From Cecile.Paris at csiro.au Fri Sep 4 04:30:13 2009 From: Cecile.Paris at csiro.au (Cecile.Paris at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 18:30:13 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Sudent vacation scholarships available Message-ID: <1E24F8498F299B4986C854A8884724403C1C37B0@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Hi: CSIRO has vacation studentships available for the Xmas period (in Sydney and Canberra). The closing date is 18 September 2009. I have included below the link to the advert -- it is also available by going to CSIRO careers website - the position number is 2009/549 https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/Job_Details.asp?RefNo=2009%2F549 My area is "Interacting with Information". If someone is interested, I can send you the projects we currently have in mind. In brief: - 2 projects about using social networks to build communities - 4 projects around information seeking tasks and information provision (analysing search patterns, designing presentation strategies) - 3 projects around NLP building on our summarisation work -- one of them is on visualisation. Kind regards Cecile ------------------------------------- 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/InfoEngagement http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CFP: Special Issue of Behaviour and Information Technology Services and Human-Computer Interaction: New Opportunities GUEST EDITORS Peter Wild, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge Geke van Dijk, STBY London/Amsterdam Neil Maiden, Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University London 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 HCI issues. ?In turn the user, value, and worth centred ethos of HCI of existing and emerging approaches, is making its way into Service design approaches with the usual range of complements and challenges that occur when disciplines interact. Service definitions and Service design have often stressed the intangible, activity-based, 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. Another of HCI?s strengths is its strong emphasis on original creative and systematic conceptual design. ?This can inform new ways of approaching Service design, which can enhance the focus that Service Marketing and Operations communities have taken to date. ?In addition, HCI is in prime position to take advantage of emerging technologies in Service-Oriented Architectures in support of long-standing Design goals such as personalization and adaptivity, and aid us in understanding human issues in adaptive software systems. This special issue will bring together papers that explore the Intersection between Services and Human-Computer Interactions. Possible areas include: :- Reports of experiences applying HCI approaches (e.g. Personas, Scenarios) 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) :- Human Centred perspectives on Service Oriented Architectures :- The User Centred Service System Requirements Generation :- How SOA technologies enable long standing HCI goals such as personalization and adaptivity :- ?From Service to e-Service and back again :- Relationship between SOA metrics and HCI measures :- Novel representations of Services :- ?Participatory approaches throughout the HCI lifecycle :- ?The intersection between theoretical accounts of Participatory approaches and Value Co-Creation and Co-Production :- The application of Conceptual Design processes (e.g., Metaphors, Patterns) to services :- ?Educational perspectives. We will welcome a broad range of papers that are practical, empirical, or theoretical in orientation, in addition to tightly argued polemics and theoretically informed review papers. SUBMISSIONS BIT provides extensive instructions for authors, which can be found at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/printview/?issn=0144-929X&linktype=44 Submission is through the standard BIT website, all submissions should be submitted as being for the Special Issue on ?Services and Human-Computer Interaction: New Opportunities? All papers will be double blind reviewed. KEY DATES Paper Submission: 28th February 2010 Return of reviews: 23rd April 2010 Final decisions: 30th April 2010 Submission of Revised Papers: 30th September 2010 Final submission to BIT: 29th October 2010 EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST The Guest editors appreciate expressions of interest (EoI) as they help to plan the review cycle and allocation. ?EoIs can range from a one paragraph through to a two-page position statement like submission. ?These can be sent to peter.j.wild at gmail.com at any time before the paper submission deadline. REVIEWERS We welcome enquiries from potential reviewers for papers in the special issue. ?Please contact Peter Wild for more information. SUPPORT WEBSITE The following site has been set up to provide support material for the special issue. https://sites.google.com/site/bitspecialissue/ CONTACT DETAILS Peter J Wild, peter.j.wild at gmail.com +44 (0) 1223 7 65 910 Geke van Dijk, geke at stby.eu Neil Maiden, cc559 at soi.city.ac.uk ////// -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BIT Service and HCI Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 78362 bytes Desc: not available Url : From darylk at unimelb.edu.au Sun Sep 6 19:14:47 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:14:47 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] =?utf-8?q?_IDG_Seminar=3A_The_Melbourne_Punk_Scene_i?= =?utf-8?q?n_Australia=E2=80=99s_Independent_Music_History?= Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. PRESENTER: Morgan Langdon, La Trobe University TITLE: The Melbourne Punk Scene in Australia?s Independent Music History VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 11 Sep 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: The existence of independent music communities and culture within Australia?s major cities today is largely attributed to the introduction of punk in the late 1970s. Among the inner city youth, a tiny subculture emerged around this sprawling, haphazard style of music that was quickly dismissed by the major players in the Australian music industry as bereft of commercial possibilities. Left to its own devices, punk was forced to rely solely on the strength of the independent music network to release some of the most original music of the era and lay the foundations for a celebrated musical culture. This paper examines the factors that contributed to and influenced the early Australian punk scenes, focusing in particular on Melbourne between 1975 and 1981. It shows that the emergence and characteristics of independent music communities within individual cities can be attributed to the existence of certain factors and institutions, both external and internal to the city. BIO: Morgan Langdon completed her Honours degree in Media Studies at La Trobe University in 2008. This paper is an excerpt from her Honours thesis on independent music culture in Melbourne. She plans to commence her PhD in 2010. 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 wsmith at unimelb.edu.au Sun Sep 6 21:15:42 2009 From: wsmith at unimelb.edu.au (Wally Smith) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:15:42 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Invitation: The Human Side of IT - Melbourne Event - Thursday 10 September 5:30pm Message-ID: <86DBA0678E017341B449A62F258E295601FB350C@IS-EX-BEV3.unimelb.edu.au> Dear CHISIG friends You are cordially invited to the following event in Melbourne this coming Thursday. *********************************************************** 'The Human Side of IT: How to Make Systems That are Usable and Useful' Presenters: Wally Smith, John Murphy and Gerry Gaffney 10 September 2009: 5.30pm (for 6pm) - 7pm Innovation at 257, Level 1, 257 Collins Street URL http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/pdf/seminarsflyerjulsept09.pdf (scroll down to lower half) *********************************************************** This event will examine ways to talk across the gap between the world of Business IT and the world of Usability/UX design. The panel-talk is organised in conjunction with the The Australian Computer Society. Although it will be pitched at the 'IT Manager', it will also be relevant to usability practitioners who work in this space. And the presence of usability folk to join in discussions will be most welcome. If you come along at 5:30 there will even be food! Please RSVP to Greta Harrison gretah at unimelb.edu.au Hope to see you there. Wally Smith The University of Melbourne wsmith at unimelb.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The evening will consist of: . an overview of how the process was applied in the redesign of a user-generated portal for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (15-25 minutes) . an interactive small group activity into how to undertake elements of the mental modelling process (20-25 minutes). When? Tuesday 29 September at 6.00pm Where? Media & Communication Honours Studio, RMIT Bldg 4, Level 5 (also accessible from bldg 6 via lift), Map: http://bit.ly/4huy8p How much? Free, gold coin donation appreciated. RSVP RSVP is essential - a small group activity will be held. Please confirm your attendance online: http://bit.ly/2kZY12 Hope to see you there! Cheers Eleanor (on behalf of Vic CHISIG) Eleanor Tan Senior Consultant Symplicit Pty Ltd tel: + 61 3 9670 3385 fax: + 61 3 9670 3395 mobile: + 61 412 786 855 address: Level 1, Suite 103, 757 Bourke street, Docklands, Vic, 3008 email: eleanor at symplicit.com.au web: www.symplicit.com.au Follow us on Twitter: @symplicit -------------------------------------------------- SYMPLICIT - Confidential Communication. This email (which includes any attachments) is confidential and may be subject to professional privilege. If this email has been sent to you by mistake please inform us by reply email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. There is no warranty that this email is error or virus free. If this is a private communication it does not represent the views of SYMPLICIT. This email is copyright. 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The Conventicle is a one-day conference that aims to support academics who are researching and teaching in the computer science and information technology disciplines, or who are using computer technology in their teaching. It provides an opportunity for sharing of ideas and innovations; for discussion of research directions; and for development of collaborations. This event builds on the success of the first five Melbourne Computing Education Conventicles (at Monash University in 2004, Swinburne University in 2005, RMIT University in 2006, Deakin University in 2007 and University of Melbourne in 2008), and also on similar IT education conventicles held in Sydney and Queensland over the last few years. 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. All interested parties are invited to submit proposals for sessions or presentations at the 6th Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle (MCEC 2009). We are planning an interactive and engaging event, with sessions in a variety of formats and focussed on any aspect of IT education. We are seeking proposals for people to lead or participate in (or just suggest an idea for) any of the following: -- open forum or group discussion; -- panel session; -- demonstration of a teaching tool or technique; -- presentation of a recently published or accepted conference or journal paper; -- older paper of topical interest; All proposals submitted will be considered by the MCEC committee. The primary criteria for selection will be the potential interest of the presentation to the audience. While it is expected that the majority of attendees will be academics