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	Keynotes We are proud to have invited four excellent keynote speakers from academia, industry and the arts. For more details scroll down the page. Workshops Workshops run throughout the first two days of the conference. The fee for a full-day workshop is only £80. You can register for the workshop online. Note that workshop participants must be accepted by the relevant organisers prior to booking - see the workshop details for instructions. Tutorials We invite you to attend the tutorials which run throughout the first two days of the conference. The fee is only £250 for a full-day tutorial (£150 for half-day). You can register for the tutorial online.	Full papers Competition was strong and only the very best 13 papers could be accepted. All full papers will be published in volume 1 of the proceedings, as well as electronically with the cooperation of the ACM. Short papers 36 short papers were accepted for presentation a the conference. For the first time this year, a small number of outstanding short papers were also selected for publication in volume 1 of the proceedings. Interactive experiences Where you can try out the latest gadgets and developments. Exciting and engaging demonstrations of real systems, prototypes, videos, and games. Interactive Experiences may involve the use of novel equipment, or equipment used in a new way.

 

Invited keynote speakers:

Tom Rodden
University of Nottingham, Director of the Equator project (www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~tar)

Ubiquitous computing in the real world
Over the last few years a growing number of researchers have been exploring how the vision of ubiquitous computing might be realised in the real world. In this talk I wish to explore the challenges that need to be addressed in order to make ubiquitous computing environments and everyday part of the world we inhabit. I will present some examples of the real world ubiquitous computing experiences developed as part of the Equator IRC. Drawing on these experiences and those of other researchers I wish to reflect on the lessons for how we might understand interaction in ubiquitous computing environments. Finally, I wish highlighting the emergence of the Ubiquitous Computing as a grand challenge for the computing community and the central role for the HCI community in this challenge.

Biography:
Tom Rodden is Professor of Interactive Systems at the Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at the University of Nottingham and Director of Equator. Prof Roddens research focuses on the development of new technologies to support users within the real world and new forms of interactive technology that emerge from mixing physical and digital interaction. This is a multi-disciplinary endeavour bringing together researchers in behavioural and social sciences and those involved in systems engineering, network infrastructures and interactive systems design. This ranges from those with a background in anthropology to those with training in art & design and embrace technologists from software development to the construction of novel hardware. He has published widely in the areas of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), HCI and Ubiquitous computing. Since 2001 he has been director of the EPSRC supported Equator IRC that brings together 8 different research institutes in the UK.

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Alan Newell
Division of Applied Computing, University of Dundee (www.computing.dundee.ac.uk)

The use of theatre in HCI research
Alan Newell and Maggie Morgan
The keynote will address the ways professional theatre can be
employed in requirements gathering and usability studies, and to facilitate focus groups and other interactions between users and designers. The presentation will include a discussion of how the powerful communication abilities of theatre can be used to increase designers’ awareness of the challenges information and communication technologies can provide for older people, and those who are currently alienated from such technologies. As an integral part of the presentation, the audience will be encouraged to debate the pros and cons of using theatrical professionals as intermediaries between designers and users.

Biography: Professor Alan Newell
Alan Newell has been researching into computer systems to assist people with disabilities for over thirty years, and has been awarded an MBE for services to IT and communication for people with disabilities. For many years, Computing at Dundee University has contained the major academic group in the world researching into computer and communication systems for older and disabled people. Alan Newell is currently the academic leader of the School’s “Queen Mother Research Centre for Information Technology to Support Older People”. A former Deputy Principal of the University, Alan Newell is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Computer Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He was a member of the Thematic Panel of the 1999 UK Foresight Exercise on the Ageing Population, and is an advisor to the Scottish Executive and the UK, DTI on accessibility of C& IT for older and disabled people.

Biography: Maggie Morgan
Maggie Morgan is a writer and theatre director, who founded the Scottish-based Foxtrot Theatre Company in 1992. Since then she has developed and expanded the highly effective use of inter-active forum theatre in education, professional training and public consultation. Her work with researchers in Dundee University’s School of Computing has involved using video both to aid consultation with potential users and also to demonstrate research findings to designers. Maggie Morgan is the Leverhulme Artist in Residence in the School of Computing for the academic year 2005/6, her remit being to collaborate with researcher in the School, and to develop forms of theatre as research tools.

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Ernest Edmonds
University of Technology, Sydney, Director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios (www.ernestedmonds.com)

Interaction, Art and Influence
Interaction is not material. It is experienced, perceived and understood, but we cannot touch it. It is the concern of many artists today. But what do we really mean by interaction? Perhaps the words influence, stimulus, interchange are more evocative? Perhaps the influence of one system on another could be said to come about as a result of stimulus, interchange or even co-operation and conversation, if we add a layer of meaning? Instead of talking about interaction in art we might talk about the audience's influence on an art system where the development of its behaviour is affected by the interactions that it has experienced. We might equally talk about the art system's influence on the audience. Interaction need not be a matter of action and response. Its impact can be both slower and deeper as one system gradually influences another. Perhaps these concerns in art can influence HCI?

Biography
Ernest Edmonds has a long record as an HCI researcher, with around 200 publications, but also works as an artist in the constructivist tradition. He first used computers in that practice in 1968 and first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock at the Computer Graphics exhibition in the UK in 1970. He first showed a time-based generative work at Exhibiting Space in London in 1985 and currently is Professor of Computation and Creative Media at the University of Technology, Sydney where he runs a multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA and published widely in the area. He has developed strategies for iterative development of interactive artworks, including audience research, and instituted Beta_Space at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum for such studies. Artists Bookworks has recently published his book "On New Constructs in Art".

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Jude Kelly OBE
Founder and artistic director of Metal
(www.metalculture.com/Who+We+Are)