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               CALL FOR PAPERS  

        Improving the Interplay between 
 Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design    

        One-day Workshop at NordiCHI'04
     Tampere, Finland, 23-27 October 2004
   http://www.diku.dk/~kash/nordichi2004.htm       

 Deadline for position papers: August 20th 2004 
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The goal of this workshop is to determine state-
of-the-art in the interplay between usability 
evaluation and user interface design and to 
generate ideas for new and improved relations 
between these activities. The aim is to base the 
determination of the current state on empirical 
studies. Presentations of new ideas on how to 
improve the interplay should also be based on 
empirical studies. Within this focus, topics of 
discussion include, but are not limited to: 

  - Which products of user interface design are 
    useful as the basis for usability 
    evaluations? 
  - How do the specific products from user 
    interface design influence the techniques 
    that are relevant for the usability 
    evaluation? 
  - In which forms are the results of usability 
    evaluations supplied back into user interface 
    design? 
  - What are the characteristics of usability 
    evaluation results that are needed in user
    interface design? 
  - Do existing evaluation methods deliver the 
    results that are needed in user interface 
    design? 
  - How can usability evaluation be integrated 
    more directly in user interface design? 
  - How can usability evaluation methods be 
    applied in emerging techniques for user 
    interface design? 

See http://www.diku.dk/~kash/nordichi2004.htm 
for a full call for the workshop. 

IMPORTANT DATES
August 20: position papers due
August 27: notification of acceptance
October 23 or 24: workshop, final date to be 
decided by the conference organizers

EXPECTED OUTCOME
The outcome of the workshop is a collection of 
position papers as well as a presentation and 
discussion of these position papers. We are 
contacting key HCI journals about their 
willingness to produce a special issue on 
usability evaluation and user interface design 
based on the best papers from the workshop. 

ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Position papers are due August 20. Position 
papers should be submitted in PDF-format to 
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before August 27 and subsequently the papers 
will be made available to the other workshop 
participants. 

Tentatively, the Workshop-programme (full day) is 
as follows: 
  - Introduction to workshop. 
  - Presentation of the participants. 
  - Discussion of position papers in two to four 
    thematic groups of participants. 
  - Reports from the groups and plenary 
    discussion of main issues. 
  - Discussion of how to continue the work 

PARTICIPANTS
Participants are accepted on the basis of their 
submitted position papers. We aim at 15 with a 
maximum of 20 participants. Note, participants 
must register for the conference, see 
www.cs.uta.fi/nordichi2004/

ORGANIZERS
Kasper Hornbæk, assistant professor at the
University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in human-
computer interaction. He works with usability 
evaluation, information visualization, and 
computer-supported education.  

Jan Stage, associate professor at Aalborg 
University. He has a PhD in information systems. 
He works with methods for usability evaluation, 
user interface design, prototyping, and object-
oriented analysis and design. 


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