HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 4 Number 3

Tuesday, 22nd January 2008
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 22 January 2008

Participant Spotlight

Stephen Viller, University of Queensland

Research area: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

My current research falls within the fields of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). It is mainly focused on people-centred design methods, and on technologies to support sociability in technology-mediated interaction. The main application areas for this research are distributed collaboration, community interaction, and mobile and ubiquitous technologies, with reflection on the design process itself a common theme in my work. The main challenges that my research addresses within this space are how to adapt existing methods from interaction design and elsewhere so that they are sensitive to the multiple contexts in which people use technology. The ultimate aim of this work is to inform and inspire technology designs for people in their everyday lives, at work, at home, at play, on the move, etc.

Contact:
Stephen Viller
University of Queensland
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
email: viller@acm.org     www: www.itee.uq.edu.au/~viller

News

HCSNet Priority Areas

We'd like to remind you that the HCSNet Priority Area Scheme facilitates research in the areas of Speech, Effective Interfaces, Next-Generation Search Technology, Human Communication Disorders and Perception and Action. Each HCSNet Priority Area is headed by two Priority Area Leaders. In 2008 we are delighted to welcome Dr David Copland from the University of Queensland as a Priority Area Leader in Human Communication Disorders. David's research interests are in the brain mechanisms underpinning normal language, language impairments, and recovery of language after neurological injury. Our thanks to Helen Chenery for her contribution to the Network as a representative on the HCSNet Steering Committee and Priority Area Leader over the period 2005-2007. An overview of Priority Areas, including funded programs and PA leaders, is available at http://www. hcsnet.edu.au/priorityareas/overview.

HCSNet Annual Report 2007

We're now in the process of putting together HCSNet's Annual Report to the ARC covering our activities in the 2007 calendar year. An important part of this report discusses how the world is different as a consequence of the Network's existence. So, we're looking for comments on how HCSNet has impacted on your research: ideas, interactions, seminar invitations, collaborations, proposals, publications, and anything else that would not otherwise have happened. We'd be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes thinking about this and forward comments to info@hcsnet.edu.au. Thank you!

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.

Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 25 Jan 2008
URL: http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/

NLPIX 2008 NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era

Beijing, China
Due date: 26 Jan 2008
URL: http://www-tori.jaist.ac.jp:8000/NLPIX2008/index.html

ICFHR 2008 1st International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Montreal, Canada
Due date: 31 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.icfhr2008.ca

Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm

London, United Kingdom
Due date: 31 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/rhythm2008

OntoLex 2008 - The role of ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and practice

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 11 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 11 Feb 2008
URL: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids

Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Uses and usage of language resource-related standards

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html

Computer-Mediated Social Networking

Dunedin, New Zealand
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/Conferences/Isn2008/

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/LFG/

LENLS 5 Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5

Hokkaido, Japan
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html

QITL-3 Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics

Helsinki, Finland
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/

AKRR'08 ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Porvoo, Finland
Due date: 15 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/

The LAW II The 2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 17 Feb 2008
URL: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=2183©ownerid=320

Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology

Marrakech, Morocco
Due date: 20 Feb 2008
URL: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html

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.

(DRR) 2007 15th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference

San Jose, CA, United States
Date: 26 Jan 2008
to 31 Jan 2008 URL: http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/drr2008/eng/

LingEvid2008 Linguistic Evidence 2008

Tübingen, Germany
Date: 31 Jan 2008
to 2 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/LingEvid2008/

IMM13 13th International Morphology Meeting

Vienna, Austria
Date: 3 Feb 2008
to 6 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13

NorConfClinLing2008 The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics

Joensuu, Finland
Date: 9 Feb 2008
to 10 Feb 2008 URL: http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/

Mixing Approaches to MACHINE TRANSLATION

Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
Date: 14 Feb 2008
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/matmt08-2008

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

Haifa, Israel
Date: 17 Feb 2008
to 23 Feb 2008 URL: www.CICLing.org/2008

MAD 08 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008

Oslo, Norway
Date: 20 Feb 2008
to 23 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/konferanser/mad08/

EPICS III Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Sevilla, Spain
Date: 20 Feb 2008
to 22 Feb 2008 URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2312.html#2

Workshop on Finding the Hidden Knowledge: Text mining for biology and medicine

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Date: 21 Feb 2008
to 22 Feb 2008 URL: http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=33
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