CFP: Media and Proximity, Siegen, Germany (22./23.04.2010)

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Media and Proximity
Conference organised by the "Locating Media" Graduate School University of Siegen, Germany 22nd and 23rd April 2010

Keynote Speaker: Heather Horst (University of California, Irvine)
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The inaugural conference of the "Locating Media" Graduate School will investigate the topics of media and proximity and discuss the theme in an interdisciplinary setting.

Media are often considered as bridging spatial and social divides. Indeed the benefits and effects of new information and communication technologies are often conceived in terms of the manner in which they overcome spatial limitations. In this context proximity or closeness is seen as representing the realisation of the end of distance, whilst also underpinning the, for the most part, never questioned positive connotations of such a process; mediated communications processes are seen as bringing together various actors and according to this utopian vision, simultaneously allowing for a better, more democratic society. Social and spatial proximity are therefore often considered as interchangeable.

The conference will explore the limits of this approach and consider the topic of proximity afresh. In the global village the shortest path is no longer considered only in terms of spatial concepts. Proximity needs to be understood as being defined by specific and heterogeneous situations and perspectives. It is defined by the individual in the context of their situated socio-cultural experiences and practices. It is dependent on the place and situation in which it is considered. It is a relational category, that describes the topological connection between two entities. In fact, the very concept of distance is inscribed in proximity. Proximity is something that is produced and is always the result of a process of negotiation.

We therefore ask the following questions: what role does media play in this process of negotiation of proximity? To what extent is proximity developed and defined through a focus on either individuals, technology or media ? In what way does proximity produced through media change current concepts of temporality and topology? How is the perception of distance altered by technology and media? What role does the concept of boundaries in the context of a delineation of the individual from their neighbours and online communities? Finally, which methodological approaches enable us to best characterise the concept of proximity?

Submission Format:
500 word abstract
CV and list of publications
Please send all submissions to: conference@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 11 January 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 30th January 2010
Conference: 22nd-23rd April 2010

Outcomes:
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a post-conference volume.

Conference Location:
Artur-Woll-Haus, University of Siegen, Germany (1 hour from Cologne, 2 hours from Frank-furt)

Contact:
conference@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de
Locating Media Graduate School
University of Siegen, Faculty of Media, Unteres Schloss, 57072 Siegen, Germany
Tel.: 0049 - 271 - 740-3065
http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/

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Claudia Mueller M.A.

Graduate School "Locating Media/ Situierte Medien"
and Institute for Information Systems
University of Siegen
Hoelderlinstr. 3
57068 Siegen, Germany

fon: +49 271 740 4076
fax: +49 271 740 3384
mobil: +49 176 78 199 788
email: claudia.mueller@uni-siegen.de

ANN: Innovation, Media, and Transformation

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Subject: MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS -> MALMÖ TRANSFORMATIONS

Registration now open!

Five (FREE) Talks by World-Class Authorities on Innovation, Media, and Transformation

Location: Malmö, Sweden.

Over the next two weeks, from November 3 through November 17, MEDEA, Malmö University's new initiative for collaborative media, will feature five of the world's authorities speaking about how innovation, media, and technology will transform Malmö -- voted 2009 World Best City to Live In -- and other modern cities forever. This is a rare opportunity to hear all five speakers or one or a few of personal interest.

All talks are free and begin at 4 PM except Marc Canter's, which begins at 3 PM, and are followed by Q&A and after-lecture conversation and coffee. For guests, the venues are 10 minutes on foot from Malmö Central Station (which is 15 minutes by train from Tastrup/CPH airport and 25 minutes from Copenhagen).

To ensure a seat, reserve a place using the Malmö Transformations Facebook webpage or send email to medea@mah.se . Vi ses i Malmö!

CFP: Special Issue on Locative Media and Communities in IJHCS

> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Special Issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
>
> Title: Locative Media and Communities
>
> Guest Editors: Katharine S. Willis (University of Siegen)
> Keith Cheverst (University of Lancaster)
>
> TOPIC
> The development of locative media applications is not simply about
> the physical location or social setting in which the interaction
> occurs, but rather about situating the media within the social
> setting of a community. This Special Issue will explore the
> potential for locative media applications to support community
> cohesion and the integration of such media within existing community
> structures and practices. The workshop will address the dual
> challenge of capturing the temporary and spatially changeful nature
> of behaviours with locative media, as well as responding to the
> intricate web of strong and weak social ties that make up local
> social networks, in order to find ways to support community
> practices. In terms of methodology it will focus on the potential of
> ethnographic approaches for investigating and evaluating the
> integration of media in these social settings.
> This special issue aims to present a set of high-quality and
> original research outcomes. We hope to receive submissions that
> offer insights into appropriate methodologies for identifying
> requirements, evaluating behaviour and integrating locative media in
> real-world communities. We invite contributions that respond to some
> of the following questions:
> * How can mobile media be located within existing communities and
> social settings?
> * How can we find better ways of enabling and supporting locative
> media in
> community practices?
> * How can mobile media foster communities and facilitate daily
> living, such as for
> communities in rural areas or the elderly?
> * How can ethnographic methods inform and evaluate the place and
> integration of
> media in community settings?
>
> SUBMISSIONS
> This special issue follows from a workshop held a MobileHCI09:
> Community Practices and Locative
> Media (http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/workshop.html?lang=de).
> We now invite members of the research community to submit original
> articles relevant to the topic.
> Although articles must be based on original research, extended
> versions of conference papers may be
> acceptable if they contain at least 50% new material. Papers will be
> subject to the full IJHCS review
> process.
>
> SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
> Manuscripts should generally not exceed 7000 words. Papers should be
> prepared according to the IJHCS
> Guide for authors, and should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide
> for authors and online submission
> are available at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/.
> For information on the International Journal of Human-Computer
> Studies see:
> http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs.
>
> TIMELINE
> 28th February 2010: Paper submission deadline
> Early May 2010: Notify authors of paper acceptance
> Target Publication date: Autumn 2010
>
> CONTACT
> Katharine S. Willis
> Locating Media Graduate Research School
> University of Siegen, Germany
> Email: willis[at]locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de
>
> Keith Cheverst
> Computing Department,
> Lancaster University, UK
> kEmail: kc[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk
>

CFP: ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

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ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

April 10, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
http://www.caicoll.org
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WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop addresses facilitation of collaborative work by context-adaptive techniques. Context-based adaptation can support users in a variety of ways, e.g., by offering the tools most appropriate for a certain type of collaboration, by providing templates for artifacts to be produced, or by filtering content relevant for a joint activity. While adaptive (single) user interfaces have been an area of research for considerable time adaptation for collaboration is far less investigated.

The notion of context in collaborative work raises a variety of interesting research issues. So far, attempts to structure and classify the multi-faceted concept of context have been mainly directed at individual, rather than cooperative usage scenarios. The importance of common ground, e.g., for electronically mediated communication has been pointed out repeatedly, but theoretical concepts have hardly been translated into explicit models or concrete adaptation mechanisms. We also see a major challenge in integrating 'exogenous' physical context such as location, time or device used with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, topical interests, experience profiles or used collaboration tools. For this purpose, integrated, coherent representations of these context aspects will be needed, making them explicit and exploitable by adaptation mechanisms. Ontology-based context models promise to provide coherent representations but are still in their initial stages. Other important issues are how to combine individual contexts into shared collaborative contexts, and how to combine folksonomy-based bottom-up approaches with the benefits of standardization that ontologies traditionally provide. Finally, it is largely unresolved how to define effective and acceptable adaptations for groups. While there has been a considerable amount of research into supporting co-located or remote meetings, more general issues of supporting collaboration by adaptations are still open.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaborative work, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context including physical and tool-related aspects, common ground related to content and process of the collaboration, and other factors. We will also discuss strategies and methods for making these context aspects explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. These models will serve as input for discussions on how to manage and use such context in real-world scenarios. These activities will serve laying the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for this area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

An initial list of research issues discussed at the workshop comprises the following questions:
- How can the multi-faceted concept of context be structured and classified for cooperative situations?
- What are methods for integrating 'endogenous' physical context with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, activities, topical interests or experience profiles?
- How to combine individual contexts into group contexts?
- What are suitable models and techniques for representing context for the purpose of adapting cooperation support systems? Is there a perspective for a shared context ontology for cooperative work?
- What are effective and acceptable adaptations at the interaction, tool or content level we can implement in systems used for collaboration?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Context plays an increasingly important role to adapt systems to users' needs and to make access to large information spaces more efficient. Yet, in the area of collaborative work the potential of context-based adaptation of IT systems has so far not been investigated and exploited to a sufficient extent. There is a lack of methods that take into account the manifold aspects of context such as physical, activity-based, thematic or social context in an integrated fashion.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaboration, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context for this field. We will discuss strategies and methods for making these context factors explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. A potential outcome is to provide the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for cooperative work. A further goal is to collect and analyze methods for managing and using context in real-world scenarios, including combinations of folksonomy- and ontology-based approaches.

Persons interested in participating should submit a 2-page proposal describing their background with respect to the workshop theme, their proposed contribution and an initial reaction to a number of research issues published at the workshop website (http://caicoll.org). Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicol.org. Upon acceptance, participants will be asked to provide an extended position paper of 5 pages four weeks prior to the workshop which will be distributed to participants. Workshop results will be summarized on the website. Depending on the submissions received we plan to publish the workshop results to a wider audience, e.g. as a special journal issue.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicoll.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2010
Revised, formatted document due: March 10, 2010
Workshop date: April 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS

Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Joerg M. Haake (FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany)
Volkmar Pipek (University of Siegen, Germany)

WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE

http://www.caicoll.org

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Dr. Stephan Lukosch
Assistant Professor Collaboration Technology
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management
Systems Engineering Section
Postal address: PO box 5015, 2600 GA Delft
Visitors' address: Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft
P: +31 (0)15-2783403
F: +31 (0)15-2783429
E: s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl
W: http://www.tudelft.nl/sglukosch

CFP: VisCSCW2010--Visualization for Understanding CSCW Data

Visualization for Understanding CSCW Data

A workshop at CSCW 2010 (Feb 6 or 7, 2010)
VisCSCW2010
http://research.microsoft.com/viscscw2010/

Organizers:
Danyel Fisher & Nathalie Henry, Microsoft Research
Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary
Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo

Position Paper Due date: November 20, 2009

In computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), we often come upon complex interactive data. Who has talked to whom? What data has been shared between people? Where did they click? Data visualization can help us to understand how to handle and display this data. This workshop brings together CSCW researchers with visualization experts; its goal is to understand visualization of CSCW data, and to develop best practices.

We solicit perspectives from a variety of CSCW authors and researchers who have incorporated existing visualizations into their analyses, or have created novel visualizations in order to understand their data.

PARTICIPATION: Please send a 2000 word overview of how you use visualization to understand your CSCW data to danyelf@microsoft.com<mailto:danyelf@microsoft.com> by the deadline in standard ACM format as a PDF file.

For more details, see http://research.microsoft.com/viscscw2010/

CFP: OD2010 - Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation 6/30-7/2/2010

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)

30 June 2 July, 2010

Leeds, UK

Sponsored by: The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of
Leeds, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione Universit degli Studi di
Milano and the Public Sphere Project.

The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards
democratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visions of
citizen participation in decision making and governance.

OD2010 aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from a
wide range of academic and applied backgrounds to provide a unique opportunity
to better understand the notion of deliberation in a virtual environment and to
discuss specific advances in online deliberation from a number of different
disciplinary perspectives.

The conference is aimed at those who wish to update themselves on recent
developments in online deliberation, understand how other groups are applying
the tools and techniques and exchange ideas with leading international experts.

OD2010 follows the traditions of previous high-level scientific conferences. It
is organized by key experts in the field and is supported by a
multidisciplinary programme committee. This is the first time the conference
has been held outside the USA.

The fourth OD conference focuses on, but is not limited to, the following
topics:

* current research on online deliberation;
* research challenges which deliberation, and in particular online
deliberation, pose for researchers, governments, communities and citizens;
* socio-technical design of online deliberative spaces;
* links between theories of deliberative democracy with experience with
online deliberation;
* descriptions of tools and techniques that are already being tested or
fielded;
* deliberative platforms using novel or unusual settings, technology or
approaches;
* experiences and findings related to relevant technological theories (such
as Web 2.0) and/or relevant social theories of deliberation and governance
(such as public sphere, government 2.0 and civic intelligence); and
* case studies in applying and evaluating online deliberation in various
formal and informal engagement domains.

Guidelines for papers and other submissions

The conference allows for four distinct types of submissions:

1. Research papers
2. Exploratory papers on ongoing research and innovative projects
3. Technology demonstrators
4. Panels on pertinent issues

Research papers
These papers should have a strong focus on scientific rigour and may be a
maximum of 10 pages. Papers in this track will be peer reviewed for rigour,
relevance, originality and clarity of presentation. Abstracts or incomplete
papers will not be accepted.

Exploratory papers
These papers describe novel concepts, works-in-progress, reflections,
manifestos or other ideas and issues that are not currently suitable for a
complete research paper. They may be a maximum of 5 pages. Papers in this
section will also be peer reviewed, but the focus is on relevance more than
scientific rigour.

Technology Demonstrators
Proposals for technology demonstrators (two pages) should include a
description, objectives, examples of testing and application and, if possible,
a URL where the technology can be viewed.

Panels
Proposals for panels (two pages) should include motivation, objectives,
expected outcomes, approach to audience interaction and panel members. Panels
are currently planned to be 1.5 hours long.

All submissions must be made via the conference submission system web site.
Submissions should be written in English and foreign speakers are encouraged to
have their submissions reviewed for language prior to submission. Submissions
should be formatted using 11 point Times-Roman font on A4 sized paper. Accepted
research and exploratory papers should be revised according to reviewer
comments and resubmitted by the deadline.

Important Dates

January 1 2010 Submission system available
January 1, 2010 Early registration begins
February 14, 2010 Research paper submissions due
February 21, 2010 Exploratory papers due
March1, 2010 Technology Demonstrators & Panel proposals
due
March 14, 2010 Notices of paper acceptances
April 12, 2010 Completed research and exploratory
papers due
May 1, 2010 Late registration begins

June 30 July 2 OD 2010

Conference Chairs:

Stephen Coleman and Ann Macintosh, Centre for Digital Citizenship, University
of Leeds, UK.

