CFP: Special Issue of IJHCS on Designing for Reflection on Personal Experience

> Special Issue on Designing for Reflection on Personal Experience
>
> International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
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> Guest Editors:
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> Corina Sas (Lancaster University, UK)
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> Alan Dix (Lancaster University, UK)
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> The concept of user experience and its increasingly acknowledged
> role in
> understanding usability of technology has paved the way for
> experience-based design. In this context, conceptualising the
> experience
> of interaction with technology as a reflective, sense making endeavour
> has already started to emerge. Slow design, reflective design,
> inquisitive design, and technology as experience are attempts in this
> direction which particularly highlight the role of emotions and
> artistic
> representations for inviting reflection. Although reflection is a
> required practice in design, we aim to broaden its scope into
> looking at
> how technology should be designed to support people's reflection, when
> the object of reflection is personal and directly related to everyday
> events in people's lives.
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> Designing for reflection on personal experience is an emerging field
> capturing the movement from designing for experience as interaction
> with
> technology towards designing for reflection on felt-life experience
> captured by technology. This field is positioned at the intersection
> of
> affective sensors, mobile computing, simulated environments,
> life-logging and autobiographical memory technologies. However,
> despite
> their potential, there has been surprisingly little research into how
> these technologies invite self reflection and support personal sense
> making.
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> This special issue aims to present a set of high-quality, high-impact,
> original research outcomes in designing for personal reflection and
> provision of support for the development of abilities for self
> reflection. We invite contributions relating but not limited to:
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> * development and critique of technologies for reflection on
> experience
> * design guidelines for developing technology for reflection on
> experience
> * design technology for developing and training reflective skills
> * design technology for assessing and developing emotional
> awareness
> * methods and instruments for the evaluation of technology for
> reflection
> * exploration of the role of arts in technology for reflection on
> experience
> * motivational and persuasive interfaces for reflection on
> experience
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> This special issue follows from a very successful workshop held a CHI
> 2009: Designing for Reflection on Experience
> (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~corina/CHI09Workshop
> <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~corina/CHI09Workshop> ) and we now
> invite
> members of the research community to submit original articles covering
> these issues. Although articles must be based on original research,
> extended versions of conference papers may be acceptable if they
> contain
> at least 50% new material. This applies to papers presented at the
> recent CHI workshop as well. Complete articles should be submitted by
> the deadline of 18 January 2010. Papers will be subject to the full
> IJHCS review process, with decisions expected by 19 April 2010.
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> Timeline
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> 18 January 2010, 1st full submission
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> 19 April 2010, Notification of 1st review
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> 21 June 2010, 2nd submission (revised in the light of the first
> review)
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> 20 Sept 2010, Final notification
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> 18 October 2010, Final revision due
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> Target Publication date: February 2011
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> Submission instructions
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> Manuscripts should generally not exceed 8000 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/
> <http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/> .
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> To submit to the Special Issue, please select Article Type ''Special
> Issue: Reflection on Experience'' and state in the ''Enter Comments''
> section that the paper is intended for the "Designing for Reflection
> on
> Personal Experience Special Issue being edited by "Sas and Dix". If
> you
> are a first time user of the journal's online submission tool, you
> will
> have to register yourself as an author on the system. Potential
> authors
> should contact Corina Sas (corina@comp.lancs.ac.uk) with any questions
> about the special issue.
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> For information on the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
> see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs
> <http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs> .
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> Provisional Referee Panel
> Ann Blandford, University College London.
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> Paul Brna, University of Edinburgh
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> Giancarlo Dimaggio, Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva
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> Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
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> Elise van den Hoven, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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> Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University
> Scott Mainwaring, Intel Labs

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ANN: Research resource for students in HCI - The HCI Bibliography

