From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Sun Feb 1 07:11:25 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:11:25 +0000 Subject: [chisigmail] CFP: TAMODIA 2009, September 7 & 8 Cambridge, UK Message-ID: <730c6ae10902010411w2870735g28cb92380893810e@mail.gmail.com> TAMODIA 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" SCOPE OF PAPERS We seek high-quality, original papers that address the theory, design, development and evaluation of ideas, tools, techniques, methodologies in (but not limited to) the following topics: TASK ANALYSIS Understanding opportunistic, dynamically planned on-the-fly activities, and non-planned activities Participatory role of the user in task elicitation Verification and validation of task models Properties of tasks Understanding opportunistic, dynamically planned on-the-fly activities, and non-planned activities Ethnographically informed task model construction PROCESSES AND METHODS Early requirements for task-based design Task-based design Integration of task analysis and task modelling with software engineering Integration of task analysis and task modelling with user centred design Derivation of UI from task models: systematic processes and methods TASK MODELLING Analytical and empirical task modelling Cognitive task models Notations and tools for task modelling APPLICATION DOMAINS Safety critical systems E-commerce and e-government Collaborative systems Complex or exceptional tasks Education Service Domains Leisure, entertainment, creative activities and experiences INTERACTION TECHNIQUES Task models for multimodal interaction Task models for augmented and virtual reality Task models for smart environments SUBMISSION CATEGORIES Scientific papers (up to 14 pages) should present high quality, original work within the topics of the conference. They should highlight general scientific contributions of the research and practical significance. Industrial/Demo papers (up to 14 pages) can present tools for dealing with task models, case studies demonstrating practical application of Task Modelling and Task Analysis on large scale, and real cases illustrating good practices from. Authors of accepted papers should prepare a poster (A3 format) summarising their to be exposed at the conference hall during the demo session. Student papers (up to 6 pages) offer students the opportunity to discuss and to exchange the experience both the work in progress and almost finished dissertations. Short papers (up to 6 pages) should present preliminary results, reports of work in progress and also within the scope of the workshop. The proceedings of TAMODIA'2009 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Papers must adhere to the Springer LNCS publication format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). IMPORTANT DATES Submission 27th April 2009 Notification 29th May 2009 Final Copy 26th June 2009 TAMODIA 2009 Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th September 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 University Paul Sabatier France Jean Vanderdonckt Catholic University of Louvain Belgium Marco Winckler University Paul Sabatier France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please see the website for full details of the the program committee. SUPPORT TAMODIA 2009 is supported by the following organisations: University of Cambridge Liverpool John Moores University Brunel University Springer Verlag LNCS IFIP BCS Interaction From karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au Thu Feb 5 20:34:06 2009 From: karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (Karen Hughes) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:04:06 +1030 Subject: [chisigmail] Request for SA CHI organiser Message-ID: <4637035C470ECA4E8F1C5619B4C3F45F02ECA5A5@OXYGEN.saabsystems.com.au> Sorry for those who have already seen requests for help or for those outside SA but I'm having no luck finding a replacement so I'm trying this mailing list in case someone sees my request who I haven't previously reached out to. Over the last 12 months my workload has been increasing and has no got to a point that I am no longer able to organise SA CHI meetings - mostly cause I seem to be travelling when meetings are scheduled. The task is not onerous and I will pass over all the contacts etc. I have. 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So, if you have spare copies of the OZCHI proceedings for the following years: > 1968 > 1969 > 1970 > 1971 > 1972 > 1974 > 1975 > 1976 > 1986 (or have a copy you would kindly photocopy or scan) could you please send/email the copy to: Pauline Pertel Office Administrator HFESA/CHISIG Secretariat Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc PO Box 7848 BAULKHAM HILLS BC NSW 2153 Phone: 02 9680 9026 Fax: 02 9680 9027 Email: secretariat at ergonomics.org.au Thanks a lot in advance, Sandrine (please note new email: sandrine at acm.org) -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2747 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message From S.Minocha at open.ac.uk Fri Feb 6 03:52:49 2009 From: S.Minocha at open.ac.uk (Shailey Minocha) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:52:49 +0000 Subject: [chisigmail] Research Associate position in an elearning project (Open University, UK) Message-ID: Project title: Effective use of Social Software in Education Research Associate position at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK Faculty of Mathematics, Computing & Technology, Full-time position, ?29,704 - ?33,432 depending on qualifications and experience [Ref: 5133] 12 month temporary contract available from 1st April 2009, Based in Milton Keynes The Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology at the Open University (OU), UK is seeking a post-graduate researcher to work on an e-learning research project. This project builds on e-learning initiatives, which we have undertaken in recent years at the OU. These initiatives relate to evaluating students' and educators' experiences with social software tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, photo-sharing sites (e.g. Flickr), social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), and 3-D virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life).The goal of this project is to develop and analyse case studies, on the use of social software in learning and teaching, and to develop recommendations for use of social software. Ideally, you should have a Ph.D. in Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, or a related discipline. However, candidates who are suitably qualified and have experience of evaluating technology-enabled learning environments will be considered. Previous research experience or training at post-graduate level of applying research methods is essential. For enquiries about the research project, please contact Dr. Shailey Minocha For detailed information about the project and how to apply go to http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment or http://tinyurl.com/bhjdbt, or email the Recruitment Secretary at MCT-Recruitment at open.ac.uk quoting the reference number [Please quote reference number 5133]. Closing date: 19 February 2009. