CFP: Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems @ iEMSs 2010

** CALL FOR PAPERS **

Please consider submitting a paper for the International Congress on
Environmental Modelling and Software, July 5 - 8 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Please pass this along to any potentially-interested parties. Please let me know
if you have any questions or concerns.

"Modelling for Environment's Sake"

http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/

Potential topics include:
• agricultural sustainability and food safety
• adapting to a shifting climate
• water resources management
• ecosystem service issues
• sensor networks
• integrated modelling approaches
• modelling and software frameworks
• decision support systems issues
• capacity-building in less-developed countries and regions

In particular:
S22. Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/page04.html

> Organisers: Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Canada (dhh@cs.uregina.ca)
> Steven Frysinger, James Madison University, USA (frysinsp@jmu.edu)
> Markus Wrobel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
> Germany (wrobel@pik-potsdam.de)
>
> Environmental informatics (or enviromatics) is a maturing subject
> with interdisciplinary roots. The application of information and
> communication technology (ICT) to the environment is emerging as one
> of great importance as the health of our planet gains priority on
> research agendas. Ultimately, environmental information must be put
> into people's hands so that they can make decisions. How best to
> involve stakeholders, so that they can access the information they
> need and put it to use in a satisfying manner, remains a topic of
> inquiry. Underlying the larger benefits of enviromatics as a tool
> for policy decisions is the architecture that enables those decision
> making processes. To maximize the value of the infrastructure,
> interaction design must be an integral part of the architectural
> plan. How do we best employ metaphor in educating users and
> influencing their mental models? What are the ethical concerns
> involved and how can they be addressed? This design helps the user
> to improve the quality of the information that is produced,
> presented, and used. Contributions are sought for a special session
> on human factors in enviromatics. We will seek to put work on
> interaction design and human computer interaction into the specific
> context of environmental modelling and software, with the goal of
> understanding how to draw on and apply existing knowledge to
> environmental informatics so that efforts are focused on refinement
> and adaptation instead of reinvention. Topics include, but are not
> limited to:
> • Usability analyses
> • Decision psychology
> • Task analyses (including, for example, decision support)
> • Validation of ICT tools
> • Human-computer interface design
> • Human performance evaluation
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312