> It's a new school year, so...
>
> The HCI Bibliography at http://hcibib.org is a free-access online
> bibliography of Human-Computer Interaction with over 50,000
> bibliographic
> records in a searchable database. The HCI Bibliography is hosted on
> an ACM
> server by ACM SIGCHI: http://sigchi.org
>
> The HCIBIB covers major HCI journals
> http://hcibib.org/journal.html
> and conferences
> http://hcibib.org/confer.html
> as well as books
> http://hcibib.org/readings.html
> and over 2000 HCI websites in categories such as accessibility,
> companies
> and consultants, conferences, education, intercultural, kids,
> laboratories,
> organizations, publications, and so on:
> http://hcibib.org/links.html
> A page of hot topics features carefully prepared searches on dozens
> of topics:
> http://hcibib.org/canned.html
> The hot authors page features links to the works by top authors in
> HCI:
> http://hcibib.org/authors.html
>
> Gary Perlman, Director, HCI Bibliography Project
> mailto:director@hcibib.org http://hcibib.org/

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CFP: Designing for a Sustainable Future, Oct 27, Berkeley, Workshop at Creativity & Cognition 09 - DL Sept 21

Can Design help meet our present needs without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own?

** Submit your Statement of Interest by Sept 2nd to qualify for early
registration, or by Sept 21st for standard registration**

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/

DESIGNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE is a day devoted to creating,
exploring, and applying sustainable system design ideas, methods, and
principles to holistic, software-based solutions. It aims to seed the
creative thought-leadership necessary to conceive of courageous and
radical redefinitions of our live & work experiences towards a
sustainable future.

Leaders in the field will speak throughout the day, to help facilitate
our workshop discussions and exercises that we hope will challenge and
inspire you. By the end of the day you will generate a design agenda
that will describe the responsibilities we bear, cradle to cradle, for
what we choose to make.

We welcome participants from industry, government/NGO/NPOs, and
academia, who are involved with strategy, planning, ideation,
ethnography, synthesis, and/or design, dealing with issues of
Sustainability - whether in theory or in practice.

Topics will ultimately be chosen by you, but candidates include the
following:

- Sustainable Design Theory and Practice. What concepts, practices,
ethics, principles, methods, and case studies can we share that
demonstrate effective and practical ecologic design work? What could a
clear and coherent framework of discourse look like for the field of
Sustainable Design? How do we represent the Future (rather than 'just'
the User)?
- Natural Resources. How must our assumptions and practices change to
make responsible use of energy, water, and precious materials? How can
the results of our design work encourage behaviors that help preserve
and prevent waste and pollution?
- Society. How can our practices - and our designs - encourage
meaningful human interaction and correct issues of social disparity?
- Business. How can we amplify intelligence and divert bad decisions as
we collaborate with executives, managers, and others to design and
operate businesses that truly serve a triple bottom line?
- Healthcare. How can our research, synthesis, and design efforts help
create a sensible healthcare system that provides everyone with the best
care available, that improves treatment outcomes, and that drives costs
downward?
- Food. How can our work ensure that everyone benefits from agriculture,
that our land remains bountiful, that people are well-nourished, and
that the health of ecosystems aren't imperiled in the process?
- Transportation. What can transportation systems, services, and
products yield greater efficiencies, comfort, and economy?

PARTICIPATE!

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/participate

If these challenges interest you, and you'd like to contribute to the
growing intellectual commons on sustainable design, please submit your
statement of interest by Sept 2nd to qualify for the early registration
deadline, or at the latest by Sept 21st for standard registration.

The workshop takes place all day on October 27, 2009, during the
Creativity & Cognition '09 Conference in Berkeley, CA.

THE ORGANIZERS

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/organizers

Daniela Busse, Brinda Dalal, Eli Blevis, David Fore, Sally Kennedy
Lawler, Catherine Howard, and Lara Lee.

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EXE: CERT Los Gatos CA USA

All of you are invited to are invited to participate in the second
annual West CERT Event in Los Gatos. It will be on *Saturday, September
19th at the Los Gatos Civic Center, 110 E. Main Street (at Fiesta
Avenue) Town Council Chambers. The drill begins with sign in at 8 am
and ends at 1 pm*.