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape (minicom 01908 654901). We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. From m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 9 07:36:11 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:36:11 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2009: applications close 16 Feb Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, New scholarship funding is now available for the 2009 Summer Doctoral Programme 'Creativity, Innovation and the Internet' to be held in Brisbane with the Creative Industries Faculty (QUT) in July. The funding will cover one full or two half scholarships (fees only) and will be available to support students who would not otherwise be able to attend. We're also delighted to announce that programme tutors will include Nancy Baym, Stuart Cunningham, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Brian Fitzgerald and Axel Bruns. Together with other participating tutors, these faculty members will lead a programme that will cover topics such as the growth and implications of user-generated content, citizen media and community journalism, and regulatory barriers to innovation online. The full list of tutors includes faculty from the OII and the Berkman Center, who have taught on the Programme since its establishment in 2003, and is still being updated. The application process closes on Monday 16 February 2009: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/Y2009.cfm Best wishes, Victoria Nash, Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Thu Feb 12 00:27:30 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:30 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Preliminary Results from an iFish Research Study Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar ... PRESENTER: Ruud Knieriem TITLE: Preliminary Results from an iFish Research Study VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 20 Feb 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: In recent years, more and more research in the field of Human Computer Interaction is focused on the user experience. Joy of use, flow and visual aesthetics are concepts getting attention, and are coming together into the concept of engagement. Based on earlier research of Jon Pearce a research study was set up on engagement with online interactions. Participants had to perform two tasks with a modification of the iFISH system. iFISH is a research tool for exploring interactivity, engagement and affect. The system presents a ranking of objects based on matching them to a set of values entered by a user. Two different ways of user input were researched, as well as two ways of presenting the output. Engagement was investigated by comparing users' actions and their answers to a post-questionnaire. In the seminar the preliminary results of the study will be presented. BIO: Ruud Knieriem is a final year Information Science student from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, who has worked on his master thesis at the Department of Information Systems, with supervisors Dr Jon Pearce and Dr Gregor Kennedy. 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 sandrine at unimelb.edu.au Fri Feb 13 01:15:20 2009 From: sandrine at unimelb.edu.au (Sandrine Helene Balbo) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:15:20 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Another new initiative: http://bushfirehousing.org/ Message-ID: Dear CHISIG members, Australian bushfires have left thousands of families in Victoria and New South Wales homeless. Bushfire Housing - http://bushfirehousing.org/ - is helping match people in urgent need of shelter with others within their communities and surrounding regions who are able to offer emergency accommodation during this time of crisis. How you can help If you or anyone have the ability to offer a room, a holiday house or any form of emergency shelter, please register at http://bushfirehousing.org/. Your generosity will directly help the victims of the worst natural disaster in Australia's recorded history. Even if you are unable to offer accommodation, you can still help by spreading the word: * Please forward this email on to any of your friends who may be able to help. * If you have a Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or other social networking account, tell your contacts about http://bushfirehousing.org/ * Visit http://bushfirehousing.org/ and put one of our badges on your website. The Australian Red Cross are accepting donations through Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009. Check their website at http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bush fires-appeal-2009.htm. Blood donors are always required. You can arrange to give blood by calling the Australian Red Cross blood service on 13 14 95. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2750 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message From shigeki at shigekifactory.com Wed Feb 18 19:22:34 2009 From: shigeki at shigekifactory.com (Shigeki AMITANI) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:22:34 +0900 Subject: [chisigmail] [Updated] The 5th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: The Fifth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies Sydney, Australia, 12-14 August, 2009 March 7, 2009--- Full paper and poster paper submission Conference Web page: http://www.collabtech.org/ IMPORTANT NEWS: ============== - March 7, 2009--- Full paper and poster paper submission The submission systems is open in Feb. 2009. For your submission, please create an account on the system. - There are two paper categories: full paper (6 pages) and poster paper (2 pages). Overview: ======= CollabTech 2009 will provide a platform for international collaboration technology community to showcase, discuss and deliberate on the state-of-the art, emerging new technology developments and innovative use of these technologies to improve collaborations. Topics: ===== Contributions