From kobsa at uci.edu Wed Jan 7 16:00:07 2009 From: kobsa at uci.edu (Alfred Kobsa) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:00:07 -0800 Subject: [chisigmail] Winner of 2008 UMUAI best paper award Message-ID: USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper H. Cramer, V. Evers, S. Ramlal, M. van Someren, L. Rutledge, N. Stash, L. Aroyo and B. Wielinga: The Effects of Transparency on Trust in and Acceptance of a Content-based Art Recommender. UMUAI 18:5, 2008, pp. 455-496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-008-9051-3 has been elected as the winner of the 2008 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee. The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen Family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. It carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information on the journal is available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's electronic edition at http://www.springerlink.com/content/0924-1868 . The previous award winners are listed at http://www.umuai.org/james-chen-award.html . Alfred Kobsa, Editor User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research http://www.umuai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Fri Jan 9 01:49:58 2009 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:49:58 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers - Call for Papers Message-ID: ***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 *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. 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Suggested topics for contributions are (but not limited to): Methods and Processes for Interface/Interaction Design, Modelling and Evalu= ation, including: - Accessibility and Usability - Affective HCI, Emotion, Motivational Aspects - Evaluation Methods / Usability Evaluation - Human Factors and HCI - Human Error and Safety - Mobility / Mobile Accessibility / Mobile devices - Model-Based Design of Interactive Systems - Tools for Design, Modelling, Evaluation - Usability and Software / Enterprise Engineering - User Modelling - Visualisation Techniques Cross-cultural and Social Issues, including: - Developing Local Content or Interaction Design Capacity - ICT in Social Development - Interaction Design for Developing Regions - International and Cultural Aspects of HCI Specific Application Areas, including: - Adaptive Interfaces - Augmented Reality and Tangible User Interfaces - Child-Computer Interfaces - Context-Dependent Systems - End-User Development and Adaptation - Fun / Aesthetic Design - HCI and Web 2.0 - HCI Education - Human-Robot Interaction - Human-Work Interaction Design - Interaction with Small or Large Displays - Multi-Modal Interfaces - Multi-User Interaction / Cooperation - Novel User Interfaces and Interaction Techniques - Social Media / Social Networks - Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing - User Interfaces for Safety Critical Systems and Healthcare - User Interfaces for Web Applications, e-Government ------------------------------------- SUBMISSION CATEGORIES ------------------------------------- Submissions are invited in the following track categories: - Full research papers - Short papers - SIGs - Panels - Interactive posters - Demos - Tutorials - Workshops - Doctoral Consortium ------------------------------------- DEADLINES ------------------------------------- Full research papers: Abstract submission deadline: 5 January 2009 Paper submission deadline: 30 January 2009 Paper reviews due: 27 February 2009 Acceptance notification: 15 March 2009 Final version deadline: 15 April 2009 Short papers, SIG, panels, interactive posters, demos: Submission deadline: 30 March 2009 Short paper, SIG, panel, interactive poster, and demo reviews due: 30 April= 2009 Acceptance notification: 15 May 2009 Final version deadline: 30 May 2009 Tutorials, workshops: Submission deadline: 15 January 2009 Tutorial/workshop reviews due: 15 February 2009 Acceptance notification: 1 March 2009 Final version deadline: 30 March 2009 Doctoral Consortium: Submission deadline: 30 March 2009 Doctoral consortium reviews due: 30 April 2009 Acceptance notification: 15 May 2009 Final version deadline: 30 May 2009 ------------------------------------- SUBMISSION FORMATS ------------------------------------- Please Note: All submissions in all categories must follow the Springer Lec= ture Notes template for Microsoft Word (.doc files only). Papers that do not fol= low the template may be excluded from the conference proceedings. The maximum paper= length as stipulated in the various submission categories will also be strictly en= forced (automatically by the conference submission system). For your convenience, = a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip For all the tracks, the versions submitted for review must be uploaded in .= PDF format. Any questions regarding the formatting and uploading of submissions= should be directed to: submissions at INTERACT2009.org. ------------------------------------- SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------- INTERACT 2009 is an international conference and all submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. English is the official conference language: all submissions must therefore be in English. ------------------------------------- FULL RESEARCH PAPERS ------------------------------------- Submissions of full research papers for publication in the conference proce= edings are invited. Papers may address any of the areas identified in the conferen= ce topics and should take cognisance of the conference theme. Submissions should repo= rt original work and must not have been published previously. All full researc= h paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. The= review process will retain the anonymity of authors and reviewers. Submit full papers of a maximum of 14 pages in .PDF format, using the confe= rence submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. Papers mu= st be formatted according to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format = as described above. Accepted full research papers must be presented at the con= ference and will be published in the Springer LNCS Series. Authors should guarantee= the anonymity of their submissions (please remove names and affiliations from t= he first page and any other material that would allow reviewers to identify authors)= . We will follow a two-phased approach for the submission of full research pa= pers: 1. If you wish to submit a full research paper you must first upload an Abs= tract of maximum 300 words for your paper using the conference submission system no = later than 5 January 2009. This Abstract will be used to find and assign suitable reviewers for your full paper submission. You may deviate slightly from th= is abstract and paper title in your final version of the paper, but please kee= p to the core theme since it will not be possible to change reviewers later due to t= he very short reviewer turn-around times. This Abstract must contain the title of = your paper but must be anonymous (contain no reference to the authors). If you = do not submit an Abstract you will not be able to upload a full version of the pap= er later on. The submission system will issue a 'passcode' when you submit the Abstr= act, which will be required to upload the full version of your paper later on. 2. The full version of your paper must be the complete version of your pape= r and must again be anonymous (i.e. contain no details or reference to the author= s). A maximum of 14 pages are allowed in the prescribed format. This complete ver= sion of your paper will be reviewed by an international panel of reviewers. This ve= rsion must be uploaded to the submission system no later than 30 January 2009. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- SHORT PAPERS ------------------------------------- Submissions are solicited for short papers that address any of the conferen= ce topics. Authors are encouraged to submit late-breaking research results and= work in progress that show the latest innovative ideas. Short paper submissions sho= uld report original work and must not have been published previously nor be a c= ondensed version of previously published papers. All short paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel= of experts. The review process will retain the anonymity of authors and review= ers. Submit short papers of a maximum 4 pages in .PDF format by 30 March 2009, u= sing the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/= . Papers must be formatted according to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)= format. Accepted short papers must be presented at the conference and will be publi= shed by Springer in the LNCS Series. Authors must guarantee the anonymity of their submissions (please remove names and affiliations from the first page and a= ny other material that would allow reviewers to identify the authors). The visual nature of the short paper submission will be assessed by the rev= iewer. In case it is judged pertinent for the audience, authors of accepted short pap= er submission might be proposed to present their paper in the Interactive Post= er session. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- INTERACTIVE POSTERS ------------------------------------- Submissions for interactive posters are invited, addressing any area of the conference topics. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate the late-breaking = research results and work in progress that show the latest innovative ideas to stimu= late audiences. Interactive Poster submissions should report original work and m= ust not have been published previously nor can it be a shortened version of previou= sly published papers. All Interactive Posters submissions will be peer-reviewed= by an international panel of experts. The review process will retain the anonymit= y of authors and reviewers. Accepted posters must be presented at the conference= during a special poster session. Poster papers will appear in the INTERACT 2009 conf= erence proceedings to be published in the Springer LNCS Series. A poster submission may consist of a maximum 5 (4 plus 1) pages in .PDF for= mat and must be submitted no later than 30 March 2009, using the conference submiss= ion system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. A poster submission = consists of: - a 4-pages poster paper and - a visual poster draft resized to 1 A4 page, collated into a single .PDF document. The paper part of the poster must be formatted according to the LNCS (Lectu= re Notes in Computer Science) format. Authors must guarantee the anonymity of their submissions (please remove names and affiliations from the first page and a= ny other material that would allow reviewers to identify the authors). For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------- Several technical advances can make human activities easier, faster, more a= ccurate and more economical. Some may lead to completely new activities. These adva= nces may benefit people by helping them work more effectively and live more comforta= bly, e.g., by creating new leisure activities and by opening new ways for commun= icating with friends, family, and colleagues. The system demonstration track is loo= king for examples of technical advances with such potential. We encourage demonstrat= ions of new and emerging technical solutions as well as innovations based on curren= t solutions. We are interested in demonstrations in the full range of HCI-related topics= , especially as they relate to the conference theme. A system demonstration i= s a live presentation of a running system. The review process will retain the anonymity of reviewers; authors should g= uarantee the anonymity of their submissions (please remove names and affiliations fr= om the first page and any other material that would allow reviewers to identify th= e authors). Submit a description of the demonstration of a maximum of 2 pages in .PDF f= ormat, using the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. Papers should be formatted acco= rding to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. Accepted demonstration= s must be demonstrated during the conference and the demonstration papers will be pub= lished in the Springer LNCS Series. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- SIGS ------------------------------------- Special Interest Groups (SIGs) allow conference attendees who share similar interests to meet informally for 90 minutes of facilitated interactive disc= ussion. INTERACT 2009 provides meeting space and advertises SIG meetings to the res= t of the conference in the Conference Programme and on the Conference Website. Submissions for SIG discussions are NOT anonymous, but will be peer-reviewe= d, and acceptance will be based on the relevance of the topic to the INTERACT 2009 programme, its relevance and importance for the INTERACT community, and the= plan for stimulating attendee interest and participation. Proposals must be authored= by a minimum of two individuals representing at least two different organization= s. A submission for a SIG discussion consists of an extended abstract of maxim= um 2 pages PLUS a 1 page description with the following information: - Interest and relevance of the SIG to INTERACT 2009. - Assumed attendee background. - Format of discussion including an informal list of topics and time alloca= ted to each topic (roughly). - Name of primary contact person. The submission must be made using the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. Abstracts should be formatted a= ccording to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. The description of = accepted SIG discussions will be published in the conference adjunct proceedings. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- PANELS ------------------------------------- Panel proposals are solicited. An invitation is extended to participants wi= th an interest in developing a panel session around a stimulating or controversia= l theme in the general field of HCI. Topics and/or themes for a panel session may also be proposed by individual= s with an interest in chairing a panel on a topic that intrigues them. Preference wil= l be given to topics that raise forward-looking and/or contentious issues, and t= hat promote debate among panel members and involvement of the audience. All sug= gestions will be assessed for their topicality and ability to generate stimulating d= ebate. Submit a panel proposal and a panel abstract (2 pages in total) by 30 March= 2009, using the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. Submissions for panels are NOT anonymous, but will receive at least 3 reviews from leaders in the specifie= d area of HCI. The proposal should include the proposer's name and affiliation as wel= l as the names and affiliations of possible panel members. Abstracts should be form= atted according to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format as describ= ed above. The description of accepted panels will be published in the conference adju= nct proceedings. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ------------------------------------- The INTERACT 2009 Doctoral Consortium is a forum for PhD students to discus= s their research goals, methods, and results at an early stage in their research. T= he Doctoral Consortium aims to provide useful guidance for completion of the dissertation research and the initiation of a research career in a friendly= and constructive atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium will be held on 24 and 25 August 2009. The Consorti= um will be a closed event, open only to the selected participants and other invited attendees. The Doctoral Consortium and INTERACT 2009 provide an opportunity for studen= t participants to interact with other students at a similar stage in their re= search careers, established researchers, and the broader HCI community. PhD stude= nts who are currently working on their dissertation/thesis in an HCI related field = are eligible to apply. Doctoral Consortium candidates should ideally have worke= d on their dissertation for at least 6 months. Thus, they should have chosen a r= esearch focus and possibly also have selected theoretical and methodological approa= ches and begun empirical work. To benefit from the Consortium students should have a= t least 6 -12 months of work remaining before the expected completion of their theses= . The number of participants in the Consortium will be limited. Selection for the Consortium will be based on the quality of the submission and its relevance= to HCI in a broad sense. The contribution the student may make to the Consortium, = and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's research. Students sel= ected to attend the Doctoral Consortium will be asked to present their work to get f= eedback for future directions. Consortium attendees are free to submit a paper or contribution to any of the other tracks at INTERACT 2009 on content similar= to that in the proposal for the Doctoral Consortium. Each prospective PhD student participant must submit a package of materials= , consisting of 2 parts for consideration by the Doctoral Consortium Committe= e, no later than 30 March 2008. The first part must be submitted electronically u= sing the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/= . The second must be submitted via e-mail directly to one of the Doctoral Consort= ium Chairs. Part 1: Extended Research Abstract The research description should be at a maximum 4 pages long formatted acco= rding to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format, and must include: - The title of the work. - The student's name, university