From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Thu Apr 2 03:55:01 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:55:01 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Cancellation of IDG Seminar: Designing Assistive Technologies for Autism Support: Putting the Cart before the Horse Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) Please be advised the seminar advertised below will be cancelled due to the presenter's illness. PRESENTER: Peter Francis, Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: Designing Assistive Technologies for Autism Support: Putting the Cart before the Horse VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 03 Apr 2009, 3-4 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Daryl Ku PhD Candidate Interaction Design Group Coordinator Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne -------------------------------------------------- From Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Sun Apr 5 21:31:49 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:31:49 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] ACT Chapter of CHISIG - April Meeting Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14DC4F783B@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 30th April at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. Mr DingYun Zhu, a PhD student in Computer Science, will talk on: "Natural interaction enhanced user interface design and evaluation for tele-operation" This talk will cover head gestures, body gestures and eye-gaze for remote control of machinery. (A paper with some initial results of his work will be presented at Interact 2009) Location: The Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU. Time: 4:45pm Food and drink in the lunch room up on Level 2 5:15pm DingYun will present his talk in lecture room N101 on the ground floor, to be followed by demonstrations of experimental technology to support these interactions. Parking: Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus (5 mins walk), or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus. By 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty and they are free after 5:00pm I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms. If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209. If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at csiro.au or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076. Duncan Stevenson Chair, ACT Chapter Duncan Stevenson Visiting Scientist CSIRO ICT Centre, Networking Technologies Laboratory Mail: GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601 Phone: +61 2 6216 7076, Mobile: 0419 140 209, Fax: +61 2 6216 7111 Email: duncan.stevenson at csiro.au, Web: www.ict.csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mitchm at hiser.com.au Thu Apr 9 03:24:31 2009 From: mitchm at hiser.com.au (Malek, Mitch (Hiser)) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:54:31 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to Web Directions Workshops and our first meetup for 2009 - Monday April 20th Message-ID: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C94A@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> Dear all, I know you have been excitedly waiting for news of our very first activity and meet-up for 2009, so here it is! The VIC reps have gotten together and brainstormed some great activities to come this year. For the first cab off the rank we earmarked Monday the 20th April. But when we looked at the calendar, we realised that most of you might already be at the Web Directions workshops here in Melbourne, so we thought, why not have a combined CHISIG drinks night and social get together with the people who are attending Web Directions South. The lovely folk over at Web Directions also loved this idea, and even gave us an added bonus of a discounted price for CHISIG members (and their friends) if they would like to attend the workshop. So a combined drinks will be held on Monday 20th April from 5:30pm at The Apartment (401 Little Bourke St) - it will be a cash bar, but some nibbles will be provided. http://www.theapartment.com.au/flash_content/index.html If you want to find out more about the workshops check out their website http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ . And here is a snapshot of what is on offer: * Indi Young - Mental Models for product designers, researchers and UX professionals * Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass * Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world * Brian Fling - Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps * Lisa Herrod - Web Usability: A Holistic Approach * Grant Young - Engaging social media. See their site for full details of the schedule. ++++ Pricing ++++ Use the discount code CHISIG to attend any of the workshops for just $450. (instead of $550) ++++ More info ++++ http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ ++++Contact ++++ Maxine Sherrin maxine at webdirections.org Even if you aren't interested in the workshop, feel free to share the code with colleagues who may be interested and come to the drinks anyway :-) Cheers, Mitch (on behalf of the VIC reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ***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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From m.foth at qut.edu.au Thu Apr 16 06:44:25 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:44:25 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Message-ID: <42947E89-008D-4D80-8A81-22A6B0E746EF@qut.edu.au> Last Call for Papers Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2009 Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 24th June 2009 April 30th, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent June 24th, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm Keynote speaker We are happy to announce that Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT (senseable.mit.edu), will deliver the keynote presentation at Digital Cities 6. The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Theme Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication technology, social networks and people form the bones, organs, muscles, nerves and cell tissue of a city. Studying