are solicited in all areas of collaboration technology research and applications. Topics include, but not limited to: * Collaboration system architectures * Shared virtual/augmented environments * Web-based Groupware * Single/Multi-display groupware * Surface Interface/Interaction technologies * Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration * Collaboration technology in mobile/ubiquitous computing * Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) * Computer supported cooperative design (CSCD) * Collaborative entertainment systems * Design, assessments and evaluation methods * Multimedia sharing * Shared Graphics/Visualization Keynote Speaker: ================ Dr Mary Lou Maher The Deputy Division Director at NSF and Professor at the University of Sydney Mary Lou Maher is the Deputy Division Director of the Information and Intelligent Systems Division at NSF. She joined the Human Centered Computing Cluster in July 2006 and initiated a funding emphasis at NSF on research in creativity and computing called CreativeIT. She is the Professor of Design Computing at the University of Sydney. She received her BS (1979) at Columbia University and her MS (1981) and PhD (1984) at Carnegie Mellon University. She was an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the University of Sydney in 1990. She has held joint appointments in the Faculty of Architecture and the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. Her own research includes empirical studies and new technologies for design in virtual worlds and other collaborative environments, behavior models for intelligent rooms, motivated reinforcement learning for non-player characters in MMORPGs, and tangible user interfaces for 3D design. Important Dates: =============== * March 7, 2009--- Full paper and poster paper submission * April 20, 2009 --- Notification of Acceptance * May 11, 2009 ---Camera Ready Manuscripts * August 12 - 14, 2009 ---Conference Paper Submission: ================ The submission systems is open in Feb. 2009. For your submission, please create an account on the system. There are two paper categories: full paper (6 pages) and poster paper (2 pages). Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Only electronic submissions (PDF) will be accepted. Papers should be formatted using the CollabTech Proceedings Template (click for download the template) in MS Word and should be no more than 6 A4-pages in length. No more than 2 A4-pages for poster papers. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. Conference Chairs: ================= Conference committee: Conference Co-Chairs: Prof. Masa Takatsuka, The School of IT, The University of Sydney Tel: +61 2 9351 5903, Fax: +61 2 9351 3838 email: masa at it.usyd.edu.au Prof. Hideaki Kuzuoka, Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering, The University of Tsukuba Tel: +81 29 853 5258 email: kuzuoka at iit.tsukuba.ac.jp Local arrangements chair: Xiangyu Wang, The University of Sydney, Australia Program committee: Co-chairs: Christian Sandor, University of South Australia, Australia Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan -- shigeki amitani, dr http://shigekifactory.com/ From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Sat Feb 21 00:09:49 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:09:49 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: Please contribute to the computer industry's response to the bush fires Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E087@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Dear All: You have already seen the message Sandrine circulated on CHISIG mailing list. I have also received this, which is another way to contribute. We also welcome ideas as to how CHISIG and its constituency could show support to people who have been affected by the recent bushfires or flood. Kind regards C?cile Paris CHISIG Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Subject:** Please contribute to the computer industry's response to the bush fires You can make a very real difference to the families who lost their homes and consequently have no computer to do all those things we do online and take for granted. The Australian Information Industry Association has created a partnership with Infoxchange Australia, who has more than a decades experience delivering PC to those in need, to enable you to: 1. donate laptops and PC this week to be distributed through the 12 DHS Relief Centres across the State next Saturday (we need 200 new or reasonably current) 2. donate money (we need $40,000 to sustain this programme for 6 months). 3. register to volunteer to assist one or two families to get their computer working and connected to the internet. Please go to http://www.bushfirerelief.infoxchange.net.au/ to make a contribution today! Please circulate this invitation to your contacts to maximise the response to this practical and important bush fire initiative. Thank you so much. Russell From showard at unimelb.edu.au Sun Feb 15 17:39:23 2009 From: showard at unimelb.edu.au (Steve Howard) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:39:23 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Please circulate: Director of HIT Lab Tasmania Message-ID: Regards ---- Steve Howard Head, Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne T: (03) 8344 1493 F: (03) 9349 4596 E: showard at unimelb.edu.au W: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/showard/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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He also hopes to reflect upon his own PhD journey and more importantly, the PhD experience. Serendipity is a personally meaningful experience arising from chance encounters. While people do encounter serendipity in their everyday lives (albeit not all the time), serendipity can also arise as a user-experience through people's use of interactive technologies such as when listening to their digital music in the shuffle mode. So what is this brand of shuffle-led serendipity? How does serendipity arise from not choosing your own songs but instead having it randomly (chosen and) presented to you by a music player? Does the practice of music listening as well as the technology involved in shuffle listening in fact nudge people towards serendipitous encounters? And does it work for other digital content besides music, say, photographs? To find out the answers as well as hear Tuck's (hopefully more interesting) reflections into his (seemingly) long, solitary and occasionally serendipitous PhD journey, he would like to see you at the seminar. BIO: Tuck Leong is a PhD candidate with the Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, 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 Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Mon Feb 23 06:15:53 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:15:53 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: Chinz - Chi New Zealand - Call for participation (Auckland 6-7 July 2009) - please distribute Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E0A5@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> From: Beryl Plimmer [mailto:beryl at cs.auckland.ac.nz] Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 4:04 p.m. Subject: Chinz - Chi New Zealand - Call for participation (Auckland 6-7 July 2009) - please distribute The CHINZ conference provides a general forum for all those involved with Computer Human Interaction (CHI or HCI) to address design centred human use of technology. We welcome full length and short research papers in all areas of this diverse field and especially encourage graduate students to present at the conference. There will be poster sessions and hands-on demonstrations during the conference, at which we would encourage industry practitioners to present. Accepted papers are fully refereed by an international programme committee and deposited in the ACM digital Library. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Interaction design; user centred design, applying design principles in HCI, social implications of technology (e.g., for disabled or elderly); mobile technologies; games; robotics; tools and tool support; cyber psychology; usability; guidelines and heuristics; implications of technology for cognition; education aspects; and industry case studies. KEYNOTE by Stephen Brewster We are honoured to have Prof Stephen Brewster, one of the leading researchers in multimodal and mobile HCI as our keynote speaker. His research focuses on multimodality, or using multiple sensory modalities (particularly hearing, touch and smell) to create a rich, natural interaction between human and computer. Dates: 30/03/2009 All submissions due 27/04/2009 All reviews due 04/05/2009 Response to authors 18/05/2009 Final submissions due Web Site http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/conferences/chinz09/ Programme Chair Dr Beryl Plimmer Department of Computer Science University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland 1142 email: beryl at cs.auckland.ac.nz homepage: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile.php?id=bpli001 phone +64 9 3737599 x 82285 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But there will also be some new twists to encourage broader thinking about the field of Mixed and Augmented Reality. Deadlines are in May and vary for different forums; see the attached for details. Also included in the attached flyer are the web site and committee contact information for each of the venues. Hope to see you all in Orlando! Mark --------------------------------- Mark A. Livingston, Ph.D. Naval Research Laboratory mark.livingston at nrl.navy.mil ISMAR 2009 Publicity Chair -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CFP.pdf Type: application/x-extension-pdf Size: 47475 bytes Desc: CFP.pdf Url : From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Tue Feb 24 06:01:38 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:01:38 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: [um] CALL FOR PAPERS--Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications (SNMABA2009) Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E0CD@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> -----Original Message----- From: iting at nuk.edu.tw [mailto:iting at nuk.edu.tw] Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 1:05 AM To: um at di.unito.it Subject: [um] CALL FOR PAPERS--Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications (SNMABA2009) Call for Paper ------------------------------------------------------------- he International Workshop on Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications (SNMABA2009) 29-31/August/2009 Vancouver, Canada http://im.nuk.edu.tw/~iting/SNMABA2009/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 25 April, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline 1 June, 2009 Notification of Acceptance 15 June, 2009 Camera-Ready Due 29-31 August, 2009 Conference Dates ------------------------------------------- Social networks mining and analysis has now becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also social computing and social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amount of data and by this to discover valuable information from the data. In recent year, due to the growth of social communications and social networking websites, data mining becomes a very important and powerful technique to process and analyze such large amount of data. Recently, many researches are focusing on developing new data mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for social network analysis. However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and useful data have not been applied in real environment. In most of application areas, business applications are expected to be killer applications for social network analysis and social computing. Thus, it could be an important time to shift the research focus to application area, such as business. This year, the workshop will be held in conjunction with The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing(SocialCom-09) in Vancouver, Canada. We are looking forward to you submission and participation to the workshop and the main conference. This workshop invites papers of the following topics, but never exclusive: Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Management Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Marketing and Advertisement Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Human Resource Management Social Networks Mining and Analysis for E-commerce Social Networks Mining and Analysis for E-services Social Networks Mining and Analysis for privacy issues in business Social Networks Mining and Analysis for fraud detection in business Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Technology Innovation and Patents Visualization Techniques Experiment and Implementation Case Studies and Empirical Studies Workshop Chairs: I-Hsien Ting, Ting-Lin Lee, Tien-Hwa Ho, Hui-Ju Wu Paper Submissions: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'' two-column format. Submission should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Please submit your manuscript to: Dr. I-Hsien Ting iting at nuk.edu.tw Dr. Hui-Ju Wu d94311001 at mail.ncue.edu.tw Workshop Chairs I-Hsien Ting (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Ting-Lin Lee (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Tien-Hwa Ho (Yuanpei University, Taiwan) Hui-Ju Wu (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan) From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Tue Feb 24 06:02:19 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:19 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: [um] CFP Human, Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments - special issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E0D0@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> -----Original Message----- From: George D. Magoulas [mailto:gmagoulas at dcs.bbk.