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Call for Participation
WORKSHOP ON IMPROVING AND ASSESSING PEN-BASED INPUT TECHNIQUES
A workshop at HCI 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, Tuesday 8 September 2005
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pen_workshop
TOPIC
Over the past ten years or so, pen-based interaction with handheld devices
has become widespread. Digital ink and digital pens, as well as the more
common use of pens with PDAs and tablet PCs, all provide new methods for
interaction. This workshop is designed to bring the human back into the investigation
of pen-based interfaces and to consider ways in which such interfaces can
be designed to provide rewarding user experiences.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
The workshop will focus on the following four themes:
Recognition Techniques for Rich Pen-based Input: Input to pen-based systems
can be varied, including handwritten text, drawing, doodles, annotations
or structural elements (e.g., arrows). We will consider how to handle and
enrich such input.
Methods that improve the Reading Process. Recognition will never be 100%
accurate but with the appropriate assistance, the user may be able to read
the output.
User-based Error Repair: The discovery of and recovery from errors at the
interface, and the possibilities for multimodal error repair and error reduction
methods.
Methods for Evaluating Pen-based Interfaces: Traditionally, the focus has
been on the calculation of recognition error rates and the determination
of ratings for user satisfaction. Novel evaluation methods are of interest,
especially those that capture a broader range of quality attributes.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE
Please note that workshop participation requires (1) acceptance of your paper
submission and (2) registration for the workshop via the HCI2005 registration
form (see http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2005/). Accepted papers will form
the basis of workshop presentations and discussions. We invite submissions
of research papers that address one or more of the workshop themes. Papers
must be a maximum of 8 pages and should include a 200-word abstract. Papers
should not be anonymised. Papers will be reviewed by the workshop organisers
and will be selected for appropriateness, originality and academic rigour.
Thoughtful and reflective papers of a more conceptual nature will be considered
alongside more traditional studies and ?practice & experience? reports. It
is intended that authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited
to submit revised versions of their papers as the basis of a special issue
of Interacting with Computers.
IMPORTANT DATES
We are operating two deadlines for contributions. The first deadline is 27th
June; the second is 15th August. Authors submitting to the first deadline
will be informed of acceptance by 8th July, allowing them to take advantage
of early bird rates for the conference. The later submissions will hear by
22nd August.
Contributions should be sent to both organisers in both pdf and Word formats.
The Volume 2 formatting style of HCI 2005 is preferred but not essential.
For further information, please contact the ORGANISERS
Janet Read ([log in to unmask]
Phil Gray ([log in to unmask])
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