From silvias at hiser.com.au Fri May 1 02:10:07 2009 From: silvias at hiser.com.au (Sanchez, Silvia (Hiser)) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:40:07 +0930 Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG - New VIC Rep and volunteers for 2009 Message-ID: <576EE91CBA338A498A6E1C528A765D79078956@ADLEX01.ap.serco.com> Hi all, It was a pleasure to be part of the VIC CHISIG representatives last year, a great year of free and interesting events. I'd like to take the opportunity to thank my colleagues for all the volunteering work they put in to organise these events: Scott Rippon, Andrew Sweany and Janet Brunckhorst (thanks for all the hard work!) I'd like to introduce you the new VIC Rep and volunteers for VIC CHISIG 2009, who have volunteered to bring us new exciting get-togethers this year. * Mitch Malek (The Hiser Group) - new VIC Rep * Eleanor Tan (Symplicit) * Dharani Hansika (Monash University) * Ash Alluri (previously at Monash University, Ash just got back from overseas) It you want to find more about them, check the attachment :-). As you might know, the work in this area is 100% volunteering so please give them as much support as you can throughout the year. They are currently looking for ideas and speakers so don't hesitate to contact them on vicrep at chisig.org Looking forward to the upcoming VIC CHISIG events. 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Brand, Associate Dean and Head of School, Communication and Media, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University DATE: Wednesday 13 May, 2009 TIME: 6:00 to 7:30 pm Location: Theatre 3, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne Getting there: The Alan Gilbert Building is on the corner of Grattan St and Barry St in Carlton. The best approach is to enter the Alan Gilbert Building from the Barry St entrance. Theatre 3 is on level one. Go up the stairs that will appear directly in front of you - at the top of the stairs, walk around to your left and keep walking - a clearly sign-posted entrance to the theatre will be visible in front of you. Lift access is also available to level one. Abstract: Computer and video games are big business in Australia, just as they are in many other developed economies. In 2008, the retail sector traded AU$1.9 billion in hardware, software and peripherals. Of this total, approximately AU$15 million were MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft (WOW). Ongoing online game subscriptions such as WOW may have accounted for another AU$300 million and games downloaded through services such as Steam and Direct2Drive are not accounted for in domestic retail figures. Australia is unique among developed states in that it does not provide for an R18+ or "Adult" rating for computer game content. Yet demographic, behavioural and attitudinal data indicate that adults are a core market for games, are the heaviest consumers of massively multiplayer online games and are savvy consumers capable of considering the risks of playing games with challenging and confronting content while acting responsibly when using such games in homes with children. Recent controversy over whether games that are exclusively played online must be classified to be legally sold or exhibited in Australia has added to a growing chorus of criticism over the Australian content regulation regime. Most online-only games such as and including WOW have not been submitted by their publishers for classification by the Classification Board. James Beniger's (1986) notion of a 'crisis of control' will be used to contextualise the contemporary regulatory environment and its failure to accommodate the rapidly changing medium of computer games. Suggestions and probable scenarios will be offered and canvassed to evaluate the policy and technical trajectory of ratings and classification in Australia. Speaker: Jeff Brand is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Communication and Media at Bond University. His research explores the effects of electronic media on audiences and the policy imperatives that arise from presumed effects. He conducts most of his research on computer game audiences and is author of the Interactive Australia series of studies for the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia. Jeff has published in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Advertising Research, Educational Leadership, Asia Pacific Media Educator, Communications & Strategies, Media International Australia and in edited texts in the field of media. He is co-author (with Prof. Mark Pearson) of Sources of News and Current Affairs (2001). Jeff has served as a consultant to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Classification Board, the Special Broadcasting Service, and the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia. He completed his PhD in 1995 at Michigan State University. This is a public lecture. Entry is free. Sponsors: IEEE-Society for the Social Implications of Technology and The Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne. ------ End of Forwarded Message -- -------------------------------------------------- Daryl Ku PhD Candidate; Interaction Design Group Coordinator Interaction Design Group Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne -------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SSIT May 2009 forum.