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 8:30 AM To: UM Subject: [um] CFP Human,Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments - special issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on Human Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments Ubiquitous computing advocates interaction through calm technology whereby users sense and control what directly interests them, while retaining tangential awareness of other informational opportunities that they can at any time choose to focus on. This requires seamless access to media, information sharing and communication through heterogeneous systems, which are distributed and may be deeply embedded in the physical environment. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to deepen our understanding of human behaviour in context and its impact on technological issues relevant to ubiquitous environments. Research in this area is rapidly gaining importance and has become an essential part of pervasive and mobile computing systems. This special issue solicits original papers that contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and its impact on the design, development and use of applications in mobile and ubiquitous settings. Submissions can focus on theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to: * Data capture and knowledge discovery for user modelling in ubiquitous environments * Machine learning techniques applied to socially-aware ubiquitous systems * Experience design in socially-aware ubiquitous systems * Human-computer interaction issues in ubiquitous environments * Detecting and using patterns of human behaviour in ubiquitous computing * Modelling and recognition of user activity, mobility and context * Social computing applications in human-centred ubiquitous environments * Pervasive user-generated content: applications, systems and practices * Applications in mobile and ubiquitous environments for learning, business, social computing, travelling, arts, entertainment, gaming, healthcare and virtual worlds. Submissions should be of high standard for an international, archival research journal, and will be reviewed according to the strict standards of the PMC journal. Papers should not have been submitted or published elsewhere but could be extended or refined versions of conference papers with significant new, original material. Extended versions or refined versions of conference papers are expected to differ from the conference version by at least 30% across all sections - authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation guidelines can be obtained from the PMC Journal's web page (). The deadline for submitting manuscripts is March 23, 2009 and authors will be notified of the decision by June 1, 2009. The final manuscripts will be due October 1, 2009. Authors should submit their full manuscripts to the PMC Special Issues (under the ?Human Behaviour? topic), using the Elsevier online Editorial System (EES) at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc. Guest editors Dr. George D. Magoulas School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London gmagoulas [AT] dcs.bbk.ac.uk Dr. George Roussos School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London gr [AT] dcs.bbk.ac.uk Dr. Mirco Musolesi Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge mirco.musolesi [AT] cl.cam.ac.uk From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Wed Feb 25 17:32:28 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:32:28 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: CFP Intelligent Virtual Agents'09 Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E10A@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'09) http://iva09.dfki.de/ September 14-16, 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in a dynamic social environment. IVA'09 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also welcome to share work which has a bearing on intelligent virtual agents. IVA'09 is held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGART and SIGCHI). SPECIAL TOPIC: "GAMES" IVA'09 particularly encourages submissions on this year's special topic of games. The game industry is the source of the world's largest selection of interactive characters. To date, the creation of these characters and their social behaviors has largely relied on carefully hand crafted techniques rather than automation. With larger environments, grander stories, more players and a greater demand for realism, hand crafted approaches are unlikely to scale. Imbuing characters with more intelligence and self-determination is an ongoing and so far unfulfilled goal of the game industry. IVA'09 is an opportunity to reveal, tackle and discuss the issues that relate to using intelligent virtual agents in games and aims to strengthen links and the exchange of knowledge between academia and the game industry. TOPICS OF INTEREST Design and modeling of IVAs - design criteria and design methodologies - evaluation methodologies and user studies - ethical considerations and social impact - applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics) - dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior - models of personality and cultural awareness - models of social competence - models of multimodal perception and action - models of emotional communicative behavior Implementation of IVAs - software engineering issues - real-time integrated systems - portability and reuse - standards / measures to support interoperability - specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains - specialized modeling and animation technologies Applications of IVAs - future role and/or current experience in various fields including - computer games - art and entertainment - education and training - simulation and visualization - delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi- user, virtual/augmented/mixed reality Conceptual Frameworks for IVAs - learned, evolved or emergent behavior - improvisational or dramatic interaction - stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents) - massive simulations of crowds SUBMISSION DETAILS Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14 pages), short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For details on how to submit your paper, consult the conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de IMPORTANT DATES 17 April, 2009 Submission of all papers 22 May, 2009 Notifications of acceptance 12 June, 2009 Camera-ready copies 01 June, 2009 GALA video submission 14-16 September, 2009 Conference ORGANIZATION Chairs Zs?fia Ruttkay, University of Twente, The Netherlands Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands Hannes H?gni Vilhj?lmsson, Reykjav?k University, Iceland Best Paper Chair Thomas Rist, FH Augsburg, Germany Submissions Chair Patrick Gebhard, DFKI, Germany Poster and Demo Chair Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Local Organization Chair Betsy van Dijk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Senior Program Committee Elisabeth Andr?, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, TELECOM-ParisTech, France Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan MORE INFORMATION Please visit the conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de/ Contact conference chair: iva09 at dfki.de GALA 2009 The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents will take place at IVA'09, see: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/gala/ CO-LOCATION WITH ACII'09 IVA'09 will be co-located in Amsterdam with the complementary Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction International Conference (ACII'09) (http://www.acii2009.nl/), held 10-12 September 2009. While this is a great opportunity to make the most of a trip to Amsterdam, the same paper cannot be submitted to both conferences: papers with a primary focus on embodied conversational agents and virtual agents are encouraged to submit to IVA'09; papers with a primary focus on emotion are encouraged to submit to ACII'09. From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Wed Feb 25 20:34:21 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:34:21 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] chisig email list In-Reply-To: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14BAE43ACB@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> References: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14BAE43ACB@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021F2E95D@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> chisigmail at chisig.org but you have to me a member of the list I think. C. ________________________________ From: Stevenson, Duncan (ICT Centre, Acton) Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:20 PM To: Paris, Cecile (ICT Centre, Macquarie Uni.) Subject: chisig email list Hi Cecile, The chisig.org website tells me everything I need to know about the chisig email list except the email address I use to post something to it. Can you tell me what that is? Thanks, Duncan Duncan Stevenson Visiting Scientist Networking Technologies Lab, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra Phone: (02) 6216 7076 Fax: (02) 6216 7111 Mobile: 0419 140 209 Email: duncan.stevenson at csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kind regards Cecile ------------------------------------- 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 Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Wed Feb 25 22:37:26 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:37:26 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Canberra CHISIG meeting Thursday 5th March 5pm-6pm at ANU Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14BAE43AD2@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> Hello chisig email list, I am the chair of the ACT chapter of CHISIG for 2009 and for our first activity of the year I propose a short informal meeting over snacks and drinks to make plans for what we will do this year. To get going early in the year I propose that we meet next Thursday 5th March, 5pm to 6pm, in the lunch room of the Computer Science and Information Technology Building on the Australian University Campus (Building 108 on North Road). Some suggestions for what we might do: - Short talks by our members on case study projects - Invited speakers - Laboratory visits - Discussions around a common theme, such as field observations, HCI requirements gathering, dealing with stakeholders - "Code-share" with our HFESA colleagues. For example, their working plan for the year includes a breakfast format meeting on voice activated software (March 18th, 7:30 - 9:00) and a one-day workshop early in June with one of the keynote speakers from CHI_NewZealand (Prof. Sara Czaja) on technology and older people - Plan for and mentor submissions to our own annual conference, OZCHI, which will be in Melbourne late in November or early in December. If you would like to attend please email me so I can organise snacks, juice and soft drinks, tea and coffee. If you can't attend but have ideas please email them and I will collate and print copies for the meeting to read (Duncan.stevenson at csiro.au). Any questions, please email, phone my office (02) 6216 7076 or my mobile 0419 140 209. I will put notices on the main entrance of the building pointing to the lunch room on Level 2 (take the stairs) and will try to get ANU Security to delay locking the doors. If the entrance doors are shut please phone my mobile. The car park on Daley Road starts to empty by 5pm and is only a few minutes walk - see www.anu.edu.au for a campus map. Regards, Duncan Stevenson ACT CHISIG Branch Chair for 2009 PhD student at ANU and Visiting Scientist Networking Technologies Lab, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra Phone: (02) 6216 7076 Fax: (02) 6216 7111 Mobile: 0419 140 209 Email: duncan.stevenson at csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Thu Feb 26 07:01:20 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:01:20 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: ISWC'09 (submission deadline: March 30, 2009) - International Symposium on Wearable Computers Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E13F@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> -----Original Message----- From: ISWC [mailto:iswc-bounce at