information Systems in the University of Melbourne. He is doing this research as part of the course requirement of 615-690, Minor Research Project in IS and wants to undertake a PhD in the areas related to interactions in online learning in the future. **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** ******************* (Presentation two) PRESENTER: Geoffrey Findlay TITLE: Engagement in HCI: An Investigation into the effect of individual factors on Engagement VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 24th October 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: In this seminar Geoffrey Findlay will present his honours project on Engagement in HCI using a physics learning activity. A physics learning activity was selected because of its amenability to creating a program where individual factors could be isolated, as well as providing a population who would be interested in the program, namely physics students. An experiment was conducted, with the program used specifically created for it by the researcher and corrected after a short pre-test. The experiment involved 15 participants completing two series of tasks based on projectile motion: one with a written task description; the other series of tasks consisted of targets on the screen to hit. There were three experimental groups with the independent variable being the interface with varying levels of immediacy of feedback: continuous path, discrete path and no path. Analysis consisted of mix of quantitative and qualitative measures, namely on-screen video of participant?s interaction, a brief questionnaire, and semi-structured interview. The findings and their implications will be discussed. BIO: Geoffrey Findlay is an IS honours Student, whose background includes a Bachelor of Science (Physics major) / Bachelor of Information Systems. He is supervised by Dr. Jon Pearce and Dr. Wally Smith. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm l ----------------------------------------- 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 pat at gurtle.com Mon Oct 20 19:06:24 2008 From: pat at gurtle.com (Patrick Kennedy) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:06:24 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: OzCHI 2008 Tutorial "Demystifying Information Architecture" Message-ID: <20081021090624.861757s81ljom3gg@mail.gurtle.com> Join me in sunny Cairns, Australia, for the Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference. I'll be running a half day tutorial on the 9th of December entitled *"Demystifying Information Architecture"* in which I will introduce the science and art of information architecture (IA) for websites, intranets and other interactive systems. The tutorial will be focussed on the core concepts and techniques of IA. As such we won't be covering the background theory nor the broader fields of 'user experience', interaction design or design research, but rather will be looking at the practical side of IA and how it fits into the web design process. Anyone interested in applying their academic HCI knowledge to web design will find this tutorial of use, as will those who are new to HCI/UCD and need to get up to speed on the practical aspects of IA. For more information see http://tinyurl.com/5u6b8p or email me if you have any questions or requests. Regards Patrick -- Patrick Kennedy email: pat at gurtle.com blogg: www.gurtle.com/ppov/ twitr: PatrickKennedy phone: +61.410.506.904 From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Tue Oct 21 22:20:44 2008 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:50:44 +1030 Subject: [chisigmail] Reminder: SA CHI meeting 28th October + advance notice of November meeting Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F024A28A6@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> Sorry if you have already received this through another mailing list. When: Tuesday 28th October from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start Title: New Jobs for Thinking Heads Speaker: Prof David M W Powers, Director, AI and Language Technology Laboratories, School of CSEM, Flinders University Where: new location same building: Centrelink Useability Centre, Level 1 South side, 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, more drinks and nibbles and dinner for those who want to continue discussions RSVP: to Karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise and how many to book for dinner). 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 this month please let me know in your RSVP. Dinner after the meeting: For those who are interested a table will be booked at Caffe Amore (across Pulteney St), please indicate in your RSVP if you would like to come to dinner afterwards and continue discussions (please indicate if a partner or friend will be joining you for dinner). Abstract The Thinking Head, in the persona of Performance Artist Stelarc, has been gaining attention around the world, including at the Beijing Arts Festival in the lead in to the Olympics. However we are grooming the Head for a number of other roles and persona, including as a Teaching Head in a hybrid real/virtual environment, with initial applications focusing on teaching English and German as a foreign language. However, we keep getting new job offers and new variants on the Teaching Head idea, and will show demonstrations for some of these applications: Aboriginal Heads of various ages and sexes for teaching Literacy, Numeracy and Health skills, Social Heads for helping people with various kinds of physical or social disability, and Aging Heads to help people