Fiorella De Cindio, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione Universit degli
Studi di Milano, Italy

Organising Chairs:

Giles Moss, Deputy Director Centre for Digital Citizenship, University of Leeds

Cristian Peraboni, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione Universit degli
Studi di Milano

Previous Conference Chairs and on-going supporters:

Robert Cavalier, Department of Philosophy and Digital Media Lab, Carnegie
Mellon University

Todd Davies, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, USA

Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College, and The Public Sphere Project

Peter Shane, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University and Knight
Commission on the Internet Needs of Communities in a Democracy,

Contact Details

For further information please email: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk

CFP: CHI 2010 Workshop on Microblogging

> MICROBLOGGING: WHAT AND HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?
> CHI 2010 Workshop
> Atlanta, Georgia, USA
> Saturday, April 11, 2010
>
> Workshop Site: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~julia/chi2010.html
>
> ORGANIZERS
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> Julia Grace, IBM Research, Almaden
> Dejin Zhao, Penn State University, University Park
> danah boyd, Microsoft Research, New England
>
>
> WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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> Communication via short, real-time message broadcast, also known as
> microblogging, is relatively a new communication channel for people
> to share
> information. We use microblogging as an umbrella term to include
> status
> updates from social networks such as Facebook, and message-exchange
> services
> such as Twitter. Recent research has shown that people employ these
> services
> to share informal information they would likely not otherwise publish
> through other mediums (i.e., email, phone, IM, or weblogs).
> Microblogging
> has become quite popular quickly, catching researchers' interests as
> both a
> means of public, social information exchange, and a medium for
> collaboration
> and communication in the work context.
> The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
> practitioners from academia and industry to exchange insights into how
> microblogs are used in enterprises, academic and social settings,
> developing
> an agenda for what and how we can learn from and better study this
> phenomenon.
>
>
> CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
> -----------------------------------------------
> Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
>
> Participants are asked to submit a 2-page position paper in ACM CHI
> Format.
> We encourage submissions of microblogging research work in both social
> context and work settings. Position papers should address specific
> research
> questions of authors' work, methodological approaches, contributions
> to the
> area, important conversations to have for now, and short biographies
> for
> each author. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to
> register
> for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference itself.
>
> Please email submissions to chi-2010-microblogging@googlegrops.com
> using the
> subject "CHI 2010 Microblogging Workshop Submission". Submissions
> are due at
> midnight PST Jan 6, 2010. We will notify all participants of
> acceptance or
> rejection on Jan 30th, 2010.
>

CFP: Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups

IEEE First International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups.

20th April 2010. Perth, Australia. (Workshop at IEEE AINA 2010)

http://www.aina2010.curtin.edu.au/workshop/stamashup/

Paper deadline: 15th November 2009 (6 pages).

In recent years,* mashup* has emerged as a rapid and light-weight
development approach for creating distributed web applications. The advent
of easy-to-use, dynamic programming and scripting techniques (e.g. PHP,
AJAX, etc.), increasingly open APIs, service-oriented architecture (SOA),
dedicated frameworks and environments (eg. Facebook API Platform, Yahoo
Pipes) and the wide availability of free, syndicated content (eg RSS) has
provided myriad opportunities for people to create mashup-based web
applications in ways unprecedented to traditional software development
methods.

Mashups can bring data and functionality together in different ways and for
different purposes. They can be created by people skilled or unskilled in
programming, to play and experiment with the integration of information,
often across the boundaries of individual organizations. Perhaps their
greatest potential is for addressing transient problems for specific groups
of users in dynamically changing business, social or political contexts. The
implication of such an end-user development approach is far-reaching and
hence deserves extensive investigation.

Beyond all the hype, studies of the actual development and use of mashups
for delivering business, social or political value are extraordinarily rare..
While previous studies have focused on the technical side of constructing
infrastructure, little has been reported to demonstrate the real value or
identify the problems, practicalities and pitfalls of their construction.
Essentially, we need to understand how mashups emerge and change, succeed or
fail, in settings where people, policies, systems, and data are intertwined..
Our questions include:

* Who makes mashups?
* Why do mashups succeed or fail?
* Are useful mashups really quick to develop?
* Is it better to develop a lot of low fidelity mashups or a few well
engineered ones?
* How do communities of users emerge?
* How is the design of mashups participatory?
* What is the life cycle of a mashup?
* What business or social environments are conducive to mashup creation?
* What happens when bugs emerge in mashups?
* What happens when there are competing mashups to do the same job?

To answer these questions, a dual-focused approach that investigates both
social and technical aspects of mashups is crucial. The aim of this workshop
is thus to bring together academic researchers, industry practitioners and
open source community participants, for reporting research findings, sharing
practical experiences, and highlighting research challenges and future
directions in both the social and technical aspects of mashups. Topics may
include but are not limited to:

* Mashup usability, adoption, and diffusion
* Mashup and organizational behavior
* Collaborative activities and their coordination supported by mashups
* Mashup, semantics, and knowledge management
* Analysis of mashup applications for eWorkspace, eCollaboration, eLearning,
bioinformatics, eHealth, eResearch, eScience, eBusiness, etc.
* Mashup case studies and experience reports
* Mashup end-user programming, design and development methods
* Process/component models and formal specifications for mashups
* Responsibility and mashups
* Dependability and mashups
* Mashup tools, middleware, supporting run-time and open source
* Security, trust, and privacy issues in mashups
* Social networks and mashups
* Mashup paradigms including Web2.0, REST, SOA, ecosystems, etc.

Committee

Chen Wu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
John Rooksby, University of St. Andrews, UK
Ian Sommerville, University of St. Andrews, UK
Arno Scharl, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Richard Soley, Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG©), USA
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Paolo Ceravolo, University of Milan, Italy
David Greenwood, University of St. Andrews, UK
Antonio Izquierdo, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Adam Lindsay, University of Lancaster, UK
Alexander Voss, University of St Andrews, UK
Alex Talevski, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Marc W. Küster, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ashley Aitken, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Daniel Berinson, Systec Engineering Pty Ltd, Australia
Ingrid Schirmer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Max Noble, ILLIARC Pty Ltd, Australia

CFP: CHI 2010 Workshop: Moving From Contextual Analysis to Design

BRIDGING THE GAP: MOVING FROM CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS TO DESIGN

CHI 2010 Workshop
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Workshop Page: http://carmster.com/gap

ORGANIZERS
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Tejinder Judge, Virginia Tech
Carman Neustaedter, Kodak Research Labs
Anthony Tang, University of British Columbia
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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The development lifecycle for interactive systems starts with contextual
analysis to guide system design. By contextual analysis, we are referring
to methods that create an understanding of users, their tasks and
practices, and the situational context in which their practices and
behaviors lie. Following this requirements elicitation, designers must
transition into actual design based on the obtained contextual
understanding. The challenge is that this transition process not
straightforward.

In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers, designers, and
practitioners who regularly face the challenge of transitioning from
contextual analysis to design implications and/or actual design. Our goal
is to foster a community in this space, understand the techniques that are
being employed to move from contextual analysis to design, the challenges
that still exist, and solutions to overcome them.

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
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Submission deadline: January 6, 2010

Participants are asked to submit a 2-4 page position paper in ACM CHI
format that details their work in this area. Authors should identify the
context of their own research, the methodological approach they have used,
and the challenges and successes with these approaches. We also ask that
authors include short biographies for each of the position paper?s authors.
We expect that typically only one author for each paper will participate in
the workshop, but please contact us if you would like more than one author
to attend. We will consider this on an individual basis.

Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the topic area of
the workshop, originality, and their ability to bring a unique perspective
to the discussions in the workshop. We also seek to include participants
from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., designers, ethnographers, computer
scientists, etc).

