CFP: Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological Perspective, Workshop at MobileHCI 2010

Call for Papers for the Workshop

"Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological Perspective"

A Workshop at the Mobile HCI 2010 Conference

September 7, 2010

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Workshop at MobileHCI 2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.uctictd2010.org/

Submission Deadline: Friday April 30, 2010

THEME
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The workshop "Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological
Perspective" invites papers with focus on experiences, lessons
learned, success stories and failures of technical ICTD research
especially with focus on the utilization of User Centered Design
and Mobile HCI research methods.

Technical Information and Communication Technologies for
Development (technical ICTD) research, which refers to ICTD
topics specifically relevant for computer scientists and engineers,
lacks appropriate research methods along the entire development
lifecycle spanning design, development, deployment, evaluation
and monitoring.

Mobile HCI has a great set of research methods but applying
them unchanged in technical ICTD will fail due to the specific
cultural, infrastructural and governmental context of developing
countries. In this workshop we want to bring together people
who are active in Mobile HCI and ICTD research to elaborate
on Mobile HCI methods and discuss their application for
technical ICTD.

GOALS
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The aim of this workshop is to elaborate on the application
of Mobile HCI methods for technical ICTD research and to
come up with a set of appropriate research methodologies
for technical ICTD and a roadmap of action items of how to
improve current technical ICTD research. We will provide a
forum to share information, results, and ideas on current
research in this area and encourage discussions about future
topics concerning technical ICTD research.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Experiences and Lessons Learned in technical ICTD research

- Success stories and failures of technical ICTD research

- Utilization and combination of Mobile HCI research methods
in technical ICTD research

- Utilization of User Centered Design in technical ICTD research

- Methodologies and Approaches of technical ICTD development
lifecycle (e.g. rapid prototyping, participatory design)

- Definitions of technical ICTD metrics

- Representation of technical ICTD metrics (e.g. personas,
scenarios, use case definitions)

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Friday April 30, 2010 - Submission Deadline
- Friday May 21, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
- Friday June 4, 2010 - Camera-ready copies
- Tuesday September 7, 2010 - Workshop Date

PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION
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We accept original and unpublished contributions that are not
under review somewhere else in the following two categories

1) Participants are expected to submit a 2 page position
paper to state their interest.
2) Participant presenters should submit a 4 page short paper,
covering one or more workshop topics.

Authors of accepted presentation papers are invited to
demonstrate their submission during the workshop.
Each presentation should not exceed 10 minutes and will
be followed up by a 5 minute round of discussion.

Paper submissions must be anonymized and should be submitted
following the submission instructions at the workshop webpage
(http://www.uctictd2010.org/) as PDF file conform to the
Mobile HCI 2010 main proceedings format.

To participate at the workshop at least one author of accepted
papers needs to register for the Mobile HCI 2010 conference
itself.

PUBLICATION
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Workshop results will be summarized and published on the
workshop website. Selected outcomes and contributions will
be considered to be published in a workshop summary paper.
The selected best workshop paper will be nominated for
inclusion in a Special Issue of the International Journal
on Mobile HCI (IJMHCI).

ORGANIZERS
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Joerg Doerflinger, SAP Research, Germany
Dr. Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Matt Jones, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Dr. Mark Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

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ANN: International Conference on Crisis Mapping ICCM 2010

The International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM 2010): Haiti and Beyond is now Open for Registration!
When: Friday, October 1, 2010

Where: Boston, MA

The agenda is available here, and you can register here.

ICCM 2010 follows the highly successful ICCM 2009 event which brought together many of the actors currently responding in Haiti and beyond to foster a dynamic network of action-oriented collaboration. Participants called ICCM 2009 one of the very best conferences they'd been to. This video on Conference Highlights may explain why. ICCM 2010 will include Ignite Talks, Keynotes and a Tech/Analytics Fair. We expect up to 500 participants to attend given the proximity of Harvard, MIT, etc., and major tech companies in the area. We will send out a "Call for Ignite Talk proposals" and "Tech/Analytics Fair applications" in June.

Early bird registration fees are $100 (standard) and $50 for students before August 1. You can register here. This fee covers access to all Friday events. Note that these are nonrefundable and waivers are not available. For hotel accommodation, please reserve your room at the Sheraton where a block of discounted rooms has been set aside for you. We recommend you book early.  

Thanks for reading, we look forward to repeating the great success of ICCM 2009 with you!