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 72189 bytes Desc: not available Url : From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Mon May 4 01:20:33 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 15:20:33 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Stelarc TITLE: The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera VENUE: University of Melbourne, Law Building, Lecture Theatre G08, University Square, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton 3053 DATE and TIME: Friday 08 May 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: We are living in an age of excess and indifference, of prosthetic augmentation and extended operational systems. The dead, the near dead, the undead and the yet to be born are existing simultaneously. This is the age of the cadaver, the comatose and the chimera. The cadaver can now be preserved indefinitely with plastination. The comatose body can be sustained on a life-support system. Cryogenically suspended bodies await possible reanimation. Chimera is the body that performs with mixed realities. A biological body, augmented with technology and telematically performing with virtual systems. The chimera is an alternate embodiment. This is an age of organs without bodies, of organs awaiting bodies. There is now a proliferation of organs. A proliferation of biocompatible components in both substance and scale that allows technology to be attached and implanted into the body. Organs are extracted and exchanged. Organs are engineered and inserted. Blood flowing in my body might tomorrow be circulating in your body. Ova are fertilized in-vitro with sperm that has been unfrozen. The face of the donor becomes a third face on the recipient. The body acts with indifference. Indifference as opposed to expectation. An indifference that allows something to occur, that allows an unfolding - in its own time and with its own rhythm. An indifference that allows suspending a body with hooks, inserting a sculpture inside the body and surgically constructing an ear on an arm. This presentation examines alternate anatomical architectures using mechanical, virtual, biotech and surgical augmentation and exploration of the body. It exposes the obsolescence, the absence and the emptiness of the body. BIO: Stelarc is a performance artist who has performed with a third hand, a virtual arm, a 6-legged walking robot and is presently surgically constructing and stem cell growing an ear on his arm. EXTRAORDINARY VENUE: Note that this seminar will not be held at the IDEA LAB. Instead, it will be held at the University of Melbourne, Law Building, Lecture Theatre G08. 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 Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Thu May 7 01:44:21 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:44:21 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] ACT Chapter: Meeting on Thursday 28th May Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE0119@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 28th May at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (building 108, North Road). Duncan Stevenson, a PhD student in Computer Science and also chair of the ACT CHISIG chapter, will talk on: "A Case Study in Human Factors for Broadband Telehealth" This talk will cover the development and evaluation of a broadband telehealth system aimed at paediatric outpatient consultations. The system was developed by staff of the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra and a pilot trial of the system was held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne during September 2007. Twelve half-day clinics were conducted covering 4 surgical specialties and 44 patients. The talk focuses on human factors issues in requirements gathering, component design and testing, and the pilot trial of the integrated system. The talk will be followed by a demonstration of the system operating between two rooms in the CSIRO wing of building 108. Venue: Lunch Room, Level 2, Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU. Time: 4:45pm Light refreshments 5:15pm Presentation, followed by a demonstration of the telehealth system in the CSIRO wing of the building. Note that while the main door to the building will be unlocked the doors to the CSIRO wing will remain locked. If you arrive after the demonstration has started phone me on my mobile (see number below) and someone will come to let you in. Parking: Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus, or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus. After 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty. I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms. If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209. If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076. 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This talk concentrates on the structured and modular approach to the design of physical interfaces, illustrated with recent research projects. BIO: Bert Bongers (The Netherlands, 1964) has a mixed background in technology, human sciences (MSc Erg. UCL London), and the arts, in a mixture of education and practice. In his PhD thesis (VU Amsterdam) he combines insights and experiences gained from musical instrument design, interactive architecture, video performances, and interface development for multimedia systems to establish frameworks and an ecological approach to the design for the interaction between people and technology. He has set up new media labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Maastricht, lectured in workshops and newly developed courses on interaction at various universities and schools. He has published two books, several book chapters, papers in academic journals and conferences. He developed an instrument for live audiovisual performance, and creates interactive video installations. Since May 2007 he is an Associate Professor at UTS, where he set up the Interactivation Studio as a laboratory with a flexible infrastructure to support many activities in design and research in interactivating objects and spaces. 