From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Sun Mar 1 23:53:13 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:53:13 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Sustainable Interactions: Through Design, In Design Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: William Odom TITLE: Sustainable Interactions: Through Design, In Design VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 06 Mar 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Broadly construed, interaction design is the art of facilitating meaningful connections between humans and digital artefacts and systems. While the field of interaction design continues to lead to advances in producing more usable and enjoyable interactive devices, the consequential ecological impact ? in terms of resource consumption and accelerated rates of obsolescence contributing to disposal of toxic materials ? represents a growing area of concern. In this talk I will discuss approaches to sustainability in the context of interaction design in two broad senses: (i) through design ? how interactive products and systems can be used to promote more sustainable behaviors and (ii) in design ? how sustainability can be used as a critical lens in the design of interactive products themselves. This talk will largely be based on a paper to be delivered at CHI 2009 in April. Additionally, key examples from past work of the Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group at Indiana University as well as my ongoing research as a Fulbright Scholar at Griffith University will be used to illustrate both approaches with an eye toward future design and research opportunities. BIO: William Odom is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar in the design department at the Griffith University Queensland College of Art. In 2008, he completed a Masters degree in Interaction Design at Indiana University, where he worked on several projects in the Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group. He has published and presented this research at several international venues related to human-computer interaction design. In September 2009, he will begin doctoral studies in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design at Carnegie-Melon University. More information on Will Odom is available at www.willodom.com. 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 shigeki at shigekifactory.com Mon Mar 2 09:26:56 2009 From: shigeki at shigekifactory.com (Shigeki AMITANI) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:26:56 +0900 Subject: [chisigmail] [Deadline Extended] 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 >>>>>DEADLINE EXTENDED<<<<< March 22, 2009--- Full paper and poster paper submission Conference Web page: http://www.collabtech.org/ IMPORTANT NEWS: ============== >>>>>DEADLINE EXTENDED<<<<< - March 22, 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: =============== >>>>>DEADLINE EXTENDED<<<<< * March 22, 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 Wed Mar 4 07:01:24 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:01:24 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] FW: Call for participation for the "SEARIS" WORKSHOP at IEEE VR 2009 Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244021E7E2F1@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> -----Original Message----- From: IEEE Virtual Reality [mailto:IEEEVRLIST at LISTSERV.UNCC.EDU] On Behalf Of Roland Blach Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 6:55 PM To: IEEEVRLIST at LISTSERV.UNCC.EDU Subject: Call for participation for the "SEARIS" WORKSHOP at IEEE VR 2009 Sorry for cross posting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for participation for the "SEARIS" WORKSHOP at IEEE VR 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS) Time: 9.00-17.00 Date: Saturday March 14th 2009 Location: Lafayette, Louisiana SEARIS website: http://www.searis.net Workshop Program: http://www.searis.net/index.php5/Workshop2009_Program SEARIS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on the design, development, and support of realtime interactive systems which span from VR, AR, and MR environments to novel Human-Computer-Interaction systems and entertainment applications. After a successful initial SEARIS workshop in 2008, this first follow-up proceeds to establish a sustainable community shaping a common understanding, deriving common paradigms, developing useful and necessary methods and techniques, and fostering new ideas. Various hot-topics have been identified from the current scientific discussion and will be presented and discussed in different panels. Panelists will have the opportunity to present short statements on these topics and discuss them with the other participants. This format will allow us to develop a deeper understanding of detailed technical issues and to compare existing approaches with regard to specific questions and issues. This year's workshop builds on our previous experiences at SEARIS 2008 and fosters an interactive, discussion-like exchange format as opposed to rather traditional paper presentations. We hope it will become a lively discussion with fruitful interaction between presenters and audience. Hope to see you there ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Erich Latoschik, Bayreuth University, Germany Dirk Reiners, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA Roland Blach, CC Virtual Environments Fraunhofer IAO Stuttgart, Germany Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Colombia Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t Magdeburg, Germany Contact: SEARIS email (all organizers): searis at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Conference website: http://www.searis.net -- Roland Blach - RCB/312 CT Visual Environments Fraunhofer IAO, Turm III, Room 2.30 Nobelstr 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany phone: +49 (0)711 970 2153 From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 05:52:53 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:52:53 +0000 Subject: [chisigmail] 2nd cfp: HCI 2009 Workshops: Call for Submissions Message-ID: <730c6ae10903020252x54e20966t70e6d3ed796dc7ee@mail.gmail.com> HCI 2009 Call for Workshop Submissions Deadline for all submissions: Thursday 5 March 2009 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 topic 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 a USB memory stick. This volume will contain the collected position papers / slides from the workshops, submitted by the final position paper deadline. Review criteria: Workshop proposals are reviewed informally against the following criteria: Track record of the presenters The relevance of the topic to the conference and HCI in general The quality and feasibility of the workshop programme The novelty of the topic - i.e. does it take HCI forward Where appropriate, additional reviewers will be consulted from among HCI 2009 committee members. Submission format: Proposals should be submitted via email to hci2009-workshops at cl.cam.ac.uk Proposals 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 and goals of the workshop. 