from the Melbourne area, submissions are also welcome from interstate. To submit a proposal: 1. Email a copy of your proposal to theda.thomas at acu.edu.au 2. Indicate any role you wish to play (e.g. member of a panel, lead a discussion, demonstrate a tool, present a paper) 2. If you wish to present a paper please provide details of the conference or journal to which your paper was accepted and the name and contact details of the person who will present the paper at MCEC. Proposals should be submitted by Monday 28th September. Presenters will be notified by 16 October. If you don't submit a paper, put the 13 November in your diary, go to the website, register and come along. Further details are available at http://www.deakin.edu.au/~seoexp/mcec/2009/index.php. We'll send more information a bit later. Please send this on to anyone who might be interested. If you are not on the original emailing list for this announcement, but would like to receive future email announcements about this event, please email karen.toohey at acu.edu.au If you would like to be removed from the mailing list then please also let Karen Toohey know. 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 roecker at humtec.rwth-aachen.de Thu Sep 10 11:45:56 2009 From: roecker at humtec.rwth-aachen.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Carsten_R=F6cker?=) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:45:56 +0200 Subject: [chisigmail] EXTENDED DEADLINE: SmartHealth'09 - First International Workshop on Smart Healthcare Applications Message-ID: Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. *** ATTENTION: Submission Deadline extended to September 20, 2009 *** *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION +++ SmartHealth'09 +++ First International Workshop on Smart Healthcare Applications One-day workshop at OZCHI 2009 November 23 - 27, 2009 Melbourne, Australia http://smarthealth.humtec.rwth-aachen.de *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: September 20, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: September 28, 2009 *********************************************************************** WORKSHOP THEME Within the last years a variety of new healthcare concepts for supporting and assisting users in technology-enhanced environments emerged. While smart healthcare systems can help to minimize hospital stays and in so doing enable patients an independent life in a domestic environment, the complexity such systems raises fundamental questions of behavior, communication and technology acceptance. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the interrelation of medical, environmental, technical, communicative, psychological and social factors and their consequences for the design, use and acceptance of smart healthcare systems. *********************************************************************** WORKSHOP TOPICS Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Methodology * Usability of Healthcare Information Systems * Usability of Mobile Computing in Healthcare * User Experience Design * Universal (or Disability) Access * Empirical Methods (Qualitative and Qualitative) * User and Cognitive Models * Participatory Design * Model-Based Design of E-Health Systems * Tools for Design, Modeling, and Evaluation Concepts and Applications * Novel E-Health Concepts * Software Infrastructures and Architectures for Implementing E- Health Applications * Tools and Design Techniques for E-Health Systems * Interaction Design * Multidisciplinary or Interdisciplinary Design * Trade-off between Technical, Medical, and User Requirements * Aesthetic vs. Functional Design Aspects * Emotional and Hedonic Design Human-Computer Interaction * Human Aspects of Future and Emerging Healthcare Technologies * Human-Computer Interaction in Healthcare * User-Centered or Human-Centered Design * Emotion and Affective User Interface * Adaptive and Tangible User Interfaces for E-Health Systems * Universal (or Disability) Access Social and Ethical Aspects * Accessibility and Usability * User Diversity * Ethical and Normative Requirements * Gender Specific Healthcare Design * Economical, Legal, and Environmental Constraints * Technology Acceptance and Performance * Social and Societal Implications of E-Health Applications * Legal Issues in E-Health Applications * Privacy, Security, and Trust in E-Health Applications * Cultural Aspects of E-Health Systems Technology and Systems * Technologies and Devices for Smart Healthcare Systems * Medical Devices and Sensors Infrastructures * Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks * Collaborative and Distributed Healthcare Systems * Handheld Devices and Mobile Computing in E-Health Systems * Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare * Ambient Assisted Living Environments *********************************************************************** SUBMISSION Interested researchers are invited to submit a 2-page position paper formatted according to the OZCHI format to the workshop organizers (smarthealth2009 at humtec.rwth-aachen.de ) until September 20, 2009. The papers should focus on current research activities and/or interesting aspects of future work. All position papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their novelty, originality, and relevance to the workshop theme. Authors of accepted position papers will be notified until September 28, 2009. The workshop will be held at OZCHI 2009, November 23-27, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. *********************************************************************** ORGANIZERS Carsten R?cker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Susan Hansen, CSIRO, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Sun Sep 13 19:12:46 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:12:46 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] PhD Scholarships in New Media Services with Smart Services