OZCHI 2008

============================================ Your last chance to submit a DEST E1 publication to OZCHI 2008 has just been extended to September 8, 2008.

The deadline for SHORT PAPERS, INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES & DEMOS and the DOCTORIAL CONSORTIUM has now been extended by 7 days to account for the extended review of long papers and requests by authors. Short papers accepted to OZCHI 2008 meet DEST publication requirements and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. We particularly invite submissions by authors whose long papers we were not able to accommodate in the conference owing to the exceptional quality of submissions this year. ============================================

OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitat & Habitus Annual conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group 8 - 12 December 2008 Tropical Far North Queensland, Australia http://www.ozchi.org/

OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, a non-profit event. It is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists or managers. Accepted papers are published in the ACM Digital Library. We look forward to your involvement at this year's OZCHI conference.

The conference is located at James Cook University's Cairns campus in the tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia, with accommodation at the Palm Cove resort. The main conference will be from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2008 when we have pleasure in presenting keynotes Paul Dourish (U. California, Irvine), Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town) and Fiona Ingram (Sensis), and panel sessions by paradigm shifting entrepreneurs and researchers. The main conference will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium led by leaders in their fields from Australia and overseas on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December 2008.

Conference Chair: Nic Bidwell Email: conf.chair@ozchi.org

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== IMPORTANT DATES

Short Papers/Case studies/Demos/Doc consortium: Submissions Due: 8th September 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 29th September 2008 Camera-ready papers due: 10th October 2008

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==== CONFERENCE TOPICS

We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) including practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects.

General-theme Conference Topics

Augmented Reality and Tangible UIs Collaborative System UIs Computer-Mediated Communication and Online Communities Design Methods End-User Programming and Adaptation Ethnography and design-oriented fieldwork Ethnomethodology in systems design Evaluation Methods HCI Education Human Factors in Health Care Informatics Human-centred software engineering Hypermedia and Web Design and Usability Intelligent User Interfaces and User Modelling Location-aware Interaction Service-oriented architectures (SOA) Social computing Theoretical approaches to design Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing Universal Usability & Accessibility Video methods in interaction design Virtual Reality and 3D Interfaces Visualization Techniques

Special-theme Conference Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the role of technology in supporting and enhancing our life-experiences and relationships within the environments we inhabit. This extends across work, domestic, and playful settings and the experienced and sensed life that, for example, enchants and provides vibrancy, communal trust, identity and a sense of self. OZCHI'08 will explore developing technology and interactions for rural and dispersed populations, supporting those working, living and travelling to remote regions and responding to issues of community, environmental and economic sustainability.

Cultural and Diversity Aspects of HCI Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing beyond the City Felt-life, Affective HCI, Emotion, Motivational aspects Simple technologies in a complex world Methods for design and evaluation across cultural boundaries

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SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English.

Accepted short papers and doctoral consortium, and summaries for industry case studies, panels and demonstrations will be available in the published proceedings. At least one author of any accepted submission must register and attend the conference, for publication in the proceedings.

For all guidelines and submission details, please see the conference web site: http://www.ozchi.org/. Additionally, for short papers, please follow the detailed instructions in the paper template available from the website. Short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing.

SHORT PAPERS Short-length papers up to 4 pages should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.

CASE STUDIES Case study submissions should be a maximum of 2 pages (including figures) indicating any infrastructure and equipment requirements. The sessions are reflective pieces by practitioners or academics about an experience related to HCI.

DEMONSTRATIONS Demo submissions should be a maximum of 2 pages (including figures) indicating any infrastructure and equipment requirements. Demo sessions offer interactive opportunity to showcase research prototypes, finished devices, processes, methods, services and industry applications. We invite demos of all approaches across the full range of HCI related topics, these may be related to submitted papers or completely independent of the other content in the conference. We encourage you to make your demo visually, or otherwise, appealing and present it in an innovative way.

Short-Paper/Case Studies/ Demonstration Co-Chairs: Carrie Lui & Ralf Muhlberger Email: sd.chair@ozchi.org

-- Dr Ralf Muhlberger Director, Multimedia and Interaction Design Programmes School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland Qld  4072  Australia email: ralf@itee.uq.edu.au  alt: ralf.muhlberger@gmail.com phone: +61 7 3365 2766      fax: +61 7 3365 4999 CRICOS No. 00025B This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP