ACM SIGCHI

UIST 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA)

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. UIST 2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.

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SOFTVIS’08 (Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany)

The 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, SOFTVIS’08, is the premiere forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, and computer science education) to present original research on software visualization.

Topics of interest include:

• Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
• Visualization of workflow and business processes
• Visualization of web services
• Visual debugging
• 3D software visualization
• Software visualization on the internet
• Empirical evaluation of software visualization

It will be co-Located with IEEE VL/HCC’08 and Diagrams’08.

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NYC-CHI: Mobile Entertainment (NYC, NY, USA)

NYC-CHI Meeting: MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT - Portable Fun. Increased expectations for mobility require user experience experts and content providers alike to refocus and optimize the fun to fit on a variety of portable platforms. Join us to learn more about this sizzling subject!

Scott Weiss will be joined John Paris, Director of Mobile Products, Time Inc. Interactive for this presentation.
Location: Time & Life Building at 1271 6th/50th street
(Please be prepared to show ID and allow time for security procedures such as bag scan)

Cost: Free

Registration Information: http://nycchi22jan08.eventbrite.com

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CHIMIT 08 (San Diego, CA, USA)

Started in 2007, the ACM CHIMIT Symposium is the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. CHIMIT 08 will be November 14-15 in San Diego.

At CHIMIT, researchers and practitioners share issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, computer systems, and management and service sciences to address cognitive, social, and technical issues in managing the overwhelming complexity of modern Information Technology (IT) systems.

Topics includes:

• Workspace Studies
• Processes and Practices
• Organizational Knowledge
• Design
• Experimental Studies
• Tools and Techniques
• Automation

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The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

The Web is in a state of motion: no longer is it primarily being accessed through PCs, but more and more does it find its way into our phones, our cars, on the streets and in buildings. And once there, the Web is interacting with us in smarter and richer ways than before. Bluetooth or RFID in a busstop personalizes the map and advertisements, your friend’s car knows today’s best way to your home, your mobile phone suggests the best place to eat tomorrow, and your online best friends will know you have been there before you have a chance to tell them.

Mobility traditionally refers to characteristics in devices to handle information access, communication and business transactions while in a state of motion. What if we place users at the center of attention? What does mobility mean to humans in a state of motion who interact with technological devices in their surroundings? The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility explores the user experience of the mobile web.

The Web and Beyond is a bi-annual conference on human-computer interaction by CHI Netherlands. The 2006 edition was about Web 2.0 (see UXmatters trip report).

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MobileHCI 2008 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

MobileHCI 2008 is the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. MobileHCI 2008 will be held 2-5 September 2008 at the Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.

Suggested topics include:

• Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices
• Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
• Evaluation of mobile devices and services / Usability of mobile devices and services
• Group interaction and mobility
• Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects)
• User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems

MobileHCI 2008 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

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HRI 2008 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

The 3rd ACM/IEEE International conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2008, is a single track, highly selective annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best in human-robot interaction.

Researchers in robotics, human-factors, ergonomics, and human-computer interaction are invited to attend. Because human-robot interaction is inherently inter-disciplinary, the conference is seeking papers from several disciplines. A primary goal of the conference is to create a common venue for a broad set of researchers.

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IUI 2008 (Canary Islands, Spain)

IUI 2008 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI 2008 will focus on interface innovation.

It’s time for the next generation of user interfaces. People want to do increasingly interesting and complex things with information technologies, but our interfaces need new ways of interacting with people. We can’t get to the next generation of user interfaces simply by adding more menus and icons to our already overcrowded screens. Sooner or later, our interfaces need to understand more about what people are doing with them, become self-reflective, and communicate using natural modalities such as speech and gesture.

IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. Contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc., are also welcome. Unlike traditional AI, the focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, solutions can involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or gesture recognition.

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Ambi-sys 2008 (Quebec City, Canada)

The First International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, Ambi-sys 2008, will consist of the following major areas or tracks:

• Media and Content Provision
• Communications and Networking
• Human Interface and Interaction
• Intelligence and Automation

Ambient media and systems culminate from the emergence of mobile communication, sensor-actuator technology, virtual environments, and interactive computing. They represent the vision of an all-encompassing multimedia networking environment with human interaction at its core. Advances in computer and communication technologies have the potential to offer people an unprecedented level of convenience and flexibility for living and working. Such technologies need to be closely integrated with human interactions and activity, allowing greater support for smart solutions that improve quality of life, productivity, understanding and intelligence within their situated environment. Ambi-sys focuses on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelligent ambient environments.

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Bob Jacobson sees DUX 2007 conference as fundamentally off the mark

Bob Jacobson, design consultant and editor of the anthology Information Design (MIT Press, 1999), is on a roll these days. Today the focus of his provocative commentary is the DUX 2007 conference, which he thinks is “ideologically discomforting” and “fundamentally off the mark”. “The DUX 2007 conference begins today in Chicago. Thematically, content-wise, and in terms of approach, this is the consummate conference on cutting-edge design. The speakers are top-notch, too. But ideologically, DUX is discomforting. For all its virtues, DUX embodies a set of values that, while commendable, are incomplete and off-kilter. It’s user-centric, not human-centric. And experience, if it is anything, is human.” Go Bob, I think you are absolutely right. Read full story

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