From srippon.ml at gmail.com Mon Sep 1 05:07:23 2008 From: srippon.ml at gmail.com (Scott Rippon) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:07:23 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] VIC: Tue Sep 23 : August de los Reyes : Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface Message-ID: *Topic* Predicting the Past: Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface *When* Tuesday September 23 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm start *Where* University of Melbourne 111 Barry Street, Carlton ICT building - Lecture Theatre 1 Map: http://tinyurl.com/6z2jwh *Catering* Food and drinks provided. Thanks to Shane Morris and Microsoft for sponsoring the event. *Entry* Gold coin donation. *Presenter* August de los Reyes User Experience Director for Microsoft Surface http://www.microsoft.com/design/People/Detail.aspx?key=august August de los Reyes joined Microsoft Surface Computing (http://www.microsoft.com/surface/) in December 2007. In his role as principal experience architect, de los Reyes is responsible for mapping out the strategic design, industrial design and design vision that users will experience with Surface. What interests de los Reyes the most about Surface is the fact that the innovation behind the technology is intuitive to anyone. That innovation, and the fact that Microsoft Corp. has the backing and the resources to bring surface computing to life, is a combination he finds exciting. de los Reyes has worked at Microsoft for more than five years. Before working for Surface, he worked as a brand design lead for MSN and a user experience manager for MSN Search, and was a creative director for the Hardware Innovation Group within the Windows Hardware and Emerging Markets Group. Before joining Microsoft, de los Reyes worked at Philips Design in the Netherlands, as well as Eastman Kodak Co. and iCast. He is a board member of the Cambridge Institute of Design in Cambridge, Mass., was a visiting associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2008, and is a Ph.D. candidate in industrial design from the Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands. de los Reyes holds a master of design studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor of arts in design and literature from Bennington College in Vermont. *Presentation details* A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural User Interface or NUI. This talk begins with discussion of emotional design and its importance in the future of society. The lens shifts to how one design team is thinking about designing for a new era in which emotional intent and intuitive interaction are the imperative. Using theoretical models drawn from a mix of history, science, philosophy, and even video game design, this presentation reveals principles behind experience design for Microsoft Surface and beyond. Look forward to seeing you there. Kind regards, Victorian CHISIG Reps. From inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au Wed Sep 3 19:10:57 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.dis.unimelb.edu.au (Imalka Nilma Perera) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:10:57 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG seminar: Christine Satchell - Retrofitting Urban Residential Spaces with a Sense of Suburban Nostalgia Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Christine Satchell TITLE: Retrofitting Urban Residential Spaces with a Sense of Suburban Nostalgia: The Community Building Potential of Urban Screens VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 05th September 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Urbanely nomadic residents are increasingly forgoing the randomness of locale-based relationships in favour of digitally mediated interactions occurring within the walled garden of their pre-existing social networks. This enhances a sense of community with members of established friendship groups, but what of the interactions with those outside of these networks, such as the inhabitants of residential spaces? The mass adoption of mobile phones and Internet based social networking applications has not, as critics feared, brought about 'the death of the city'. Yet within HCI, the focus on meeting the needs of the digitally connected, but geographically dispersed user has eclipsed the design of technologies for centralized users. In order to address this gap we conducted a user study that informed a series of design implications for the collective enhancement of residential environments. A lens of suburban nostalgia was employed to see what types of neighbourhood interactions might be retrofitted in new ways through the use of technology to provide some social glue. BIO: Dr Christine Satchell is a Senior Research Fellow at Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Interaction Design Group at The University of Melbourne. Please forward to others if interested. 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URL: From Susan.Hansen at csiro.au Wed Sep 10 22:43:24 2008 From: Susan.Hansen at csiro.au (Susan.Hansen at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:43:24 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: Reminder about UPA Sydney meeting Message-ID: Details are attached below for the Sydney UPA meeting tonight! ________________________________ Reminder about UPA Sydney meeting (11/9/2008) Just a reminder about tomorrow's meeting: Thursday, September 11, 2008 Clarendon Hotel 156 Devonshire Street (cnr Waterloo), Surry Hills 9319 6881 6:00 - 6:30pm: Drinks, socializing, networking, joining UPA Sydney 6:30 - 7:00pm: Designing Mobile Wayfinding Applications Carolin Plate, The Hiser Group 7:00 - 7:15pm: Nomination and election of 2008-2009 Chapter Council 7:15 - 8:00pm: Planning for World Usability Day and networking About the presetation Carolin Plate will present her results from a recent comparative study in pedestrian navigation, where she investigated whether users find visual or text-based interfaces more efficient and effective on mobile devices for visual-spatial tasks such as finding your way in an unfamiliar environment. The results of this research are surprising, and they have potential implications for the user