CFP: WISH Mentoring and Scholarship Program

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CFP: Mentoring program at the
Workshop on Interactive Systems for Healthcare (WISH)
April 10-11, 2010
Atlanta, GA USA
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The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) will take place April 10th and 11th, 2010 collocated with the ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, at the CHI conference site, the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This event is designed to foster conversation and bridge communities and will include specialists in biomedical informatics, nursing informatics, medical sociology, human-computer interaction, and related fields.

WISH is pleased to offer a mentoring program for students and other junior researchers joining the fields of HCI, health, wellness, and biomedical informatics. This program will match up participants with members of the steering committee for one on one mentoring as well as inclusion of these participants in some invite-only events for mentors and mentees starting the evening of April 10 and moving through the open WISH event on April 11. Finally, we will be able to offer scholarships for partial travel and registration support for those accepted to the program. To apply, please email Desney Tan (desney@microsoft.com) and Gillian Hayes (gillianrh@ics.uci.edu) by February 15th, 2010 with your CV, the name of your supervisor or advisor, and what kind of financial support you might need. Some preference will be given to authors of accepted papers for WISH, but the program will be open to anyone, and we strongly encourage applicants who are not presenting at WISH.

Please forward this on to other interested people, both within and outside of the CHI community.

Best,

Desney and Gillian
http://www.chi2010.org/wish

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CFP: CHINZ (CHI New Zealand)

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CHINZ 2010, 11th annual Conference on the New Zealand ACM Special Interest
Group on Human-Computer Interaction
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Conference Theme: Interaction on the move
Massey University Auckland, 8th ­ 9th July, 2010

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The CHINZ conference provides a general forum for all those involved with
Computer Human Interaction (CHI or HCI) to address design centred human use
of technology. We welcome full length and short research papers in all areas
of this diverse field and especially encourage graduate students to present
at the conference. There will poster sessions and hands-on demonstrations
during the conference, at which we would encourage industry practitioners to
present.

In recent years more and more researchers in the field of HCI have looked to
apply principles from the design industry to their work. Many have come to
see themselves as Interaction Designers rather than just Interface
Designers. The conference will address a wide range of topics around the
central theme of Interaction on the move. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* Interaction design
* User centred design
* Applying design principles in HCI
* Social implications of technology (e.g., for disabled or elderly)
* Mobile technologies; games; robotics
* Cognitive psychology
* Usability
* Guidelines and heuristics
* Implications of technology for cognition
* Education aspects
* Industry case studies.
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Important date
30th March, 2010 ­ All submission due
27th April, 2010 < All reviews due
4th May, 2010 ­ Response to authors
5th June, 2010 - Final submission die
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Submissions
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference, published in the
conference proceedings, and the ACM Digital Library. All the submissions
will be peer reviewed by an ³international² programme committee
* Long papers - no more than 8 pages in length
* Short papers - no more than 4 pages in length
* Posters and demos - no more than 2 pages in length

All submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Proceedings format and be
submitted as PDF files.
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For all other informal enquires please email to Dr. Hokyoung Ryu
(h.ryu@massey.ac.nz) or +64 9 4140800 xtn. 9140.

Hosted by: Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences and Centre for
Mobile Computing, Massey University, ACM SIGCHI New Zealand (
http://www.acm.org/chapters/sigchi_nz)

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GRA: 10 PhD scholarships available – deadline for applications: 15 February 2010

10 PhD positions - Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive
Environments (ICE)

Research areas of interest:

- Assistive technologies

- Network-embedded systems

- People-inspired technologies

- Designed intelligence

- Multi-sensor surveillance
More details and sample project descriptions at http://www.icephd.org/research_areas
The ten grants will be covered by the European Commission funds and students will be enrolled under a three-year employment contract leading to the acknowledgement of a joint or a double PhD title recognized by the ICE partner universities: Università degli Studi di Genova (UNIGE), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitaet Klagenfurt (UNIKLU), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
The total gross amount of the grant is 43,300 € per year. For more information and for application please visit www.icephd.org<http://www.icephd.org>

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CFP: CRIWG 2010

The Collaboration Researchers International Working Group presents:

***The 16th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology***

September 20-23, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

The CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology seeks scientific
papers that inform the design, development, deployment, and use of
collaboration technology (groupware) and the work practices they
support. Founded in 1995, CRIWG has become a significant forum for
researchers and professionals to exchange ideas and experiences about
problems and solutions related to collaboration technology.

