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Physicality & Design Workshop at DIS 2008 - Cape Town, South Africa

Editor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:50 +0000

Deadine: 11 January 2008
The aim of the Physicality & Design Workshop is to discover the level of importance of physical interaction in the design process and, specifically, the level of fidelity of model required to get appropriate information from it without expending too much time and/or money.

This is particularly a problem facing designers in modern businesses as the pressure to deliver to very tight deadlines and within tight profit margins often implies that physical prototypes are frequently not produced or are produced with limited functionality or at a low fidelity level.

Furthermore, this workshop will look at how design changes in the face of the more fluid boundaries between physical and digital products and how design is influenced by the increasing adoption of digital and virtual process in the production of even purely digital artefacts.

SUBMISSIONS
We invite contributions that address the design implications of physicality at two levels:

1. Physicality and the design process
This covers the impact of physicality on the different actors within the design process:
- Designers – How is the traditional use of quite realistic physical models affected by the use of less real digital aspects, e.g. CAD tools vs. 3D models?
- Users – What level of fidelity is required to enable adequate user testing with interactive digital products?
- Clients – What level of digital behaviour is necessary to convey the feel of interaction and what level of physical accuracy is required to convey the feel of the form?

2. Physicality and the designed product
This covers the influence of physicality on the design of a product and the impact of different levels of physical–digital relationships:
- Purely digital products: how does our existing understanding of physicality affect our interaction with virtual objects?
- Predominantly digital products but with some physical aspects: how do our natural reactions to the physical product interconnects with the interaction design of the digital aspects?
- Deeply tangible/ augmented reality products: how do confusions between the physical and digital aspects make product design difficult or do carry over between the two make it easier?

Physicality & Design is a one-day workshop that will be held at Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2008) in Cape Town, South Africa on the 24th February 2008.

DEADLINES
We invite contributions in the form of 2-4 pages long position paper which should be submitted to devina@physicality.org

Abstract by 21st December 2007
Position Paper by 11th January 2008

STRUCTURE
The structure of the workshop is as follows:
- Presentations of contributions using the Pecha Kucha format.
- Series of “hands on” interactions with pre-prepared prototypes at varying fidelity level and discussion based on the experiences of the participants.
- Creation of prototypes by incrementally stepping up fidelity levels, some of which will be 3D scanned for posterity.
- Summary of the lessons learned.

The lessons learned will be used as part of a larger project investigating the role that physicality plays in design. Participants will be invited to join a forum that will allow them to continue their contribution into the future.

HISTORY
The Physicality & Design workshop follows on from two very successful international workshops, Physicality 2006 and Physicality 2007 which have started a multi-disciplinary community in this novel area of research. This work is part of the DEPtH: Designing for Physicality research project (AH/E507646) supported by AHRC Designing for the 21st Century Initiative.

ORGANISERS
Joanna Hare, Steve Gill
National Centre for Product Design & Development Research
University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK

Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Alan Dix
Computing Department, InfoLab21
Lancaster University, UK

Masitah Ghazali
Information Systems Dept.
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Related Links
DIS2008 (http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008/)
Physicality 2006 Workshop (http://www.physicality.org/physicality2006/)
Physicality 2007 Workshop (http://www.physicality.org/physicality2007/)
DEPtH: Designing for Physicality (http://www.physicality.org/DEPtH/)

CfP: Physical Fidelity in Design: A Shared Exploration

Editor — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:00:20 +0100

Deadine: 13 June 2008
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Physical Fidelity in Design: A Shared Exploration
3-4 July 2008
The National Centre for Product Design and Development Research (PDR)
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), UK
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Physical Fidelity in Design is a 2-day collaborative learning ‘hands-on’ event, which aims to explore the level of fidelity of model required in design, in order to get appropriate information without expending too much time and/or money. Often the pressure to deliver to very tight deadlines and within tight profit margins implies that physical prototypes are frequently not produced or are produced with limited functionality. Although our focus is on information appliances, from mobile phones to washing machines, we will also investigate fidelity across different kinds of design domains, from urban architecture to street wear.

This learning event will include invited talks, introductions to design space exploration and prototyping technology, hands-on group design sessions and focussed discussions.

This event will be of interest to people from industry and academia, from product designers, interaction designers, researchers in ubiquitous computing, tangible interface and cognitive, social and philosophical fields, and indeed all excited by this topic.