interface design of lots of different types of navigation aids. This is a great kick-off to launch our efforts for World Usability Day in Sydney, where the theme is transportation. About Carolin Plate Carolin joined The Hiser Group as a usability consultant at the beginning of 2008. With a background in mathematics, computer science, computational linguistics and cognitive psychology, Carolin can approach the design of user interfaces from both the developer's perspective and the end user's point of view. Prior to joining Hiser, Carolin worked in the Computer-Human Adapted Interaction Group at the University of Sydney assisting its team of developers with initial design and usability testing. Previous to that, Carolin held internships with IBM Research Germany and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Carolin received her Bachelors and Masters of Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrueck. Her Masters research (the subject of this talk) was carried out in cooperation with the Computer Human Adapted Interaction Group of the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professor Judy Kay. Call for Nominations and Upcoming Election Our September meeting will also be an opportunity to nominate and elect our 2008-2009 Chapter Council. There are four positions to be filled, as follows: President Vice President Secretary Treasurer General responsibilities for each of these are described below (of course, subject to change as our chapter evolves). Any member of the parent UPA organisation is eligible to hold office and vote in the election. As a reminder, to be a voting member of UPA Sydney, you will need to be a member of the parent UPA organisation, however, we also offering associate membership in UPA Sydney to those who choose not to become members of UPA. However, we need to have a quorum of voting members at the meeting in order to hold the election. This is your chance to get involved. Please consider nominating yourself (or someone else who accepts the nomination!) for one of these roles. And please come to vote. Hope to see you there. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ President The Chapter President heads the Chapter Council and is responsible for all operations of the Chapter. The Chapter President: * conducts regular meetings of the Chapter Council (at least three to five meetings per year are recommended) * assigns duties to other officers soon after their election * suggests schedules for ongoing Chapter programs both within the Association and in collaboration with other professional groups * explores topics for the coming year's meetings with the Program Committee and other officers * appoints special assistants or committees for specific tasks not easily managed by standing committees * applies and maintains controls for budgets, expenditures, and other fiscal activities and, together with the Treasurer, signs all Chapter checks * reviews contents of Chapter website prior to posting * writes articles and columns for the Chapter website * leads in the formulation of goals and policies for the Chapter * contacts committee managers periodically to obtain status/activity reports, which are then submitted to the Chapter officers * submits a report describing Chapter activities to the Chapter Sponsor prior to each UPA Board of Directors meeting * submits informal reports frequently to keep the Chapter Sponsor informed about the general condition of the Chapter * ensures that procedures for Chapter elections are carried out properly Vice President The Vice President: * maintains a special awareness of all Chapter operations and confers frequently with the Chapter President, not only to advise and assist, but also to gain knowledge that could prove useful if the Vice President becomes President * helps formulate policy and establish the Chapter's long-term and short-term goals * monitors the Chapter's finances on a continuing basis * assumes the duties of Chapter President when the President is unavailable * performs other duties as defined by the President Secretary The Secretary: * takes minutes at Chapter Council and other Chapter meetings (or arranges for a substitute) * prepares and distributes copies of meeting minutes to officers within ten days * prepares correspondence related to Chapter business at the direction of the Chapter President * ensures that the annual Elections are managed in accordance with UPA by-laws Treasurer The Treasurer: * prepares a budget at the beginning of the Chapter year * establishes and maintains any bank accounts * prepares periodic reports of Chapter income and expenditures for review by the Chapter President * develops a detailed year-end report (as of December 31) of all financial transactions; grouping income and expenses for each major activity This email was sent by newsletter, UPA Sydney, Level 12, 213 Miller Street, North Sydney, Australia to susan.hansen at csiro.au Unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Full details are available from the conference web site: https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/auic2009/ Gerald Weber & Paul Calder [Paul.Calder at flinders.edu.au] AUIC Program Co-Chairs From inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Sep 15 22:58:58 2008 From: inperera at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Nilma Perera) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:58:58 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Alexia Maddox - The promise and pitfalls of virtual community as an analytical model Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Alexia Maddox TITLE: The promise and pitfalls of virtual community as an analytical model VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 19th September 2008, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Virtual community is a widely used concept to document and design for social clustering in online environments. Grounded literature in this area has proliferated exponentially in the last 10 years with the increasing rate of the technological development of social platform, but the characteristics and generating features of virtual community remain patchy and unclear. This presentation will discuss the digital social phenomena surrounding virtual community and online sociability. In doing so, it will describe the foundations, features and pitfalls of the variety of approaches to be found in the literature. BIO: Alexia is in the final year of her PhD on modeling a spatially distributed interest network. The presentation is linked to the introductory section of her thesis. Comments and feedback will be most welcome. Please forward to others if interested. 