CRC Message-ID: <04E015DB-FB63-4C46-A733-67E351EF8575@qut.edu.au> PhD Scholarships in New Media Services with Smart Services CRC The Smart Services CRC is a $120 million, commercially focused collaborative research initiative, developing innovation, foresight and productivity improvements for the services sector. Services are the largest sector of the economy representing approximately 80% of Australia?s GDP and 85% of employment. Within the services industries Smart Services? initial programs will be customer-focused with outcomes translatable across the whole services sector. Initial research outcomes and demonstrators will principally be associated with the digital media, finance and government sectors. In order to achieve these goals, Smart Services CRC will be supporting research higher degree students at PhD and Masters level through scholarships, top-ups and in-kind support for research, travel, conferences etc. As a partner in Smart Services CRC, the Queensland University of Technology is offering scholarship packages for 2009. Research higher degree students with CRC scholarships will have access to the full range of resources offered by QUT (access to equipment and facilities, Grants-in-Aid, teaching opportunities etc.), as well as the opportunity to work with leading industry partners in the media, finance and government sectors on projects of direct real-world relevance through Smart Services CRC. The New Media Services program at QUT is focused on research questions such as: ? What are innovative business models for new media? Can international case studies identify new opportunities for media service industries in an era of Web 2.0 that goes beyond the mass communications model? ? What new opportunities for news are enabled by digital media, including computational journalism, news visualization and citizen journalism? ? What opportunities exist to ?harness the hive? of social media in advertising, marketing and integrated marketing communication? ? Can the development of digital communities and the nurturing of digital ecosystems be applied across the service industries? Led by the Creative Industries Faculty and the Faculty of Business, the New Media Servceis program provides the opportunity to work collaboratively with industry partners across the media and government sectors on aligning research activity with industry goals and strategies in the emergent digital media environment. The following topics are of interest to supervisors in the New Media Servcies research project team: Professor Terry Flew (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) ? Innovative business models for new media; ? Digital futures for news media; ? Mobile and digital media content production. Associate Professor Axel Bruns (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Drivers and motivations for users to participate in social media Websites; 2. Future developments in online social media and social networking; 3. Business models for social media sites. Dr. Christy Collis (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Emerging uses and users of locative mobile media; 2. Audiences and markets for online, mobile, and cross-platform media. Dr. Christina Spurgeon (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) Dr. Edwina Luck (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Future drivers of participation within virtual social media 2. The role of ?electronic word-of-mouth? in product and service marketing 3. Hyper-targeting and advertising within virtual social networks Dr. Larry Neale (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Network and device convergence 2. Future entertainment business models 3. Delivering digital customer service Smart Services CRC is a research and development partnership between 12 major industry players and six Australian universities, funded by the private sector and governments under the Australian Government?s Cooperative Research Centre program. Its aim is the creation of research-enabled commercial outcomes for its partners. For more information on the Smart Services CRC, go to http://www.smartservicescrc.com.au/AboutUs.html . For more information on scholarships at QUT, go to http://www.rsc.qut.edu.au/studentsstaff/scholarships/ . Information for prospective research students in the Faculty of Business can be found at http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/. Information for prospective research students in the Creative Industries Faculty can be found at http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/research/future-student/ . -- 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 Sep 13 19:58:30 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:58:30 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Reality Mash Up: Second Life Teleports into the Contemporary Art World (Artist Talk) Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. PRESENTER: Georgie Roxby Smith, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne TITLE: Reality Mash Up: Second Life Teleports into the Contemporary Art World (Artist Talk) VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Friday 18 Sep 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: Primarily an installation artist, Georgie Roxby Smith challenges the relationship between analogue and digital systems, questioning materiality and exploring new possibilities of virtual reality software. Her practice is engaged with the themes of digital and global systems and the glitches created when these systems meet with the analogue or the everyday. Through extracting and reinjecting her Second Life avatar into physical space, her work exists on a kaleidoscope of planes - "in world", within a body of physical sculptures, as ephemeral projections in space and as recreated performances by both humans and avatars. Forming a virtual hall of mirrors, these realities bleedthrough and overlap into each other, creating an indeterminate state where audiences are in two, three, four realities at once. Georgie has recently been accepted into the Watermill Center Residency Program (New York) and the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art Innovators Program. She has also been selected as guest reviewer for Second Life simulator Brooklyn is Watching, presented by Jack the Pelican Presents (New York). As well as exhibiting in local ARI's, Georgie has taken part in the Melbourne International Arts Festival for the past three years including 'Navigators' 2006 (for which she received the Eldon and Anne Foote Trust Travel Grant), 'John Cage's Musicircus' 2007 and, in 2008, contributed to 'Longing Belonging Land' and assisted artist Chris Doyle with his 'Ecstatic City' installation. BIO: Georgie Roxby Smith is an artist and production manager and is currently completing her Master of Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts. 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 Gian.Wild at its.monash.edu.au Tue Sep 15 20:22:52 2009 From: Gian.Wild at its.monash.edu.au (Gian Wild) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:22:52 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Looking for content editors Message-ID: 2 content editors with experience managing, analysing or writing content are required to conduct a content analysis for an enterprise-wide initiative for Monash University in Melbourne. The work includes: ? Review content ? Analyse accuracy of content ? Find duplicate content ? Enter content hierarchy and details into Excel Skills & Experience: ? Experience in the web industry. ? Experience with web content ? Punctuality, ability to work to timelines and organise and manage own work. ? Proficient with MS Word and MS Excel. ? Well developed written and oral communication skills Immediate Start Early October through to Tuesday 22 December 2009 Hours We would prefer full-time, but we may accept part-time applicants. The standard working week is 36 hours and 45 minutes. Some flexibility in hours worked may be required. Pay $37.17 (casual rate) per hour Contact Please send your CV to: Gian Wild Ph 9902 0535 Email gian.wild at its.monash.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Studies in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, or related discipline or experience in industry. ? Punctuality, ability to work to timelines and organise and manage own work. ? Solid understanding of various user-centered design research methods ? Experience with Morae? software - preferred but not essential ? Ability to present test results in ways that emphasize the key results and illustrate results visually. ? Proficient with MS Word and MS Excel. ? Well developed written and oral communication skills Immediate Start Early October through to Tuesday 22 December 2009 Hours We would prefer full-time, but we may accept part-time applicants. The standard working week is 36 hours and 45 minutes. Some flexibility in hours worked may be required. Pay $41.02 (casual rate) per hour Contact Please send your CV to: Gian Wild Ph 9902 0535 Email gian.wild at its.monash.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kobsa at uci.edu Tue Sep 15 22:50:10 2009 From: kobsa at uci.edu (Alfred Kobsa) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:50:10 -0700 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: 18th Int'l Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Message-ID: UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010 http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. TOPICS The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces, ... - User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs, affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics, ... - Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural heritage, healthcare, assistive technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV, ... - Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/ social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual environments, ... - Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation, adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ... - Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests, ... - Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user experience, ... SUBMISSION CATEGORIES WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009) Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and format of the workshop, introducing also the members of the organizing team and their backgrounds. Preference will be given to workshops that aim to produce answers to one or more explicitly formulated questions and that involve interactive presentations and constructive work, as opposed to "miniconferences" that comprise mainly paper presentations. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009) Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial and its importance, the intended style of presentation, and the instructor's qualifications. Conference participants can attend tutorials at no extra charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a complementary conference registration. RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18) - Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance. - Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation. Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only in extremely unusual circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category. INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18) The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010) The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (3 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive advice. DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18, 2010) Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems at the conference. Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of such systems. They should be accompanied by a specification of the system requirements, and by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1. POSTERS (due May 18, 2010) Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1. SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair conference system (workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent directly to the respective co-chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs. PUBLICATION Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted descriptions of posters, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP Adjunct Proceedings. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa Program Co-Chairs Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands Industry Track Co-Chairs Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Demo and Poster Co-Chairs Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Local Arrangements Chair Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo VENUE UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side of the ?Big Island? of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa Colony Villas. STUDENT SUPPORT This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is expected that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority. -- Alfred Kobsa Univ. of California, Irvine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jessica at formulate.com.au Sun Sep 20 00:12:49 2009 From: jessica at formulate.com.au (Jessica Enders) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:12:49 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Please remove me from your mailing list Message-ID: <2E290E2F-0656-4BA1-84C1-19636083B180@formulate.com.au> Hello As I am no longer a member of CHISIG, I would appreciate it if you could remove me from your mailing list. Many thanks, Jessica Enders Principal Formulate Information Design ---------------------------------------- Winner of the Canberra BusinessPoint Emerging Entrepreneur Award 2009 ---------------------------------------- Phone: (02) 6116 8765 Fax: (02) 8456 5916 PO Box 5108 Braddon ACT 2612 ---------------------------------------- http://formulate.com.au @Formulate on Twitter ---------------------------------------- From sandrine at acm.org Mon Sep 21 10:14:04 2009 From: sandrine at acm.org (Sandrine Balbo) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:14:04 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Tutorial at OZCHI in Melbourne - 23rd Nov : User Requirement Gathering: what Task Models have to offer Message-ID: <4AB78A2C.7000007@acm.org> Full details about this full day tutorial can be found at: http://sandrinebalbo.com/academic/ozchi2009-tutorial/ Below are the first few paragraphs from the above page. Hope to see you then and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any query about this tutorial, Sandrine DATE and LOCATION This tutorial will take place in the University of Melbourne IDEA lab. A state of the art usability lab, geared not just to usability testing, but also to teach students about usability engineering. So, a fabulous location for this tutorial! Date: Monday 23rd November 2009 AUDIENCE This tutorial is designed for people with no or little experience in task analysis. Experience in user interaction design in general, and requirement gathering in particular, is preferable, but not necessary. Participants with prior knowledge in user interaction design will be able to apply readily what they learn in comparison to their own experience, which is always beneficial. OBJECTIVE This tutorial?s objective is two-fold: * To introduce novices/designers to requirement gathering methods for informing the design of user interaction. * To provide instruction in the established practice of requirement gathering and hands on experience with task analysis. DESCRIPTION Participants of this full day tutorial will gain an overview of User Requirement Gathering techniques through the explanation of three of its most widespread approaches: ethnography, contextual design, and task analysis. We will cover briefly the first two approaches, and will describe in detail the task analysis approach to User Requirement Gathering. This description will be illustrated using various notations, including essential use cases, BPMN and DIANE+. Participants will acquire knowledge about the various roles task analysis plays in the development of information and communication technology, and will gain practical experience through various design exercises building their own models. From darylk at unimelb.edu.au Wed Sep 23 02:02:56 2009 From: darylk at unimelb.edu.au (Daryl Ku) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:56 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Blended Interaction Spaces for Distributed Team Collaboration Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar. Please note the extraordinary date. PRESENTER: Jeni Paay, User Experience Group, CSIRO TITLE: Blended Interaction Spaces for Distributed Team Collaboration VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton DATE and TIME: Monday 28 Sep 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm ABSTRACT: The Blended Interaction Space (BIS) concept combines video conferencing elements and distributed shared interactive digital screen elements to support distributed hands-on collaboration in the workplace in a way that participants feel as if they are together. This feeling is achieved by a "blending" of the two spaces, which allows participants of a meeting to communicate and interact as they would if they were located face-to-face. The interaction design for the physical and the digital workspace is an important part of achieving this "blending". Project teams are often created across several physical locations, and we have an expectation to be able to collaborate in such ways with the aid of technology. BIS sets itself apart from previous work in media spaces and telepresence by combining both support for natural person-to-person communication and distributed shared interactive media spaces for data sharing and collaborative manipulation. This work was done as a cross organisational collaboration itself, under the banner of the Braccetto project, as part of the HxI initiative, between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney and DSTO Adelaide ? I will be presenting the design process and the outcomes of this project. BIO: Jeni Paay is a senior research scientist and interaction designer with the User Experience Group, CSIRO. 