the organisation and structure of these systems may seem straightforward at first, since there are visible artifacts and tangible objects that we can observe and examine. We can count the number of cars on the road, the number of apartments in a building, the number of emails on our computer screens and the number of profiles on social networking sites. We could also qualify these observations by recording the make and model of cars, the size and price of apartments, the sender and recipient of emails and the content and popularity of online profiles. This approach would potentially produce a large amount of data and render a detailed map of various levels of a city?s infrastructure, but a large quantity of detail does not necessarily result in a great quality (and clarity) of meaning. How do we analyse this data to better understand the ?city? as an organism? How do the cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs, and how do various systems communicate and interact with each other? And, recognising that we ourselves are cells living in cities as active agents, how do we evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes we observe in order to plan, design and develop more livable cities? A macroscopic perspective of urban anatomy does not easily reveal those meticulous details which are necessary to help us understand and appreciate what Anthony Townsend calls the urban metabolism (Townsend, 2000), that is, the nutrients, capacities, processes and pace which nurture the city to keep it alive. Some of the fascination with human anatomy stems from the fact that a living body is more than the sum of its parts. Similarly, the city is more than the sum of its physical elements. Trying to get to the bottom of a city?s existence, urban anatomists have to become dissectors of urban infrastructure by trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelationships of city elements. Yet, this is anything but trivial for at least three reasons. First, time is a crucial factor. Many events that trigger urban processes involving multiple systems result in a timely interrelated response. A dissection by isolating one system from another, would cut the communication link between them and jeopardise the study of the wider process. The city comprises many of these real- time systems and requires approaches and tools to conduct real-time examinations. Second, the physical city is increasingly complemented with a virtual layer that digitally augments and enhances urban infrastructures by means of information and communication technology including mobile and wireless networks. This world, which Mitchell (1995) called the ?city of bits,? is invisible to the human eye, and we require instruments for live surgery to render the invisible visible. Third and most importantly, the ?cells? of the urban body, the lifeblood of cities, are the city dwellers who have a life of their own and who introduce human fuzziness and socio-cultural variables to the study of the city. The toolbox of what could be termed anthropological urban anatomy thus calls for research approaches that can differentiate (and break apart) a universally applicable model of ?The City? by being sensitive to individual circumstances, local characteristics and socio-cultural contexts. Exploring these three challenges, this workshop looks at concepts, research methods and instruments that become the microscope of urban anatomy. We want to discuss urban informatics systems that provide real-time tools for examining the real-time city, to picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments that reveal the depth and contextual nuances of urban metabolism processes at work. 2 Topics Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following: ? Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban planning ? Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems ? Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy approaches ? u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless internet and mobile applications ? Locative media, navigation and space ? Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemologies ? Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) ? Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and planning ? Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems ? Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing in the urban context ? Environmental, economic and social sustainability ? Citizen science ? Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance ? Implications for residential architecture and the design of cities and public spaces ? Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urban informatics 3 Organisation and Submission Details This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote address by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style paper presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview format and ask each participant to interview another contributing author. Pairs will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and engage with the paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group activities and a closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop can accommodate a maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants including presenters in order to provide an environment that is conducive to debate and interaction. We are interested in three types of contributions: Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework. Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual ethnography, urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc. Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in practice and experience. Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each submission should also include a short biography stating the author?s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop position papers are due on April 30th, 2009 and will be reviewed and selected by the organisers with the support from an international program committee. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2009 ? to leave enough time to qualify for the early bird conference registration. The acceptance of a workshop position paper implies that at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and the Communities & Technologies 2009 conference. The workshop takes place on June 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors are invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review before being published. Arrangements for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant international journal are currently underway. Template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 4 Bibliography Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions as follows: Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.). (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 5 Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano at yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au Thu Apr 16 21:11:40 2009 From: christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au (Christopher Lueg) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:11:40 +1000 (EST) Subject: [chisigmail] UTAS CIS Seminar Mon 20/04: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu by Dr Marcus Foth (QUT) Message-ID: ================================= Seminar Announcement ================================= School of Computing and Information Systems Time: 11:00-11:50 on Monday, 20th of April, 2009 Location: Room 473 Centenary Building in Hobart, Room V137 Computing Building in Launceston, Title: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu Speaker: Dr.Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Abstract The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and people networks create a buzzing environment that's alive and exciting. Driven by curiosity, initiative and interdisciplinary exchange, the Urban Informatics research group at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is an emerging cluster of people interested in research and development at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on cities, locative media and mobile technology. Our team comprises and collaborates with architects with degrees in media studies, software engineers with expertise in urban sociology, human-computer interaction designers with a grounding in cultural studies, and urban planners with an interest in digital media and social networking. Being hosted by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT enables our projects to embrace the creative energy of a range of disciplines across design, performance, production and writing. Dr Marcus Foth will present an overview of the projects that the Urban Informatics research group are currently working on. Biography: Dr Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He received a BCompSc(Hon) from Furtwangen University, Germany, a BMultimedia from Griffith University, Australia and an MA and PhD in digital media and urban sociology from QUT. Dr Foth was the recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship supported under the Australian Research Council?s Discovery funding scheme. He was a 2007 Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Dr Foth has published over sixty articles in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings in the last five years. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (IGI, 2009). He is the conference chair of OZCHI 2009, a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers. More information at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ -- 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 From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Wed Apr 15 16:31:39 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:31:39 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] 2nd CfP: TAMODIA 2009, September 7-8 - Cambridge, UK Message-ID: <730c6ae10904151331y5daef83ft94de7bd5cfd95fce@mail.gmail.com> Deadine: 27 April 2009 TAMODIA 2009 is the 8th in a series of workshops focussed around the notations used to describe user tasks. The notations range from textual and graphical forms to formal descriptions as well as interactive, multimodal and multimedia tools. Submissions are equally welcome from those studying notations and modelling frameworks themselves, or the ways in which these fit within the interaction design process. TAMODIA 2009 will run on the 7th and 8th of September at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge. TAMODIA 2009 has been planned to follow on from the annual British HCI conference (1-5th September). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Keynote Speakers have been confirmed as: - Professor Andrew Howes (University of Manchester), "Rational adaptation to task and processing constraints." - Professor Gilbert Cockton (University of Sunderland). "Beyond Tasks: User Experiences as the Achievement of Worth" IMPORTANT DATES Submission 27th April 2009 Notification 29th May 2009 Final Copy 26th June 2009 ORGANISING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES CONFERENCE CHAIR Peter J Wild University of Cambridge UK TECHNICAL CHAIRS David England Liverpool John Moores UK Robert Macredie Brunel University UK ADVISORY COMMITTEE Philippe Palanque Jean Vanderdonckt Marco Winckler PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please see the website for full details of the the program committee, submission categories. From mitchm at hiser.com.au Sun Apr 19 23:48:49 2009 From: mitchm at hiser.com.au (Malek, Mitch (Hiser)) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:18:49 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] ---Reminder--- VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to Web DirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - Monday April 20th In-Reply-To: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C94A@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> References: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C94A@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> Message-ID: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C95B@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that the CHISIG drinks are on tonight for CHISIG in Melbourne at The Apartment from 5:30pm. See you all there. Mitch (on behalf of the Vic reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Malek, Mitch (Hiser) Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2009 