From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Thu Oct 1 09:20:38 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:20:38 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Do you have any news? Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244042CC6B7E@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Dear All: We are trying to get a new issue of Simplicity out.... Do you have any news? Interesting conferences you attended? Upcoming conferences? Abstracts of papers you have published recently that could interest the communities? Students graduating? Simplicity is the way for the community to stay in touch outside our conference... Send any news/material/etc to Pauline at secretariat at ergonomics.org.au with an indication that it is for the Simplicity newsletter. Thank you in advance Kind regards Cecile ------------------------------------- Dr C?cile Paris CHISIG Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darylk at unimelb.edu.au Sun Oct 4 21:27:42 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:27:42 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: The Seduction of the New: Balancing Web 2 Cool with Coalface Realities Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. PRESENTER: Gregor Kennedy, Biomedical Multimedia Unit, University of Melbourne TITLE: The Seduction of the New: Balancing Web 2 Cool with Coalface Realities VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 09 Oct 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: An array of new Web 2.0 technologies has risen to prominence in the last few years (Flickr, Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Del.ici.ous, Twitter). These technologies are characterised by users? ability to create content and then, with relative ease, publish it to the world or share it with others in their social network. The widespread popularity and potential learning applications of these technologies has not gone unnoticed by educational technology commentators and university administrators alike. As a result there is increasing pressure on teaching staff ? implicit and explicit ? to incorporate Web 2.0 learning activities into their curriculum. And while there are certainly examples of how this has been done well, there are also significant ?coalface? challenges associated with effectively incorporating ?Web 2 Cool? into students? learning experience. I will argue in this presentation that, in part, the perceived need to use Web 2.0 technologies in learning is based on fundamental assumptions about (i) the technological experiences and preferences of students who are entering higher education, and (ii) perceptions that Web 2.0 technologies offer straightforward opportunities to enhance students? learning experiences. I will present findings from a number of programs of research that test these assumptions. I will also discuss the lessons learnt from the implementation of a collaborative writing exercise, in which 750 first-year students were asked to use a wiki to create, publish and share material in their psychology studies. I will conclude by reflecting on how key attributes of Web 2.0 technologies can sometimes run counter to traditional practices of learning and teaching within universities. BIO: Gregor Kennedy is head of the Biomedical Multimedia Unit at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, 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 Room 4.65, ICT Building University of Melbourne +61 3 834 41516 darylk at unimelb.edu.au From m.foth at qut.edu.au Tue Oct 6 18:23:50 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:23:50 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] New positions in Media & Communication at Queensland University of Technology Message-ID: Applications are now open for two new positions in Media & Communication at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia: Lecturer (Media and Communication) http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/jobs/pds/29294.jsp The successful applicant will primarily be responsible for teaching and coordinating undergraduate units. Unit coordination responsibilities will be tailored to make best use of the specialisations of the successful appointee, but could include the Media and Communication undergraduate units New Media Technologies, Introduction to Media and Communication and Media Myth Busting; and the postgraduate unit New Media Studies. The successful applicant will be encouraged to maintain and develop a research profile commensurate with the level of appointment and will have access to the Faculty short term professional development scheme for the purpose of supporting research activity. Associate Lecturer/Lecturer - Professional Communication http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/jobs/pds/29292.jsp Communication skills are recognised globally as key professional skills, both within the emergent Creative Industries and across the broader service industries and professions. We are seeking to strengthen QUT's long record of achievement in the Professional Communication field by appointing a new staff member who can contribute to units covering applied theory and practice in organisational and group communication, political communication, strategic speech communication, professional writing, and design and management of communication resources. The Associate Lecturer/Lecturer will contribute to the delivery of a range of Media and Communication and interfaculty courses, across a number of Professional Communication units. The successful applicant will join