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 floyd at floydmueller.com Wed Sep 23 22:12:03 2009 From: floyd at floydmueller.com (Florian 'Floyd' Mueller) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:12:03 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] New book "Evaluating User Experience in Games" Message-ID: <345733A5-31B5-4ED3-83CA-BE98C1A06C4C@floydmueller.com> Book announcement: ================= New Springer book on "Evaluating User Experience in Games" with chapter on "Evaluating Exertion Games" by Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze and myself (warning: biased! :-). ================= From: http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/book/978-1-84882-962-6 : About this book User Experience has become a major research area in human-computer interaction. The area of game design and development has been focusing on user experience evaluation for the last 20 years, although a clear definition of user experience is still to be established. The contributors to this volume explore concepts that enhance the overall user experience in games such as fun, playability, flow, immersion and many others. Presenting an overview of current practice from academia and industry in game development, the book shows a variety of methods that can be used to evaluate user experience in games, not only during game-play but also before and after the game play. Evaluating User Experiences in Games: Presents a broad range of user experience evaluation methods and concepts; Provides insights on when to apply the various user experience evaluation methods in the development cycle and shows how methods can be also applied to a more general HCI context; Includes new research on evaluating user experience during game play and after; and social play; Describes new evaluation methods; Details methods that are also applicable for exertion games or tabletop games. This comprehensive book will be welcomed by researchers and practitioners in the field. Written for: Researchers and practitioners from the field of game development and evaluation, master and PhD students working on one of the various new aspects of user experience in gaming Keywords: Usability User experience -- New website: http://exertioninterfaces.com -- New website: http://exertioninterfaces.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Thu Sep 24 21:24:23 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:24:23 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] CfP: Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture, OZCHI 2009, Melbourne Message-ID: We're happily extending the submission deadline for our workshop, Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture at OZCHI 2009, till October 5, 2009. We plan to dedicate the following day to review all the submissions and respond so that you will have a day to take the early bird offer. If you're interested to attend, please submit a short position statement (300-500 words) or abstract by Oct 5, 2009. And please encourage your colleagues who may be interested in the topic. More details below. cheers, jaz, greg, marcus, eli, and tad. Call for Participation Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture Full day workshop at OZCHI 2009 24 Nov 2009, The University of Melbourne http://food.urbaninformatics.net/events/ozchi2009/ http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/HUNGRY247 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128413300549 This workshop proposes to explore new approaches to cultivate and support sustainable food culture in urban environments via human computer interaction design and ubiquitous technologies. Food is a challenging issue in urban contexts: while food consumption decisions are made many times a day, most food interaction for urbanites occurs based on convenience and habitual practices. This situation is contrasting to the fact that food is at the centre of global environment, health, and social issues that are becoming increasingly immanent and imminent. As such, it is timely and crucial to ask: what are feasible, effective, and innovative ways to improve human-food-interaction through human-computer-interaction in order to contribute to environmental, health, and social sustainability in urban environments? This workshop is an open and active forum for forward- thinking practitioners and scholars across disciplines to discuss this question, and plan and promote individual, local, and global change for sustainable food culture. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WORKING IN FOOD HCI RESEARCH. YOU DO NEED TO BE HUNGRY (for networking, knowledge, creativity, fun, and of course, food!) We suggest, but do not limit to, three broad topics of interests for this workshop: - Participatory networks - Research and design methods - Deployability and interoperability We kindly ask prospective participants to submit a short position statement (300-500 words) or abstract by 5th Oct 2009. Please send all submissions and queries to Jaz Choi at h.choi at qut.edu.au. Acceptance notification will be sent by 6th Oct 2009. Important Dates: - 05 Oct 2009: Submission of position statements - 06 Oct 2009: Notification of acceptance - 24 Nov 2009: Workshop Organisers: - Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - Greg Hearn (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - Eli Blevis (Indiana University, USA) - Tad Hirsch (Intel, USA) -- 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 Tue Sep 29 20:06:54 2009 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:06:54 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] Making Links 2009 Melbourne - early bird closes 5th Oct Message-ID: <7C686FD8-ACFE-4334-830F-5B8A1543D5E5@qut.edu.au> E-update DON?T MISS OUT - EARLYBIRDS CLOSE 5 OCTOBER If you register for Making Links by 5 October you will receive a generous discount. Register and book accommodation http://www.makinglinks.org.au/registration.shtml? Scholarship applications must be received no later than 1 October. (ALMOST) FINAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE Most speakers for the conference have now been confirmed and the program is packed to the rafters, including: * Case studies and discussions of the perils and pleasures of social media; * Panel discussion about working remotely with rural communities * Practical workshops on podcasting and video-blogging * Recent research on how not-for-profits are doing IT * Panel discussion of corporate social responsibility And so much more! Download a full program here: http://www.makinglinks.org.au/program.shtml Download the abstracts here: http://www.makinglinks.org.au/news/items/2009/09/292422-upload-00001.pdf IN THE LAB ? BUILDING A FRIENDLY WEBSITE ? MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER With free, cheap and easy-to-use web tools becoming more readily available, building your organisation's website has never been easier. But will people be able to find it and use it? Our web intensive workshop on 16 November addresses this question through a series of practical, interactive sessions on accessibility, usability, navigation, and search engine optimisation. Find out more: http://www.makinglinks.org.au/news/detail.chtml?filename_num=292243 Suitable for all levels of experience with websites. Discount for Making Links delegates. FILM AND DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL ? MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER In the lead-up to the conference, enjoy a drink & snack and a selection of community-produced short films and digital stories at Melbourne?s famed Loop Bar from 7- 9 pm. A draft program will be out soon. FIND OUT MORE AND HELP GET THE WORD OUT! Follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/makinglinks) Making Links is now on Twitter. Follow us for updates on the conference and hear the latest news on the role of technology in creating social change. If you are tweeting about Making Links, please add the hashtag #ML09 so others can see your tweets. Join the Making Links Facebook group to contribute ideas, meet others who will be there, and arrange rideshares. You can also help spread the word to your friends and colleagues who won?t want to miss out. And finally ? please forward this update to friends and colleagues. (highlight somehow) SUPPORT MAKING LINKS Making Links is seeking sponsors to support this important event that not only builds ICT capacity and innovation within the not-for-profit sector, but also ensures the sustainability of the conference. The team at Making Links can customize a range of solutions and packages to ensure your company receives the best value from your contribution. To find out more about our sponsorship packages, including exhibition opportunities please visit: www.makinglinks.org.au/sponsors.shtml Sponsors Menu Making Links Homepage Early bird registration prices (Almost) Final Program Building a Friendly Website Film and Digital Arts Festival Making Links Facebook Group Email for more info! Organising Committee Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations QUT Connecting Up Australia Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) Infoxchange Australia Inspire Foundation Vibewire Inc Victorian Council of Social Service WA Centre for Health Promotion Research -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roland.goecke at anu.edu.au Tue Sep 29 21:41:37 2009 From: roland.goecke at anu.edu.au (Roland Goecke) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:41:37 +1000 Subject: [chisigmail] PhD project Top-Up Scholarship at Uni Canberra Message-ID: <4AC2B751.4050706@anu.edu.au> 28 Sep 2009 NCBS / Thinking Head project Top-Up Scholarship The Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering of the University of Canberra is offering a top-up stipend of AUD7,000 per annum for a student undertaking a PhD project in the National Centre for Biometric Studies. The project is related to the Thinking Head Project (www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/ise/ncbs/thinkinghead) and will be in one of the following research areas: ? Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Video Speech Recognition (AVSR) ? Speaker Recognition / Verification / Authentication ? Face Recognition or Facial Feature Tracking ? Speaker Characterisation or Facial Expression Recognition ? Affective Computing / Affective Sensing ? Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction (MM-HCI) ? Pattern Recognition / Multimodal Fusion Algorithms A list of potential PhD topics can be found at http://ise.canberra.edu.au/hcc_lab/research-student-projects/. Other project topics are possible, if they fit into at least one of the above mentioned research areas. The stipend is available for up to 3 years either for a local student (Australian citizen, NZ citizen, Australian permanent resident) having gained an APA scholarship or for international students having gained a full scholarship (or coming with their own funding) for studying in the Faculty of ISE commencing in 2010. Further information is available from Prof Michael Wagner (michael.wagner at canberra.edu.au) or Dr Roland Goecke (roland.goecke at canberra.edu.au). Roland Goecke