pervasive.jku.at] Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2009 7:51 PM To: Paris, Cecile (ICT Centre, Macquarie Uni.) Subject: CFP: ISWC'09 (submission deadline: March 30, 2009) - International Symposium on Wearable Computers *ISWC'09 CALL FOR PAPERS* ISWC'09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC'09 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC'09 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date. ISWC'09 invites to submit original work in one or more of the following formats: full papers, notes, posters, late breaking results, demonstrations, videos, tutorials and workshops. As already successfully performed in the past, this year's ISWC also invites for a contest of wearable system designs, encouraging academic and industrial design, media and art authorities to submit conceptual work in a creative, inspiring, innovative and future oriented style. For first time, ISWC'09 will publish adjunct proceedings which will include the late breaking results, video papers, demonstrations, design papers of selected workshops. *Wearable Systems* - Wearable system design, wearable displays and electronic textiles - Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices and power management systems - Interaction design, industrial design of wearable systems - Wearable sensor networks for sensing context-awareness, activity or cognitive state - Software and service architectures, infrastructure based as well as ad-hoc systems - Operating systems issues related to wearable computing, including issues such as dependability, fault-tolerance, security, trustworthiness and power management - Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, and support for interaction with other wearables, pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems or the Internet - Cooperative wearables, ensembles of wearable artefacts, coordination or wearables - Techniques for power management and heat dissipation, and manufacturing issues *Usability, HCI and Human Factors in Wearable Computing* - Human factors issues with and ergonomics of body worn computing systems - User modeling, user evaluation, usability engineering of wearable systems - Systems and designs for combining wearable and pervasive/ubiquitous computing - Interfaces, including hands-free approaches, speech-based interaction, sensory augmentation, haptics, and human- centered robotics - Social implications, health risk, environmental and privacy issues - Wearable technology for social-network computing, visualization and augmentation - Experience design *Applications of Wearable Systems* - Wearable systems in consumer, industrial, work, manufacturing, environmental, educational, medical, sports, wellness, health care and ambient assisted living domains - Wearable systems in culture, fashion and the arts - Smart clothing, for people with disabilities, and for elderly enablement - Use of wearable computers as components of larger systems, such as augmented reality systems, training systems and systems designed to support collaborative work - Formal evaluation of performance of wearable computer technologies, and comparisons with existing technologies *Mobile Phones as Wearables* - Mobile applications designed for / delivered through cell phones - Cell phone services, cell phone designs, cell phones as personal computers - Cell phone technologies, e.g. combining short and long range radios, multimedia streaming - Extending cell phone hardware e.g. sensing, novel IO modalities, embeddings - Cell phone interaction, cooperative cell phones, grids and clouds of cell phones - Studies based on cell phone deployments (especially large scale) *SUBMISSIONS* *Full Papers* Regular paper submissions must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. Successful submissions typically represent a major advance for the field of wearable computing, referencing and relating the contribution to existing research work, giving a comprehensive, detailed and understandable explanation of a device, system, study, theory or method, and support the findings with a compelling evaluation and/or validation. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11 inch two-column format (not longer than eight pages in length). Accepted regular papers will be included in the printed conference main proceedings and presented in the paper sessions. Submissions to ISWC'09 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the ISWC review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. *Notes and Posters* Notes (not longer than four pages in length) and posters (not longer than two pages in length) must report new results and provide support for the results as a novel and valuable contribution to the field - just like full papers. Notes are intended for succinct work that is nonetheless in a mature state ready for inclusion in archival proceedings. Posters are intended to present very concise, yet focused and significant research results. Both notes and posters will be held to the same standard of scientific quality as full papers, albeit for a shorter presentation, and must still state how they fit with respect to related work, and provide a compelling explanation and validation. Notes and posters must be submitted as single PDF file in IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch two-column format. Accepted notes and posters will be published in the conference main proceedings. Notes will be presented in the paper sessions of the conference, posters will be presented at the conference poster and demonstration session. *Late Breaking Results* This submission format aims at presenting very topical issues and late breaking application oriented results in all areas of wearable computing. Just like regular papers, late breaking results should present directing research, but in a very focused and compact format. Late breaking results are not understood as short papers condensed into less page space, but are intended to present pointed results at a high level of technicality. LBR submissions can gain from an "extended submission deadline" (May 18, 2009), and should be formatted in Springer LNCS single column format, not exceeding 8 pages). They will undergo a scientific reviewing process managed by the LBR program committee under the steering of the LBR chair. Accepted LBRs will be presented at the conference, and will be published in the "Advances in Wearable Computing" book of the OCG (adjunct proceedings), accompanying the conference proceedings. *Video Papers* Submissions are invited to present novel wearable computing systems, devices or just designs, or demonstrate innovative styles of interaction or usability of those systems - in a lively format: as a video. Video clips should be no longer than 8 minutes and be accompanied by a 4 page (or approx. 