the Journalism, Media & Communication discipline and will contribute to the development of course material and to the coordination and teaching across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate professional communication units both within and beyond the Creative Industries Faculty. Both are ongoing and full-time (i.e. essentially equivalent to tenured positions, under the US system). Applications close on 3 November. Note that the first of these is open to domestic Australian applicants (citizens / permanent residents) only. -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal 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 m.foth at qut.edu.au Thu Oct 8 20:12:19 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:12:19 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] OZCHI 2009: program online, early bird extended until Fri 16 Oct Message-ID: <86A08EEA-9C04-48A8-8EB6-827DF4A44E03@qut.edu.au> 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/ NEWS Early bird registration deadline extended to Fri 16 Oct 2009. Register now: http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/REGISTER The draft program is now available online. Check out the list of accepted peer reviewed long and short papers: http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/PROGRAM Consider attending one of the pre-conference workshops and tutorials. In most cases you can still attend (without submitting and presenting a paper). Contact the organisers and tick the appropriate box on your registration form. http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/WORKSHOPS Thu 26 Nov is OZCHI Industry Day. Details of the program to be released shortly. http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/INDUSTRY KEYNOTES http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/KEYNOTES Wed 25 Nov - Bill Moggridge, Co-founder of IDEO.com Thu 26 Nov (OZCHI Industry Day) - Patrick Hofmann, Head of User Experience, Google Australia Fri 27 Nov - Yvonne Rogers, Director, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Open University, UK 24 HOUR DESIGN CHALLENGE This year OZCHI will be preceded by a student design challenge in two rounds organised as two 24 hour events. The first round took place online on 12 Sep 2009. The second round will be held at OZCHI on 24 Nov 2009. In both rounds teams of 2-5 students are invited to develop a solution for a state-of-the-art research problem acquiring interaction design and HCI skills. Top entries will be awarded a travel scholarship for the conference (round 1) and prizes sponsored by our industry partners (round 2). For more information visit http://www.ozchi.org/24 Martin Tomitsch, Andrew Vande Moere, The University of Sydney & Jeremy Yuille, RMIT/ACID Student Design Challenge Chairs sdc at ozchi.org WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Mon 23 Nov 2009 User Requirements Gathering (tutorial) OZeWAI Inclusive Information Society (2 day workshop - day 1 of 2) OZCHI Doctoral Consortium Tue 24 Nov 2009 OZCHI 24 Hour Student Design Challenge Web Accessibility (tutorial) Experimental Design for HCI (tutorial) Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture (workshop) Street Computing (workshop) Designing for Healthy Living (workshop) Smart Healthcare Applications (workshop) OZeWAI Inclusive Information Society (2 day workshop - day 2 of 2) Please refer to the individual workshop and tutorial pages for further details: http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/WORKSHOPS Lian Loke & Toni Robertson, UTS Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Chairs workshops at ozchi.org 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 SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_SPONSORS Thank you: The Hiser Group | ARC HCSNet | Design Victoria | Stamford Interactive | National ICT Australia | Smart Services CRC | CSIRO | Apogee | The University of Melbourne | Australian Information Industry Association | Australian Interactive Media Industry Association See you in Melbourne! Marcus Foth, QUT Conference Chair chair at ozchi.org http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/REGISTER -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal 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 darylk at unimelb.edu.au Sun Oct 11 19:48:52 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:48:52 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Confirmation Seminar: The Role Of Visualisation For Understanding Complex Systems Message-ID: <0497F75F4B7A9F41B407AD72411ADBAD0551FF53@IS-EX-BEV1.unimelb.edu.au> (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. PRESENTER: Ardis Cheng, Medical Education Unit, University of Melbourne TITLE: PhD Confirmation Seminar: The Role Of Visualisation For Understanding Complex Systems VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 16 Oct 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: Complex systems are systems of interconnected parts where the behaviours at one level can give rise to emergent patterns at another level. Understanding complex systems is difficult due to the number of parts and internal and external factors involved that need to be considered simultaneously. Structure-behaviour-function (SBF) theory has been used to identify differences between expert and novice approaches to complex systems with the greatest disparity in comprehending behaviour and function. The instructional implications of these expert-novice differences have led to the development of various inquiry-based computer simulations and learning-by-design activities. These developments focus primarily on behaviour and function which can be problematic for mechanical and biological complex systems where form dictates function. The aim of this project is to investigate how visual representations of structure, behaviour, and function can be effectively integrated to support understanding of emergence in complex systems. BIO: Ardis Cheng is a PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne with interests in visual communication and interaction design in medical education. 