Day 1 will start with an introduction to physicality and fidelity followed by tutorial sessions on rapid interactive prototyping techniques and idea generation. Participants will put these techniques into practice through the design and production of some interactive prototypes. The resulting prototypes will be showcased on Day 2 and we will conclude by discussing the issues that emerged from the design sessions and the prospects of applying these techniques across a broader area.

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Submission and Deadline
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Places are limited, so we invite prospective participants to send us:
1. A short biography
2. A statement of interest in the event
3. A 1-2 page abstract which outlines their work, experiences and/or projects and the issues of fidelity that matter to them.

If you would like to attend this event or have any enquiries, please contact us as soon as possible at .
Submissions should be sent to by the 13th June 2008.

We will also hold a poster session during the event and would thus encourage participants to bring along a poster to exhibit their work.

This learning event is sponsored by DEPtH: Designing for Physicality, an AHRC/EPSRC funded research project as part of the Designing for the 21st century Initiative.

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Organisers
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Steve Gill (National Centre for Product Design & Development Research, UWIC,UK)
Joanna Hare (National Centre for Product Design & Development Research, UWIC, UK)
Devina Ramduny-Ellis (InfoLab 21, Lancaster University, UK)
Alan Dix (InfoLab21, Lancaster University, UK)

CfP: HCI 2008 2nd Call

Editor — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:00:39 +0100

Deadine: 9 May 2008
A final reminder that the deadline for the 2nd Call of HCI2008: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, is 9th May 2008

The 2nd call requests submissions in the following categories.
Details can be found at http://www.hci2008.org/submissions.html

- Short papers up to 4 pages on late breaking results in HCI research
- Posters: late-breaking research requiring a more visual presentation
- Panels to discuss current issues in HCI research and practice
- Lab and Organisational overviews
- Doctoral Consortium for current PhD students
- HCI Practice: current developments from practitioners
- Student papers: from full time, undergraduate and graduate students
- Interactive Experiences:(separate deadline 23rd June) see http:// www.digitalliveart.co.uk for details

David England
Chair, HCI2008

CfP: (re)Actor3 Papers, Performances, and Installations

Editor — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:00:39 +0100

Deadine: 23 June 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS, INSTALLATIONS & PERFORMANCES
(re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art

"This is LIVErpool"
September 2 & 3rd, 2008
Holiday Inn & Contemporary Urban Centre
Liverpool, UK
http://www.digitalliveart.com

Jointly organised by:
- BigDog Interactive
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool
- Interaction: The Human-Computer Interaction Group

ABOUT
Digital Live Art is the intersection of Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Live Art and Computing. (re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art seeks to bring together practitioners and academics from the varying worlds of Live Art, Computing and HCI for a lively debate and event which will explore this emerging field. This year, (re)Actor3 is co-locating with one of Europe’s largest and longest running HCI conferences - HCI 2008 which is being held in Liverpool UK - host of Europe’s 2008 Capital City of Culture events. We are seeking proposals for Interactive Experiences - interactive installations, posters, demonstrations, live performances, and academic papers. We are seeking contributions addressing all aspects of Digital Live Art from guerrilla interventions to curation, with a focus this year on Live Physical Computing and UpCycling - turning yesterday’s unwanted items into Digital Live Art.

VENUE - DAYTIME EVENT
As in previous years, this year we include both a daytime and evening event. The formal daytime event will take place in parallel with HCI 2008 at the Holiday Inn, Liverpool on Wednesday 3rd September 2008. The day will consist of keynote presentations, formal papers and interactive installations.

EVENING AFTER PARTY
The daytime event will be followed by a public after party with commissioned installations, DJs, VJs and live performances. The party takes place at Liverpool’s Contemporary Urban Centre (CUC) boasting 170,000 sq feet within a Grade II listed converted warehouse. CUC aims to reflect the themes of contemporary life in the urban environment, particularly from the point of view of marginalised and excluded communities.

FUNDING
We have a limited number commissions available for live performances and installations. In addition, this year we are providing a special Artist in Residence commission at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. You can make a request for funding or for a commission using the proposal template, which you can download at the link below. We also have a limited number of travel bursaries available for those who may not be otherwise able to make it to the conference. Please see the website for more details.