in their transition from retirement and in maintaining independent living. Bio David Powers is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology Laboratories at Flinders University. Since the 1970s, David has been focused on the idea of getting computers to communicate in everyday language, and to learn about the world like babies. This includes learning about the sound systems and grammars of languages as well as about the way meaning connects to the world. For this reason, much of David's focus has been on using real and simulated robots to ground meaning, and more recently the Thinking Head. David has also worked on developing psychologically plausible models of child learning, using techniques from neuropsychology to monitor and understand the learning process. However, much of David's research is about user-centric applications of his research, including several products in various stages of commercialization. Applications include controlling your home or your wheelchair by talking or thinking; searching the web by exploring the universe star-trek style; and correcting typing, recognition and translation errors using syntactic and semantic information. November Meeting details: 25th November (same time and place) Title: Tracking Patients: redesigning patient tracking in a busy pre-anaesthetics department Presenter: Alan Boldock, Senior Analyst Programmer, Royal Adelaide Hospital Dates for the remainder of the year: Maybe a Christmas get together at the caf? across the road from Excom on 16th Dec? Tentative 2009 dates (any opinions, suggestions or volunteers?): 27th January 24th February 31st March 28th April 26th May 30th June 28th July 25th August 29th September 27th October 24th November 15th December Xmas show Thanks Karen Hughes SA Representative CHISIG mob: +61 -4 1788 4876 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Wed Oct 22 07:29:37 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:29:37 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Call for Participation: ACE 2008, International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724400E2046BE@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> ACE 2008: International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology December 03-05, 2008 Yokohama, Japan (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/) ACE 2008 is an annual international conference devoted to computer entertainment to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, artists, and designers to present and discuss new problems, solutions, content design, and technologies in entertainment areas. The conference is sponsored by ACM Chapter (Singapore) in cooperation with VRSJ SIG-A+E and IPSJ SIG-EC. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. Deadline for early registration: October 31, 2008 Conference Highlights ------------------------------ Conference Registration Online registration is available on conference website (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/registration.html). Hotel booking will be available at the same page soon. There is a possibility for joint registration with Co-Located Conference, ICAT 2008. Early Bird conference registration is October 31, 2008. Creative Showcase (Technical demos & Design/Art galleries) ACE 2008 will have a new format which is three main tracks/themes for the papers and creative showcase / demos. These tracks will comprise of the following 3 categories: * Technology showcase: prototype demos of advanced entertainment technology * Design Showcase: interactive art and design works * Theory/Impact Showcase: works based on illusion Co-Located Conference ICAT 2008: 18th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (http://icat2008.hvrl.ics.keio.ac.jp/) Journal The best papers from ACE will be selected for expansion and publication in special issue of Springer Journal: Transactions on Edutainment http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/transactions+edutainment Awards Best Papers and Creative Showcase Awards will honor authors of the most distinguished contributions. Conference Program The conference is packed with very high quality papers. Conference program is available soon on the ACE2008 website. For further information, please visit: http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ Masa Inakage and Adrian David Cheok (General Chairs ACE 2008) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Fri Oct 24 05:56:29 2008 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:56:29 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] 2nd CFP: CHI 2009 Workshop: Age matters: Bridging the generation gap, through technology-mediated interaction In-Reply-To: Message-ID: --- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCT 30 --- 2nd Call for Participation: CHI 2009 Workshop *** Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology-mediated interaction *** Internet-based, mobile and pervasive technologies provide the means for older people to establish and maintain intergenerational relationships over long distances. The significance of this intergenerational context has been largely ignored when considering potential interactions and the design of such technologies. This workshop aims to explore the important issues when considering intergenerational contact as a significant context for design. The emphasis of the workshop will be on engaging user voices in a participatory manner and undertaking interactive design sessions to explore the design space. The overarching objective of this workshop is to identify key research themes in respect