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 darylk at unimelb.edu.au From kenneth.treharne at flinders.edu.au Sun Oct 18 21:05:30 2009 From: kenneth.treharne at flinders.edu.au (Kenneth Treharne) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:35:30 +1030 Subject: [chisigmail] CHISIG Membership Satisfaction Survey Message-ID: <1255914330.4adbbb5a1f83b@imp.flinders.edu.au> This message will also appear in the forth coming Simplicity newsletter. CHISIG Membership Satisfaction Survey Earlier this year, executive members of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group decided to investigate the level of satisfaction held by CHISIG members. A web-based questionnaire attempted to capture your attitudes toward and satisfaction with the benefits afforded to you by a CHISIG membership. This article will present the results of this investigation and the steps taken by the CHISIG executive as we act on the findings. A request for participation was sent to each member's provided email address in addition to the CHISIG mailing list. The survey was on line for most of July 2009 and up until early September 2009. In total, forty-four CHISIG members offered a submission. Based on the figures for 08/09 membership year, this suggests almost half of all members participated. There were essentially six broad themes explored in the survey: what is your general level of satisfaction with your CHISIG membership, how do you use the Simplicity newsletter, how do you use the CHISIG website and mailing list, what is your satisfaction with current membership benefits, what is your opinion on some potential membership benefits the CHISIG executive is considering, and finally an opportunity for you to make further suggestions about any particular theme regarding CHISIG membership. While the discussion of the over all satisfaction will be left till the end of this article the remaining themes will be summarised in sequence: * The survey results indicate that the Simplicity newsletter is a resource that the majority of members read in some form or another. The vast majority have never advertised in Simplicity and have never penned an article (to the minority who indicated that they would like to write an article for Simplicty contact newsletter at chisig.org). Content is always welcome and could include anything from reviews, paper abstracts in up coming conferences, PhD thesis abstracts, usability studies, etc. * The survey results indicate that the CHISIG website is a sparsely-used membership resource and is particularly evident by the majority of respondents never having visited the members only section of the CHISIG website! However, a complete redesign and implementation of the CHISIG web site is already underway and is approaching completion - you may have already noticed the new ergonomics.org.au website. In contrast to the CHISIG website, the CHISIG mailing list was found to be a very popular resource and it will continue to serve its purpose into the future. * Of the current membership benefits offerred by a CHISIG membership, some benefits found most useful were the mailing list, online networking opportunities and the discounted OZCHI subscriptions. The executive envisions that the new website will provide an improved resource through which to connect and network with HCI practitioners, share community news and other useful content. However, a new and redesigned website shouldn't serve as the panacea to an under performing membership package, so your opinion on some potential benefits were sought. * Of a list of potential membership benefits the executive is considering, the survey results show an overwhelming interest for HCI/Usability book discounts, industry news feeds, professional development courses, and industry-university collaboration opportunities. The CHISIG executive is already negotiating with the SitePoint publishing group for the book discounts - a more formal announcement will follow. In addition, a review is currently underway to scope out potential development courses and industry news sources and new ways to connect academia with industry. The cumulative overall satisfaction rating of CHISIG benefits show that a majority of CHISIG members are somewhat satisfied with the current membership offering. However if one considers the large group whom are indifferent combined with those who are either somewhat or very dissatisfied with the current membership offering, then it suggests that there are improvements to be made. Several responses submitted in the open-ended question similarly support this finding. The CHISIG executive is taking each of your comments on board as we work toward ensuring the membership package delivers value. As much as this article has been to report the lessons learnt, it furthermore sends a request to you, the member, to show the CHISIG executive how your membership works (or does not work) for you in your HCI profession. In other words, please take time to write to the executive (membership at chisig.org) and tell us how the