HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 40

Tuesday, 9th October 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 9 October 2007

Participant Spotlight

Christine Satchell, University of Melbourne

Research area: - Human-Computer Interaction

In the early 21st century information technologies are generating new sites where social and cultural meanings are produced and a new generation of users are re-creating their everyday experiences in these increasingly pervasive digital spheres. When exploring a topic as intangible as the construction of social networks it is necessary to look at how relationships are formed and at the way users identify themselves through these interactions. This represents a considerable challenge for human computer interaction practitioners who must look beyond ‘efficiency’ and ‘function’ to such abstract notions as ‘identity’ and ‘friendship’. My research argues that the integration of cultural theory within HCI provides a critically informed perspective at the intersection of use, technology and design. A recent example is how abstract cultural theory concepts were applied to the practical act of analysing user studies and translating the findings into the design of the Swarm mobile phone prototype. Current and recent projects I am engaged with at The University of Melbourne include: Refining the Swarm mobile phone prototype in conjunction with the Smart Internet Technology CRC. A federated digital identity management project for Novell in conjunction with Associate Professor Steve Howard, Professor Graeme Shanks and John Murphy. A Nokia funded research project investigating the use of mobile blogging to bring about personal change with Dr Mark Rouncefield and Connor Graham from The Department of Computing, Lancaster University. In October I will begin an APDI post on an ARC Linkage grant with QUT, Optus and The Queensland Department of Housing with Dr Marcus Foth and Prof. Greg Hearn that will examine the introduction of interfaces into public spaces to enhance a sense of community.

Contact:
Christine Satchell
University of Melbourne
DIS and The Smart Internet CRC
email: satc@unimelb.edu.au     www: www.pixelshifter.net/client_login/swarm_2007/

News

HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text: Reminder Call for Papers and Participation

To be held on 13-14 December 2007 at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, this workshop will focus on the processing of text from a variety of perspectives. Presentations will cover research in areas such as visual word recognition, reading and spelling, literacy development, lexical analyses of text and text-to-speech technology. An important aim is to report new data while showcasing the wide variety of state-of-the-art methodologies currently being used in studies of text. Closing date for submissions: 2 November 2007. For the Call for Papers and Participation, please visit http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2007/cstworkshop.

Reminder: HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI 2007), Adelaide, 2 December 2007

Registration for this year's VisHCI workshop is now open! This year's workshop will consist of four half-day tutorials offered by renowned international and Australian researchers Fang Chen (NICTA), David Cristinacce (U Manchester, UK), Edwin Hancock (U York, UK), and Michael Frater (ADFA/UNSW). Due to the generous support from HCSNet, registration for the workshop is again free of charge. To register, please go to http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishci/VisHCI2007/registration.html, click on 'register online', fill in the form and click on the 'Submit' button. If you intend to come, please register so that we have accurate numbers for catering purposes. We have a limited number of student travel awards available ($400 each). Due to the limited number, awards are only available for current students who are members of HCSNet. The deadline for applying for a Student Travel Award (via Registration) is 31 October 2007. Applicants will be informed in the week following this deadline of the outcome of their award application. For all other registrations, please register by Friday, 16 November 2007 at the latest.

Significant Experiences in Music Questionnaire: Request for participation

We have received the following request from HCSNet member Peter Atkins, at the University of New South Wales, regarding participation in a current research project: For many of us, musical experiences can be very powerful. Sometimes it is a sense that we have been impacted at the level of our very soul; at other times it feels as if the music takes us somewhere beyond the ordinariness of life. However, unfortunately, such experiences are as enigmatic as they are ubiquitous. One of the questions that arises is: what aspect of the musical experience is in question when we talk about such experiences? Music can mean various things, so what sort of meaning best encompasses such phenomena? Please help me research such questions by completing a questionnaire. This can be found at http://experiencingmusic.googlepages.com/. Thanks for your interest.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