5:25 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: HFESA Subject: [chisigmail] VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to Web DirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - Monday April 20th Dear all, I know you have been excitedly waiting for news of our very first activity and meet-up for 2009, so here it is! The VIC reps have gotten together and brainstormed some great activities to come this year. For the first cab off the rank we earmarked Monday the 20th April. But when we looked at the calendar, we realised that most of you might already be at the Web Directions workshops here in Melbourne, so we thought, why not have a combined CHISIG drinks night and social get together with the people who are attending Web Directions South. The lovely folk over at Web Directions also loved this idea, and even gave us an added bonus of a discounted price for CHISIG members (and their friends) if they would like to attend the workshop. So a combined drinks will be held on Monday 20th April from 5:30pm at The Apartment (401 Little Bourke St) - it will be a cash bar, but some nibbles will be provided. http://www.theapartment.com.au/flash_content/index.html If you want to find out more about the workshops check out their website http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ . And here is a snapshot of what is on offer: * Indi Young - Mental Models for product designers, researchers and UX professionals * Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass * Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world * Brian Fling - Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps * Lisa Herrod - Web Usability: A Holistic Approach * Grant Young - Engaging social media. See their site for full details of the schedule. ++++ Pricing ++++ Use the discount code CHISIG to attend any of the workshops for just $450. (instead of $550) ++++ More info ++++ http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ ++++Contact ++++ Maxine Sherrin maxine at webdirections.org Even if you aren't interested in the workshop, feel free to share the code with colleagues who may be interested and come to the drinks anyway :-) Cheers, Mitch (on behalf of the VIC reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ***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: From Pasquale.Stella at its.monash.edu.au Sun Apr 19 23:53:37 2009 From: Pasquale.Stella at its.monash.edu.au (Pasquale Stella) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:53:37 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] AUTO: Pasquale Stella is out of the office (returning 28/01/2009) Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting Wed 08/04/09 and will not return until Wed 22/04/09. I will however, periodically check my emails. Note: This is an automated response to your message chisigmail Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3 sent on 20/4/09 1:48:54 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Apr 20 01:15:12 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:15:12 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: The Deakin University Learning Repository Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Sandrine Balbo, Knowledge Media Division, Deakin University TITLE: The Deakin University Learning Repository VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 24 Apr 2009, 3.00 - 3.45 pm ABSTRACT: This presentation is based on a paper that will be presented at EDUCAUSE2009 (in Perth). It will highlight the main business requirements and describe Deakin University's solution to support a digital learning resource repository to be shared across faculties. The originality of the Deakin learning repository resides in the suite of learning resource collections supporting its various business objectives including the objective of managing intellectual property across all faculties of a multi-disciplinary educational institution. BIO: Since finishing her PhD in Computer Science in 1994, at the University of Grenoble (France), Sandrine worked as a lecturer for both Bond (Gold Coast) and Melbourne Universities, as a research scientist for CSIRO (Sydney) and as an information architect for Modem Media (London), an online advertising company. She is now a business analyst for Deakin University, within their Knowledge Media Division (http://deakin.edu.au/kmd/). Her interests cover requirements gathering, usability engineering and task modelling. Sandrine is actively involved in the HCI community. She is a reviewer for many international conferences; and in Australia, she is the OZCHI (http://ozchi.org) liaison of CHISIG (htpp://chisig.org), the Australian HCI professional society. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html -- -------------------------------------------------- Daryl Ku PhD Candidate Interaction Design Group Coordinator Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne -------------------------------------------------- From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon Apr 20 01:15:15 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:15:15 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Photo Practices and Family Values in Chinese Households Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Connor Graham, Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: Photo Practices and Family Values in Chinese Households VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 24 Apr 2009, 3.45 - 4.30 pm ABSTRACT: This talk considers studies of photography by five families in Sichuan, China, focusing on sharing and display. I plan to make the argument that practices around photographs in Chinese families reflect deeper values that are worked through in the course of family life. I will present evidence in the form of three examples to support this argument: (1) photo sharing as reflecting moral behaviour; (2) the propensity to focus on subjects such as flowers, and trees and landscapes as reflecting the belief of balance in Nature; (3) the use of photo collections as reflecting notions of ancestral worship and filial piety. At the end of the talk, I argue for: (1) the need to include values in any consideration of photo practices; (2) the importance of considering and tracing how different values are embedded in everyday technologies. BIO: Connor Graham is an Independent Researcher with interests in Studies of Everyday Life, Workplace Studies, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. He has just passed his PhD conducted through the Interaction Design Group at the University of Melbourne. Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome. http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html -- -------------------------------------------------- Daryl Ku PhD Candidate Interaction Design Group Coordinator Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne -------------------------------------------------- From pbenda at unimelb.edu.au Mon Apr 20 04:33:46 2009 From: pbenda at unimelb.edu.au (Peter Benda) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:33:46 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] ---Reminder--- VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to WebDirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - MondayApril 20th In-Reply-To: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C95B@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> References: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C94A@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D7901C95B@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> Message-ID: <280A01DC3C32B64889B34B588A26129205B9D9CA@IS-EX-BEV3.unimelb.edu.au> Yeah sorry we have a guest from out of town that we need to see and someone else leaving so we need to go somewhere blah blah blah Catch up soon! ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Malek, Mitch (Hiser) Sent: Monday, 20 April 2009 1:49 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: maxine at webdirections.org; HFESA Subject: [chisigmail] ---Reminder--- VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to WebDirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - MondayApril 20th Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that the CHISIG drinks are on tonight for CHISIG in Melbourne at The Apartment from 5:30pm. See you all there. Mitch (on behalf of the Vic reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Malek, Mitch (Hiser) Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2009 5:25 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: HFESA Subject: [chisigmail] VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to Web DirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - Monday April 20th Dear all, I know you have been excitedly waiting for news of our very first activity and meet-up for 2009, so here it is! The VIC reps have gotten together and brainstormed some great activities to come this year. For the first cab off the rank we earmarked Monday the 20th April. But when we looked at the calendar, we realised that most of you might already be at the Web Directions workshops here in Melbourne, so we thought, why not have a combined CHISIG drinks night and social get together with the people who are attending Web Directions South. The lovely folk over at Web Directions also loved this idea, and even gave us an added bonus of a discounted price for CHISIG members (and their friends) if they would like to attend the workshop. So a combined drinks will be held on Monday 20th April from 5:30pm at The Apartment (401 Little Bourke St) - it will be a cash bar, but some nibbles will be provided. http://www.theapartment.com.au/flash_content/index.html If you want to find out more about the workshops check out their website http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ . And here is a snapshot of what is on offer: * Indi Young - Mental Models for product designers, researchers and UX professionals * Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass * Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world * Brian Fling - Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps * Lisa Herrod - Web Usability: A Holistic Approach * Grant Young - Engaging social media. See their site for full details of the schedule. ++++ Pricing ++++ Use the discount code CHISIG to attend any of the workshops for just $450. (instead of $550) ++++ More info ++++ http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ ++++Contact ++++ Maxine Sherrin maxine at webdirections.org Even if you aren't interested in the workshop, feel free to share the code with colleagues who may be interested and come to the drinks anyway :-) Cheers, Mitch (on behalf of the VIC reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ***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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Pete ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Peter Benda Sent: Monday, 20 April 2009 6:34 PM To: Malek, Mitch (Hiser); chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: maxine at webdirections.org; HFESA Subject: Re: [chisigmail] ---Reminder--- VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to WebDirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - MondayApril 20th Yeah sorry we have a guest from out of town that we need to see and someone else leaving so we need to go somewhere blah blah blah Catch up soon! ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Malek, Mitch (Hiser) Sent: Monday, 20 April 2009 1:49 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: maxine at webdirections.org; HFESA Subject: [chisigmail] ---Reminder--- VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to WebDirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - MondayApril 20th Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that the CHISIG drinks are on tonight for CHISIG in Melbourne at The Apartment from 5:30pm. See you all there. Mitch (on behalf of the Vic reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ________________________________ From: chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org [mailto:chisigmail-bounces at chisig.org] On Behalf Of Malek, Mitch (Hiser) Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2009 5:25 PM To: chisigmail at chisig.org Cc: HFESA Subject: [chisigmail] VIC CHISIG members -- Discount to Web DirectionsWorkshops and our first meetup for 2009 - Monday April 20th Dear all, I know you have been excitedly