VL/HCC 2009

2009 IEEE Symposium on            Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'09)

Corvallis, Oregon, 20-24 September 2009

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/vlhcc09/

From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing practitioners have sought ways to make interactions with computers more human-oriented. For example, visual languages have long been used to provide effective communication between humans and computers. Visual languages have been successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, and rapid prototyping; they have supported design activities by people of many disciplines and backgrounds including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In the last few years, a number of languages and technologies have incorporated visual-based counterparts to facilitate human-human communication through Web technology and electronic mobile devices.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the theory, applications and evaluation of technologies, visual and otherwise, that enhance the role of humans in the computing process.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Symposium (originally Workshop). Established in 1984, the mission of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (previously called Visual Languages from 1984 to 2000 and Human-Centric Computing from 2001 to 2003) is to support the design, formalization, implementation, and evaluation of computing languages and environments that are easier to learn, easier to use, and easier to understand by a broader group of people.

This includes all research aimed at the above mission, regardless of whether it uses entirely visual technology, text, or instead uses sound, virtual reality, the web, or any other technologies. Examples of research addressing this problem include, but are not limited to, language/environmental design aspects, theory that supports the many media used toward this goal, implementation aspects, empirical work, software comprehension aspects (including software visualization), and software modeling and/or software engineering aspects.

SCOPE AND TOPICS

We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on one or more aspects of human-centric computing technology, for instance visual programming or interaction, text, sound, virtual reality, the Web, or other multimedia technologies.

Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal methods, taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and empirical studies. We also solicit short papers that present work in progress or demonstrations of tools. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Visual languages for programming, modeling, and communication - Visual domain-specific languages - End-user software development - Computer-mediated human-human communication - Empirical studies of human-centric software technologies - Languages and tools for domain-specific software development - Multimodal interaction - Sketch and Gestural Computing - Software visualization and algorithm animation - Visual or multidimensional model-driven development - Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning - Visual Query Languages and Databases - Visual Techniques for Business Processes and Workflow

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite two different types of paper submissions:

(a) full-length papers, up to eight pages, reporting on research or      experience, and (b) short papers, up to four pages, describing work in progress or      tool demonstrations. All papers must be formatted in IEEE double-column conference format and must be submitted electronically. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the international Program Committee.

Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'09, published by the IEEE Computer Society. The paper submission deadline is March 8, 2009; to aid in reviewer assignments, we also request that prospective authors submit abstracts and titles by February 22, 2009. Authors of the best papers accepted for the conference will be invited to submit revised versions for a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.

The conference also invites submissions for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the symposium; more information can be found on the VL/HCC'09 web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop/Tutorial proposals: 22 February 2009 Workshop/Tutorial decision: 9 March 2009

Paper abstracts: 22 February 2009 Paper submission: 8 March 2009 Notification of decision: 18 May 2009 Camera-ready copy: 14 June 2009

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Rob DeLine, Microsoft Research, USA Mark Minas, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany

PUBLICITY CHAIR Robin Abraham, Microsoft Corp., USA

WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Judith Good, University of Sussex, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Minas, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Andy Schuerr, University of Darmstadt, Germany Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robin Abraham, Microsoft Corp., USA Paolo Bottoni, "Sapienza" - University of Rome, Italy Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Gregor Engels, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Andrew J. Ko, University of Washington, USA Alessio Malizia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Kim Marriott, Monash University Melbourne, Australia Nikolay Mirenkov, University of Aizu, Japan Paul Mulholland, The Open University, UK Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marian Petre, The Open University, UK Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand David Redmiles, University of California, Irvine, USA Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado, USA Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada Pablo Romero, University of Sussex, UK Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Andy Schuerr, University of Darmstadt, Germany Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada Shin Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP