HCI International News, Number 31, September 2008

HIGHLIGHTS

• HCI International 2009 – Submission is now open!
• HCI International 2009 –Important Dates
• HCI International 2009 Exhibition
• HCI International 2009 Sponsorship
• Recent Interesting News and Articles
• Upcoming Conferences and Events
• Previous Issues of HCI International NEWS
• Contribute to HCI International NEWS
• About HCI International NEWS

HCI International 2009 – Submission is now open!

The 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2009, will be held jointly with the affiliated Conferences in the Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, in San Diego, California, USA, 19-24 July 2009.

It will cover a broad spectrum of themes related to Human Computer Interaction, including theoretical issues, methods, tools, processes, and case studies in HCI design, as well as novel interaction techniques, interfaces, and applications. The program will feature, among others: pre-conference half-day and full-day tutorials, parallel sessions, poster presentations, an opening session with a keynote address, and an exhibition including demonstrations by industrial companies.

Abstract submission for paper, tutorial, and poster/demonstration proposals for HCI International 2009 is now open through the Conference Management System (CMS).

Prospective authors will need to create their individual account by filling-in an Account Signup Form with the CMS in order to proceed with abstract submission. Once they have created their account, they can login into the CMS and submit an abstract, view their submission(s), and update their account and contact information.

Registration to the Conference will also be available through the CMS at a later stage.

The Conference Proceedings, comprising the papers to be presented at the Conference, will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set in the LNCS and LNAI series. They will be available on–line through the LNCS Digital Library, readily accessible by all subscribing libraries around the world. All Conference participants will receive in their registration bags the Conference Proceedings published by Springer in DVD format. This DVD will also include, in addition to the papers, the extended abstracts of the posters that will be presented during the Conference. As the DVD will have its own separate ISBN number, posters can also be easily referenced.

For the Call for Participation and further information, please visit the Conference website.

HCI International 2009- Important Dates

• Monday, 20 October 2008, Abstract submission for paper proposals
• Monday, 20 October 2008, Abstract submission for tutorial proposals
• Monday, 23 February 2009, Abstract submission for poster proposals

HCI International 2009 - Exhibition

In the context of the HCI International 2009 Conference Exhibition, exhibitors will have an ideal opportunity to exhibit their products and services to an international audience of over 2,300 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI. Attendees will be able to examine state-of-the- art HCI technology and interact with manufacturing representatives, vendors, publishers, and potential employers. More information about the Exhibition can be found at the Conference website.

HCI International 2009 - Sponsorship

Organizations wishing to sponsor a special event or to be a general sponsor of the Conference are welcome to contact the Sponsorship Administration at sponsorship@hcii2009.org.

Recent Interesting News and Articles

• "New Frontiers in Usability for Users' Complex Knowledge Work", Journal of Usability Studies, August 2008: Volume 3, Issue 4
• "Creating Effective Decision Aids for Complex Tasks", Journal of Usability Studies, August 2008: Volume 3, Issue 4
• "Switching Between Tools in Complex Applications", Journal of Usability Studies, August 2008: Volume 3, Issue 4
• "Unexpected Complexity in a Traditional Usability Study", Journal of Usability Studies, August 2008: Volume 3, Issue 4
• "It's Who You Know (Or Don't)", Stanford Magazine, July/August 2008
• "Microsoft sees end of Windows era", BBC, 4 August 2008
• "People Finder: Searching Without Logic?", Box and Arrows, 14 August 2008
• "Applying Turing's Ideas to Search", Box and Arrows, 14 August 2008
• "Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer", Information Architecture, 26 August 2008

Upcoming Conferences and Events in the HCI Area

September 2008

• 11-12 September: Visual 2008, 10th international conference on Visual information systems, Salerno, Italy.
• 16-19 September: ECCE 2008, European Conference on Cognitive Ergnomics, Madeira, Portugal.
• 16-20 September: VL/HCC '08, 2008 IEEE symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany.
• 17-19 September: FG 2008, 8th IEEE international conference on automatic Face and Gesture recognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 22-26, September 2008: HFES 52nd Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

October 2008

• 13-15 October: ASSETS 2008, 10th ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Halifax, Canada.

March 2009

• 23-25 March: AAAI Spring Symposium, Agents that Learn from Human Teachers Stanford University Submissions due: Oct 3, 2008

Previous Issues of HCI International NEWS are available online.

Contribute to HCI International NEWS

We welcome your contribution to the HCI International News. Please send to us interesting news, short articles, interesting websites, etc. We will consider your comments and contributions for upcoming issues. Please send your contribution to the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem.

About HCI International NEWS

The HCI International NEWS is a newsletter that contains information about the HCI International 2009 Conference, book reviews, news from the field of HCI, as well as links to interesting articles and conferences. If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to make a contribution, please contact the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem. The opinions that are expressed in this Newsletter are the sole responsibility of its authors and do not represent any institution or company.