CHISIG membership package could be improved. Doing so will benefit you and the community as a whole. Kenneth Treharne Membership Coordinator, CHISIG membership at chisig.org From Christopher.Lueg at utas.edu.au Mon Oct 19 18:38:00 2009 From: Christopher.Lueg at utas.edu.au (Christopher Lueg) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:00 +1100 (EST) Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: EII/CSIRO workshop "Interacting with Information Technologies" Message-ID: Call for Papers & Participation Interacting with Information Technologies Monday, November 30, 2009 (between OzCHI and ACIS/AI) CSIRO Auditorium, CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart TAS, Australia A workshop co-sponsored by the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) Taskforce on "Understanding and Extracting Value from IT Investments" and CSIRO ICT Centre (Hobart, TAS) Invited speaker: Professor Michael B. Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/EII-CSIRO_2009.html (see also the attached CfP) -- Dr. Christopher Lueg Professor of Computing University of Tasmania Private Bag 100 Hobart TAS 7001, Australia christopher.lueg at utas.edu.au http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: eii-csiro_workshop_pub.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 90780 bytes Desc: Url : From tania at peakusability.com.au Tue Oct 20 09:32:12 2009 From: tania at peakusability.com.au (Tania Lang) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:32:12 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] JOBSEEKER: Marketing / online marketing / online project management Message-ID: <98B2F052C8D342179BEFC4977A599033@TaniaLangPC> Forwarded from jobseeker in Brazil returning to Brisbane. He is currently working for Dell. Please forward onto anyone you feel might be interested. 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Within these years, I had the opportunity to interact on strategic and tactical levels with designers, developers, students, university staff, business partners, prospects, and customers. Some of my accomplishments include the creation, management, and positioning of Red Hat's marketing department in Brazil from scratch, overall marketing campaigns and leads management, online communities leadership at Red Hat, apart from setting the Latin America online foundation for the Public sector at Dell. I would greatly appreciate your time to forward this email to your contacts in Brisbane and Gold Coast. Many thanks for your support! Best regards, -- David Barzilay barzel18 AT gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darylk at unimelb.edu.au Sun Oct 25 18:59:09 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:59:09 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: The Role of Mood in How We Perceive Interface Agents That Express Emotions Message-ID: <0497F75F4B7A9F41B407AD72411ADBAD0561FF4E@IS-EX-BEV1.unimelb.edu.au> (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. PRESENTER: Nilma Perera, Interaction Design Group TITLE: The Role of Mood in How We Perceive Interface Agents That Express Emotions VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 30 Oct 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: Affective computing originated in the field of Artificial Intelligence. However, in the last decade or so it has found its way into the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Currently, we see emotions being utilised from attempts to create/enhance basic 'social interaction' among human and computers, effective teaching and learner engagement, and persuasion. One of the common methods of delivering emotions at an interface level is with a use of an interface agent and is commonly used in teaching, e-commerce and the health domain. Although, technologies such as interface agents that express emotions are said to allow more natural or more enhanced interactions with computers, the opposite is often true. This can be directed to the fact that little work has been conducted to understand the implications of these 'synthetic' emotions on users' perceptions, behaviours and emotions. Whilst trying to investigate effects of emotions expressed by interface agents on their users, I found that users can 'catch' emotions expressed by an interface agent, similar to how humans transmit and catch one another's emotions. This can be a used to regulate and optimise one's emotions to best suite the interaction at hand. For example, expressions of positive emotions by an interface agent can lead to reduction in the user's boredom. However, it seems that we need to pay particular attention to the user's mood when designing such technology. In this presentation I will show (i) empirical evidence to support how users' mood can influence users' perceptions of the interface agent and (ii) discuss how not addressing users' mood may lead to failure in technologies such as interface agents that express emotions. BIO: Nilma Perera is a PhD student at the Department of Information Systems (DIS) and the Biomedical Multimedia Unit (BMU). Her research interests are Affective Computing, Emotions and Flow theory. Nilma is supervised by Jon Pearce (DIS) and Gregor Kennedy (BMU). 