2000 words) written summary. Video paper submissions should be formatted in Springer LNCS single column format, and not exceeding 4 pages). Accepted video papers will be published in the "Advances in Wearable Computing" book of the OCG, accompanying the conference proceedings. The author(s) of a video are expected to present a brief introduction at the conference, while all full videos will be presented during the ISWC'09 night show - a special event in the frame of the 30th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival. Video papers will be published in the ISWC'09 adjunct proceedings, all video clips will be presented in the ISWC'09 Video DVD. *Reviewing Process for Papers, Notes, Posters, LBRs and Videos* ISWC'09 will adopt a double-blind process for full papers, notes and posters - as well as for late breaking results and video papers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the submission. Please refer to the paper submission link at the conference website (www.iswc.net). Questions about the papers, notes and posters should be directed to progchair at iswc.net, about late breaking results submissions to lbrchair at iswc.net, and about video papers to videochair at iswc.net. *Demos* Demonstrations provide an opportunity to show research prototypes and works-in-progress to colleagues for comment in a relaxed atmosphere. Both independent demonstrations and those accompanying accepted papers and posters are welcome. Demonstrations will not be published in the main conference proceedings, but will be included in the adjunct proceedings. Accommodations (power, space, etc...) will be limited, so participants should plan to be mobile and self-supported. To apply to perform a demonstration, please submit (i) a one-page summary that describes what you plan to demonstrate, including a 200 word abstract (ii) a photo or diagram to be included in the demonstration handout alongside the abstract (minimum size 640 x 480 pixels), and (iii) to demonstrations at iswc.net by Monday, May 18, 2009. Only the abstract will be included in the "Advances in Wearable Com-puting" book (adjunct proceedings), the rest of the summary will be used to judge the quality of the submission. *Design Contest* Participating at the ISWC design contest is a great opportunity to showcase your product or prototype to the leaders in wearable computing. The design contest will take place during the conference banquet dinner on Sunday, September 6, 2009 and can be used to demonstrate your "smart gadgets" (plan to be mobile and self-supported). Contributions are encouraged from all areas of wearable computing, from technologies to textiles, from potential employers to product vendors. Direct questions related to the Design Contest to designcontest at iswc.net. *Tutorials and Workshops* Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format via E-mail to workshops at iswc.net by February 1, 2009. The workshops will provide a forum to discuss topical aspects of wearable computing in focus groups. State of the art tutorials will be presented by experienced, distinguished presenters. The workshops and tutorials will take place on Friday, September 4 2009 (a day before the main conference). (workshops at iswc.net, tutorials at iswc.net) *Doctoral Colloquium* The purpose of the colloquium is to offer PhD students and candidates, interested in the wearable/mixed and augmented reality fields, an opportunity to present their ideas and research plans in an international, agile and renowned audience of junior and senior researchers and developers in the wearable computing field. Thesis position papers (5 pages including all figures and bibliography) are solicited relating a problem statement, methodological approach, potential for innovation and expected contribution to the international wearable computing literature. Accepted submissions will be presented during the colloquium and will be included in the ISWC'09 adjunct proceedings. The doctoral colloquium will take place on Friday, September 4, 2009 (a day before the main conference). Authors will also be expected to present a poster of their work during demonstration session at ISWC (September 6, 2009). Further information can be obtained from the conference website www.iswc.net or from doctoralcolloquium at iswc.net. *PUBLISHING* The ISWC'09 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as print proceedings, and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library (approval pending). The ISWC'09 Adjunct Proceedings will be published by the OCG, an ISBN carrying publisher, in the book "Advances in Wearable Computing". *CONFERENCE COMMITTEE* Conference Co-Chairs Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria) Program Committee Co-Chairs Paul Lukowicz (University of Passau, Germany) Kent Lyons (Intel Research, USA) Finance Chair Gabriele Kotsis (University of Linz, Austria) Publicity Chair Andreas Riener (University of Linz, Austria) email: publicitychair at iswc.net *TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMITTEE* Oliver Amft (ETH Zurich, SUI) Michael Beigl (TU Braunschweig, GER) Lucy Dunne (Un. of Minnesota, USA) Steve Feiner (Columbia University, USA) Jennifer Healey (Intel, USA) Cornel Klein (Siemens CT SE 2 Munich, GER) Tom Martin (Virginia Tech, USA) Kenji Mase (Nagoya University, JPN) Joe Paradiso (MIT, USA) Cliff Randell (University of Bristol, GBR) Daniel Roggen (ETH Zurich, SUI) Joachim Schaper (SAP Walldorf, GER) Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt, GER) Dan Siewiorek (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Asim Smailagic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Mark Smith (KTH, SWE) Thad Starner (Georgia Tech, USA) Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, AUS) Kristof Van Laerhoven (TU Darmstadt, GER) Roy Want (University of Trier, GER) Leah Buechley (MIT, USA) Jamie Ward (Lancaster University, GBR) Holger Kenn (Microsoft EMIC Aachen, GER) *SUBMISSION DEADLINES* Papers & Posters March 30, 2009 Workshops & Tutorials February 1, 2009 Late Breaking Results May 18, 2009 Design Contest May 18, 2009 ISWC'09 will be held from September 4-7, 2009 in Linz (Austria) Tutorial/Workshops September 4, Doctoral Colloquium September 4 Main Conference September 5-7, 2009 All details or for subscription to the ISWC 2009 Alert Ticker: www.iswc.net or info at iswc.net Best regards, A. Ferscha and G. Stocker, ISWC'09 General Co-Chairs