waiting for news of our very first activity and meet-up for 2009, so here it is! The VIC reps have gotten together and brainstormed some great activities to come this year. For the first cab off the rank we earmarked Monday the 20th April. But when we looked at the calendar, we realised that most of you might already be at the Web Directions workshops here in Melbourne, so we thought, why not have a combined CHISIG drinks night and social get together with the people who are attending Web Directions South. The lovely folk over at Web Directions also loved this idea, and even gave us an added bonus of a discounted price for CHISIG members (and their friends) if they would like to attend the workshop. So a combined drinks will be held on Monday 20th April from 5:30pm at The Apartment (401 Little Bourke St) - it will be a cash bar, but some nibbles will be provided. http://www.theapartment.com.au/flash_content/index.html If you want to find out more about the workshops check out their website http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ . And here is a snapshot of what is on offer: * Indi Young - Mental Models for product designers, researchers and UX professionals * Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass * Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world * Brian Fling - Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps * Lisa Herrod - Web Usability: A Holistic Approach * Grant Young - Engaging social media. See their site for full details of the schedule. ++++ Pricing ++++ Use the discount code CHISIG to attend any of the workshops for just $450. (instead of $550) ++++ More info ++++ http://roadshow09.webdirections.org/ ++++Contact ++++ Maxine Sherrin maxine at webdirections.org Even if you aren't interested in the workshop, feel free to share the code with colleagues who may be interested and come to the drinks anyway :-) Cheers, Mitch (on behalf of the VIC reps for CHISIG) Mitch Malek | Senior Consultant | The Hiser Group P: (03) 9648 4317 | F: (03) 9648 4390 | E: mitchm at hiser.com.au www.hiser.com.au | Level 18, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia | A member of the UX Alliance www.UXalliance.com ***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: From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Tue Apr 21 00:22:42 2009 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:52:42 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] April SA-CHI meeting - 28 April Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F036F7AA3@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> Sorry for those who are receiving this twice but I wanted to get the word out there... Thanks Karen Hughes FTC Project Manager Saab Systems ph: +61-8 8343 3881 mb: +61-4 1788 4876 -----Original Message----- From: calder at csem.flinders.edu.au [mailto:calder at csem.flinders.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Calder Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2009 1:40 PM To: SA-CHI at infoeng.flinders.edu.au Subject: April SA-CHI meeting Fellow SA-CHI enthusiasts: Hear are the details for the April SA-CHI meeting. Please distribute this information through your local networks to those you think may be interested. Paul Calder --- What: SA-CHI Meeting When: Tuesday 28 April, from 5:30 for a 5:45 start, finishing around 6:45 Where: Centrelink Useability Centre, Level 1 South side, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders) The building is a secure area, so you will need someone to admit you to the Centre. Take the southern lift from the entry lobby to level 1. The Usability Lab waiting area is to the right as you leave the lift. Speaker: Paul Gardner-Stephen, Flinders University Title: Would You Believe Shoe Phones Could Improve Remote Medical Supervision? Abstract: Many of the technologies that underlie the field of espionage or have been depicted in science fiction are beginning to become practical for everyday application. One of the best known examples is the shoe phone, popularised by the Get Smart television series and a recent feature film. This talk will give a brief history of the shoe phone to date, including the development of several fully functional shoe phones by the presenter. It will also outline potential medical applications for shoe phone technology as a form of mobile computing and personal area networking. The Flinders Shoe Phone has been featured on ABC TV News and recently appeared on the "New Inventors" program on ABC TV. The video from both programs is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ewkRDJbB4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COpTlD2WIVE Bio: Dr. Paul Gardner-Stephen studied computer science (BSc) and bioinformatics (PhD) at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He is now a post doctoral fellow in bioinformatics, embedded systems designer, and systems and network administrator at Flinders University. His approach to research is to consider unorthodox solutions to big problems, whether in aged care (the shoe phone), gene discovery (the hardware-inspired DASH and SPAC algorithms), or the security and scalability of distributed on-line communities (survivable network services and the content addressed network environment). --- SA-CHI is a group of South Australians from both industry and academia who are interested in the field of Computer-Human Interaction. We come from a wide variety of organisations and are involved with a wide range of aspects of CHI. We are (loosely) affiliated with CHISIG, the Computer Human Interfaces Special Interest Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. The group meets monthly, on the last Tuesday of the month, to discuss CHI-related matters and usually with an invited speaker. The meetings are informal and open to all. To subscribe to the SA-CHI email list, contact Paul Calder . From m.foth at qut.edu.au Thu Apr 23 00:42:45 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:42:45 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: HCSNet Workshop - From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen, 13/14 July, QUT Brisbane Message-ID: <252531C1-2946-4B19-8145-371DD66734CC@qut.edu.au> Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia June 19th, 2009 Workshop position papers due June 26th, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13th/14th, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local participation and civic engagement in urban environments. Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed ?Web 2.0? to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors, location and context awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg., futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds (eg, hub2.org), and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human- computer interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering. The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of citizenship. Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and plenary discussions. Submissions We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by 19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943 Note that, although attendance at the workshop is free, membership of HCSNet and registration for this workshop are required in advance of the event. Registration deadline: Friday 3rd July 2009 Travel Bursaries HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers will have priority. Organisers Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Fri Apr 24 03:36:24 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:36:24 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: [HCSNet] HCSNet Call for Papers - From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia June 19th, 2009 Workshop position papers due June 26th, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13th/14th, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local participation and civic engagement in urban environments. Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed 'Web 2.0' to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors,location and context awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg.,futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds(eg,hub2.org), and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human-computer interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering. The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of citizenship. Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and plenary discussions. Submissions We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by 19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943 Note that, although attendance at the workshop is free, membership of HCSNet and registration for this workshop are required in advance of the event. Registration deadline: Friday 3rd July 2009 Travel Bursaries HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers will have priority. Organisers Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology ------ End of Forwarded Message From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Fri Apr 24 05:19:46 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:19:46 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] TAMODIA 2009: deadline extension Message-ID: <730c6ae10904240219w6cd573c2ua07ee64a37c61016@mail.gmail.com> After a number of requests we have extended the TAMODIA deadline until the 5th May 2009 http://ihcs.irit.fr/tamodia2009/ TAMODIA 2009 is the 8th in a series of workshops focussed around the notations used to describe user tasks. The notations range from textual and graphical forms to formal descriptions as well as interactive, multimodal and multimedia tools. Submissions are equally welcome from those studying notations and modelling frameworks themselves, or the ways in which these fit within the interaction design process. TAMODIA 2009 will run on the 7th and 8th of September at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge. TAMODIA 2009 has been planned to follow on from the annual British HCI conference (1-5th September). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Keynote Speakers have been confirmed as: - Professor Andrew Howes (University of Manchester), "Rational adaptation to task and processing constraints." - Professor Gilbert Cockton (University of Sunderland). "Beyond Tasks: User Experiences as the Achievement of Worth" IMPORTANT DATES Submission 5th May 2009 Notification 29th May 2009 Final Copy 26th June 2009 ORGANISING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES CONFERENCE CHAIR Peter J Wild University of Cambridge UK TECHNICAL CHAIRS David England Liverpool John Moores UK Robert Macredie Brunel University UK ADVISORY COMMITTEE Philippe Palanque Jean Vanderdonckt Marco Winckler PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please see the website for full details of the the program committee, submission categories. http://ihcs.irit.fr/tamodia2009/ From Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Tue Apr 28 01:53:46 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:53:46 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Canberra CHISIG: reminder about meeting Thursday 30 April 4:45pm at the ANU Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE00E6@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 30th April at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. Mr DingYun Zhu, a PhD student in Computer Science, will talk on: "Natural interaction enhanced user interface design and evaluation for tele-operation" This talk will cover head gestures, body gestures and eye-gaze for remote control of machinery. (A paper with some initial results of his work will be presented at Interact 2009) Location: The Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU. Time: 4:45pm Food and drink in the lunch room up on Level 2 5:15pm DingYun will present his talk in lecture room N101 on the ground floor, to be followed by demonstrations of experimental technology to support these interactions. Parking: Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus, or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus. After 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty. I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms. If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209. If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076. Duncan Stevenson Chair, ACT Chapter CHISIG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: