Thursday, August 27, 2009

CFP: ExpDes workshop at UCM2009

CFP: Workshop Experience Design and Evaluation of Social UCM
applications (ExpDes)
(http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/expdes/index.shtml)

User experience (UX) design is becoming increasingly important in a
broad range of application settings, as it becomes evident that
providing functionality and usability alone is not sufficient to meet
users' expectations. While this certainly applies to Social
User-Centric Media applications, it is less clear how to actually go
about designing for user experience, and perhaps even less so when it
comes to evaluations. What are we evaluating and why; how do we carry
out evaluations; how to interpret results and how do the results
affect the next design cycle? How can we know if we are on the right
track? What inherent difficulties and fallacies should we be aware of?
This workshop explores methods and techniques for designing and
evaluating Social UCM applications in the context of iterative design
and formulate strong and weak points of these methods and techniques,
thereby helping the UCM community to create better applications.

For whom is this workshop?

This workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners working in
the design, development and implementation and evaluation of (social)
UCM applications. Workshop participants furthermore should have a
clear interest in the users of these kinds of applications and the
influence users are given on the design and in the evaluations of
these kinds of applications.

Call for papers

Please submit a 2-4 page position paper stating your interest and
experience related to the topic of the workshop for participation. The
format for positions papers is the UCMedia 2009 paper format. Please,
follow the instructions of the
http://www.usercentricmedia.org/authorskit.shtml - Author's Kit.
Submission of position papers is done through the
http://assyst-online.org:8080/submission/welcome.do - UCMedia 2009
conference submission system. Position papers should be submitted by
the 13th September 2009. All position papers will be reviewed by the
ExpDes workshop program committee. Acceptance notifications will be
sent by the 19th October 2009.

A maximum of twelve participants will be accepted by the workshop
program committee.

Topics of interest are (but not limited to) the following:

Design methods/tools for UCM
Evaluations methods/tools for UCM
Theory, models and frameworks on UCM
Practical experience in the design, development, implementation and
evaluations of UCM

For submission instructions see the following link:
http://www.usercentricmedia.org/submission.shtml

Workshop program committee:

* Arnold Vermeeren, Technical University Delft (The Netherlands)
* David Geerts, University of Leuven (Belgium)
* Henri ter Hofte, Novay (The Netherlands)
* Huib de Ridder, Technical University Delft (The Netherlands)
* Jo Pierson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
* Marianna Obrist, University of Salzburg (Austria)

Kind regards,
Workshop organizers

Joke Kort, joke.kort@tno.nl
Rob Willems, rob.willems@tno.nl
Peter Ljungstrand, peter.ljungstrand@tii.se

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