All the best,
Patrick & Jen

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Co-Founders
International Network 
of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net)

www.CrisisMappers.net

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Sophia B. Liu

Technology, Media and Society PhD Candidate

connectivIT Lab

Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute

University of Colorado at Boulder

sophiabliu (skype, twitter, facebook)

Sophia.Liu@colorado.edu

http://sophiabliu.com

http://sophiabliu.com/heritageblog

http://epic.cs.colorado.edu

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/connectivIT

 

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CFP: ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010)

ACM is proud to sponsor a new conference, which is being planned to
become the premier community forum for health informatics researchers
and practitioners. The ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
(IHI 2010) will focus on the application of computing principles and
technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, the
delivery of healthcare services, and consumer health also including
topics related to social and ethical issues in that space. IHI 2010 will
be held during November 11-12 in Washington DC. Technical contributions
including papers and demonstration proposals are due on June 4. For more
information, please visit http://ihi2010.sighi.org
<http://ihi2010.sighi.org/>.

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VP for Operations, ACM SIGCHI

SIGCHI-VP-Operations@acm.org

Email: fsampson@acm.org

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ANN: Webcentives Workshop Call - COOP 2010

Call for Participation

Workshop at COOP 2010 - 9th International Conference on the Design of
Cooperative Systems

http://www.coopsys.org/

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010, COOP 2010 conference in
Aix-en-Provence, France

*Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives)*

http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/WEBCENTIVES/index.htm

Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on large-scale user
participation. Open Source Software projects (OSS), gaming and other
online communities are constituted by voluntary engagement of
contributors, almost self-organized and self-managed. Also large-scale
intranet applications of business companies and non-governmental
organizations are increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web
technologies and community-building.

The workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to participate in
(online) communities and to contribute to collaborative content
creation: What kind of motivation mechanisms, incentives or rewards are
appropriate to increase the (extrinsic) motivation of users to
contribute to online communities? What kind of community-support tools
are successfully designed for fun or motivation for participation?

Contributions to this workshop can include (but are not limited to):

* · psychological and/or economical studies on motivation and
incentives for web-based collaboration
* · ethnographic case studies on participation in online communities
* · incentives and reward mechanisms in online communities
* · studies on web-based community-building
* · theoretical approaches related to motivation and participation
in online communities
* · sociability (design) requirements for community tools and
applications
* · design studies of community platforms
* · prototypes, demonstrators, show cases of community-support or
web-based collaboration tools
* · asf.

/Workshop Design/

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to present a
position paper (max. 10 minutes presentation). Main focus of the
workshop will be discussion of approaches, projects, studies etc. on
incentives or motivation mechanisms in online communities and for
web-based collaboration.

/ /

/Submission/Participation/

Each workshop participant should prepare a position paper (3-5 pages)
and send this position paper to the workshop organizers (mailto:
markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de<mailto:markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de>) until
April, 15.

It is planned to publish a selection of the best position papers (as
extended versions) in a workshop report as a Special Issue of the
International Report on Socio-Informatics (IRSI, see:
http://www.iisi.de/102.0.html).

/Organizers/

Dr. Elena Simperl, Innsbruck University, Austria

Elena Simperl works as a senior researcher at the Semantic Technology
Institute (STI) Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She
holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin and a
Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. She
held positions as a research assistant at the Technical University of
Munich (2002-2003) and the Free University of Berlin (2003-2007) before
joining STI Innsbruck early 2007. Elena contributed to several European
and national projects in the field of semantic technologies. She was
scientific coordinator of the TripCom project, and project manager of
the NoE Knowledge Web; currently she is acting as coordinator of the
projects Service Web 3.0 and INSEMTIVES, and as activity leader in the
project SOA4All. Starting from January, 2010 Elena joined the Institute
AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Dr. Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy

Roberta Cuel holds a Ph.D. in Organization and Management (University of
Udine) and is currently Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at
the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento. Her research interests
are aimed at discovering the interdependencies between technology and
organizations, such as the impacts of innovative technologies on teams,
communities, and organizational models, the study of distributed tools
and processes that allow organizational learning and knowledge
management, and knowledge representation systems (such as ontologies,
classifications, taxonomies) as mechanisms for knowledge reification
processes. She has written a number of chapters in books, articles in
international journals, and has served as the PC member for various
interdisciplinary conferences.