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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: 23rd 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 srippon.ml at gmail.com Sun Sep 21 17:50:44 2008 From: srippon.ml at gmail.com (Scott Rippon) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:50:44 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] VIC: Event tomorrow: August de los Reyes : Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface Message-ID: Dear fellow CHISIGers Just a quick reminder for the Melbourne event that happening tomorrow night. Look forward to seeing you there :) Kind regards, Victorian CHISIG Reps. *Topic* Predicting the Past: Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface *When* Tuesday September 23 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm start *Where* University of Melbourne 111 Barry Street, Carlton ICT building - Lecture Theatre 1 Map: http://tinyurl.com/6z2jwh *Catering* Pizza and beer/wine/softdrinks provided. Thanks to Shane Morris and Microsoft for sponsoring the event. *Entry* Gold coin donation. *Presenter* August de los Reyes User Experience Director for Microsoft Surface http://www.microsoft.com/design/People/Detail.aspx?key=august August de los Reyes joined Microsoft Surface Computing (http://www.microsoft.com/surface/) in December 2007. In his role as principal experience architect, de los Reyes is responsible for mapping out the strategic design, industrial design and design vision that users will experience with Surface. What interests de los Reyes the most about Surface is the fact that the innovation behind the technology is intuitive to anyone. That innovation, and the fact that Microsoft Corp. has the backing and the resources to bring surface computing to life, is a combination he finds exciting. de los Reyes has worked at Microsoft for more than five years. Before working for Surface, he worked as a brand design lead for MSN and a user experience manager for MSN Search, and was a creative director for the Hardware Innovation Group within the Windows Hardware and Emerging Markets Group. Before joining Microsoft, de los Reyes worked at Philips Design in the Netherlands, as well as Eastman Kodak Co. and iCast. He is a board member of the Cambridge Institute of Design in Cambridge, Mass., was a visiting associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2008, and is a Ph.D. candidate in industrial design from the Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands. de los Reyes holds a master of design studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor of arts in design and literature from Bennington College in Vermont. *Presentation details* A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural User Interface or NUI. This talk begins with discussion of emotional design and its importance in the future of society. The lens shifts to how one design team is thinking about designing for a new era in which emotional intent and intuitive interaction are the imperative. Using theoretical models drawn from a mix of history, science, philosophy, and even video game design, this presentation reveals principles behind experience design for Microsoft Surface and beyond. From srippon.ml at gmail.com Mon Sep 22 07:48:07 2008 From: srippon.ml at gmail.com (Scott Rippon) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:48:07 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] VIC: Human Factors International: PET (Persuasion, Emotion & Trust) course Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- We are organizing a training course on PET (Persuasion, Emotion & Trust). This is the latest course offering from HFI and had its worldwide debut this month. Persuasion, emotion, and trust (PET) are critical factors for creating successful online interactions. While traditional user-centered design focuses on designing for usability, it is now essential to leverage the science of PET to influence users. Whether your site is e-commerce, informational, or transactional, PET Design teaches you how to motivate people to make decisions that lead to conversion. The objectives of the course are as follows: ? How to develop persuasive strategies and implement research-based methods throughout the design process to make your website more trustworthy and convincing. ? Powerful techniques to probe the subtle motivations and emotional triggers that influence people's reactions to your message, content, and offers. Understand how to create an effective design that appeals to users while achieving measurable business goals. ? How to document and present PET Design research and user analysis with concrete deliverables, including personas, persuasion flow diagrams, emotion maps, and trust scorecards. I am enclosing the course outline (http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/documents/PETcourse.pdf). Given below is the details with regards to time, date and venue. Date: 29th September - 1st October (i.e. 29/09, 30/09, 01/10) Venue: ANZ Learning and Breakout Centre, 595 Collins St, Melbourne Fee: AUD 1995 per participant. Course Instructor: Eric Schaffer PhD, CEO of HFI Inc. You can register online by clicking the link below: http://www.humanfactors.com/training/scheduleAustralia.asp Let me know if you would be able to attend or nominate your colleagues for the same. I do apologise for the short notice but everything fell into place all of a sudden with ANZ being the host of the seminar. Do feel free to contact me in case you have any queries and we will be glad to be of assistance. Enjoy your weekend Cheers Mahesh Menon ____________________________________ Human Factors International Singapore Pte. Ltd 51 Tras Street, #03-01 Singapore 078990 Tel: +65.62206431 Fax: +65.6220.6436 H/P: +65.9101.4879 