name, address and e-mail address. - Name and e-mail address of the dissertation advisor/supervisor. - The research area or sub-area of the work (10 words or less). - Related submissions (e.g., if the students is also submitting a paper to = INTERACT 2009). - A brief description of the research topic (25 words or less). - A description of the research problem to be solved, why it is important a= nd a justification that prior research has not solved the problem; or the resear= ch question at issue to be elaborated, why the issue is interesting and how yo= ur work will bring new knowledge to the question at issue. - The research hypothesis (claim). - The methods used or proposed to use to carry out your research. It is imp= ortant to describe a plan for evaluating the work and presenting credible evidence of= the results to the research community. - A sketch of the proposed solution. - The expected contributions of the PhD research. The research abstract should be submitted in .PDF format. The 4-page resear= ch abstract must conform to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) forma= t. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip Part 2: Letter of Recommendation Part 2 is a letter of recommendation from the student's PhD advisor/supervi= sor, or Head of School, or equivalent, supporting the student's nomination for the Consortium. This letter should include the student's name, a candid assessm= ent of the current status of the PhD research and an expected date for dissertatio= n submission. The letter should be in .PDF format, and must be e-mailed to on= e of the Doctoral Consortium chairs (kash at diku.dk, or, Else.Nygren at dis.uu.se). The accepted 4-page Research Abstracts will be published in the special Doc= toral Consortium proceedings and will only be distributed to participants of the = Doctoral Consortium. Students whose proposals are accepted for presentation at the doctoral will= be offered support in the form of waived conference fees, but will have to fun= d their own travel and accommodation expenses. ------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ------------------------------------- Workshops provide 1 or 2-day fora for participants to compare their experie= nces and explore research issues or topics of special interest to the HCI community. Workshops should have specific objectives and address stimulating topics. W= orkshops should have a limited number of participants (up to 30). Workshops will tak= e place on 24 and 25 August 2009, immediately preceding the main conference. Proposals should include key organizers, objectives, theme/topic, workshop organization and duration, target audience, and expected outcomes. Submit an electronic workshop proposal and abstract (maximum 2 pages) by 15= January 2009 using the conference submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/. Proposals must be formatted acc= ording to LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. A description of accepted = workshops will be published in the conference adjunct proceedings. Submissions for workshops are NOT anonymous, but will receive at least 3 re= views from leaders in the specified area of HCI. Abstracts should be formatted ac= cording to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------------------------- TUTORIALS ------------------------------------- Leading researchers and practitioners have the opportunity to present tutor= ials on Monday 24 August 2009 and/or Tuesday 25 August 2009. Tutorials may cover an= y aspect of Human-Computer Interaction. Tutorials will be selected by a panel of ref= erees and will be held only if they attract the required minimum number of participan= ts. Tutorials will be chosen on the basis of quality of presentation and value = to the audience. Submit one .PDF file including an extended tutorial proposal (background of= the tutor(s), title, objectives of the tutorial, content, intended audience, an= d a 2 page abstract for the advanced program). This proposal should be no more th= an 4 pages in total. The .PDF file needs to be submitted by 15 January 2009, usi= ng the conference submission system system at: https://www.softconf.com/s08/intera= ct2009/. Submissions for tutorials are NOT anonymous, but will receive at least 3 re= views from leaders in the specified area of HCI. Abstracts should be formatted ac= cording to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word (.doc) is provided for = direct downloading at: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20format.= zip ------------------ _______________________________________________ chisigmail mailing list chisigmail at chisig.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/chisigmail From m.foth at qut.edu.au Fri Jan 16 17:28:20 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:28:20 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Message-ID: <680E0079-8477-4F4B-9B3B-AF7C80298B69@qut.edu.au> Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 25 June 2009 April 16th, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent June 25th, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm 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 16th, 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 25th, 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. 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) 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.vrolik.de/publications/ From shigeki at shigekifactory.com Mon Jan 19 17:15:03 2009 From: shigeki at shigekifactory.com (Shigeki AMITANI) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:15:03 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CFP: 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 Conference Web page: http://www.collabtech.org/ 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--- Submission of full-length paper for review * April 20, 2009 --- Notification of Acceptance * May 11, 2009 ---Camera Ready Manuscripts * August 12 - 14, 2009 ---Conference Paper Submission: ================ 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. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. Conference Chairs: ================= General 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 -- shigeki amitani, dr http://shigekifactory.com/ From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Mon Jan 26 18:25:48 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:25:48 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Social Health Networks Survey: call for volunteer Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244019E62490@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Dear Colleague: We woud appreciate if you could participate and if you could send this call as appropriate. Thanks and kind regards Cecile Paris ************************************************************* Dear colleagues, We are currently conducting a study on the use of health related social networking sites. These sites are designed to bring together users with various health concerns so that they can interact with each other for mutual benefit. We hope to gain some insight into how these sites are used, who uses them, what is useful about them as well as what might make them more useful. If you are someone who has a serious or chronic medical condition (e.g. illness, injury, mental condition, etc.) OR you are a close friend or family member of someone who fits this description we would like to invite you to participate in this online survey. If you can think of anyone else who might fit the criteria, please pass this on to them as well. You can access the survey from: http://rosella.wirrapoi.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=81638&newtest=Y The survey is already active and will be closed in a week's time on the 1st of February. It is likely to take you at most 20min to complete. If you have any questions please contact Melody Wang (Melody.Wang at csiro.au) Many thanks for your time, Melody Wang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Fri Jan 30 07:47:57 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:47:57 +0000 Subject: [chisigmail] HCI 2009 Workshops: Call for Submissions Message-ID: <730c6ae10901300447w36db90d6y88aa31ba614b6543@mail.gmail.com> HCI 2009 Workshops Call for Submissions WORKSHOPS CHAIRS: Leon Watts, University of Bath, l.watts at bath.ac.uk Peter J Wild, University of Cambridge, peter.j.wild at gmail.com A workshop provides a valuable opportunity for a small group to meet and engage in rich and interactive discussions about a topic of common interest. Workshop proposals may address any topic of interest to the HCI community: basic research, applied research, new methodologies, emerging application areas, tools, models, and design innovations. We expect a workshop topics to be sufficiently focused that, in principle, it could serve as a step towards producing a special issue of a journal. If a topic area is mature enough to be taught as a tutorial then it is unsuitable and we actively discourage simultaneous submissions of the same topic as a workshop and tutorial. Workshops are expected to be able to attract between 5 and 20 participants. We require all successful workshops to produce a poster that will be then be displayed during the conference itself, to allow delegates to benefit from the output of contributing workshops. Workshops will happen on either the Tuesday before the conference or the Saturday after the conference. All those who take part in a workshop, including the workshop organisers, will be required to pay the standard workshop fee. Workshop participants are encouraged to attend the rest of the HCI2009 Conference, but this is not a requirement. A new feature of HCI 2009 is the production of a third volume of proceedings that will be issued on CD-ROM. This volume will contain the collected position papers / slides from the workshops, submitted by the final position paper deadline. Workshop proposals are reviewed informally against the following criteria: 1. Track record of the presenters 2. The relevance of the topic to the conference and HCI in general 3. The quality and feasibility of the workshop programme 4. The novelty of the topic - i.e. does it take HCI forward Where appropriate additional reviewers are consulted for submissions by HCI 2009 committee members. Submission of a proposal via the HCI 2009 website must include: 1. A covering letter giving phone, email and address of the workshop's primary contact; a 30-word summary; an explanation of the timeliness and importance of the theme;, the way the workshop will be run (emphasising any additional participant involvement or intended product); the goals of the workshop, and the likely backgrounds of the participants. 2. A two-page description of the workshop using the ACM template (link below), containing a title, contact details for the coordinators, an abstract, a description of the topic(s) and an account of the workshop procedure. 3. A programme that sets out how the workshop will be run over its 8 hour duration (emphasising any additional participant involvement or intended product); the goals of the workshop (including an explanation of the relevance and timeliness of its topic), and the likely backgrounds of those who would be sufficiently enthused in the topic that they might wish to participate. (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) FURTHER INFORMATION Workshops will be held on Tuesday 1st and Saturday 5th September 2009 ++Workshops Chairs++ Leon Watts, University of Bath, l.watts @ bath.ac.uk Peter J Wild, University of Cambridge, peter.j.wild @ gmail.com ++Conference Chairs++ Alan Blackwell Ken Wood ++HCI 2009 Website++ http://www.hci2009.org/ KEY DATES: Submission: Thursday 5 March Notification: Friday 13 March Position paper Notification: Tuesday 12 May Position paper final copy: Monday 17 August