General talk about software patterns

["Christian Kruschitz" <christian.kruschitz AT gmail.com>]

Dear Pattern-Discussion List Members!

 

Below you will find a Call for Papers for the USAB Symposium 2010. Maybe it is interesting for you because it is planned to have a HCI Design Pattern session. Unfortunately the deadline is on June 20.

 

Best Regards

Christian Kruschitz

 

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USAB 2010 Conference: HCI IN WORK&  LEARNING, LIFE &  LEISURE (ALL aspects of Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering)

 

ATTENTION - NEW DATE: November 4-5, 2010 (as in all years before)

Venue: Klagenfurt, Austria

http://usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at

contact AT usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at

Conference Proceedings: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Submissions due by June 20, 2010 Submit to https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=usab2010

 

Keynote: Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Plattner Institute, HPI):

"Mobile Phones - on their way to becoming the computational platform of the world"

 

Welcome Address: Silvia Zimmermann, President of Usability Professionals Association (UPA):

"The Future of Mobile Experiences"

 

***Special Issue of JITT***

Authors of high rated papers on e-tourism or related areas will also be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Tourism (JITT, http://ojs.modul.ac.at/index.php/jitt).

 

Special Thematic Sessions:

- Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

- HCI Patterns

- Future Interactive Learning Systems

- Interactive Multimedia Applications

 

Additional Special Thematic Sessions are welcome, potential session organizers are encouraged to submit their proposal until May 31, 2010.

 

Industrial Track: "Putting HCI into Best Practice"

The Industrial Track is designed as a means to bring together practitioners of different industrial areas with academia (Chair: Horst Krieger).

 

IMPORTANT DATES

31 May - Proposals for Special Thematic Sessions due 20 June - Deadline for submissions in all categories

15 July - Author notification

15 August - Submission of camera ready version

4-5 November - Conference

 

 

DETAILED INFORMATION:

 

The 6th Conference of the Workgroup HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society will take place in Carinthia (Southern Austria) 2010 from Nov. 4 to Nov. 5.

 

The topics are structured alongside (but not limited to) the following three dimensions:

1) Special user groups (children, elderly, healthcare professionals, tourists, students, teachers, ...)

2) Issues on practical application of HCI in the work place (process aspects, HCI patterns, cost/benefit analyses, ...)

3) Future trends in HCI

 

We encourage and cordially invite authors to submit their original work related to all topics of HCI and usability as

a) long papers (> 14 pages),

b) short papers (between 8 and 14 pages),

c) posters (2 pages).

d) Special Thematic Session Papers (same as short papers)

 

Accepted conference papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Templates are provided on the symposium website.

Submissions are welcome under the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=usab2010

 

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS

 

***Industrial Track: Putting HCI into Best Practice*** Submissions for the Industrial Track:

We recommend the LNCS stylesheets (Word or LaTex) for submissions. There are no specific length requirements, but the submissions should be adequate to describe the intended presentation.

 

The spirit of the industrial talks ("management board talks") should be non-scientific and business oriented - interested companies should describe case studies, best practices, challenges in their work relating to HCI/usability. The goal is the exchange of knowledge within and between both, industrial and scientific communities.

 

Talk format: 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.

 

Submission and communication language: German and English.

Proceedings: Will be printed in-house and distributed in advance.

 

Subsequent to a presentation, Round Table discussions can be scheduled, focusing on cooperation and match making and typically including the presenter and 5 to 7 interested participants.

 

Suggestions for possible topics (non-exhaustive):

Multi-platform delivery / device independence - Rich internet applications - E-learning systems and content - Simulations - Serious games - Mobile applications - E-commerce applications and HCI issues - Web 2.0 and e-learning 2.0 - Tool&  Methodology Choices, Tradeoffs, Decisions - Business, Cases on HCI (financial issues, financing issues, ROI etc.) - Usability issues (how to do it right) - Remote usability evaluation - Automated usability assessment (experiences/limitations) - Usability in production environments - Clean Room conditions - Human-robot interaction

 

Looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Carinthia, Gerhard Leitner Martin Hitz Andreas Holzinger http://usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at contact AT usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at>