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 darylk at unimelb.edu.au From sandrine at acm.org Mon Oct 26 06:38:19 2009 From: sandrine at acm.org (Sandrine Balbo) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:38:19 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Melbourne Computer Education Conventicle 2009 13th November - Information on keynote speakers, program and call for registration Message-ID: <4AE57C1B.3080509@acm.org> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Melbourne Computer Education Conventicle 2009 13th November - Information on keynote speakers, program and call for registration Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:04:25 +1100 From: Theda Thomas Dear All - please send this to your colleagues who might be interested in this event The program for the Melbourne Computer Education Conventicle on the 13^th November, 2009 is ready and we are pleased to announce the special keynote speakers for the conference. The program and registration are available through our website at: http://www.deakin.edu.au/~seoexp/mcec/2009/index.php *Associate Professor Roger Hadgraft* is one of two Australian Learning and Teaching Council Discipline Scholars for Engineering and Technology in 2009-2010. His topic is ?Academic Standards or Academic Standardisation ? what will TEQSA encourage?? This topic may be of particular importance to curriculum developers and program coordinators so please pass this on to those in your university. A critical component of best practice in ICT and in engineering for 2010 will be the *standards agenda* being promoted by the Federal Government through the formation of TEQSA. Fortunately, the engineering and IT communities are well prepared through outcomes-based accreditation systems. It is anticipated that this will need to be enhanced through clear definitions of *performance standards* for each of the graduate outcomes. Some see this as leading to standardisation of our teaching, in a similar way to what has happened in high school curricula. Others see the opportunities offered by the availability of best practice teaching and assessment materials to reduce the time that individual academics spend in developing lecture slides and learning activities. The development of standards and best practice will be the main work of the ALTC Discipline Scholars in Engineering and ICT in 2010, Prof. Ian Cameron and Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft. More details can be found on our website. *Dr Arnold Pears* is a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University Sweden. His topic will is ?A Scholarly Approach to Teaching Computing?. He will be exploring different approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and using case studies to illustrate how SoTL can provide a path to continuous academic professional development in pedagogy and didactics leading to formal advancement within the University. Dr Arnold Pears is a member of the Pedagogy Advisory Board of the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Academic Senate of Uppsala University, as well as sitting on the Boards of Studies for both Technology and Natural Science. He is also a director of CeTUSS a national centre for student and socially relevant engineering education established by the Swedish Council for Higher education in 2004. His research spans parallel computer architecture design and evaluation, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networking, but his principal interest is Computing Education Research and Engineering Education Research. Dr Pears is currently on sabbatical in Melbourne working as a Visiting Researcher in the Computer Science Education Research Group at Monash Caulfield. He is also collaborating on projects in Engineering Education Research with the Engineering Learning Unit at Melbourne University. More details can be found on our website. The Conventicle is open to all who wish to attend and will bring together teachers and researchers with a common interest in computing education. Attendance at the Conventicle is free, thanks to support from the Australian Catholic University and The Learning Edge International. There will be an opportunity for collaboration and discussion throughout the conference with HOT TOPICS sessions set aside for this purpose. Further details of the program and registration details are available through the website. Although registration is free, please register for catering purposes. Looking forward to seeing you there. Please contact myself or Karen Toohey karen.toohey at acu.edu.au if you have any queries. Regards Theda Associate Professor Theda Thomas Associate Dean (Teaching, Learning and International) Faculty of Arts and Sciences Australian Catholic University Limited Room 5-53 250 Victoria Parade Locked Bag 4115 FITZROY VIC 3065 Tel: +61 3 9953 3867 Fax: +61 3 9419 8188 ABN 15 050 192 660 CRICOS Registration: 00004G, 000112C, 00873F, 00885B From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Wed Oct 28 00:29:34 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:29:34 +1100 Subject: [chisigmail] Reminder: Call for Paper: UMUAI Special Issue on Personalization in e-Health Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A88847244046EC3CB9@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> [Apologies for duplicate postings] *********************************************************************** Special Issue on Personalization in e-Health User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (An international journal published by Springer Verlag) Guest editors: Floriana Grasso and Cecile Paris http://www.ict.csiro.au/Staff/Cecile.Paris/umuai-e-Health/ *********************************************************************** Research articles are invited for a special issue of the UMUAI Journal on Personalisation for e-Health. This issue is in memory of and dedicated to Fiorella de Rosis and Alison