Most challenges in the collaboration technology field require a
multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach. CRIWG seeks papers
on groupware from a wide variety of academic perspectives and
epistemologies, ranging from collaborative and exploratory research,
to theory building and testing, applied research, design science,
engineering, and innovative evaluation methods. Researchers can report
their ideas, theories, models, designs and experimental results to
CRIWG either by submitting full paper contributions, in case of mature
works, and shorter papers reporting innovative work in progress. As in
previous years, the authors of the best papers will be invited to
submit extended versions to selected journals. PhD students are
invited to present their research in the doctoral colloquium.

The CRIWG conference is supported by the Collaboration Research
International Working Group, www.criwg.org, an open community of
researchers. Traditionally, CRIWG is organized in remote places
alternating between the Americas and Europe, with a small number of
presentations, fostering critical discussion, team building and
collaboration. The location selected for the CRIWG 2010 conference is
Maastricht, the Netherlands. Delft University of Technology will
organize the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full and Work in Progress Papers
Submission deadline: March 26, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010
Camera ready papers: May 14, 2009
Doctoral Colloquium Papers
Submission deadline: June 14, 2009

Doctoral Consortium September 19, 2010
Conference September 20-22, 2010
Social event September 23, 2010

The CRIWG 2010 conference seeks paper contributions on the following key areas:

Collaboration technologies and technology issues:
Jointly authored pages
Streaming, and information access
Groupware UI considerations
Experience design
Groupware frameworks & toolkits
Groupware design approaches
Access control, alerts, attention mechanisms
Presence indicators, awareness
Collaboration and surface computing
Privacy, security, access, IP
Collaboration concepts and theories, for example:
Group Productivity, efficiency, effectiveness
Theory on satisfaction, acceptance,
Adoption, and diffusion
Collaboration across and between cultures
Trust, Consensus, Commitment
Aggregated systems
Group support systems
Collaborative modeling tools
Workflow management systems
Collaborative project management systems
Application Domains for Groupware:
Medical applications
Organizational learning
Emergency management
Mobile collaboration
Gaming
Collaborative Engineering or Design
Social Aspects of groupware:
Social creativity
Group dynamics
Facilitation and scaffolding of collaboration
Virtual worlds, communities
Social Network Systems
Ethics and values

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The CRIWG 2010 full and work in progress papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. Extended and reviewed best papers will be published in special
issues of international journals.

Electronic paper submissions are accepted in two categories: full
papers and work in progress papers. Full papers have a length of up to
16 pages based on mature and finished research while work in progress
papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages, both of them following
the Springer LNCS format. Electronic submission site will be soon
available in this Web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=criwg2010. Further news
will be published in this Web site: http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl

We will use a double-blind reviewing process. Please, do not include
the author's name and affiliation in the submitted paper itself. As a
result of the reviewing process, the Program Committee may suggest
changes in the format and/or the contents of the paper, including the
category of the paper. In this case, a paper will be conditionally
accepted. The PC Chairs will decide on the final acceptance or
rejection, based on the analysis of the revised paper. The format for
the final version will be the Springer LNCS format, which includes
e.g. templates for MS Word and Latex.

For submission guidelines concerning the doctoral colloquium please
refer to the CRIWG 2010 Web site: http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

ORGANIZING CHAIR
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Marcos Borges,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gert-Jan de Vreede,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico,
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, José A. Pino,
Universidad de Chile, Chile, Carolina Salgado, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Brazil, Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology,
the Netherlands.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.
Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel, Germany.
Rafael Gonzales, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Adriana Vivacqua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Aurora Vizcaíno-Barceló, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Benjamim Fonseca, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Bertrand David, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Carlos Duarte, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
César Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia.
Dominique Decouchant, LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, France.
Doug Druckenmiller, Western Illinois University, USA.
Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Etienne Rouwette, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Flávia Santoro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gerhard Schwabe, Universität Zürich, Schweiz.
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Gustavo Zurita, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Hugo Fuks, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hugo Paredes, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Imed Boughzala, Institut Telecom, France.
Ingrid Mulder, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel, Germany.
Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico.
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen
José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Luis A. Guerrero, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Luis Carriço, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Marcos Borges, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.
Miguel Nussbaum, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Nelson Baloian, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Nicholas Romano, Oklahoma State University, USA.
Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany.
Nuno Preguiça, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Robert O. Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Sergio F. Ochoa, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Till Schümmer, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA.
Traci Carte, University of Oklahoma, USA.
Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Volker Wulf, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Volkmar Pipek, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Werner Geyer, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA.
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, St.Augustin, Germany.
Yannis Dimitriadis, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.