For those of you who are CERT members, this is a chance to practice the
skills we learned in CERT training. Several scenarios will be
presented. Before each drill, instructors will give everyone an
overview of the drill and reminder of basic skills needed. There's no
need to anxious if it's been awhile since you took your CERT training*/./*

Drill participants should have all of their CERT equipment including
/helmet, vest, gloves, eye protection, flashlight, and wear long pants
and closed-toed shoes/*/./*

If you are not a CERT Member, you can still get involved! You and your
family and friends can help make this drill more interesting and
realistic by volunteering to be the role-players in the scenarios.
Volunteers are needed (children, too!) to play the role of 'disaster
victims' and will be professionally made up to reflect whatever injury
is appropriate for assigned situation. It's fun to do - and interesting!

/*Can we count on your participation? CERT Participants and role-players
please register by sending an email to CERT@Losgatosca.gov
(preferred method of registration) or
calling 408-399-5722. */

After you register, there will be follow-up communications so you are
prepared for the drill. I look forward to seeing you there!

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CFP: Diagrams 2010

Diagrams 2010

Sixth International Conference on the

Theory and Application of Diagrams

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/

diagrams2010@diagrams-conference.org

9-11 August 2010

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series,
covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of
diagrams.

Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches
and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For
effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual
representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they
are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to
use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study
of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative
thought, computation and problem-solving.

The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an
interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that
provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study
of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence,
cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic
design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics,
logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling.

Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was
launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of
researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the
conference as a major international event in the area.

Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a
lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related
communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research
results.

Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of
refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For
the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and
postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of:

- long research papers (15 pages)

- short research papers (7 pages)

- posters (3 pages)

- tutorial proposals (1 page; see the conference web page for full
details)

- workshop proposals (1 page; see the conference web page for full
details)

that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should
present original research results. Short papers and posters should
present original research contributions, position or problem statements,
summarise software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results
published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community.

All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings will be
published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
www.springer.com/lncs.

Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the
conference web site www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- applications of diagrams

- computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of,
diagrams

- design of diagrammatic notations

- diagram understanding by humans or machines

- diagram aesthetics and layout

- educational uses of diagrams

- evaluation of diagrammatic notations

- graphical communication

- heterogeneous notations involving diagrams

- history of diagrammatic notations

- information visualization using diagrams

- novel uses of diagrams

- psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or
production of diagrams

- reasoning with diagrams

- software to support the use of diagrams

- theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification
and formalization

- usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams

- use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering,
mathematics, science and technology.

Important dates

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Abstract submission: 8 January 2010

Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010

Poster submission: 1 February 2010

Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010

Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010

Notification for posters: 8 March 2010

Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010

Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010

Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010

Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010

Organizers

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Conference Chairs:

Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK)

N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA)

Workshop Chair:

Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Tutorial Chair:

Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA)

Graduate Symposium Chair:

Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada)

Program Committee

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Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA)

Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA)

Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK)

Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada)

Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy)

B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA)

Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK)

Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK)

Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA)

Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK)

John Gero (George Mason University, USA)

Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK)

Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

John Howse (University of Brighton, UK)

Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany)

Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland)

John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)

Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia)

Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia)

Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA)

Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany)

Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Jesse Norman (University College London, UK)

Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City)

Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK)

Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK)

Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada)

Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan)

Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA)

Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK)

Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA)

Contact Us

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diagrams2010@diagrams-conference.org

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2010 NIH Directors New Innovator Award

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=49220

Funding Opportunity Number:	RFA-RM-09-011
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Oct 27, 2009
Archive Date:	Nov 27, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Health
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:	33
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):	93.310 -- Trans-NIH Research Support
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

State governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession.

Agency Name

National Institutes of Health

Description

Purpose. The NIH Directors New Innovator (DP2) Award program was created in 2007 to support a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research. The New Innovator Awards complement ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund early stage investigators through R01 grants, which continue to be the major sources of NIH support for early stage. The NIH Directors New Innovator Award Program is a High-Risk Research initiative of Research Teams of the Future. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the DP2 grant mechanism. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Contingent upon the submission of a sufficient number of scientifically meritorious applications, NIH intends to commit at least $80 million in response to this FOA in fiscal year 2010. We anticipate that at least 33 awards will be made in fiscal year 2010.

Link to Full Announcement

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-011.html

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CFP: ExpDes workshop at UCM2009

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

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

For whom is this workshop?

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

Call for papers

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

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

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

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

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

Workshop program committee:

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

Kind regards,
Workshop organizers

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

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