First call for papers for HCI 2010: the 24th BCS International Conference on HCI

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; min-height: 15.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #0000ff} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} span.s2 {color: #000000} span.s3 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #0000ff} First announcement and Call for Papers   HCI 2010: Play is a Serious Business  The 24th BCS International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction  Dundee, UK, 6th-10th September 2010 http://www.hci2010.org  For over 25 years the BCS HCI conference has brought together researchers, developers and industrialists from around the world to discuss the wide range of topics and ideas encompassed within Human Computer Interaction. As a result, networks have been created, partnerships formed, new research has been generated, and good work has been disseminated. Next year the conference takes place in Dundee, Scotland, from 6th to 10th September, and, in addition to the usual wide range of topics, has the special theme “Play is a Serious Business”. The theme reflects the development of the University of Abertay as a Centre of Excellence in Computer Games Education, and the cluster of industrial companies involved in all aspects of the Computer Games industry in Dundee, and there will be opportunities for delegates to interact with games designers and developers, and their products, at the conference.  This call seeks submissions from academics, researchers, students, industrial and commercial practitioners in the following forms: Full research papers – maximum of 8 pages, on recent, unpublished research on any HCI research topic. Industrial practice papers – the conference will have two industrial practice threads running alongside the HCI research threads on at last one day, these threads being “Mobile HCI” and “Computer Games”, and practitioners are invited to submit papers, up to a maximum of 8 pages, on any aspect of research, development or industrial practice related to these two topics.  Encounter papers – these are short, maximum 4 pages, papers and presentation outlines that will be presented to delegates in an interactive format involving a direct promenade-style interaction with the authors (more detail will be provided on the conference website). These papers can reflect any of the topics identified in the call, and should be identified as fitting one of four themes for these papers: Student work (please note, a separate call for papers for the PhD Forum will follow)  Research ideas  Research in progress  Commercial and industrial applications Each of these themes will appear in separate encounter paper sessions at the conference, so please ensure when making your submission that you clearly indicate which theme your paper represents. All papers should be formatted to the ACM standard, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates , and will appear on-line in the BCS EWiCS series and the ACM Digital Library. Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system, which will open for submissions early next year and will be linked from the conference website with detailed instructions. Conference topics:  Including but not limited to – Adaptive and adaptable systems  – Affective interaction  – Ambient intelligence  – Artistic and aesthetic aspects of interaction and interface design  – Boundaries  – Brain-computer interfaces  - Computer games design and development – Design cases  – Design methods  – End-user development  – Evaluation methods  – Evolvable HCI  – Group and organization interfaces  – Human values – Information visualization and presentation  – Innovative interface design  – Interface agents and interface characters  – Languages - Mobile HCI (including industry theme) – Models of interaction  – Multimodal interfaces  – New interaction techniques and devices  – Participatory design  - Play and the use of play  – Studies of organizations, technology and work  – Theory and foundation of HCI  – Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction  – Universal access  – Usability studies  – User-centred design  HCI 2010: Important dates  19th March, 2010: Submission of full research papers, industrial practice papers and encounter papers 30th April, 2010: Notification of acceptance to authors 28th May, 2010: Final submission of web-ready papers 25th June, 2010: Final date for early-bird registration (authors must register by this date for inclusion in programme) 6th & 7th September 2010: Workshops, tutorials and PhD Forum (doctoral consortium) 8th-10th September 2010: HCI 2010 conference For further information, please see http://www.hci2010.org  Papers will be reviewed by a pool of international HCI experts.  For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline, or the paper will be removed from the programme.   The BCS HCI conference series is organised on behalf of the British Computer Society Interaction Specialist Group.