Email submissions to tkjudge@vt.edu and CC carman.neustaedter@kodak.com

Notification of decision: January 30, 2010

Note: workshop participants must register for at least 1 day of the CHI
2010 conference occurring April 10 - 15, 2010. http://chi2010.org

CFP: MobileHCI 2010

MobileHCI 2010 First Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile
Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010), September 7-10, 2010, Lisboa,
Portugal
http://www.mobilehci2010.org

A Mobile World for All

MobileHCI 2010 will be held September 7-10, 2010, in Lisboa, Portugal.
Doctoral Consortium Day, Workshops and Tutorials on September 7th, 2010.
MobileHCI 2010 is organised by the University of Lisboa, with the
collaboration of the New University of Lisbon and the research centres
LaSIGE and CITI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

*Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings and
will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates
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- Full and Short Paper submission: 29th January, 2010
- Workshop submission (organisers): 22nd January, 2010

- Conference Dates: September 7th-10th, 2010

Chairs
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General Chairs
- Luís Carriço and Marco de Sá, University of Lisboa
Program Chair:
- Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon

Conference Scope and Description
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MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer
Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides
a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and
potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and
services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and
approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI
is now on its 12th Edition with some of the previous events taking place in
Bonn (2009), Amsterdam (2008), Singapore (2007), Espoo (2006), Salzburg
(2005), Glasgow (2004), Udine (2003), Pisa (2002), Lille (2001), Edinburgh
(1999), Glasgow (1998).

Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be
uploaded using the conference website. Submissions should be at most 10
pages in ACM MobileHCI format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least
3 peer-reviewers. Additional guidelines can be found on the conference?s
website.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM
Digital Library. Accepted Full Papers, Short Papers, Workshop Abstracts,
Poster Abstracts, Demonstration Abstracts, Panel Abstracts, Industrial Case
Studies, and Doctoral Consortium Abstracts will be available via the ACM
Digital Library.

Topics
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We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere
focusing on the following topics (but not limited to):
- Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques
- Mobile social networks
- Context-aware systems
- Perception and modelling of the environment
- Personal assistance with mobile devices
- Multimodal interaction (including audio and speech)
- Group interaction and mobility
- Mobility and work environments
- Mobile accessibility
- Mobile social networks
- Interfaces for mobile communities
- Multi-cultural interaction
- Mobile devices including PDAs, Pocket PCs, WAP phones
- 3G/4G devices and services
- Services for mobile devices
- Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors
- Mobile entertainment
- Mobile storytelling and location based gaming
- Mobile art
- Designing Web sites for mobile devices
- Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services
- User centred design tools and methods for mobile systems
- Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
- Model-based design of interactive mobile systems
- Visualization techniques for the mobile context (including 3D graphics on
mobile devices)
- Safety issues e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments
- Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile
applications & services

Sponsors
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MobileHCI 2010 is supported by Nokia, Anacom, and Telefonica.

ANN: PRESENCE 2009

Colleagues,

We're still finalizing a few details but PRESENCE 2009, the 12th Annual
International Workshop on Presence, in the Marina Del Rey area of Los
Angeles November 11-13, looks to be a particularly rich and rewarding
conference. In addition to a diverse group of interesting paper presentations,
we'll have several demonstrations of telepresence technologies, true
knowledge building and synthesis discussion sessions, invited speakers,
social events including a conference dinner, and a combination of academic
and professional perspectives throughout and in three outstanding keynote
speakers:

Barbara Hayes-Roth, an internationally recognized expert in
intelligent agents and interactive characters;

Howard Lichtman, founder and President of the Human Productivity Lab, an
independent consultancy covering telepresence and effective visual
collaboration industries;

and

Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Research Scientist and Research Professor at the
Institute for Creative Technologies and Department of Psychiatry/School of
Gerontology at the University of Southern California who conducts research
on the design, development, and evaluation of Virtual Reality systems for
clinical assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation.

The full schedule and logitistical and other details are on the International
Society for Presence Research (ISPR) conference web site,
http://ispr.info/conference.

With the latest schedule information available, early registration has been
extended until Thursday, October 15.

We hope to see you in Los Angeles in November! (If you can't join us, we
invite you to check out the other resources on the ISPR web site, including
the free presence-l listserv)

Best,

Jacki Morie and Belinda Lange
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Conference Co-Chairs

Kwan Min Lee (USC) and Matthew Lombard (Temple U)
Program Committee Co-Chairs

--
Matthew Lombard, Ph.D.
Temple University
President
International Society for Presence Research (ISPR)

(215) 204-7182
lombard@temple.edu
http://matthewlombard.com
http://ispr.info

CFP: CSCW 2010 Workshop on Telepresence

CSCW 2010 Workshop

*Frontiers in Telepresence*

Gina Vinolia, David Nguyen, Kori Inkpen, and Judy Olson

Telepresence technology has only begun to scratch the surface of how people
establish a sense of shared presence and space among separated members of a
group. Attempting to broaden our current, limited conceptions of
telepresence may uncover many new opportunities for telepresence innovation.
This workshop, using a "soapbox madness" approach, will identify major
topics that break out of current, limited conceptions of telepresence to
spur new technology ideas.

For more information, see
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/nft2010/

--
Judith S. Olson
Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
Bren School of Information and Computer Science,
Paul Merage School of Business, and
School of Social Ecology
5206 Donald Bren Hall
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3440
Phone: 949-824-0080
Fax: 949-824-4056
email: jsolson@uci.edu

CFP: IWSSI/SPMU 2010 (in conjunction with Pervasive 2010)