2. A two-page description of the workshop using the ACM 2-column format) including 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. Key Dates: Submission: Thursday 5 March Notification: Friday 13 March Position paper Notification: Tuesday 12 May Position paper final copy: Monday 17 August Those who would like to run a workshop (i.e. workshop proposers) must submit their proposals by no later than Thursday 5 March. We shall notify workshop proposers whether or not their proposal has been accepted on Friday 13 March. It is necessary for all accepted workshops to work to a core common submission, review and notification timetable. This is to ensure a manageable process in terms of dependencies with other HCI2009 scheduled activities. Organisers of accepted workshops must be prepared to advertise their event as soon as they are notified (i.e. on Friday 13 March). Workshop organisers can set and manage any submission deadline for their workshop as long as it permits a review cycle that will result in their own applicants being notified by Tuesday 12 May. All final copy of workshop position papers must be submitted for inclusion in Volume 3 of the HCI 2009 Proceedings by Monday 17 August. Papers that are not ready by that date will not be included in Volume 3. No exceptions will be made. From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Sun Mar 8 23:36:49 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:36:49 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Designing Spaces For Learning: An Emerging Research Agenda Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Dr Catherine Howell, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University TITLE: Designing Spaces For Learning: An Emerging Research Agenda VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 13 Mar 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: This talk argues that the design of learning spaces is an area of compelling interest to HCI. The built fabric of Australian universities is ageing; while the technology infrastructure required to meet next-generation teaching and learning needs is frequently under-funded or absent. At a time when the Australian tertiary student population is growing and diversifying, it is essential that HCI develops a research agenda capable of meeting these important challenges. The present reality is that key aspects of the contemporary educational built environment are failing to meet our students' needs. Complex problems are involved, and it is interesting to note that some of the most compelling research in this area is currently emerging, not from architecture and design, but from fields like sports medicine, paediatrics, ergonomics, and engineering. HCI should be a prominent voice in this interdisciplinary discourse and debate. One starting point for this agenda comes from recent work at the University of Cambridge on students' use of spaces and technologies for learning. In the UK context, we found that informal and non-institutional, or "semi-institutional", spaces were increasingly important to students, but that the design of such spaces frequently failed to address students' preferred learning behaviours and work patterns. We now have an opportunity to pursue these questions further in the context of the Spaces for Knowledge Generation Project (http://www.skgproject.com/). SKG is a $220K ALTC partnership project between La Trobe University as lead institution, Charles Sturt University, Apple and Kneeler Design Architects. The project aims to inform, guide and support the development of next-generation learning and teaching spaces and practices, and to provide a model for designing student learning environments that is future-focused and sustainable for the medium term. BIO: Dr Catherine Howell is Educational Designer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. She is an experienced user researcher and e-learning evaluator, and has a special interest in qualitative research methods. Catherine is currently involved in several institutional research and development projects relating to teaching and learning, including the Enquiry Based Learning Project, for which she acts as Evaluator. Her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2005) investigated the impact of colonial spaces and places on the European cultural imaginary. 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 m.foth at qut.edu.au Wed Mar 11 21:12:14 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:12:14 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Next IxDA Brisbane Face to Face event is Tuesday, 31 March Message-ID: Next IxDA Brisbane Face to Face event: Sustainability in Design Come join us for this month's topic: "Sustainability in Design". Format will be two short presentations followed by an open-table discussion. Runge Limited has kindly offered us the use of their bright and spacious facilities. DATE: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 TIME: 5:45pm for 6:15pm start (Note: Please arrive between 5:45pm - 5:55pm. A second group will be let in at 6:10pm. If you can't arrive before then, please call Oana from Runge on 0415 886 840 to make arrangements.) VENUE: Runge Limited Conference Room, Lvl 12 333 Ann St, Brisbane Follow link to RSVP IxDA Brisbane brisbane-local at ixda.org -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Sun Mar 15 00:01:15 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:01:15 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG Canberra chapter: notes from our meeting on 12th March 2009 Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14BAE42AC2@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> CHISIG