Thursday, April 9, 2009

CFP: Workshop on Culture and Technologies for Social Interaction at INTERACT 2009

CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION

INTERACT 2009, Uppsala Sweden
August 24th and 25th, 2009

This workshop will bring together a mix of HCI researchers and
practitioners, social scientists and psychologists who are
interested in areas of social technologies and culture, from a wide
variety of backgrounds, in order to (a) examine the design and use of
technologies for social interaction in different cultures; (b)
explore various viewpoints on key issues for future research; (c)
outline various approaches and identify some basic guidelines for
understanding cultural impacts in building social technologies as
well as user interfaces; and (d) foster new collaborations in the
community.

To participate, please submit a 2-4 page position paper in PDF
describing your experience, findings, views or interests relevant to
the themes of the workshop to liaoqy@cn.ibm.com.

For more details visit http://www.interact2009.org/?q=node/40

Workshop organizers
Qinying Liao, IBM China Research Lab.
Susan R. Fussell, Cornnell University
Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM India Research Lab.
Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab.
Amit A. Nanavati, IBM India Research Lab.
Nitendra Rajput, IBM India Research Lab.
Yingxin Pan, IBM China Research Lab.

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