[chisigmail] CfP OzCHI 2008 Workshop "HCI & Information Science"

[Christopher Lueg]

                               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
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