NIPS 07: Music, Brain & Cognition Workshop

Whistler, Canada
Due date: 10 Oct 2007
URL: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrh/MCBworkshop07/

HSI 2008 Conference on Human System Interaction

Krakow, Poland
Due date: 10 Oct 2007
URL: http://hsi.wsiz.rzeszow.pl/

IASCL International Congress for the Study of Child Language

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.in-conference.org.uk/IASCL/

JADT 2008 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

Lyon, France
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.jadt.org/

Coarticulation: Cues, Direction, and Representation

Montpellier, France
Due date: 15 Oct 2007
URL: http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/spip.php?rubrique35

SPECIAL TRACK ON VIRTUAL AGENTS AT AAMAS-08

Estoril, Portugal
Due date: 23 Oct 2007
URL: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/index.html

CICLing-2008 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

Haifa, Israel
Due date: 25 Oct 2007
URL: www.CICLing.org/2008

EPICS III Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Sevilla, Spain
Due date: 30 Oct 2007
URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2312.html#2

Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language

Barcelona, Spain
Due date: 31 Oct 2007
URL: URL TBA

LREC 2008 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 31 Oct 2007
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

DG2008 Between Discourse and Grammar

Ghent, Belgium
Due date: 1 Nov 2007
URL: http://members.chello.be/gert.desutter1/

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

SLRF-2007 30th Annual Second Language Research Forum

Illinois, United States
Date: 11 Oct 2007
to 14 Oct 2007 URL: www.slrf-2007.uiuc.edu/programs.html

International Workshop: Speech and Body in Interaction

Berlin, Germany
Date: 12 Oct 2007
to 13 Oct 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html

HOWL 4th Hopkins Workshop on Language: Grammar in Cognition

Baltimore, MD, United States
Date: 13 Oct 2007
to 14 Oct 2007 URL: http://mind.cog.jhu.edu/howl-4/

IWSLT International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

Trento, Italy
Date: 15 Oct 2007
to 16 Oct 2007 URL: http://iwslt07.itc.it

Language Engineering for Low-Density Languages

Batumi, Georgia
Date: 15 Oct 2007
to 27 Oct 2007 URL: http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI

ISCIT 2007 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

Sydney, Australia
Date: 16 Oct 2007
to 19 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/ISCIT2007/

CSDL Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Lanuage

Cleveland, OH, United States
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 20 Oct 2007 URL: http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9

ICTIR 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Budapest, Hungary
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 20 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.infota.org/ictir2007/index.html

Ontology and Semantics

Paris, France
Date: 18 Oct 2007
to 19 Oct 2007 URL:

ICQM International Conference on Quotation and Meaning

Johannes Gutenberg, Germany
Date: 19 Oct 2007
to 21 Oct 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web

Tilburg, Netherlands
Date: 22 Oct 2007
to 23 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.PragmaticWeb.info

K-CAP 2007 The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture

Whistler, Canada
Date: 28 Oct 2007
to 31 Oct 2007 URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/kcap07/

PACLIC21 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language Inforormation and Computation

Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
Date: 1 Nov 2007
to 3 Nov 2007 URL: http://paclic21.snu.ac.kr

SLD symposium Society fo Language Development Annual Symposium

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 1 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

BUCLD Boston University Conference on Language Development

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 2 Nov 2007
to 4 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

1st International Conference on Corpus-Based Approaches

Castelló, Spain
Date: 6 Nov 2007
to 7 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.fue.uji.es/jornadas/verevento.shtm?id=2676&tipoexpte=jornada

EMLAR IV Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Utrecht, Netherlands
Date: 6 Nov 2007
to 8 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/emlar/

ADS at the MMLA American Dialect Society at the MMLA

Ohio, United States
Date: 8 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla

AAAI Fall Symposium: Cognitive Approaches to NLP

Arlington, VA, United States
Date: 8 Nov 2007
to 11 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php
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