> 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
> Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU 2010) - Call for Papers
> =====================================================================
>
> http://www.mimuc.de/iwssi2010
> Helsinki, Finland
> in conjunction with Pervasive 2010
>
>
> *Important Dates*
> -----------------
>
> Submission Deadline: February 01, 2010
> Notification to Authors: March 08, 2010
> Camera-Ready Papers: March 17, 2010
> Workshop: May 11, 2010
>
>
> *Scope*
> -------
>
> Mobile devices in general, and mobile phones in particular, present
> unique
> challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life, and form
> factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users' privacy and
> security.
> Privacy and security are often in conflict with another and have
> been the
> topic of many research projects. Emerging mobile payment and ticketing
> solutions require the secure transmission and storage of financial
> information, while electronic health records or access certificates/
> tokens
> might imply the use of highly sensitive personal information on such
> devices. Securing the potentially massive amount of interactions using
> mobile devices is difficult, because typically there will be no a
> priori
> shared information such as passwords, addresses, or PIN codes
> between the
> phone, its user, and the service they want to use. Additionally,
> mobile
> devices often lack powerful user interfaces to support classical
> authentication methods.
>
> The 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
> Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU'2010) provides a forum
> to discuss these challenges and to put forward an agenda for future
> research. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation between
> research
> groups and to establish a highly connected research community.
> Authors of
> selected workshop submissions will be invited to submit an extended
> version to a special issue in a renowned international journal.
>
> Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to,
> the following items as they appear in the context of spontaneous
> interaction and/or mobile device use:
> * Authentication protocols and methods for device pairing or
> user authentication
> * Sensor-, context-, and location-based authentication methods
> * Authorization, access control, and trust management
> * Logging and auditing of spontaneous interactions with mobile
> devices
> * Network and system models
> * Security and privacy of mobile phone users
> * Security and privacy issues in mobile phone networks
> * Privacy and anonymous/pseudonymous interactions
> * User interfaces and models for user interaction on mobile devices
> * Making use of spontaneous interaction in applications
> * Public perception of security and privacy issues of mobile phones
> * Legal and social issues of security and privacy for mobile phones
> * Options for lawful, auditable, and restricted tracking and
> surveillance using mobile phones in law enforcement
>
>
> *Contributions*
> ---------------
>
> There will be two separate categories for submission:
>
> * Full papers: We solicit novel contributions of up to 6 pages
> (ACM Format)on any of the topics of interest or related areas.
> These papers must not significantly overlap with other papers
> previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
> Accepted papers will be published online on the IWSII/SPMU09
> website. Authors of selected submissions will also be invited
> to submit an extended version to a special issue in a renowned
> international journal.
>
> * Position papers: Position papers should be no longer than 2 pages
> (ACM Format) and may present already published work in the context
> of this workshop, work in progress, as well as ideas and concepts
> for future research.
>
> We encourage authors to submit to both categories if deemed
> appropriate.
>
> An international program committee will select around 12-15
> contributions. Authors of accepted full and position papers will be
> invited to give short presentations at the beginning of the workshop
> with brief discussion phases, followed by an open panel and more
> specific discussion groups to discuss common ground and open
> challenges. The open panel is also a forum for informally presenting
> demonstrators, which will be actively encouraged. Video and other
> supplementary material will be published on the workshop web page to
> provide further incentive for showing prototypes.
>
> Contributions must be sent by email to <iwssi@lists.inf.ethz.ch> no
> later
> than February 01, 2010, and should be in PDF format. If you have any
> questions, we encourage you to contact the organizers at the above
> email address.
>
>
> *Organizing Committee*
> ----------------------
>
> Rene Mayrhofer (University of Vienna, Austria)
> Marc Langheinrich (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
> Kaisa Nyberg (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
> Alexander De Luca (LMU Munich, Germany)
>
> *Program Committee* (confirmed)
> -------------------------------
>
> Georg Treu (Aloqa Inc., Palo Alto, US)
> Pieter Hartel (University of Twente, NL)
> Jonathan M. McCune (Carnegie Mellon University, US) John Krumm
> (Microsoft Research Redmond, US)
> John Krumm (Microsoft Research Redmond, US)
> Alex Varshavsky (University of Toronto, CA)
> Ersin Uzun (University of California, Irvine, US)
> Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington, US)
> Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (CMU, US)
>
>
> --
> Alexander De Luca
>
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
> LFE Medieninformatik
> Amalienstr. 17
> D-80333 München
> Fon +49-89-2180-4688
> Fax +49-89-2180-4652
> Skype: Alexander De Luca
>
> alexander.de.luca@ifi.lmu.de
> www.medien.ifi.lmu.de
>

CFP: BELIV 2010 - CHI 2010 Workshop

> *** Call for Papers ***
> *BELIV 2010 - CHI 2010 Workshop*
> BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information
> Visualization
> A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2010 Conference
>
> April 10-11, 2010 - Altanta, GA, USA
>
> WORKSHOP WEBSITE
>
> http://www.beliv.org/beliv2010/
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The purpose of information visualization is to provide users with
> accurate
> visual representations of data and natural interaction tools to
> support
> discovery and sense making. These activities are often exploratory
> in nature
> and can take place over days, weeks or months and rarely follow a
> predefined
> or linear workflow. While the overall use of information
> visualizations is
> accelerating, the growth of techniques for the evaluation of these
> systems
> has been slow. To understand these complex behaviors, evaluation
> efforts
> should be targeted at the component level, the system level, and the
> work
> environment level. The commonly used evaluation metrics such as task
> time
> completion and number of errors appear insufficient to quantify the
> quality
> of an information visualization system; thus the name of the workshop:
> "beyond time and errors …".
>
> BELIV 2010 aims at gathering researchers in the field to continue the
> exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the
> knowledge on
> evaluation in information visualization around a schema, where
> researchers
> can easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps.
>
> This is the third edition of the BELIV workshop series. Based on
> feedback
> from past workshop participants, BELIV 2010 will be a *2-day
> workshop* to
> provide a more interactive environment where participants can
> produce a
> research agenda to be published online.
>
> DATES
>
> Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2009 (5:00pm PDT)
> Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009
> Camera ready papers due: Mid-March
> Workshop: April 10-11, 2008
>
> HOW TO PARTICIPATE
>
> To participate to the workshop it is necessary to have a paper
> accepted and
> be registered both to the workshop and the main CHI conference.
>
> Paper Types
> We accept 2 types of submissions: position papers or research papers:
>
> * Research papers are longer (4-8 pages) and present new work and
> unpublished results. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by
> members of the
> program committee and selected according to their novelty, quality and
> relevance. Authors of accepted research papers will have a chance to
> revise
> their papers before they are published in the **ACM digital library**.
>
> * Position papers are short statements (1-2 pages) describing a
> participant's relevant experience and ideas that can contribute to the
> discussion during the workshop. They will be made available to the
> workshop
> participants only.
>
> Submission
> To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the
> submission
> system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2010/. Please
> clarify if
> you are submitting a position or research paper.
>
> Format
> All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable
> templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from:
> http://<http://goog_1254882892965/>
> www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submission should be
> either in
> PDF (preferred) or Word formats.
>
> TOPICS OF INTEREST
>
> Topics include, but are not limited to:
>
> • Evaluation in the visualization lifecycle
> • Utility characterization
> • Evaluation metrics
> • Insight characterization
> • Synthetic data set generation
> • Taxonomies of tasks
> • Benchmark development and repositories
> • Methodology of longitudinal case studies
> • Evaluation of early prototypes
> • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines
>
> ORGANIZERS
>
> Enrico Bertini
> University of Konstanz
> Konstanz, Germany
>
> Heidi Lam
> Google Inc.
> Mountain View, CA, USA
> Adam Perer
> IBM Haifa Research Lab
> Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
> <adamp@il.ibm.com>

CFP: ISCRAM2010 - Int'l Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Seattle, May 2-5 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS:

 

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ISCRAM2010:

 

7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

 

"DEFINING CRISIS MANAGEMENT 3.0"

 

 May 2-5 2010

Crown Plaza Hotel

Seattle, Washington USA

 

Full Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2009

 

Specific information on tracks and special sessions at http://www.iscram.org

 

Join the ISCRAM Facebook group!

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ISCRAM conferences present the latest findings from academia and the field on the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of information systems in the domain of crisis management and response, through a unique program of academic research, practitioner cases and technology demonstrations, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and social events.

 

The 7th edition of the annual international ISCRAM Conference is back in the USA, and takes place in beautiful Seattle next May.

 

The theme for ISCRAM2010 is Defining Crisis Management 3.0.  Our aim is to look forward at the conference and consider how our rapidly changing technologies may change the way that we respond to crises in our ever more interconnected world.

 

As always the conference will be multidisciplinary drawing together perspectives from across all socio-technological domains. Human behaviours are as important to us as the technologies that enable us to share information and situation assessments quickly and in increasing volumes.

 

While we particularly solicit papers emphasising the conference theme, we welcome papers covering all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management.

 

 

 

** TRACKS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS

 

The conference will involve the following tracks (and track chairs):

 

    * Collaboration and Social Networking (Roxanne Hiltz, Leysia Palen and Paloma Diaz)  

    * Geo-Information Support ( Massimo Mecella, Brian Tomaszewski and Sisi Zlatanova);

    * Humanitarian Challenges ( Carleen Matiland, Dewald van Niekerk and Bartel Van de Walle)

    * Human-Computer Interaction (Jobst Loffler, Monika Buscher and Jack Carroll) 

    * Intelligent systems (Frank Fiedrich, Gerhard Wickler and Julie Dugdale)

    * Planning, Foresight, and/or Risk Analysis (Murray Turoff, Jutta Geldermann and Joseph Martino)

    * Research Methods (David Mendonca, Pedro Antunes and Zeno Franco)

    * Standardization and Ontologies (Tom De Groeve and Chamindra de Silva)

    * Open Track: The conference welcomes general submissions that meet the broad objectives and interests of ISCRAM2010.

 

In addition there will be a special track organised by the University of Washington Conference on Safety and Security Education & Research (SASER):

 

    * Safety and Security Education (SASER, chair Jeffrey Kim). The objectives of SASER are to create a community dialogue to explore research and education priorities for (regional) safety and security. Submissions relating to this objective sought. A specific call for this track is available here

 

There will also be a number of special sessions, including

 

    * Assessing Crisis Management Operations and Exercises; 

    * Studies of Command and Control Systems; 

    * Virtual State Efforts;  

    * Information Credibility, Trust, Privacy and Security in IS for Emergency Management;

    * Response Information Systems Requirement Engineering and Evaluation. 

 

 

More information with full descriptions of tracks and special sessions at http://www.iscram.org

 

 

** SUBMISSION PROCESS

 

Submissions must be in the ISCRAM housestyle. Details of this and a Word template implementing it are available on http://www.iscram.org

 

Submissions must me made online, through the ISCRAM2010 ConfTool online submission system that will be available from the end of this month. Details will be announced here.

 

 

 

** IMPORTANT DATEs

 

Nov 16, 2009: Submission of full research papers.

Early Jan 2010: Acceptances or otherwise of full papers announced.

Jan 18, 2010: Submission of work in progress papers, demos and posters.

Early Feb 2010: Closing date for applications for doctoral consortium, and any workshops or tutorials which require separate registration and pre-event communications.

Mid Feb 2010: Acceptances or otherwise of work in progress papers, demos and posters announced. Notification of acceptance of places at doctoral consortium and other workshops with limited registration.

End Feb 2010: Final submission of all accepted papers, full, work in progress or practitioner reports, for inclusion in the proceedings. Note that by this date at least one of the authors of each paper will need to have registered.

Mar 21, 2010: Early registration deadline.

May 2-5, 2010: ISCRAM2010 conference.

 

Further details of ISCRAM2010, as they become clear, will be published on http://www.iscram.org and through its discussion and mailing lists.

 

 

We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!!

 

 

Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair

Simon French, Programme Chair

Brian Tomaszewski, Program co-Chair

 

 

MORE INFORMATION:

 

http://www.iscram.org

ISCRAM group on Facebook

Email: iscram2010@iscram.org

 

 

 

 

 

CFP: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

> CALL FOR PAPERS -- SOUPS 2010
> Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
> July 14-16, 2010
> Microsoft, Redmond, WA USA
> http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/SOUPS/
>
> The 2010 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will bring
> together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners
> in
> human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program will
> feature technical papers, a poster session, panels and invited talks,
> discussion sessions, and in-depth sessions (workshops and tutorials).
> Detailed information about technical paper submissions appears below.
> For information about other submissions please see the SOUPS web site
> http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/cfp.html.
>
> TECHNICAL PAPERS
>
> We invite authors to submit original papers describing research or
> experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. Topics
> include,
> but are not limited to:
>
> * innovative security or privacy functionality and design,
> * new applications of existing models or technology,
> * field studies of security or privacy technology,
> * usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy
> features,
> * security testing of new or existing usability features,
> * longitudinal studies of deployed security or privacy features,
> * the impact of organizational policy or procurement decisions, and
> * lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and
> security features.
>
> All submissions must relate to both usability and either security or
> privacy. Papers on security or privacy applications that do not
> address
> usability or human factors will not be considered.
>
> Papers need to describe the purpose and goals of the work completed
> to date, cite related work, show how the work effectively integrates
> usability and security or privacy, and clearly indicate the innovative
> aspects of the work or lessons learned as well as the contribution of
> the work to the field.
>
> Submitted papers must not significantly overlap papers that have been
> published or that are simultaneously submitted to a peer-reviewed
> venue or publication. With the exception of publicly available prior
> work
> that is documented in your related work section, any overlap between
> your submitted paper and other work either under submission or
> previously published must be documented in a clearly-marked
> explanatory note at the front of the paper. State precisely how the
> two
> works differ in their goals, any use of shared experiments or data
> sources, and the unique contributions. If the other work is under
> submission elsewhere, the program committee may ask to review that
> work to evaluate the overlap. Please note that program committees
> frequently share information about papers under review and reviewers
> usually work on multiple conferences simultaneously. As technical
> reports are not peer reviewed they are exempt from this rule. You may
> also release pre-prints of your accepted work to the public at the
> time
> of your discretion.
>
> Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the
> ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. The technical papers
> committee will select an accepted paper to receive the SOUPS 2010
> best paper award.
>
> New this year, authors have the option to attach to their paper
> supplemental appendices containing study materials (e.g. surveys) that
> would not otherwise fit within the body of the paper. These appendices
> may be included to assist reviewers who may have questions that fall
> outside the stated contribution of your paper, on which your work is
> to
> be evaluated. The body of your paper must still be self contained and
> provide sufficient detail to elucidate your study methodology and
> results,
> as reviewers are neither required nor expected to read supplemental
> appendices. Accepted papers will be published online with their
> supplemental appendices included.
>
> Papers must use the SOUPS formatting template (available for MS Word
> or LaTeX) and be up to 12 pages in length, exclusive of the
> bibliography
> and any supplemental appendices described above. Submissions must
> be no more than 20 pages including bibliography and appendices. If
> your supplemental materials exceed this page limit, you may upload a
> separate external appendix file with these materials. The external
> appendix file need not conform to the SOUPS formatting template. In
> that case, make sure you mention the external appendix in the body of
> your paper and describe its contents. For the body of your paper,
> brevity
> is appreciated, as evidenced by the fact that many papers in prior
> years
> have been well under this limit. All submissions must be in PDF format
> and should not be blinded. In addition, you must cut and paste an
> abstract of no more than 300 words onto the submission form.
>
> Submit your paper using the electronic submissions page for the SOUPS
> 2010 conference (http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/submit.html).
> A successful submission will display a web page confirming it, and a
> confirmation email is sent to the corresponding author. Please make
> sure you receive that confirmation email when you submit, and follow
> the directions in that email if you require any follow up.
>
> Technical paper submissions will close at 5 PM, US Pacific time, the
> evening of Friday, March 5. This is a hard deadline! Authors will
> be notified of technical paper acceptance by April 30, and camera
> ready final versions of technical papers are due June 12.
>
> Authors are encouraged to review: Common Pitfalls in Writing about
> Security and Privacy Human Subjects Experiments, and How to Avoid
> Them.
> https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/howtosoups.pdf
>
>
> General Chair:
> Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
>
> Discussion Session Chair:
> Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
>
> Invited Talks and Panels Chair:
> Cynthia Kuo, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto / Carnegie Mellon
> Silicon Valley
>
> Local Activities Chair:
> Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research
>
> Posters Co-Chairs:
> Dirk Balfanz, Google
> Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia
>
> Technical Papers Co-Chairs:
> Andrew Patrick, Carleton University
> Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research
>
> Tutorials and Workshops Chair:
> Kirstie Hawkey, University of British Columbia
>
> Technical Papers Committee
> Ross Anderson, Cambridge
> Alessandro Acquisti, CMU Heinz College
> Steven Bellovin, Columbia University
> Robert Biddle, Carleton University
> Jose Brustoloni
> Bill Cheswick, AT&T Research
> Rachna Dhamija, Usable Security Systems
> Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project
> Serge Egelman, Brown University
> Carl Ellison, Microsoft
> Simson L. Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School
> Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh
> Markus Jakobsson, PARC
> Clare-Marie Karat, Karat Consulting Group
> Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), IIIT Delhi, India
> Linda Little, Northumbria University, UK
> Andy Ozment, US Office of the Secretary of Defense
> Rob Reeder, Microsoft
> Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow
> Angela Sasse, University College London
> Diana Smetters, PARC
> Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University
> Hao-Chi Wong, Intel
> Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM