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 May 11 21:04:23 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:04:23 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] 2nd CfP: OZCHI 2009 - Keynote speakers announced Message-ID: 2nd Call for Papers & Announcement of Keynote Speakers 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 are very excited to announce the following keynote speakers for this year's OZCHI conference: .. Bill Moggridge, Co-founder of IDEO.com .. Patrick Hofmann, Head of User Experience, Google Australia .. Yvonne Rogers, Director, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Open University, UK 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, 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) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From peter.j.wild at gmail.com Wed May 13 11:42:48 2009 From: peter.j.wild at gmail.com (Peter J Wild) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:42:48 +0100 Subject: [chisigmail] CFP 2nd Workshop on HCI and Services, 1st Sept, at HCI 2009, Cambridge Message-ID: <730c6ae10905130842q4aa8eae1t1ec82de2690f5576@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers =============================================== The 2nd Workshop on HCI and Services to be held at the HCI 2009 conference Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK 1st September 2009 =============================================== 1. INTRODUCTION As well as becoming an ever more important part of local and global economies; Services and Service Design are emerging, crossing, and in some cases redefining disciplinary boundaries. Papers have emerged in HCI venues that have explicitly examined services. Service has emerged as a frequent metaphor for a range of computing applications, both web based, pervasive and ubiquitous. Here researchers and practitioners often talk of services instead of applications. In addition Service-oriented architectures receive continued attention in Computing, but research is often divorced from issues of concern to HCI. In turn the user, value, and worth centred ethos of HCI of existing and emerging approaches, and is making its way into Service design approaches Service definitions and Service design has often stressed the intangible, activity and participatory nature of service acts. Vargo and Lusch define Services as ?the application of specialized competences (knowledge and skills), through deeds, processes, and performances for the benefit of another entity or the entity itself .? This definition stresses the activity-based nature of services. HCI has much to offer in this area, from the foundation principles espoused by Gould and Lewis, through to approaches that provide sophisticated analysis of tasks / activities. In addition characterisation of Service such as Service as experience, Service as journey, overlap with experience oriented approaches that have emerged for analysing and designing computing. In turn, many approaches to Service design either borrow, overlap or complement HCI?s design focus and academic rigour. For example Parker and Heapy?s use of prototypes, personas, and measurement of the service experience. However, explicit links between work on Service definition, Service Design and HCI are still emerging. There have been too few discussions on the complements and possible tensions between the areas. 2. GOALS The following are goals of the workshop: ? to bring together researchers and practitioners to inform both research and practice into Service Design ? to continue the exploration of the relationships between HCI (and its applied manifestations such as Interaction Design, User experience) and Service Design ? to bring together people in different disciplines to discuss and address HCI issues in relation to Service Design; and Service Design issues in relation to HCI; ? to explore the wider implications of Service Design. ? to continue the building of a community of people with interests in the areas. 3. TOPIC RELEVANCE The workshop relates to existing work and workshops on Services. Outside of HCI, several major research projects and programs are undertaking research into Services in relation to products (e.g. KIM, IPAS, S4T). A recent AHRC network on service design has also been undertaken at Oxford; and the IfM and IBM have developed one vision for moving services research forwards and has resulted in a volume publication. Cranfield University?s IMRC has focussed around the Product-Service Systems concept, in addition the Service Design Network network is due to launch a multidisciplinary journal (Touchpoint), alongside its thriving Facebook community. The workshop also builds on the work that has attempted to look at Services issues in public services; on existing general interest in HCI; existing general interest in service design; research into the definition of services; and emerging paradigms for Services. In addition the emergence of design consultancies focussed around services and the wider design and engineering communities growing interest in the topic. The workshop will build on the success of the 1st workshop held at HCI 2008 in Liverpool. This workshop brought together a small amiable, and focussed group of people 4. Topics The workshop aims to include rather than exclude. Possible (contradictory) topics include: :- Do HCI approaches shed new light on definitions of service? :- Reports of experiences applying HCI approaches (e.g. Personas) to the design of services. :- Reports of experiences using Services Marketing (e.g. Blueprinting) approaches in HCI contexts. :- Service Quality (e.g. SERVQUAL) in relation to Usability / User Experience measures. :- Conflicts and complements between Service as Experience and ?harder? measures of Service quality. :- Adaptation of existing perspectives to the analysis and design of Services (e.g., task analysis, Activity Theory, Distributed Cognition) :- Why Services mean that existing perspectives can no longer apply. :- From Service to e-Service and back again. :- Educational perspectives. :- Participatory approaches throughout the HCI lifecycle :- The intersection between theoretical accounts of Participatory approaches and Value Co-Creation and Co-Production 5. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE Participants will be invited to submit a 4 - 6 page position paper on their work, along with a candidate service for additional activities. The morning session will be given over to the presentation and discussion of these papers. The afternoon session will be split between analysis / design of two service examples using constructs explored in the morning. There is also the possibility to run the workshop around the local Cambridge Service Systems Forum; this is a event that includes a range of local and national speakers within the service systems area. In addition, there will be a workshop site linked into the main conference site that will remain active as a resource for the community. 