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Title: Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces
Date: 13-14 September 2007
Location: Australian Technology Park, Sydney
Contact: Lawrence Cavedon lcavedon@cs.rmit.edu.au, (RMIT University and NICTA)

PROGRAM

Links

• Full List of Submitted Abstracts
• Invited keynote by Gloria Mark
• Registration form
• Delegate information (including workshop dinner details)
• Claim Forms for Recipients of HCSNet Travel Support - available at workshop
• Media coverage: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/about/mediareleases

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Introduction

HCSNet (www.hcsnet.edu.au) and HxI (www.hxi.org.au) are organising a joint workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. This workshop is designed to bring together researchers interested in a range of issues, with a focus on the non-technical, related to human-machine interaction and computer-mediated human-human interaction. A specific sub-theme will be mediating collaboration and community between humans in distributed environments, in particular as targetted by HxI's Bracetto project. The aim is to identify shared interests, understand different perspectives, and to take first steps towards developing future collaborations. HCSNet will fund travel for a number of Australian participants from outside the Sydney area.

We invite participants from HCI, Language Technology, Psychology, Communication Science, Auditory Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics and Speech Science, Sociology, and other fields of interest to the human side of interactive interfaces.

Possible themes of interest include:

• Measuring and minimizing cognitive load;
• Human information processing issues;
• Human Factors and Evaluation;
• Representing and detecting emotions;
• Measuring and enhancing engagement;
• Managing dialogue interaction;
• Context and participant awareness;
• Managing virtual communities;
• Activity modeling and interaction design;
• Effective multimodal interaction;
• User modeling and personalisation;
• Communication for collaboration;
• Strategies for dialogue management and repair;
• Non-verbal vs verbal communicative cues.

Proposed Outcomes

Effective Interactive Interfaces is a designated Priority Area for HCSNet. HxI is developing novel technologies for mediating interaction between humans, human and machines, and humans and information. The workshop aims to bring sub-communities together, to discuss specific problems and issues that may stimulate new collaborations.

Invited Speakers

Gloria Mark of the University of California at Irvine is confirmed as an invited speaker. We hope to confirm a second high-profile international speaker shortly. We also plan to involve targetted industry and user communities for the purpose of highlighting problems and issues of value to them.

Participation and Format

We welcome participation from a range of disciplines and perspectives, as outlined above, from both academia and industry, and we would like to involve as many as possible in discussion.

• Attendees are asked to submit a short abstract of up to about 250 words. Submissions should contain:
• research interests pertinent to the workshop theme; and/or
• thoughts on issues deemed to be important and potential points of interaction with other disciplines.
• Attendees should indicate whether they wish to give a SHORT presentation of 5-10 minutes, or a LONGER presentation of 10-15 minutes. A longer presentation should contain a strong position statement, discussion issue, or an interesting minor result.

Please submit abstracts to Lawrence Cavedon, lcavedon@cs.rmit.edu.au, by the date indicated below.

The format of the workshop will be designed to promote interaction and collaboration. As well as presentations, we plan panels, discussion issues raised by industry/user groups, and break-out sessions.

Funding

HCSNet-HxI is able to provide funding support (covering travel and accommodation) for a number of participants travelling from outside Sydney. SUBMISSION OF AN ABSTRACT DESCRIBED ABOVE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR BEING CONSIDERED FOR TRAVEL FUNDING. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants may be allocated based on specified interests, as described in the submitted abstract.

Dates

Wed Aug 15: Due date for abstracts
Wed Aug 22: Awards of travel funding notification
Thur Sept 13--Fri Sept 14: Workshop

Organisers

Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University and NICTA); lcavedon@cs.rmit.edu.au
Fang Chen (NICTA ATP); fang.chen@nicta.com.au
Robert Dale (Macquarie University); rdale@ics.mq.edu.au
Peter Eades (HxI Initiative); peter.eades@hxi.org.au
Belinda Kellar (HxI Initiative); belinda.kellar@hxi.org.au

HCSNet is the ARC Network in Human Communication Science, and promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sonics. HxI is a joint initiative between CSIRO, DSTO and NICTA, and seeks to develop technologies that support humans in their interactions with each other, their environments and information.

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