TRA: Emergency Radio Training Class, Menlo Park CA

We are pleased to announce that we are announcing the following training
class:

WHAT: How to Use Your (Ham) Radio for Disaster Response

WHEN: Wednesday, November 4 from 6:30-9:30pm

WHO: This class is designed for volunteers assigned to operate radios in
emergencies. Priority is given to local ARES/RACES, Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) members, Red Cross, and other such groups.

We encourage you to already have an Amateur Radio (HAM) license (but not
required). There is a one-day "cram" class coming up:
http://www.k6mpn.org/training/

WHERE: TBA - we will advise when you RSVP.

RSVP: Ken Dueker (kdueker@powerflare.com)

COST: FREE

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

tnx es 73,

- Ken
_______________________________________________________________________
Kenneth S. Dueker, J.D. (KB6BPM), Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service/RACES:
Menlo Park Fire Dist. (Atherton, Menlo Park, E. Palo Alto) & Stanford
and Police Officer, Palo Alto P.D.
_______________________________________________________________________

CFP: Death and the Digital workshop at CSCW 2010

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Death and the Digital: End-of-Lifespan Technologies,
Technology Heirlooms, and Digital Cultural Practices
:: A workshop to be held at CSCW 2010 ::
:: Savannah, Georgia, USA ::
****************************************************

WEBSITE:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mikem/eolcscw2010/
<http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/%7Emikem/eolcscw2010/>

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
--------------------
Death, and our experience of it, is a fundamental aspect of life and
consequently every human culture has developed practices associated with
responding to, signifying, and dealing with its implications. As our
cultures become pervaded with technology, we find that the digital is
increasingly intersecting with these practices. This raises issues which
have rarely been conceptualized or articulated in the HCI and CSCW
communities. It is increasingly important to design "thanatosensitive"
technologies which support death-centric practices such as collaborative
acts of remembrance, bequeathing of digital data, or group reflection on
the digital residua of a life. This workshop will bring together
participants interested in such technologies and their implications.

Potential topics include, but are certainly not limited to:
- devices for reflection and meaning-making across multiple lifespans
- interdisciplinary practices surrounding mortality, dying, and death
- technology heirlooms
- digital rights management and its relationship to death
- methodological approaches to researching end-of-life technology issues
- any other topic which addresses issues of technology at the end of life

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
------------------------
Submission deadline: November 20, 2009

Participants are asked to email to the organizers a 2-4 page position
paper detailing their work in this area. Submissions should follow the
ACM SIG proceedings format. Participants will be selected to ensure a
mix of approaches (including theoretical, empirical, and practical).
Participants who offer unique insights from disciplines not normally
represented in the CSCW community (e.g., archaeology, religion) will be
particularly well-received. Submissions will be selected on the basis of
originality, relevance, opportunities for discussion, and overall
quality. Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website, and all
participants will be asked to read the collection of papers before the
workshop.

Submissions should be sent as an email attachment in PDF or Microsoft
Word format to eolcscw2010@cs.toronto.edu by *November 20th, 2009*.

Notification of decision: December 15, 2009

Note that workshop participants must register for at least 1 day of the
CSCW 2010 conference occurring February 6-10, 2010. http://www.cscw2010.org

Questions or comments may be directed to Michael Massimi at
mikem@dgp.toronto.edu.

ORGANIZERS
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Michael Massimi, University of Toronto

David Kirk, University of Nottingham

Richard Banks, Microsoft Research Cambridge

CFP: Special Issue on the Evaluation of Reality-Based Interaction in IJHCS

Dear all,
this is a call for papers for a special issue on the Evaluation of
Reality Based Interaction in the International Journal of Human-Computer
Studies. The CfP follows:

Reality Based Interaction (RBI) is an umbrella term that was proposed to
include new interaction styles, such as virtual reality, augmented
reality, ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld interaction, tangible user
interfaces, lightweight, tacit, or passive interaction, perceptual
interfaces, affective computing, context-aware interfaces, and speech
and multi-modal interfaces. RBI proposes that the new interaction styles
share underlying interaction principles that leverage and take advantage
of human knowledge, based on interactions with the outside world. It is
a framework that identifies the common principles, and a first step
towards making comparisons between the new methods of interaction. But
it does not suggest that all the interactions between the user and the
computer must be similar to interactions with the real world. This would
be very limiting on what one could do, especially when through the use
of a computer, a user may perform actions that would never be possible
in a real world setting, such as flying, or having X-ray vision. Thus,
the real world is only used for grounding the interactions that occur on
familiar concepts, but wherever possible the action used in the real
world is also used in the interface. Because we could claim that the
mouse and keyboard are today as much a part of the real world as
anything else, RBI limits the use of "real world" to aspects of the
physical, non-digital world: "In particular, the framework focuses
specifically on four themes from the real world: Naïve Physics: people
have common sense knowledge about the physical world. Body Awareness &
Skills: people have an awareness of their own physical bodies and
possess skills for controlling and coordinating their bodies.
Environment Awareness & Skills: people have a sense of their
surroundings and possess skills for negotiating, manipulating, and
navigating within their environment. Social Awareness & Skills: people
are generally aware of others in their environment and have skills for
interacting with them." (Jacob et al., 2008)

For example, tangible computing is intuitive by conforming to common
sense knowledge about the physical world; in virtual reality (VR)
environments, interaction can be natural when it is designed to meet
expectations, for interaction with technology and virtual agents; and
for augmented reality, interactions with the environment may be designed
to overcome ordinarily difficult manual or cognitive tasks, to make
reality more intuitive. Also, interactions that would never occur in
the real world, such as giving the user the ability to fly in a VR
environment, can be based on a familiar concept, such as that of
superman, holding one hand clenched in a fist raised upwards and leaning
to the front a bit, to simulate the action of flying.

The evaluation of interfaces built using RBIs creates a unique set of
problems that are rarely examined in mainstream usability research, such
as the evaluation of continuous actions other than pointing, parallel
actions, and the completion-time evaluation of body movements, again,
other than pointing. Whilst RBI seeks to categorize and explain why and
how these new interaction styles are similar, there has not been an
effort to establish evaluation methods that will provide comparative
metrics, design and evaluation principles, for and across interaction
styles. In fact, researchers create their own evaluation methods and
metrics when they create a new interactive system to evaluate its
interactive performance, because of this lack of agreed evaluation
methods for these new interaction styles. However, this leads to several
questions about the reliability, reproducibility and validity of the
obtained results for a particular interaction, and no means to compare
interaction across styles. Also, researchers have only sought to
establish design and evaluation principles for a particular interaction
style, leaving the challenging design decision regarding what is the
most appropriate interaction style for a particular interaction. Again,
this is because researchers, who work only in one interaction style, do
not come to contact with solutions that come from work in other
interaction styles.