From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Tue Sep 23 04:21:24 2008 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:51:24 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] September meeting notice for SA CHI Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F021D395C@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> When: Tuesday 30th September from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start Title: The art and science behind creating a great user experience Speaker: Shane Morris, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft Where: Excom - Ground Floor, North Lobby, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts) (unless you hear otherwise from me closer to the date) 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 A great user experience means more than drop shadows and rounded corners. It might end with placing elements on a screen, but user experience starts much further upstream, maybe even before requirements! In this presentation we'll discuss the elements of user experience and how to apply them. We will talk about the role user experience design plays - not just in delivering successful end products and services - but also in facilitating communication and direction within project teams. We'll cover a mix of tactical and strategic steps to improve user experience. If you could only do one thing to improve your application's UX, what would it be? (You might be surprised.) This talk focuses on practical, realistic ways to ensure your next project delivers a great user experience. Bio As a User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft, Shane Morris inspires, trains and collaborates with organisations to create great experiences for their products and services. Shane has worked as a user experience designer since 1991 and is a recognised leader in the field. He has taught user-centred design techniques around the world and regularly presents and blogs on user experience, interaction design, usability, and of course what Microsoft is up to in user experience. He works with both creative and technical professionals - helping them collaborate to create services that empower, inspire and reward. Shane's passion is transforming the complex and constrained into the simple and powerful. Not just because it's a valuable endeavour that empowers individuals, but because it's hard - and therefore immensely rewarding. blogs.msdn.com/shanemo. October Meeting details: 28th October (same time and place) Title: New Jobs for Thinking Heads Presenter: Prof David M W Powers, Director, AI and Language Technology Laboratories, School of CSEM, Flinders University Dates for the remainder of the year: 25th November Maybe a Christmas get together at the caf? across the road from Excom on 16th Dec? Tentative 2009 dates (any opinions or suggestions?): 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 willdonovan at optusnet.com.au Thu Sep 25 17:32:22 2008 From: willdonovan at optusnet.com.au (willdonovan) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:32:22 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] September 29: Opera Night at Melbourne Web Standards Group Message-ID: <48DC0366.6010908@optusnet.com.au> On Monday, September 29th, join Andreas Bovens & Charles McCathieNevile, two experts from Opera Software will be in town, and have kindly agreed to talk for us about accessibility, standards, and the future of the Web. This event will occur at Loop Bar in the city ? note this is a *Monday night*. Both speakers are based overseas (Tokyo and Norway), and this is their only Melbourne speaking engagement, so be sure to get along! *Event: *Andreas Bovens & Charles McCathieNevile (Opera) *Date*: Monday, September 29th, 2008 *Time*: 6.30pm for 7pm start *City*: Melbourne *Venue*: Loop Bar , 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne VIC 3000 [map ] *Cost*: FREE Cheers, Matt, Will, Adam & Ricardo From christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au Thu Sep 25 05:43:53 2008 From: christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au (Christopher Lueg) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:43:53 +1000 (EST) Subject: [chisigmail] CfP OzCHI 2008 Workshop "HCI & Information Science" Message-ID: Call for Papers "Information Science and HCI: Information Behaviour Design" Tuesday, 9 December 2008, Cairns (Northern Queensland), Australia The workshop is part of OzCHI 2008 (The Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference) Technical program 10-12 December 2008 Paper Submission deadline: Friday, 10 October 2008 Information science is the study of information related behaviours, including cognitive and social modeling of information behaviours, and the design of systems that support information behaviours. Information science is related to disciplines such as librarianship, information systems, human-computer interaction, psychology, and computer science. Information behaviour modeling and design is also important research for Web search engines and Web 2.0 development. HCI is concerned with designing, implementing and evaluating interactive computer systems for human use. These two fields have tremendous overlap in their concerns, with complementary knowledge and skills to offer each other. The goal of this OzCHI workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in information science, HCI, and the ways in which they (should) inform each other. This workshop is one of a planned series of workshops developing the relationship between information science and related disciplines including human-computer interaction (this conference), information systems and computer science" Workshop Description: The OzCHI Workshop will be a multidisciplinary forum exploring the relationship information science and HCI research for information behaviour modeling and design. Questions of interest range from more general questions regarding the understanding, modeling and supporting of information behaviors in specific contexts to very specific topics including IR andf Web/IR: how to best model and understand user behavior, how to translate user modeling into interfaces and systems design, how to evaluate those systems, and how to assess social and business impacts. Presentations and discussions will include of theoretical foundations, user studies, interface and systems designs, methodologies, and case studies. We anticipate a wide range of participants from both the research and development communities. Submissions and Evaluations: Participants should prepare a 1 page statement of interest and relevant experience and are also encouraged to submit a 2-3 page paper on a topic of interest to the discussion. Papers should clearly identify how they contribute to exploring the Information Science (IS) - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) nexus eg by suggesting questions raised by their research that could be discussed at the workshop. Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers for acceptance in the workshop proceedings. The organizers will arrange for publishing the workshop proceedings as a technical report as well as on a web site. As experienced editors we are also looking at publishing revised and expanded versions of the papers as a special issue in an established, topically related journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Design of systems and interfaces to support information access Exploring, modeling and supporting information behavior Interactive information retrieval Interaction with information environments Web/IR search Mobile Web search Web personalisation Online communities Paper Submission deadline: Friday, 10 October 2008 Acceptance Notification: Friday, 17 October 2008 Workshop registration requested by: Friday, 24 October 2008 Submissions by email to christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au See URL http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ISHCI08.html for updates. Workshop Facilitators: Dr. Christopher Lueg is Professor of Computing at the University of Tasmania. His research interests tend to manifest at the intersection of computer science, information science and cognitive science. Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction with Information and Information Behavior are long-standing areas of interest. Other active research areas include information sharing in online communities, spam filtering and digital redlining (and more general questions of information access and equity), context awareness and mobile wayfinding support. He edited (with Danyel Fisher, now Microsoft Research) the book From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces published by Springer in the CSCW series. URL http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ Gregor McEwan, MSc is a Research Engineer with the Braccetto project in the HxI Initiative. He is currently employed by NICTA. His research interests are primarily in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), specifically building groupware to support small communities of intimate collaborators. His current work involves supporting synchronous, time-critical collaboration in mixed-presence groups. Amanda Spink, PhD is Professor of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on studies of information behaviour, Web search and cognitive information retrieval. The National Science Foundation, Andrew R. Mellon Foundation, NEC, IBM, Microsoft, Excite, AlltheWeb.com, Infospace Inc, Vivisimo, Alta Vista and Lockheed Martin have sponsored her research. She has published over 340 journal articles and conference papers, with many in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing and Management, Interacting with Computers, IEEE Computer, and Internet Research, the ASIST, ACM and IEEE Conferences. Her recent books include Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval, New Directions in Human Information Behavior, and Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives published by Springer, and the forthcoming book Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis for Idea Group. URL http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/ -- Dr. Christopher Lueg Professor of Computing University of Tasmania Private Bag 100 Hobart TAS 7001, Australia christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OZCHI2008-Workshop_final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 91607 bytes Desc: Url : From f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Thu Sep 25 21:14:01 2008 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:14:01 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: "Digital Urban Living" by Martin Brynskov, Lars Kabel & Tobias Ebsen (University of Aarhus) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: (apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to a special (out-of-semester) IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Martin Brynskov, Lars Kabel & Tobias Ebsen (University of Aarhus) TITLE: Digital Urban Living VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Thursday 2nd October 2008, 3-4 pm (NB Thursday, not Friday) ABSTRACT: This seminar will focus on Civic Communication and Media Facades, presenting and discussing work done at the Center for Digital Urban Living (DUL), a Danish research center. Behind is a consortium of researchers, industry partners, and public institutions, organized around five themes: Civic Communication, Media Facades, Cultural Heritage, Digital Art, and New Urban Areas. (www.digitalurbanliving.dk) BIOS: Martin Brynskov: Ph.D. (computer science) specializing in new interaction technologies. Director of the Civic Communication group within DUL and Assistant professor at the Department for Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus. During his doctoral work at the Center for Interactive Spaces, he developed tools for social construction based on mobile and pervasive media. He was the project lead of Aarhus by Light and has been involved in the development of numerous projects and products based on social interaction mediated by technology, working closely with public institutions and industrial partners, including LEGO Company and B&O. He also holds an MA in information studies, cognitive semiotics and classical Greek. Lars Kabel: Journalist, MA (mass communication), assistant professor at the Danish School of Journalism. He has published numerous books and reports on trends and research within