6. PARTICIPANTS Participants would be expected from industry and academia, invites to those in the Service Design community would also be made. 7. DEADLINES Because of planning constraints for the HCI conference we are utilising a 2 part deadline process. There is an deadline for an initial expression of interest on the 28th May. With additional deadlines for paper submission in June.. EOI will enable us to plan conference facilities and will entitle accepted EOIs to claim Early Bird deadlines... EOI 28th May Position Papers 20th June Paper acceptance 30th June The EOI needs to include title, authors and one paragraph description EOI and position papers need to be sent to peter.j.wild at gmail.com Negotiations are under way for a Special Journal Issue relating to the workshop. From m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon May 18 17:35:21 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:35:21 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Adam Greenfield at HCSNet Workshop, 13/14 July, QUT Brisbane Message-ID: <7348038E-1A21-42AB-929F-2CDA41AC8475@qut.edu.au> Second Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane June 19, 2009 Workshop position papers (300-500 words) due June 26, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13/14, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 Keynote Speaker We are pleased to announce Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in Helsinki, as the keynote speaker for this workshop. His talk "The city is here for you to use" will give us a preview of the ideas in his forthcoming new book. Workshop Theme This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local participation and civic engagement in urban environments. Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed ?Web 2.0? to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors, location and context awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg., futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds (eg, hub2.org), and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. This workshop will be held back-to-back with an ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN) workshop on the 11th and 12th of July 2009 at QUT titled, ?Unboxing the iPhone: The Circuits of Digital Culture,? organised by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson, supported by the CRN?s Cultural Technologies Node. This will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences. http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/activities/glamm-iphone.html The workshop is also very timely in that it coincides with the six week residency of Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT, and the 2009 inaugural Queensland Innovator in Residence: http://yearofcreativity.deta.qld.gov.au/innovator.html Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human- computer interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering. The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of citizenship. Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and plenary discussions. Submissions We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by Fri 19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943 This workshop is free for anyone who has been HCSNet Member for 2 months prior to the workshop. Non-members need to pay $100 registration fee for this workshop via the online facility. Please register online by Fri 3 July 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/events/register/2943 Travel Bursaries HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers will have priority. Organisers Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ From Sarah.Evans at yooralla.com.au Tue May 19 23:38:25 2009 From: Sarah.Evans at yooralla.com.au (Sarah Evans) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 13:38:25 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Level 3 Environmental Control Units (ECU) Workshop - June 18-19, 2009 Message-ID: <0C1FB6A73C41274198B5510F76BE83ED01D63081@ysex-ho-001.yooralla.com.au> Level 3 Home Modifications: Environmental Control Units (ECU) Thursday June 18, 2009 & Friday June 19, 2009 2 Full Days--> 8:45 - 4:30 each day The Independent Living Centre 705 Princes Hwy (Geelong Road), Brooklyn, VIC COST: $400 incl. 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URL: From Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Mon May 25 01:20:06 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:20:06 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE0139@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine Thurs/Friday, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne (Australia) http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/3103 Call for Submissions and Participation Description A great deal of research supports the belief that social interactions affect people's health in various ways. Online communities have added a relatively new dimension to the lives of many people. This workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers and practitioners from medical, social and information technology communities to understand how social technologies might be used to support health and health initiatives: e.g. supporting people, their families and their communities in managing health; building and supporting communities of health workers and medical practitioners for improved communication and information sharing; allowing communities of health stakeholders (policy makers, practitioners, the public) to develop effective health-related policies and initiatives. We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user experience to support online health communities. This workshop will be held close (in time) to CollabTech 2009 (The Fifth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009), which is being held in Sydney, August 12-14, 2009 (http://www.collabtech.org/). This will provide opportunities for participants (especially from overseas) to attend both events to exchange ideas and experiences. Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of researchers and practitioners from the medical, social and information technology communities working in areas such as health, social science, and online communities related to health. Issues of interest may include: * support for patients vs. support for carers * tools for developing online communities * designing effective user experience for online patient communities * strategies for building online health communities and developing long-term engagement * motivating information-sharing, content development, and contribution to policy * health education and policy development: developing trusted content * tailoring health information * methods/techniques to provide motivational support * trust, ethics, and related issues in online health-related communities Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Thursday August 20th and Friday August 21st, 2009, in the Melbourne area (precise location to be determined). The workshop will include invited speakers (including a HCSNet-supported international presenter), presentations from participants and interested parties, workshopping and development of ideas, and plenty of time for discussion. Submission instructions are given below. Event Outcomes We hope the workshop will help the community to build a collective understanding about online health and medical communities: from the health perspective, what support can a social network provide; from the social network community, how can they provide that support; overall, how can such systems be deployed, evaluated and adopted. We also hope that the workshop will build bridges across the communities (health and social networks), and even generate a sustained interest and community around this area. We envisage this workshop to be the first of a series. Submission Format Interested participants are invited to submit a position statements (about 300 words) describing their interest in the area of health/medical online communities, along with a short biography. Submission is via the online submission page: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/3103. Note that to make a submission (or to qualify for free attendance) you need to sign up to the HCSNet community 2 months before the event (it's free!); you can register for HCSNet at (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register). Submissions deadline: 10th July, 2009 Publication Submitted abstracts will be published online and also distributed to participants. We are planning to solicit long articles after the workshop to capture the work in workshop proceedings. Registration Information Registration for the workshop is free for HCSNet members that have signed up to HCSNet 2 months in advance of the event. For non-HCSNet members registration is $50 per day. For members and non-members please follow the link below to register once registration has opened. Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009 Travel Grants HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers (in HCSNet terms, those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority. Please ensure that you indicate at time of submission if you wish to be considered for a travel grant. Important Dates * Submissions deadline: Friday 10th July 2009 * Notification re: travel grants: Monday 27th July 2009 * Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009 * Workshop: Thursday August 20th to Friday August 21st, 2009 Organisers Dr Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University and NICTA Dr Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO ICT Centre Dr Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre Further information Queries regarding the workshop can be sent to Nathalie Colineau at Nathalie.Colineau [AT] csiro.au. Contact Lawrence Cavedon, at lawrence.cavedon [AT] rmit.edu.au for queries related to HCSNet. 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URL: From s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Tue May 26 07:53:27 2009 From: s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:53:27 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Inger Mewburn, Department of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne TITLE: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 29 May 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Gesture can be thought of as a knowledge practice that helps to bind professional communities together. This project was concerned with the gesture practice of architects, specifically gestures that occur during collaborative design practice in educational settings. The location of the study was the design studio, where experienced architects work with students on design propositions. What is interesting about the design studio is a heavy reliance on things - drawings, models and computer screens - which need to be understood as an integral part of the gesture work that is being done. This two year field study looked for patterns of gesture behaviour and the knowing manipulation of things when architecture students and teachers engaged in what might be called 'design story telling'. It is hoped that this knowledge will help form the basis for a better accommodation of gesture in online and blended learning contexts for architecture education and, potentially, other design practices. BIO: Inger Mewburn graduated as an architect in the early 1990s and worked in practice for about a decade before becoming an architectural design teacher. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and currently works as a research fellow at RMIT University. Her interactive digital art work has appeared in magazines and exhibitions around the world including Melbourne, the UK, France, Greece, Austria, China and the USA. 