The special issue seeks submissions that include, but are not be limited to:
• Evaluation methods that have been created and designed specifically
for RBIs.
• Case studies of successful and unsuccessful evaluations of RBIs,
how those were performed, and why they were successful (or why they failed).
• Discussions of frameworks that enable the evaluation of RBIs,
through objective and subjective measures
• Descriptions and evaluations of tools that support decisions
regarding which interaction style would be appropriate for a specific
task, environment and goal.

Articles must be based on original research, and to the standards of the
International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS). Complete
articles must be submitted by the deadline of 15th of January. Papers
will be subject to the full review process of the IJHCS.

Instructions for Authors
Submissions must be limited to 18 pages in length, and must be submitted
online. Illustrations should be provided in separate files in either
.jpg or .gif format, and APA style references (not ACM or IEEE style).
The guide for authors and online submission can be found at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622846/authorinstructions

Potential authors should contact Georgios Christou
(g.christou@euc.ac.cy), Effie Law (elaw@mcs.le.ac.uk), Kasper Hornbaek
(kash@diku.dk), or William Green (williamgreen@acm.org) with any
questions about the special issue.

For information about the International Journal of Human Computer
Studies see
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10715819

References
Jacob, R. J. K., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L. M., Horn, M. S., Shaer,
O., Solovey, E. T., et al. (2008). Reality-Based Interaction: A
Framework for Post-WIMP Interfaces. Paper presented at the CHI 08
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy.

Regards,
Georgios Christou, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
School of Sciences
European University Cyprus

CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010

> 9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and
> Systems
>
> www.iwips2010.org
>
> London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010
>
> to be held in Thames Valley University.
>
>
>
> IWIPS 2010 committee are seeking submissions on the topics of
> localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme:
> Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme
> is to
> focus on the impact of international design teams on the design,
> evaluation, and development of products and systems. IWIPS invites
> several types of submissions, including papers, case studies,
> research-in-progress and tutorials. All submissions are due 15
> February
> 2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (expect
> tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings.
>
>
>
> Suggested Topics for Submissions
>
> As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases
> for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for
> supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both
> business and human issues are of great importance. Topic s of interest
> for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following:
>
>
>
>
>
> User centric strategies for economic and community development IT
> projects
>
> Cross-cultural issues in IT design
>
> Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed
> resources
>
> Methods for software localization / globalization
>
> Designing for trust
>
> The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural
> boundaries
>
> Interactions between culture and user-centred design and much more...
>
>
>
> Submission Types
>
>
>
> Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized
> on a
> modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10
> pages in the proceedings format.
>
> Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons
> learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or
> systems within industry. The length of case studies should be
> between 4
> to 8 pages in the proceedings format.
>
> Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a
> description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated
> results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or
> applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the
> Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings
> format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on
> their theses or dissertations.)
>
> Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive
> and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or
> localisation
> skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive
> and
> applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3
> to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the
> proceedings
> format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the
> proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010.
>
>
>
> Important Dates 2010
>
>
>
> Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs
>
>
>
> Submission deadline 15 February 2010
>
> Notification to authors 15 March 2010
>
> Camera ready copies of papers 15 April 2010
>
>
>
> Tutorials
>
>
>
> Initial proposal 15 January 2010
>
> Final submissions 15 April 2010
>
>
>
> More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html

GRA: Interdisciplinary Research (IDR)

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=49709

Funding Opportunity Number:	PD-09-7951
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Posted Date:	Sep 30, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Dec 07, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): December 07, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Expected Number of Awards:	0
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$0
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"  

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Agency Name

National Science Foundation

Description

The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) welcomes and encourages the submission of transformative, interdisciplinary research proposals to its Divisions. Definition of Interdisciplinary Research"Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice." Reference: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.Characteristics of IDR ProposalsIDR submissions should have a level of interdisciplinary content not covered in the core programs of ENG. To be funded, IDR proposals must ultimately attract funding from at least two programs in at least two divisions of the NSF. The primary funding division must be within ENG.IDR proposals may be on any topic relevant to engineering and, in particular, should not be constrained by the current program structures. It is hoped that new fields of research will eventually emerge from IDR awards.While not an absolute requirement, an IDR proposal typically will be submitted by a small team of 2-4 investigators.The typical anticipated total award size will be $400,000-600,000 (for up to three years), although requests of lesser or greater size, up to a total of $1,000,000, will be considered, consistent with the scope of the proposed woSubmission of IDR ProposalsIDR proposals that do not comply with the following requirements will be returned without review: The deadline for proposal submissions is not later than 5:00 PM local time on December 7, 2009.Proposals must be submitted as unsolicited proposals and directed to the IDR program (Program Element 7951) in the CBET, CMMI, or ECCS Divisions.Proposals must have a proposal title that begins with "IDR: ."Proposals must explicitly address the interdisciplinary nature of the proposed research in a separate paragraph within the one-page Project Summary.Proposals must explicitly address both Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts and conform with all other requirements of the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (Document #NSF 09-29).IDR proposals should be prepared so that reviewers from any of the different fields to which the proposal relates can appreciate the intellectual merit, transformative nature, and broader impact of the interdisciplinary research proposed.

Link to Full Announcement

NSF Program Desccription 09-7951

CFP: CSCW 2010 Workshop - The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations

CSCW 2010 workshop: Call for Participation

The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations

The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading
to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative
technologies. A new generation of scientists, working in large-scale
collaborations, is repurposing social software for use in
collaborative science. Existing social tools such as chat, IM, and
FriendFind are being adopted and modified for use as group
problem-solving facilities. At the same time, exponentially greater
and more complex datasets are being generated at a rate that is
challenging the limits of current hardware, software, and human
cognitive capability. A concerted effort to create software that will
support new scientific practices and handle this data tsunami is
redefining the collaboratory and represents a new frontier for
computer supported cooperative work.

This follow-on event to a similarly themed workshop at CHI 2009 is
intended to foster community among researchers and practitioners from
multiple disciplines interested in the changing dynamics of scientific
collaborations.

We encourage papers on the following topics, especially those with a
focus on changing practices in these areas:

* Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering,
analysis, sharing, and visualization
* Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and
visualization
* Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations
* Social networks of scientists
* Repurposing social software for science
* Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software
* Distributed data gathering and analysis
* Time-critical scientific applications
* Studies of generational differences in how science is done
* Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to
a non-scientific field

Paper Submission Instructions:

Submissions should be position papers 2-4 pages in length. Please use
the ACM SIGCHI Template (Word version:
http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.doc or LaTeX
version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.cls) .
All submissions will be reviewed. The possibility of a journal special
issue or book based on expanded versions of the submissions will be
explored following the workshop.

Papers (in .pdf or .doc format) should be submitted via email to
CRAragon@lbl.gov. Please put "CSCW 2010 Workshop Submission" in the
subject of the email.

** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 **

Notification of acceptance will be sent out on or before December 18, 2009.

For more information, please see the workshop web site:

http://www.sci.utah.edu/cscw2010/

Organizers:
Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CRAragon@lbl.gov
Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University, jheer@cs.stanford.edu
Charlotte Lee, University of Washington, cplee@u.washington.edu
Claudio Silva, University of Utah, csilva@sci.utah.edu