Dr. Markus Rohde, Siegen University, Germany

Markus Rohde studied psychology and sociology at the University of Bonn.
He got his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Roskilde University,
Denmark. He is working as project manager for the International
Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Bonn and as research manager for
community informatics at the Institute for Information Systems and New
Media at the University of Siegen. Moreover he is editor of the
political science journal "Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen"
(New Social Movements).> From 1997 until 2001 he worked as CEO of AGENDA
CONSULT GmbH and as a consultant for medium-sized enterprises and for
nonprofit-organizations. His main research interests are community
computing, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer
interaction, virtual organizations, non-governmental organizations and
(new) social movements.

/Contact/

Dr. Markus Rohde, Information Systems and New Media, University of
Siegen, Hoelderlinstr.3, 57068 Siegen, Germany,
markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de<mailto:markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de>

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university of siegen * institute for information systems
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen * room: H-B 8417
fon: +49 271-740-4069 * fax -3384 *markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de
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contact/ home office * dorotheenstr. 76 * 53111 bonn
fon +49 228 6910-43 * fax -53 *ma.rohde@t-online.de
forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen *www.fjnsb.de
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markus.rohde@iisi.de *www.iisi.de

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CFP: ServDes.2010

> ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge
> 1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden
> http://www.servdes.org/
>
> The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation,
> ServDes, is
> the premier research conference within service design and service
> innovation. Submitted contributions are subject to a double-blind
> peer-review process. Accepted contributions will be published
> electronically
> and in the conference proceedings.
>
> Important dates:
> June 19 2010: Deadline for all contributions (including design cases,
> artefacts, tutorials, workshops)
> Mid October: Notification of acceptance with suggestions for revision
> Mid November: Final paper submissions uploaded to website
> 1 – 3 December: Conference in Linköping
>
> Call for contribution:
> Service design as a field has established itself as a strong
> discipline,
> through efforts in practice and academia. However, publications have
> mainly
> focused on establishing service design. There is a growing need for
> original
> research on service design. The ServDes conference is an answer to
> this
> call. The first Nordic Service Design and Service Innovation
> Conference
> offered a venue for investigating the legacy from other design
> disciplines
> as well as opening up towards other fields.
>
> The topic for this year's conference is ExChanging Knowledge. ServD
> es
> invites contributions from researchers and practitioners that wish to
> contribute to the development of a knowledge base on service design,
> and
> openly discuss challenges of the field. Changing Knowledge is about
> investigating the fundamentals in service design and challenging the
> knowledge inherited from the disciplines which service design has
> grown out
> of. Exchanging Knowledge refers both to integrating knowledge from
> other
> fields and the ongoing conversation between conference participants
> with
> their various roles; consultants, students, in-house, clients and
> academics.
> The scientific programme will be composed of papers that have been
> peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process.
>
> In line with the conference theme ExChanging Knowledge sessions will
> be held
> according to general themes, rather than presenters' backgrounds. Al
> ong the
> lines of the theme we will also invite a wide range of contributions:
> - full length research papers (max 10 pages)
> - workshop suggestions
> - shorter research papers
> - focused case descriptions (2 page abstracts)
>
> Within overall trends of research, challenges such as the
> prototyping of
> services, identifying sound theoretical foundations for service design
> research and developing methods and tools all aim at changing the
> knowledge
> we teach new students and our understanding of service design.
> Exchanging
> knowledge with other relevant areas such as service management,
> anthropology, computer-mediated communication, activity theory and
> cognitive
> science, aims at improving the everyday practice of service
> designers. The
> conference invites contributions on, e.g., the following themes:
> - the business of service design
> - politics and design of services
> - user involvement
> - design in health-care and public services
> - service design in for-profit organizations
> - theoretical foundations
> - the processes of service design
> - rigor and relevance of research methods
> - novel design tools and techniques
> - service design across cultures
> - design and service-dominant logic
>
> Deadline for all paper contributions is June 19 2010.
>
>
> On behalf of the conference committe
>
> Stefan Holmlid
> Fabian Segelström
> Johan Blomkvist
>

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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
>
> =================================================================
> THEME, GOALS, AND RELEVANCE
> =================================================================
> 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.).
>
> =================================================================
> Submission formats
> =================================================================
> 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
>
> =================================================================
> IMPORTANT DATES
> =================================================================
> 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)
>
>
> =================================================================
> ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
> =================================================================
> 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.
>

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