PROPOSALS
All proposals will be peer reviewed by the conference committee. Proposals must not exceed the 2-page limit and must be prepared using the proposal template provided on our website. We are accepting proposals for:
* academic paper presentations (day)
* live performances (including DJ/VJ sets) (day and evening)
* interactive installations (day and evening)

Topics of interest included but definitely not limited to:
* UpCycling and Digital Live Art
* Live Physical and Tangible Computing
* Choreography and Digital Live Art
* Curation of Digital Live Art
* Technology-mediated liveness
* Archiving Digital Live Art
* Guerrilla interventions with digital technologies
* Computing as a vehicle for social and peformative interactivity
* Human-computer interaction and intervention
* Women, performance and computing
* Audience behaviour and rules of engagement in interactive works
* Performative contracts - rule making and rule breaking
* Experimental visual and sonic interfaces for live performance

Accepted proposals will be published in the conference proceedings, included on our website, and made available through the distinguished ACM Digital Library and the British Computer Society’s eWiC digital library.

IMPORTANT DATES
Proposal submission deadline: 23rd June, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 7th July, 2008
Camera-ready copy: 14th July, 2008
Tutorial date: 2nd September, 2008
Conference & Evening event date: 3rd September, 2008

(re)ACTOR CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Tom Lloyd, Dreamtime Film
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Queen Mary, University of London

(re)ACTOR CONFERENCE DIRECTOR
Jennifer G. Sheridan, BigDog Interactive

HCI 2008 CONFERENCE CHAIR
David England, Liverpool John Moores University

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Maribeth Back, FX PAL, California
Christopher Baugh, University of Leeds
Steve Benford, University of Nottingham
Russell Beale, Birmingham University
Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University
Daniel Brine, Live Art Development Agency
Susan Broadhurst, Brunel University
Linda Candy, University of Technology, Sydney
David Collins, Doncaster College
Beatriz da Costa, University of California
Steve Dixon, Brunel University
Jon Dovey, Bristol University
Bill Gaver, Goldsmiths University of London
Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter
Eva Hornecker, The Open University
Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency
Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham
Charles Kriel, London Metropolitan University
Sally Jane Norman, Newcastle University
Angela Piccini, Bristol University
Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London
Sara Price, London Knowledge Lab, Inst. of Education
Marta Ruperez, FACT
Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London
Atau Tanaka, Newcastle University
Mick Wallis, University of Leeds
Martyn Ware, Illustrious Company

CfP: IEEE ICADIWT

Editor — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:00:39 +0100

Deadine: 5 May 2008
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) (Co-sponsored by IEEE)

LOCATION: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
DATE: August 4-6, 2008

The First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) (co-sponsored by IEEE) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Web Content Mining, Health Informatics, Bioinformatics and IT Applications across disciplines.

The conference will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following research topics:

Information Retrieval
Wireless network
Signal processing, pattern recognition and applications
Digital image processing
Speech processing
Parallel and distributed computing and networks
Information retrieval and internet applications
Software engineering
E-technology
Artificial intelligence and applications
Databases and applications
Genetic algorithms
Data mining
Real time systems
Computer and network security
E-commerce and E-applications
Programming languages
Multi-Agent systems
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Best papers awards will be distributed during the conference.

'Modified versions of the selected papers of the conference will be published in the following peer reviewed journals.

1. Journal of Digital Information Management (ISSN 0972 7272)
- http://www.dirf.org/jdim
2. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC)
- http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=110
3. Journal of Information Assurance and Security
- http://www.dynamicpublishers.com/JIAS/openconf.php
4. Neural Network World
- http://www3.cs.cas.cz/nnw

SPECIAL SESSIONS
1. Session Name Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Session Chair: Ezendu Ariwa
London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Email e.ariwa@londonmet.ac.uk

2. Session Name Social Information Retrieval
Session Chair: Dion Goh
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Email ashlgoh@ntu.edu.sg

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers deadline: May 5, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008.
Camera-ready submission and registration: June 15, 2008.
Conference date: August 4-6, 2008.

GENERAL CHAIRS
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Khalid Saeed, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic

Publicity Chair
Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Saudi Arabia

Proceedings Chair
Eyas El-Qawasmeh, Applied Science University, Jordan