Cawsey, who made important contributions to this field and both died in the past year (see (http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/people/fior.html http://www.springerlink.com/content/j3431532u5154449/ http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~alison/ and http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/obituary.htm) The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of investment in the e-Health sector, both in terms of research effort and funding, as well as great public interest in this area. e-Health can be broadly defined as the application of Information Technologies to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of any processes related to health care, clinical and business alike. In the e-Health vision, intelligent systems would, for example, enable: * citizens to take more control of their well-being, by accessing personalised and qualified health information (both medical and pedagogical), accessing appropriate medical care from their homes, or supporting each other in social networks; * health professionals to manage their activity more efficiently, by receiving relevant and timely information and updates; and * teams of health professionals to work together more effectively, coordinating their activities, sharing their knowledge about the patients they are collectively taking care of, and ensuring the best coordinated care is provided. This special issue aims at attracting work from both the computational and the medical and public health perspectives, presenting theoretical results, case studies for best practices or new technologies (e.g., Web 2.0 technologies, technologies for affective computing) for personalisation in the health domain. A non-exhaustive list of issues of interest is: * Adaptive and personalised e-Health information systems (including adaptive content, search and interface); * Tailored health education and advice (written and online); * The use of affective interfaces in e-Health; * Online communities and social networks in health; * Promoting trust and compliance to health advice; * Personalised assistance, including for citizens with special needs (e.g. disabled and elderly people); * Personalisation in chronic care (e.g., asthma or diabetes management) as opposed to acute care (e.g., ICU setting); * Privacy issues for health related user models; * Personalisation based both on biometric or genomic factors and clinical information; * Tailored decision support (for patients and practitioners); * Supporting the implementation of guidelines and protocols in healthcare; * Models of user learning, knowledge, attitude and behaviour change (including compliance); * Patient/citizen models; * Ontologies for user models for tailored health care delivery; * Use of ubiquitous and mobile applications for the personalisation of e-Health; * Methods for evaluating user satisfaction with eHealth systems (weblog analysis, tracking users, quantitative and qualitative methods); and * Reports of evaluation studies of personalised e-Health systems. Personalisation for e-Health is multidisciplinary. We thus welcome contributions from diverse perspectives, such as human factors, mobile computing, natural language processing, cognitive modelling, as well as public health and medical informatics. Papers should present reports on completed work that has not been published elsewhere. HOW TO SUBMIT Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI formatting guidelines and submission instructions available at http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html Each submission should note that it is intended for the special issue on Personalisation for e-Health. Potential authors are asked to notify by email the guest editors as soon as possible of their intent to submit an article (see below for the relevant contact information). Sometime thereafter, but no later than a month prior to the submission deadline, they should submit a tentative title and a one-page abstract to allow for feedback and the formation of a reviewer panel. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the dynamic adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (so long as what they write is important). Authors whose paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) are however requested to supply a short justification upon submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results would not be advisable. REVIEW PROCESS Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for the special issue. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: Deadline for Submission of title and abstract: November 1st, 2009 Deadline for Paper Submissions: December 1st, 2009 Notification to authors: March 1st, 2009 Guest Editors Floriana Grasso, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Liverpool, UK. email: floriana at liverpool.ac.uk http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/ Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. email cecile.paris at csiro.au http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask the guest editors ------------------------------------- Dr C?cile Paris Principal Senior Research Scientist CSIRO ICT Centre **** We have moved -- Please note my new address and contact details PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710 Physical Address: CSIRO ICT Centre Crn Vimiera and Pembroke Roads, Marsfield NSW 2122 Australia Phone: +61 2 9372 4704 Fax: +61 2 9372 4585 Email: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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