Canberra Notes from the meeting held on March 12th 2009 Attendance: Nine people attended the meeting, including a representative from the HFESA Canberra chapter. The meeting discussed ways of maintaining members? interest. Several people spoke of the value of sharing events with other similar special interest groups as a way of keeping a critical mass of involvement. In particular we will track HFESA events (as CHISIG members we are automatically members of the parent organisation) and notify them of our meetings. The first of these will be held on Wednesday 18 March as a breakfast seminar. I will attend it and report back. If you get this before 11am Monday 16 March you can also register to attend. Queries to Wendy Elford on 0438 310 176. People asked for a mixture of academic and practical material to be presented at CHISIG meetings this year and that there be some regularity about the meetings. I propose that we meet every 2 months, i.e. April, June, August and October this year and will arrange a draft plan for these meetings. I would like to use the April meeting for two research projects ? telehealth and remote control of industrial equipment. If you have proposals for the other three meetings please contact me (see below). Some regular events in Canberra that might interest CHISIG members were mentioned. The following are details and notes from one of the participants: - UX Book Club - see http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=canberra - meets once a month and covers a different user experience design/information architecture/cognitive psych/human factors book - one is set for group reading/discussion, and another is a mini-review led by someone who knows the book. - IA Cocktail Hour - see http://iacanberra.org - meets once a month to discuss UX/IA/KM topics that mainly apply to government. - Social Media Club Canberra ? see http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73407306040 - meets for breakfast fortnightly (usually in the city) and is an informal meetup for people involved in the social media industry (again, usually in government, but people do attend from mainstream media and the nonprofit sector). - BarCampCanberra2 is on 28 March at the ANU (CS101, no less) ? see http://barcamp.org/BarCampCanberra2 - all welcome to attend (and present). Last year we ended up with a fairly even split between the coder/geek and IA/UX streams. CHISIG?s annual conference is OZCHI which will be held in Melbourne this year: 23-27 November with workshops and tutorials on the Monday and Tuesday and the conference papers and panels from Wednesday to Friday. This will link with the HFESA?s annual conference, with some shared keynote speakers. Details appear on both www.ozchi.org and www.chisig.org The meeting finished with a short site visit (in the same building) to see a demonstration of the CSIRO ICT Centre?s broadband telehealth system. This system will feature in a longer presentation at one of this year?s CHISIG Canberra meetings. These notes will be placed on the CHISIG email list and on the CHISIGCBR Yahoo group. If you have received this by other means and would like to be kept informed please join either of these email lists (www.chisig.org to subscribe to the email list ? you don?t need to be a member). Duncan Stevenson Chair, Canberra chapter of CHISIG Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au or phone 6216 7076 office, or 0419 140 209 From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Sun Mar 15 22:21:39 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:21:39 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: SmartGardenWatering - Building An Online Community to Encourage Sustainable Water Use Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: John Murphy, Wally Smith & Jon Pearce, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: SmartGardenWatering - Building An Online Community to Encourage Sustainable Water Use VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 20 Mar 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: SmartGardenWatering.org.au is a web application developed during 2008 to provide the public with advice about how much water to apply to their gardens. It presents the culmination of two years of horticultural research by Connellan, May and Denman at the University?s Burnley campus. Our challenge was to present this work in an engaging and interactive manner that would allow gardeners to model their garden, explore the impact of various factors (location, soils, mulches, plant types, watering systems, etc.) and obtain an optimal monthly watering schedule. We have also incorporated a water tank modelling feature that simulates the performance of a water tank over a year. In this seminar we will present the results of this project. We will also present our plans for extending the project during 2009 to create a vibrant social network of gardeners modelling, sharing and comparing their gardens online. We will use the expertise of this seminar audience to react to ideas of how such a community might be established. For example, in what way might some of the following technologies be utilised to support a gardening community: FaceBook, Twitter, SMS, fora, Google maps, tagging, email, real-time meteorological data, and mobile apps? Both of these projects are funded by the Smart Water Fund. We look forward to an engaging discussion! BIO: John Murphy is an HCI consultant who has a long history of research involvement with the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Jon Pearce and Wally Smith are both senior lecturers in the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Jon's research interests are in the areas of engagement and online learning. Wally's interests are in the design of socio-technical systems. 