Dec 05, 2005
HCI 2006: Engage!
Via Usability news
11-15 September 2006
Queen Mary, University of London
The 20th British HCI Group conference in co-operation with ACM.
From the conference's website:
For the first time, the HCI conference is engaging with six core themes. These themes capture some of the established favourite ideas in the community as well as suggest new collaborations and approaches. The goal for you as a submitter is to engage with one of the themes in rich and unexpected ways. At the conference, we will be setting up discussions where you will have the opportunity to challenge and be challenged on how you have adopted the theme.
This year Volume 1 papers will printed as usual, and for the first time will be published electronically with the cooperation of the ACM, see www.acm.org
In line with changes in our field, we are putting an emphasis on useful and usable research. The British HCI conference is an international forum for academics and practitioners interested in how people and technology work together. We are making no distinction between practitioners and researchers. So we say, "Farewell, Industry Day -just come for the people and the ideas"
First deadline: 3rd February, 2006
This year Volume 1 papers will printed as usual, and for the first time will be published electronically with the cooperation of the ACM, see www.acm.org
In line with changes in our field, we are putting an emphasis on useful and usable research. The British HCI conference is an international forum for academics and practitioners interested in how people and technology work together. We are making no distinction between practitioners and researchers. So we say, "Farewell, Industry Day -just come for the people and the ideas"
First deadline: 3rd February, 2006
Themes
The six themes have been developed in consultation with members of the HCI community. Submissions to the conference should engage with one of the themes below and respond to the theme?s question so that the sessions at the conference can foster lively and challenging debate. There are many ways to cut each category - theories, practice, novel interaction paradigms, and so on - our aim is to bring together different points of view on each topic for lively and coherent discussion at the conference.
1. Enthralling experiences: what draws people in?
- Performance, aesthetics, emotion, and creativity: powerful engagement can be a means or an end.
2. Interactions in the wild: how does technology breach boundaries?
- The border between chaos and control changes as interactions leave the desktop and go mobile.
3. Connecting with others: what happens around and through technology?
- Interacting with colleagues and friends is helped and hindered by the connecting technology.
4. Mind, body, and spirit: how does diversity impact?
- People are different, so interactions should span age, ability, culture and gender.
5. Interactions for me: what improves my experience?
- Technology can be dehumanising but it can also improve working and social life enormously.
6. At the periphery: how can we create ambient engagement?
- Disappearing technologies, such as ubicomp, mixed media, and ambient intelligence, still engage us even though we can?t directly interact withÿthem.
HCI 2006: Engage will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London drawing on the eclectic mix of communities and practises of the East End of London to inspire an inter-disciplinary meeting of minds.
The six themes have been developed in consultation with members of the HCI community. Submissions to the conference should engage with one of the themes below and respond to the theme?s question so that the sessions at the conference can foster lively and challenging debate. There are many ways to cut each category - theories, practice, novel interaction paradigms, and so on - our aim is to bring together different points of view on each topic for lively and coherent discussion at the conference.
1. Enthralling experiences: what draws people in?
- Performance, aesthetics, emotion, and creativity: powerful engagement can be a means or an end.
2. Interactions in the wild: how does technology breach boundaries?
- The border between chaos and control changes as interactions leave the desktop and go mobile.
3. Connecting with others: what happens around and through technology?
- Interacting with colleagues and friends is helped and hindered by the connecting technology.
4. Mind, body, and spirit: how does diversity impact?
- People are different, so interactions should span age, ability, culture and gender.
5. Interactions for me: what improves my experience?
- Technology can be dehumanising but it can also improve working and social life enormously.
6. At the periphery: how can we create ambient engagement?
- Disappearing technologies, such as ubicomp, mixed media, and ambient intelligence, still engage us even though we can?t directly interact withÿthem.
HCI 2006: Engage will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London drawing on the eclectic mix of communities and practises of the East End of London to inspire an inter-disciplinary meeting of minds.
See conference's web site for full details
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Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies
Via Usability News
Further information on the workshop can be found at www.agentabuse.org.
"Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies" CHI 2006 Workshop Date: Saturday, April 22 (Full day) Venue: Montreal, Canada, http://www.chi2006.org/
Submission Deadline: January 10
From the event's web site:
So far research into the user's emotional engagement in computing has addressed pleasurable affective states such as enjoyment, fun, and playfulness. Abuse: The darker side of human-computer interaction at Interact 2005 explicitly addressed negative emotions in computing. It was concluded in this workshop that interface design and metaphors can inadvertently rouse more than user dissatisfaction and angry reactions: they can promote a wide range of 'abusive' behaviors that are directed not only towards the machine and the interface but also towards other people http://www.agentabuse.org/papers.htm
The purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore interactive systems as targets and medium of disinhibited behavior. The goal is to bring together researchers who have encountered instances of negative user behaviors in HCI, who might have given some thought to why and how such behaviors happen, and who have some ideas on how pro-active, agent based interfaces, should respond. Workshops discussions should provide a foundation for understanding the misuse and abuse of interactive technologies and for developing a systematic approach to designing interfaces that counter negative behaviors.
Some of the larger questions and issues we hope to address during the workshop are the following: - How does the misuse and abuse of the interface affect the user's computing experience? - How do different interface metaphors (embodied conversational characters, windows, desktops) shape a propensity to misuse or abuse the interface? - What design factors trigger or restrain disinhibited behaviors? - How does computer-mediated abuse differ from other forms of abuse, e.g., the abuse of people, symbols, flags sacred objects, and personal property? Is it appropriate to use the term abuse in this context? - Putdowns and other forms of verbal abuse are a part of our everyday social world. It is something we try to diffuse and avoid. How can we develop embodied conversational characters that learn to constrain users who engage in verbal abuse? Do we even need to diffuse it? - Is the act of verbally abusing a conversational agent anti-social behavior or is it the expression of social norms reflecting an asymmetric power distribution where the user is the master and the agent the slave?
As the workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary, we hope the questions and methodologies discussed will be of interest to a broad audience, including social scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and those involved in the game industry. To help inform our questioning, we also welcome philosophical and critical investigations into the misuse and abuse of computing artifacts.
Prospective participants should send a 2/4-page position paper (following the CHI extended Abstract format www.chi2006.org/ceaf.php) to Antonella.de-angeli@manchester.ac.uk.
The purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore interactive systems as targets and medium of disinhibited behavior. The goal is to bring together researchers who have encountered instances of negative user behaviors in HCI, who might have given some thought to why and how such behaviors happen, and who have some ideas on how pro-active, agent based interfaces, should respond. Workshops discussions should provide a foundation for understanding the misuse and abuse of interactive technologies and for developing a systematic approach to designing interfaces that counter negative behaviors.
Some of the larger questions and issues we hope to address during the workshop are the following: - How does the misuse and abuse of the interface affect the user's computing experience? - How do different interface metaphors (embodied conversational characters, windows, desktops) shape a propensity to misuse or abuse the interface? - What design factors trigger or restrain disinhibited behaviors? - How does computer-mediated abuse differ from other forms of abuse, e.g., the abuse of people, symbols, flags sacred objects, and personal property? Is it appropriate to use the term abuse in this context? - Putdowns and other forms of verbal abuse are a part of our everyday social world. It is something we try to diffuse and avoid. How can we develop embodied conversational characters that learn to constrain users who engage in verbal abuse? Do we even need to diffuse it? - Is the act of verbally abusing a conversational agent anti-social behavior or is it the expression of social norms reflecting an asymmetric power distribution where the user is the master and the agent the slave?
As the workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary, we hope the questions and methodologies discussed will be of interest to a broad audience, including social scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and those involved in the game industry. To help inform our questioning, we also welcome philosophical and critical investigations into the misuse and abuse of computing artifacts.
Prospective participants should send a 2/4-page position paper (following the CHI extended Abstract format www.chi2006.org/ceaf.php) to Antonella.de-angeli@manchester.ac.uk.
Further information on the workshop can be found at www.agentabuse.org.
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