of intergenerational communication and its implications for the design of interactive systems. The workshop will take place as part of CHI 2009, Boston, April, 2009 - see http://www.chi2009.org. We encourage participation from researchers in HCI, psychologists, sociologists, designers, developers and any others with an interest in this area. Potential participants should submit a position paper of 2-4 pages to the organizers (d.a.harley at sussex.ac.uk) which describes their research interests and relevant work in the area. They must be prepared in the CHI Conference Extended Abstracts Format . At least one author of each accepted position paper needs to register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference. Accepted participants will be expected to create a poster based on their position paper (instructions to follow). The outcome of the workshop will be a call to submit full papers for a special issue of a journal. Up-to-date information on the workshop will be available at: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/interact/workshops/i ntergenDesign.html **Important Dates** Submission deadline: 30rd October 2008 Notification: 28th November 2008 Workshop: April 2009 Submit papers by email to d.a.harley at sussex.ac.uk **Workshop Organisers ** Dave Harley, University of Sussex, UK Sri Kurniawan, University of Santa Cruz, US Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex, UK Frank Vetere, University of Melbourne, Australia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Frank Vetere Department of Information Systems University of Melbourne 111 Barry St. Carlton Vic 3053, AUSTRALIA tel: +61 3 8344 1496 fax: +61 3 9349 4596 f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/fvetere/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Mon Oct 27 17:48:04 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:48:04 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Australia's embedded digital production industry -- A survey. Can you help? Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724400E204816@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Dear All: The following survey has been commissioned by the South Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet. We will get the report of the results. This should be of interest to many in our community. It would be great if you could help. Survey link: http://upload.research.mnetcorporation.com The survey will be online until the 9th of November. Kind regards Dr C?cile Paris CHISIG Chair http://www.chisig.org Making Technology Work for You Don't forget OZCHI 2008: http://www.ozchi.org ------------- Upload Embedded Digital Production Survey 2008 Want to know more about Australia's fastest growing digital production industry? The South Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet has commissioned m.Net Corporation to conduct a national research project designed to develop an in-depth understanding of Australia's embedded digital production industry. Can you help? Are you or your company involved in the creation of embedded digital products? Embedded digital production is broadly defined as digital products that are produced for application to industries, either by the companies operating in those industries or by digital production companies. Embedded digital production usually involves a Business to Business (B2B) transaction. Some examples include: 3D visualisations for mining and construction projects, simulation training games for mining, defence and emergency services, imagery for remotely guided medical interventions and visualisations for PC or kiosk applications such as self-seating allocation for air flights. If you or your company are involved in the creation of embedded digital products, please complete this short survey about your activities in this area. The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. In return for your time, you will automatically go into the draw to win one of five $100 Coles Myer Vouchers. For participating, you will also automatically be offered a copy of the full results of the commissioned research when they become available. Please complete the survey as accurately as possible. All responses are completely confidential and will only be released in aggregate form. No personal information will be linked to you or the computer you are using and personal details will not be forwarded to any third parties. For more information about our Privacy Policy, please refer to the terms and conditions. http://upload.research.mnetcorporation.com Simply click on the 'next' button below to get started. Thank you for your help! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hasan at uow.edu.au Tue Oct 28 22:05:37 2008 From: hasan at uow.edu.au (Helen Hasan) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:05:37 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] ICT for Climate Change Event Message-ID: <4907C4F1.2090404@uow.edu.au> Colleagues We invite submissions to the National Research Summit on Carbon-Centric Computing to be held at the University of Wollongong on Nov. 24th, 2008. Details can be found at: http://www.uow.edu.au/~aditya/research/ccci/ccci-nrs-cfs.html Aditya Ghose Helen Hasan Trevor Spedding (Event chairs) -- Dr Helen Hasan Associate Professor, Information Systems School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Wollongong Wollongong 2522, Australia Work times: Monday - Thursday, 10am-2pm Phone: 61 2 42213757 (office) Mobile: 0419403699 Fax: 61 2 42213725 Email: hasan at uow.edu.au URL: www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/