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 Room 4.65, ICT Building University of Melbourne +61 3 834 41516 s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au From Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au Tue May 26 08:33:12 2009 From: Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:33:12 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] ACT CHISIG Meeting this Thursday 28th May - reminder Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE013D@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 28th May at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (building 108, North Road). Duncan Stevenson, a PhD student in Computer Science and also chair of the ACT CHISIG chapter, will talk on: "A Case Study in Human Factors for Broadband Telehealth" This talk will cover the development and evaluation of a broadband telehealth system aimed at paediatric outpatient consultations. The system was developed by staff of the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra and a pilot trial of the system was held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne during September 2007. Twelve half-day clinics were conducted covering 4 surgical specialties and 44 patients. The talk focuses on human factors issues in requirements gathering, component design and testing, and the pilot trial of the integrated system. The talk will be followed by a demonstration of the system operating between two rooms in the CSIRO wing of building 108. Venue: Lunch Room, Level 2, Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU. Time: 4:45pm Light refreshments 5:15pm Presentation, followed by a demonstration of the telehealth system in the CSIRO wing of the building. Note that while the main door to the building will be unlocked the doors to the CSIRO wing will remain locked. If you arrive after the demonstration has started phone me on my mobile (see number below) and someone will come to let you in. Parking: Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus, or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus. After 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty. I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms. If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209. If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076. 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In addition, what steps has your company taken recently to be more environmentally friendly, socially just, sustainable, and animal friendly? I'm working under a deadline. Consequently, I'd welcome your responses in the next few days. If you have questions or information to share, please contact me at rmunger at boisestate.edu. Thank you. Roger Munger Boise State University rmunger at boisestate.edu From cmjones at usc.edu.au Thu May 28 00:18:24 2009 From: cmjones at usc.edu.au (Christian Jones) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:18:24 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] chisigmail Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5 Message-ID: <4A1E9D310200008B0001A949@billie.usc.edu.au> Hi Would it be possible to include the following information (computer games scholarships below) in the next email digest. Many thanks in advance. (My CHISIG membership number is 225200) Cheers Christian Computer Games Scholarships The University of the Sunshine Coast is seeking applications for two PhD Research Scholarships in Computer Gaming commencing 2009 PhD project 1: Development of a computer game to teach environmental management (cf SimCity). The game will integrate with existing climate modelling systems to provide educational tools for schools through to government. The PhD candidate will receive a stipend valued at $25,000 per annum as part of the Smart Forest Alliance Queensland partnership. For more information, download the Environmental Management Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from: http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available. Commencement: ASAP Duration: Three years full-time PhD project 2: Development of a computer game to teach safety awareness skills and strategies to children to prevent them from becoming victims of child sexual abuse. The computer game can include console, desktop, mobile and multiplayer environments. The PhD candidate will receive a stipend valued at $25,000 per annum as part of the Telstra Foundation / Queensland Police Service / Daniel Morcombe Foundation project in partnership with Education Queensland and the Department of Child Safety. For more information, download the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from: http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available Commencement: ASAP Duration: Three years full-time Application Form: To apply for either of the above scholarships, please download the Computer Games PhD Scholarships application from the link above. The projects will be supervised by Dr Christian Jones at USC. Dr Jones has worked with commercial games developers including Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and has developed automotive Serious Games with Stanford University (US), Ford (US) and Toyota (Japan). For more information, please contact Dr Jones by email cmjones at usc.edu.au or telephone +61 7 5459 4849 or mobile +61 0 4243 58195. Closing date for applications is 30th June 2009 Dr Christian M. Jones, MEng (Hons) PhD CEng MIET ILTM MBCS CITP Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC Queensland 4558 Australia Phone: +61 7 5459 4849 Fax: +61 7 5430 2883 Mobile: 04243 58195 Email: cmjones at usc.edu.au http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/ChristianJones.htm >>> 05/26/09 10:33 PM >>> Send chisigmail mailing list submissions to chisigmail at chisig.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/chisigmail or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chisigmail-request at chisig.org You can reach the person managing the list at chisigmail-owner at chisig.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of chisigmail digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) 2. IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio (Daryl Ku) 3. ACT CHISIG Meeting this Thursday 28th May - reminder (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:20:06 +1000 From: Subject: [chisigmail] Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne To: Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE0139 at exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine Thurs/Friday, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne (Australia) http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/3103 Call for Submissions and Participation Description A great deal of research supports the belief that social interactions affect people's health in various ways. Online communities have added a relatively new dimension to the lives of many people. This workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers and practitioners from medical, social and information technology communities to understand how social technologies might be used to support health and health initiatives: e.g. supporting people, their families and their communities in managing health; building and supporting communities of health workers and medical practitioners for improved communication and information sharing; allowing communities of health stakeholders (policy makers, practitioners, the public) to develop effective health-related policies and initiatives. We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user experience to support online health communities. This workshop will be held close (in time) to CollabTech 2009 (The Fifth International Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009), which is being held in Sydney, August 12-14, 2009 (http://www.collabtech.org/). This will provide opportunities for participants (especially from overseas) to attend both events to exchange ideas and experiences. Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of researchers and practitioners from the medical, social and information technology communities working in areas such as health, social science, and online communities related to health. Issues of interest may include: * support for patients vs. support for carers * tools for developing online communities * designing effective user experience for online patient communities * strategies for building online health communities and developing long-term engagement * motivating information-sharing, content development, and contribution to policy * health education and policy development: developing trusted content * tailoring health information * methods/techniques to provide motivational support * trust, ethics, and related issues in online health-related communities Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Thursday August 20th and Friday August 21st, 2009, in the Melbourne area (precise location to be determined). The workshop will include invited speakers (including a HCSNet-supported international presenter), presentations from participants and interested parties, workshopping and development of ideas, and plenty of time for discussion. Submission instructions are given below. Event Outcomes We hope the workshop will help the community to build a collective understanding about online health and medical communities: from the health perspective, what support can a social network provide; from the social network community, how can they provide that support; overall, how can such systems be deployed, evaluated and adopted. We also hope that the workshop will build bridges across the communities (health and social networks), and even generate a sustained interest and community around this area. We envisage this workshop to be the first of a series. Submission Format Interested participants are invited to submit a position statements (about 300 words) describing their interest in the area of health/medical online communities, along with a short biography. Submission is via the online submission page: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/3103. Note that to make a submission (or to qualify for free attendance) you need to sign up to the HCSNet community 2 months before the event (it's free!); you can register for HCSNet at (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register). Submissions deadline: 10th July, 2009 Publication Submitted abstracts will be published online and also distributed to participants. We are planning to solicit long articles after the workshop to capture the work in workshop proceedings. Registration Information Registration for the workshop is free for HCSNet members that have signed up to HCSNet 2 months in advance of the event. For non-HCSNet members registration is $50 per day. For members and non-members please follow the link below to register once registration has opened. Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009 Travel Grants HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers (in HCSNet terms, those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority. Please ensure that you indicate at time of submission if you wish to be considered for a travel grant. Important Dates * Submissions deadline: Friday 10th July 2009 * Notification re: travel grants: Monday 27th July 2009 * Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009 * Workshop: Thursday August 20th to Friday August 21st, 2009 Organisers Dr Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University and NICTA Dr Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO ICT Centre Dr Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre Further information Queries regarding the workshop can be sent to Nathalie Colineau at Nathalie.Colineau [AT] csiro.au. Contact Lawrence Cavedon, at lawrence.cavedon [AT] rmit.edu.au for queries related to HCSNet. About HCSNet HCSNet (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au) is the ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science, and promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sonics. ------------------------------------------------------- Nathalie Colineau Senior Research Scientist CSIRO - ICT Centre Locked Bag 17, North Ryde 1670 NSW Physical Address: CSIRO - ICT Centre Building E6B Macquarie University North Ryde 2113 NSW Australia phone: (+61) 2 9325 3151 Fax: (+61) 2 9325 3200 http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:53:27 +1000 From: Daryl Ku Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio To: CHISIG Mailing List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar. PRESENTER: Inger Mewburn, Department of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne TITLE: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 29 May 2009, 3-4 pm ABSTRACT: Gesture can be thought of as a knowledge practice that helps to bind professional communities together. This project was concerned with