CFP: EICS-MIXER: The Challenges of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems

> Call for Submission to the workshop :
>
> *"EICS-MIXER: The Challenges of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems: A
> Bottom-Up Workshop"
> *
> To be held the *20th of June 2010*
> as a workshop of the EICS 2010 conference – BERLIN
>
> Organizers: Emmanuel Dubois, Philip D. Gray, Laurence Nigay
> Contact: mixer@irit.fr
> Web site : http://ihcs.irit.fr/dubois/Research/Events/EICS_Mixer/EICS_Mixer.htm
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> THEME, GOALS, AND RELEVANCE
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> Currently one of the most challenging aspects of interactive systems
> is the integration of the physical and digital aspects of
> interaction in a smooth and usable way. The design challenge of such
> Mixed Reality (MR) interactive systems lies in the fluid and
> harmonious fusion of the physical and digital worlds. Examples of MR
> interactive systems include tangible user interfaces (TUI),
> augmented reality (AR), augmented virtuality (AV), Reality Based
> Interaction (RBI), and embodied interfaces. The diversity of terms
> highlights the ever growing interest in MR systems. The MR domain
> represents a very active interdisciplinary research area which has
> expanded rapidly, since the seminal Digital Desk 3. Significant
> achievements have been made in terms of both real MR systems for
> various application domains (medical, military, game, production,
> museum) and conceptual/software tools for their design (taxonomies,
> notational support and models). However, models and notations are
> hard to evaluate and hard to compare. Indeed, most of the design
> models and notations proposed in the MIS domain are used by a very
> limited set of people, mainly limited to their creators.
> In this very dynamic context, the objective of this workshop is to
> bring together researchers, designers and practitioners with a clear
> interest in conceptual and software tools for the design,
> development and evaluation of MR systems in order to contribute to a
> vivid discussion leading to a framework for organizing and comparing
> the various existing design approaches.
> For structuring the discussion and being able to compare the
> existing design approaches and highlight their complementarities
> based on their identified strengths and limitations, we adopt a
> bottom-up approach by focusing on a set of case studies (i.e.,
> existing MR interactive systems) that represents the diversity of
> existing MR systems. Participants will be invited to apply existing
> design approaches for designing those selected MR systems. The
> comparison of the resulting design will serve as the basis for
> elaborating a framework for organizing/comparing the existing design
> approaches. Such a framework will be structured along a set of
> design elements and metrics for characterizing the design approaches.
> During this workshop, participants will break into subgroups. Each
> subgroup will be invited to make use of one existing design
> resources (models, notations, etc.) for MIS in order to address
> several representative and realistic mixed reality development
> challenges based on case-studies. Design resources and case studies
> will be selected by the organizers amongst the ones proposed by
> participants in their workshop submission. Following this practice
> session, subgroups will present the results of the modelling of each
> case-study to the rest of the workshop, including a critical
> assessment of the strengths and limitations of the method, model,
> technique or tool. It will lead to comparisons and discussions of
> the results of the modelling exercises. Finally, it is intended that
> the workshop will identify comparison framework, that is, a set of
> descriptors, model element and metrics for characterizing MIS design
> resources (models, tools, notation, etc.).
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> Submission formats
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> In this workshop our goal is to bring together researchers,
> designers and practitioners with an interest in conceptual and
> software tools for the design, implementation and evaluation of MR
> systems. Participants are invited to submit a position paper. There
> are three ways of participating in this workshop:
>
> -- Proposing a design resource:
> Such participants offer to consider a / their design resource for
> MIS as one the potential design resources used during the workshop.
> The design resources overview should (1) present the basic elements
> of the model, notation, tool or technique, (2) state the benefits of
> its use when designing a MIS, (3) express the kind of application /
> considerations that can be and cannot be modelled with it.
> These "Primary" participants must commit to be in charge of a
> subgroup of participants with whom the "Primary" participant will
> use his/her design resource to model or develop the selected case st
> udies.
> These workshop submissions should be 2 to 4 pages, and should follow
> the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. It
> must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
> -- Proposing a case study:
> such participants present a particular mixed reality system and its
> design challenges. Such a paper could state (i) the overall task(s)
> and context of use supported by the system, (ii) the main
> functionalities of the system, (iii) constraints linked to its use,
> (iv) an overall profile of the targeted users and (v) method by
> which the case study results might be evaluated.
> They will be involved during the workshop in the use of existing
> design resources in the context of predefined scenarios. They will
> be taught how to use one of the existing design resources for MIS
> and raise questions about its use.
> These workshop position papers should be 1 to 2 pages, and should
> follow the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/
> chipubform. It must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
> -- Expressing a prospective view:
> such participants are invited to express design challenges of mixed
> reality systems that current or future conceptual and software
> design tools should address.
> They will be involved during the workshop in the use of existing
> design resources in the context of predefined scenarios. They will
> be taught how to use one of the existing design resources for MIS
> and raise questions about its use.
> These workshop position papers should be 1 to 2 pages, and should
> follow the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/
> chipubform. It must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
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> IMPORTANT DATES
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> Submissions
> -- Design resources: the 2nd of April 2010
> -- Case studies and prospective: the 2nd of April 2010
>
> Notification of Acceptance
> -- Design resources: 9th of April 2010
> -- Case studies and prospective: 9th of April 2010
> -- Final version of models presentation and case studies : 7th of June
> (long in advance in order to allow some time to the primary
> participants to prepare the modelling of the different case-studies)
>
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> ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
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> 1-"MIXER: Exploring the Design and Engineering of Mixed Reality Syst
> ems", Dubois, E., Gray, P., Trevisan, D., Vanderdonckt, J., Workshop
> of the CADUI'04 conference, Proceedings available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-9
> 1/, (2004).
> 2-"The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems", Dubois, Emmanuel;
> Gray, Philip; Nigay, Laurence (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction Ser
> ies, Vol. 15, (2010), 450 p.
> 3-Wellner, P., 1993. Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk,
> Communications of the ACM, 36, 7 (July 1993), 87-96.
>