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 m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon Mar 16 19:24:34 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:24:34 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Message-ID: <7FABC0B3-64E7-4314-BA86-E61DA8320857@qut.edu.au> Second Call for Papers (please note the workshop has moved to the 24th June) Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 24th June 2009 April 16th, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent June 24th, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm Keynote speaker We are happy to announce that Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT (senseable.mit.edu), will deliver the keynote presentation at Digital Cities 6. The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Theme Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication technology, social networks and people form the bones, organs, muscles, nerves and cell tissue of a city. Studying the organisation and structure of these systems may seem straightforward at first, since there are visible artifacts and tangible objects that we can observe and examine. We can count the number of cars on the road, the number of apartments in a building, the number of emails on our computer screens and the number of profiles on social networking sites. We could also qualify these observations by recording the make and model of cars, the size and price of apartments, the sender and recipient of emails and the content and popularity of online profiles. This approach would potentially produce a large amount of data and render a detailed map of various levels of a city?s infrastructure, but a large quantity of detail does not necessarily result in a great quality (and clarity) of meaning. How do we analyse this data to better understand the ?city? as an organism? How do the cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs, and how do various systems communicate and interact with each other? And, recognising that we ourselves are cells living in cities as active agents, how do we evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes we observe in order to plan, design and develop more livable cities? A macroscopic perspective of urban anatomy does not easily reveal those meticulous details which are necessary to help us understand and appreciate what Anthony Townsend calls the urban metabolism (Townsend, 2000), that is, the nutrients, capacities, processes and pace which nurture the city to keep it alive. Some of the fascination with human anatomy stems from the fact that a living body is more than the sum of its parts. Similarly, the city is more than the sum of its physical elements. Trying to get to the bottom of a city?s existence, urban anatomists have to become dissectors of urban infrastructure by trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelationships of city elements. Yet, this is anything but trivial for at least three reasons. First, time is a crucial factor. Many events that trigger urban processes involving multiple systems result in a timely interrelated response. A dissection by isolating one system from another, would cut the communication link between them and jeopardise the study of the wider process. The city comprises many of these real- time systems and requires approaches and tools to conduct real-time examinations. Second, the physical city is increasingly complemented with a virtual layer that digitally augments and enhances urban infrastructures by means of information and communication technology including mobile and wireless networks. This world, which Mitchell (1995) called the ?city of bits,? is invisible to the human eye, and we require instruments for live surgery to render the invisible visible. Third and most importantly, the ?cells? of the urban body, the lifeblood of cities, are the city dwellers who have a life of their own and who introduce human fuzziness and socio-cultural variables to the study of the city. The toolbox of what could be termed anthropological urban anatomy thus calls for research approaches that can differentiate (and break apart) a universally applicable model of ?The City? by being sensitive to individual circumstances, local characteristics and socio-cultural contexts. Exploring these three challenges, this workshop looks at concepts, research methods and instruments that become the microscope of urban anatomy. We want to discuss urban informatics systems that provide real-time tools for examining the real-time city, to picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments that reveal the depth and contextual nuances of urban metabolism processes at work. 2 Topics Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following: ? Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban planning ? Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems ? Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy approaches ? u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless internet and mobile applications ? Locative media, navigation and space ? Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemologies ? Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) ? Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and planning ? Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems ? Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing in the urban context ? Environmental, economic and social sustainability ? Citizen science ? Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance ? Implications for residential architecture and the design of cities and public spaces ? Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urban informatics 3 Organisation and Submission Details This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote address by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style paper presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview format and ask each participant to interview another contributing author. Pairs will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and engage with the paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group activities and a closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop can accommodate a maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants including presenters in order to provide an environment that is conducive to debate and interaction. We are interested in three types of contributions: Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework. Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual ethnography, urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc. Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in practice and experience. Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each submission should also include a short biography stating the author?s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop position papers are due on April 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 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors are invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review before being published. Arrangements for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant international journal are currently underway. Template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 4 Bibliography Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions as follows: Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.). (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 5 Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano at yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 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 Mar 16 20:26:33 2009 From: shigeki at shigekifactory.com (Shigeki AMITANI) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:26:33 +0900 Subject: [chisigmail] [Final CfP] CollabTech 2009: The 5th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] =============================================== Final CALL FOR PAPERS: The Fifth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies Sydney, Australia, 12-14 August, 2009 >>>>>DEADLINE IS COMING!!!<<<<< March 22, 2009--- Full paper and poster paper submission Conference Web page: http://www.collabtech.org/ IMPORTANT NEWS: ============== >>>>>DEADLINE COMING<<<<< - March 22, 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: =============== >>>>>DEADLINE COMING<<<<< * March 22, 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 f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Tue Mar 17 22:35:05 2009 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:35:05 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CFP: ISWC'09 (International Symposium for Wearable Computers) Call for Papers, Posters and Notes -- Submission deadline: March 30 In-Reply-To: <0162D473BE884D3B93E12867784FF451@ipi.soft.unilinz.ac.at> Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ... *ISWC'09 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND NOTES* 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 From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Thu Mar 19 17:50:57 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:50:57 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Virtual Healthcare Interaction - VHI 09 Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244023C7F445@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Virtual Healthcare Interaction - VHI 09 AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium Series Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA, USA - November 4-7, 2009 Interaction between healthcare providers and consumers has a central role in consumer satisfaction and successful health outcomes. The healthcare consumer, facing increasing responsibility for healthcare decisions, may turn to electronic resources to supplement the information given by his healthcare provider. Here intelligent systems can assist in retrieval and summarization of relevant and trustworthy information, in tailoring the information so that it is comprehensible, and in making it accessible to computer users with disabilities. Furthermore, intelligent systems are beginning to appear that provide virtual healthcare services to the patient: e.g., monitoring the patient's health, reminding him to take his medicine, and encouraging him to exercise or eat a healthy diet. On the health care provider's side, artificial intelligence can provide virtual patients for training providers to diagnose, care for, or communicate with clients. See the web site for more information: http://www.uncg.edu/~nlgreen/aaaifss09/VHI-09.html Feel free to distribute. From m.foth at qut.edu.au Sat Mar 21 19:05:23 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:05:23 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: OZCHI 2009 - Design: Open 24/7, Melbourne 23-27 Nov 2009 Message-ID: Call for Papers OZCHI 2009 ? Design: Open 24/7 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) 23 ? 27 November 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.ozchi.org/ OZCHI is Australia?s leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, and social scientists. The main conference will be from Wed 25 to Fri 27 Nov 2009, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on Mon 23 and Tue 24 Nov 2009. OZCHI will take place back- to-back with HFESA 2009: http://www.hfesaconference.org.au/ scheduled to run from 22-25 Nov 2009. The venue for both conferences is the ICT building of the University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St, Parkville. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Australia?s design capital. Marcus Foth, QUT Conference Chair chair at ozchi.org Important Dates Long papers, and workshop & tutorial proposals 12 Jun 2009: Submission deadline 14 Aug 2009: Notification of acceptance 28 Aug 2009: Camera ready papers deadline Short papers, industry case studies, demos & posters, workshop papers, and doctoral consortium 28 Aug 2009: Submission deadline 25 Sep 2009: Notification of acceptance 02 Oct 2009: Camera ready papers deadline Conference Theme The 2009 conference theme is Design: Open 24/7. Accessibility, inclusivity and dissolving boundaries are core to the Open 24/7 theme for the design of human interaction with and through digital technologies. The integration of digital technologies into our everyday life allows for a seamless transitioning between open and closed, work and leisure, public and private. Open implies participation and collaboration across traditional borders between individuals, organisations and disciplines. OZCHI 2009 provides a forum to discuss all aspects of openness, open borders, open participation, open source and open architecture. Theme-related submissions may address these topics: Open always-on real-time ubiquitous and pervasive designs Open design and universality versus situatedness, contextualisation and personalisation Open source for design ? design for open source Open mind ? new ideas, concepts and approaches from outside HCI Beyond open ? never closed: design for escapism Conference Topics Submissions in all areas of HCI are encouraged. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics: Augmented Reality Context and Location Awareness Education and HCI Health Care and HCI Innovative Design Methodologies Smart Service Delivery Sustainability Universal Usability and Accessibility Urban Informatics Tangible User Interfaces Visualisation Techniques Working across Cultures Submissions All submissions must be written in English. Both long and short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. Accepted long papers and short papers will be available in the published proceedings. At least one author of any accepted submission must register and attend the conference and present the paper for publication in the proceedings. All submissions must use the two column OZCHI proceedings template:http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/ozchipaper_template2009.doc Long Papers Full length papers, up to 8 pages, on original and substantive new work in any area of HCI are invited. Long papers should describe work that makes a significant contribution to HCI or describe broad insights gained from practical applications of HCI. Jesper Kjeldskov & Jeni Paay, CSIRO User Experience Group Technical Program Chairs program at ozchi.org Short Papers Short length papers, up to 4 pages, should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. Stephen Viller, UQ & Rebecca Schultz, WorkSafe Victoria Short Papers Chairs shorts at ozchi.org Industry Case Studies Industry Case Studies demonstrate how user experience professionals have applied human-computer interaction to create practical solutions to commercial situations. Presentations may include areas such as: challenges faced in implementing methods and techniques; development of new or improved techniques; or incorporating usability into an organisation. Submissions should contain: A 250 word summary for the conference program including: the issue addressed; what will be presented; and relevance to the HCI community. A proposal outlining the presentation and the rationale behind it, including: .. Session title .. Presenter(s) name and organisation .. A brief background of the presenter(s) and organisation .. The business problem addressed .. The approach and/or solution .. Challenges and issues that emerged throughout the project .. Benefits and limitations .. If applicable, how a similar approach or solution could be used in other contexts .. Relevance of the case study to other HCI professionals .. Technical requirements for delivering the presentation Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting & Shane Morris, Microsoft Industry Chairs industry at ozchi.org Demos & Posters Demonstrations and posters provide an attractive way to showcase real outcomes of human-computer interaction research and development. These sessions offer a platform to share ideas, concepts and work-in- progress face-to-face with the OZCHI community in a way that a paper presentation cannot. Proposals for demos and posters should be submitted on 2 pages using the OZCHI proceedings template. Ben Kraal, QUT & Ricky Robinson, NICTA Demos & Posters Chairs demos at ozchi.org Workshops & Tutorials Workshops and tutorials are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 23 and 24 Nov 2009. Proposals (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. A tutorial proposal should provide participants with clear outcomes. The workshop and tutorial program is not included in the main conference fee. Workshops are a chance for people with common interests to meet for a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in HCI, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. OZCHI workshops might address basic or applied research, HCI practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organisational issues, or HCI education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the HCI community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the your workshop proposal. Tutorials are full day or half day events designed to offer participants the opportunity to learn about specific HCI related concepts, methods and techniques. They are one of the best means of conveying introductory and advanced instruction on specific topics to an interested audience. Tutorials are a significant attraction to delegates and provide exposure in depth and breadth to HCI topics. We welcome both research and industry tutorial submissions. Tutorial submissions (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should include a clear list of outcomes for participants. Lian Loke & Toni Robertson, UTS Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Chairs workshops at ozchi.org Doctoral Consortium The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 24 Nov 2009. The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a research proposal in the format given on the OZCHI website. Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Margot Brereton, QUT Doctoral Consortium Chair dc at ozchi.org Volunteers OZCHI actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the HCI community, meet other students in the field, and attend the premier HCI conference Australia. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in HCI, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email volunteers at ozchi.org with your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a resume, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 28 Aug 2009. Hilary Davis, University of Melbourne & Debra Polson, QUT/ACID Volunteers Chairs volunteers at ozchi.org -- 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 Sun Mar 22 21:09:53 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:09:53 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Extertion Games Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: Extertion Games VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 27 Mar 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Exertion games - these are games that require intense physical effort - are believed to facilitate not only physical health, but also more social play than traditional computer games. Floyd has found through a qualitative analysis of "Table Tennis for Three" aspects of design that can facilitate such social play. The aim is to contribute to our understanding of how people play these games and of how we can support exertion and social play in future designs. Table Tennis for Three is an exertion game for three networked players that is played with a real bat, ball and table. Floyd has used video recordings and interviews of 42 players in order to understand how users experience social play in exertion games, and found aspects of awareness and uncertainty to be important factors that can