Best regards,
CRIWG Program Chairs
Thomas Herrmann & Gwendolyn Kolfschoten.

thomas.herrmann@rub.de
g.l.kolfschoten@tudelft.nl

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CFP Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection in conjunction with Pervasive 2010

Ubiprojection 2010 ist the 1st workshop on personal projection via
mobile and wearable pico projectors. The main goal of the workshop is
to develop an understanding of how mobile and wearable pico projectors
could be combined with new user interfaces, interaction techniques and
applications. We seek for new ideas, prototypes, and insights as a
basis to develop a deeper understanding of the field.

In addition, we will provide an open forum to share information,
results, and ideas on current research in this area. This workshop
encourages discussion about future topics concerning personal
projection. Furthermore, we aim to develop new ideas on how such
devices can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the
environment.
We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned
with design, development, and implementation of new applications and
services using personal mobile and wearable projectors in their user
interfaces. Moreover, the workshop aims at conveying hands-on
experience with current state-of-the-art technology and prototypes
through demonstration sessions.

The workshop will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 17 May 2010 in
conjunction with Pervasive 2010.
Important Dates

* February 1, 2010: Submission Deadline (submission system)
* March 1, 2010: Author Notification
* March 31, 2010: Submission of camera-ready version
* May 17, 2010: Workshop in Helsinki, Finland

Submission system: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ubiprojection2010
Workshop website: http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

Kind regards,
Johannes Schöning

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ITS 2010, Saarbrücken Germany
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
http:/www.its2010.org
http://twitter.com/ITS_Germany2010
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Johannes Schöning
Innovative Retail Laboratory
DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
www.innovative-retail.de
www.dfki.de/~jschoen
www.dfki.de
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff

Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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Sent from Berlin, Germany

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Help needed: English to French translation for Sahana/Haiti

Sahana is free and open-source software developed to support relief
efforts in catastrophic situations. It started with volunteers in Sri
Lanka after the Banda Ache tsunami and has now grown to where it is
being used in international responses. They have just started a
non-profit to make it a stable world-wide resource. (It has a variety of
different modules, individual organizations can use whichever they need,
and can install it on their own servers, or, increasingly, on shared or
donated resources. It has modules for logistics, volunteer management,
family reunification, etc.)

Sahana is being deployed in Haiti and they desperately need people to
help translate it into French (and Creole). The way it worked for
Myanmar was that all the user-facing messages were listed in one long
list, and volunteers would sign up to translate/validate blocks of text
strings.

If you, or someone you know, is interested, willing and able to help,
please go to

http://translate.sahana.lk/wiki/PootleGuide

for further information and to sign up.

Mèsi [thank you, Creole],
-- Susanne

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CFP: Special Issue of JCSCW: Knowledge Management in Action

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION

Special Issue of
Journal on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW)
http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/cfp.html

Guest Editors:
- Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
- Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT

THEME: Organizations of different kinds, from structured companies up to
social networks or virtual communities, are becoming increasingly aware
of the need to collect, organize, mobilize, increase, in sum manage,
expertise and knowledge which characterize their ability to stay alive,
adapt and evolve in a turbulent context. Knowledge Management (KM) is a
keyword under which different organizational and technological
approaches to answer this need are referred to. From the beginning of
the KM discourse, the CSCW community has taken a critical stance both in
asking for applied research in the practices of real organizations and
relating technological and organizational innovations. The Special Issue
aims to collect papers reporting on ethnographically-based or
field-based experiences that are confronted with real situations and
highlight problems, requirements and technical solutions that are
derived from those experiences by taking into account the following
perspectives:

- organizational strategies to enact and promote KM within
organizations, and their relation with ICT technology
- various kinds of knowledge, application domains, organizational
structures, and their implication on KM
- methods and approaches for the design of KM solutions
- techniques and technologies for a sustainable KM (CSCW-based
approaches, web-based approaches, etc.)
- critical success factors for KM socio-technical solutions
- evaluation of KM applications in real situations
- lessons-learned in each phase of the KM application life-cycle, from
conception up to continuous adaptation
- critical comparison of technologies, field studies and strategies in KM
- any other perspective contributing to a better understanding of KM in
action

Papers presenting original research must comply with standards specified
at the IJCSCW site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ where it is
possible to upload them.

Papers written in English should be sent by 30 April 2010. All submitted
papers will be blind refereed by at least three reviewers.

Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, originality of the work
and reviewers' comments. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection via e-mail by 30 June 2010. Camera-ready papers are due by 15
September.

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