journalism, including the role of new media and the consequences for journalism and journalists. He is a founding member of DUL. Tobias Ebsen: Doctoral student with a project entitled "Perception strategies for understanding media facades and urban screens", member of the Media Facades group within DUL. He has been a key figure in the design and development of Aarhus by Light and was the artist behind the interactive set design for the Running Sculpture dance performance. He holds a BA in Art History. From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Mon Sep 29 19:23:14 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:23:14 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] A workshop at IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces) 2009: Human Interaction with Intelligent & Networked Systems Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724400C5DE66C@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Human Interaction with Intelligent & Networked Systems IUI 2009 Workshop, February 8th, 2009, Florida See the website for details: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/hiins/ ------------------------------------- Dr C?cile Paris Research Leader, ICT Centre CSIRO ICT Centre Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, NSW 1670 Physical Address: CSIRO ICT Centre Building E6B, Macquarie University Campus North Ryde NSW 2113 Australia Phone: +61 2 9325 3160 Fax: +61 2 9325 3200 Email: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au http://www.ict.csiro.au/InfoEngagement http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Mon Sep 29 20:39:10 2008 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:39:10 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] HCSNet NGS08 Second Call: Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724400C5DE67D@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> NGS08 SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third Workshop of the HCSNet Next-Generation Search Technology Priority Area http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search08 Date: 13 November 2008 Location: RMIT University, Melbourne Contact: Diego Molla, diego at ics.mq.edu.au; Robert Dale, Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Existing information retrieval systems effectively treat documents as unstructured bags of words. As current Web search engines demonstrate, this approach works surprisingly well. At the same time, it is clear that human processors of information make use of a much deeper understanding of text than these systems exhibit. Humans cannot compete with machines in terms of quantity, but their abilities far exceed those of machines when it comes to quality. Linguistics treats texts as richly structured objects that obey complex and interacting rules about language use, and natural language processing attempts to implement computational models that embody these ideas: how do we add this sophistication to information retrieval in a way that scales and which delivers better results? Are there insights from the cognitive sciences that can tell us how to build better tools for finding information? How do we extend these technologies when the data we are concerned with includes audio and video as well as text? The aim of HCSNet's Priority Research Area in Next Generation Search is to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to address these questions. After the success of the previous workshops, this third workshop will take place the day after SPIRE 2008, at RMIT University. AUDIENCE The goal of the workshop is to gather people from all areas of research, development and industry. We welcome people from academia and industry with interest in any area related to innovative methods for search, including but not limited to the following: * Cognitive Science * Natural language Processing and Language Technology * Information Retrieval * Human-computer Interaction * Data Mining * Formal Syntax and Morphology * Formal Semantics * Conversational and Discourse Analysis * Philosophy of Language WORKSHOP FORMAT Our main aim is to further develop grounds for collaboration across the NGS community. Accordingly, the workshop will consist of a number of presentations of different types with this focus in mind: * 10 minute speed presentations that describe a new project or specific idea to be shared with the community, with the aim of encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration; * 10 minute student project presentations, with the aim of informing the community of new ideas being developed, and to get feedback from an interdisciplinary audience; and * 3 minute poster presentations for those presenting a poster. SUBMISSIONS We want to involve as many as possible in discussion, so the effort required for attendance is deliberately small. Those interested in making a speed presentation, student presentation or poster should submit a brief abstract of 100-150 words in length. In addition, we ask all those interested in attending to submit a 100-150 word statement indicating their research interests pertinent to the workshop theme. These will be made available as part of the workshop materials. Please send all submissions by using the submission form: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search08 FUNDING HCSNet will fund travel and accommodation to a maximum of $500 for a number of participants from outside the Melbourne area. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants may be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, early career researchers (in HCSNet terms, those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority. In addition, 10 student travel awards will be available for postgraduate students outside the Melbourne area. To apply for this funding stream, include a short CV in plain text in the submission form. Note that, although attendance at the workshop is free, prior registrations to HCSNet and this workshop are required. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of Abstracts: 5 October 2008 * Notification of Awards: 10 October 2008 * Workshop: 13 November 2008 CONTACT Diego Molla-Aliod diego at ics.mq.edu.au Robert Dale Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au