aid in the design of future games. This talk will largely be based on a paper to be delivered at CHI 2009 in April, which was short-listed as 'best paper'. BIO: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller 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 Mar 23 07:45:52 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:45:52 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244023C7F507@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 AP-WEB2.0 http://ailab.dimi.uniud.it/en/events/2009/ap-web20/ This workshop will collocated with UMAP 2009, http://umap09.fbk.eu/, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy Paper submission deadline: March 30th, 2009 OBJECTIVES This workshop aims at discussing the state-of-the-art, open problems, challenges and innovative research approaches in adaptation and personalization for Web 2.0; it provides a forum both for proposing innovative and open models, applications and new data sharing scenarios, as well as novel technologies and methodologies for creating and managing these applications. Examples of stimulating application fields are social bookmarking environments, publication sharing systems, or, more in general, digital libraries. Three specific questions motivate this workshop. 1. How adaptation and personalization methodologies can augment Web 2.0 environments? And how can social adaptation mechanisms be evaluated? 2. What models, techniques, and tools are the most adequate to better support Web 2.0 users? 3. How much the introduction of tools for structuring personal user spaces (currently flat) can improve the creation and navigation processes and social awareness? TOPICS The topics of interest for the workshop are listed below. All of them have to be considered within the combined Web 2.0/Adaptation&Personalization perspective. Topics not explicitly listed below, which anyway adhere to the goals of the workshop, will be considered as well. General * Adaptation and personalization models and goals for social systems * Modeling teams and groups in Web 2.0 Information Access and Extraction > Advanced tools for information access in social networks > Recommender Systems of new contents > Personalized content ranking > Social navigation support > Social search and browsing > Personal information Spaces > Information extraction, opinion mining, and sentiment analysis > Visualizing small-world/scale-free networks > User concept spaces and maps Sharing data and Knowledge > Knowledge sharing > Sharing user profiles in social networks > User contribution > Decentralized user modeling in social networks Folksonomies and tagging > Automatic tagging > Ontology-based computer supported tagging > User profile construction based on tagging and annotations > Tag recommendation in social tagging systems Analyzing UCG and social networks > Social network analysis > Content-based analysis of social network > Modeling trust and reputation > Metrics and key performance indicators for social network analysis User Awareness > Social awareness and visualization > Personalized and adaptive views > Motivating participation > User identities in social systems: evolution and stigmergy impact > Capturing and processing implicit and explicit feedback > Trust-based recommendation Evaluation > Evaluation of community-based adaptation techniques > Evaluation of social adaptation mechanisms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We welcome works at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. We accept submission of full papers (8-10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and posters (2 pages) Full papers (8-10 pages) Short papers (4 pages) Posters (2 pages) Format Papers should be formatted according to the LNCS formatting instruction (Springer author guidelines) and should be submitted via email to ap-web20 at dimi.uniud.it; they will be peer reviewed by the workshop organizing committee. DEADLINES Paper submission deadline: March 30th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2009 Camera-ready version: May 15th, 2009 For more information please contact: ap-web20 at dimi.uniud.it ORGANIZING COMMITTEES Carlo Tasso - Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy Antonina Dattolo -Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy Rosta Farzan - Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab, University of Pittsburgh, USA Styliani Kleanthous - School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK David Bueno Vallejo - Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Julita Vassileva - Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEES Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Joan DiMicco, IBM T.J. Watson Research Cambridge Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA Werner Geyer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Cambridge Alessandro Micarelli, University "Roma Tre", Roma, Italy Cecile Paris, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Carlo Strapparava, FBK-irst, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Tue Mar 31 03:12:58 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:12:58 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Designing Assistive Technologies for Autism Support: Putting the Cart before the Horse Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Peter Francis, Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne TITLE: Designing Assistive Technologies for Autism Support: Putting the Cart before the Horse VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 03 Apr 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: The people who support someone with an autism spectrum disorder collectively possess knowledge and skills that, if harnessed, may enable the design of better and more cost-effective support technologies. The resource and time constraints of traditional design techniques, however, may limit the impact of this contribution. This presentation will describe a study of autism support and those who deliver that support. A participatory design methodology will be proposed and comments sought. BIO: Peter Francis is a PhD candidate with the Interaction Design Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. He is also a lecturer at the School of Management & Information Systems, Victoria University. 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 --------------------------------------------------