the gesture practice of architects, specifically gestures that occur during collaborative design practice in educational settings. The location of the study was the design studio, where experienced architects work with students on design propositions. What is interesting about the design studio is a heavy reliance on things - drawings, models and computer screens - which need to be understood as an integral part of the gesture work that is being done. This two year field study looked for patterns of gesture behaviour and the knowing manipulation of things when architecture students and teachers engaged in what might be called 'design story telling'. It is hoped that this knowledge will help form the basis for a better accommodation of gesture in online and blended learning contexts for architecture education and, potentially, other design practices. BIO: Inger Mewburn graduated as an architect in the early 1990s and worked in practice for about a decade before becoming an architectural design teacher. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and currently works as a research fellow at RMIT University. Her interactive digital art work has appeared in magazines and exhibitions around the world including Melbourne, the UK, France, Greece, Austria, China and the USA. 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 Room 4.65, ICT Building University of Melbourne +61 3 834 41516 s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:33:12 +1000 From: Subject: [chisigmail] ACT CHISIG Meeting this Thursday 28th May - reminder To: Message-ID: <93B651F999304D41AF520188488E101F14E1DE013D at exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 28th May at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (building 108, North Road). Duncan Stevenson, a PhD student in Computer Science and also chair of the ACT CHISIG chapter, will talk on: "A Case Study in Human Factors for Broadband Telehealth" This talk will cover the development and evaluation of a broadband telehealth system aimed at paediatric outpatient consultations. The system was developed by staff of the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra and a pilot trial of the system was held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne during September 2007. Twelve half-day clinics were conducted covering 4 surgical specialties and 44 patients. The talk focuses on human factors issues in requirements gathering, component design and testing, and the pilot trial of the integrated system. The talk will be followed by a demonstration of the system operating between two rooms in the CSIRO wing of building 108. Venue: Lunch Room, Level 2, Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU. Time: 4:45pm Light refreshments 5:15pm Presentation, followed by a demonstration of the telehealth system in the CSIRO wing of the building. Note that while the main door to the building will be unlocked the doors to the CSIRO wing will remain locked. If you arrive after the demonstration has started phone me on my mobile (see number below) and someone will come to let you in. Parking: Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus, or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus. After 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty. I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms. If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209. If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076. 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From f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au Thu May 28 21:57:51 2009 From: f.vetere at unimelb.edu.au (Frank Vetere) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:57:51 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC'09): LAST CALL for Late Breaking Results, Design Contest, Video Papers and Demos (June 3rd, 2009) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR LATE BREAKING RESULTS, VIDEOS AND DESIGN CONTEST! Sorry for cross-posting, please forward to interested colleagues. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------- LBR, Video Paper and Design Contest submission deadline is: Wednesday June 3, 2009 (23:59:59 PST) Acceptance notification: Wednesday June 17, 2009 Camera ready final submission: Tuesday July 7, 2009 Conference date: Friday September 4 to Monday September 7, 2009 Submit LBR via PCS (https://precisionconference.com/~iswc) and Videos, Design contest via (http://www.iswc.net/submission.php) =============================================================== *ISWC'09 CALL FOR LATE BREAKING RESULTS* *DESIGN CONTEST, VIDEO PAPERS AND DEMOS* 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. *SUBMISSIONS* *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" (June 3, 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 (deadline June 3, 2009) 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, July 13, 2009. Only the abstract will be included in the "Advances in Wearable Computing" 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. Please submit your proposals (a one-page summary describing your prototype, including a 200 word abstract and photos/videos) to designcontest at iswc.net at the latest by Wednesday June 3, 2009. 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) Late Breaking Results Co-Chairs Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota, USA Daniel Roggen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Video Co-Chairs Antonio Kr?ger, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany Horst H?rtner, AEC Linz, Austria Design Contest Co-Chairs Christa Sommerer, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria Sabine Seymour, Moondial, Austria 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) Leah Buechley (MIT, USA) Lucy Dunne (Un. of Minnesota, USA) Steve Feiner (Columbia University, USA) Jennifer Healey (Intel, USA) Holger Kenn (Microsoft EMIC Aachen, GER) 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) Jamie Ward (Lancaster University, GBR) *SUBMISSION DEADLINES* Video Papers June 3, 2009 Late Breaking Results June 3, 2009 Design Contest June 3, 2009 Demos July 13, 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