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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Extended deadline, Halloween, Midnight, 31 Oct)
Night and darkness: Interaction after dark, CHI '08 Workshop
Here's the first call for position papers for our CHI '08 Workshop
"Night and darkness: Interaction after dark".
We're after lots of ideas and possible future directions and not just
work that's been completed.
Details are available here:
<http://research.microsoft.com/~ast/chi/darkness/>
(Deadline to be updated)
Here's a summary:
Many of us work and socialize late into the night, some increasingly so.
However, most information technology is still designed in the daytime
with little thought given to its behaviour or use after dark, even if
the technology itself can sense the darkness. How then might the
behaviour of our technology change as night falls?
The aim of this workshop is to use the themes of darkness, safety, night
time people and night time activities to explore new opportunities for
interaction design. Running through the afternoon and evening, the
workshop will allow for the brief presentation of position papers, but
most activity will focus on group-based discussion and design exercises,
followed by an in-situ brainstorm of design ideas in the darkness of
Florence. A workshop blog will be maintained after the workshop,
allowing for participants to continue discussions, form collaborations
and, hopefully, co-ordinate plans for future research.
Authors are invited to submit a two-page position statement in the CHI
conference publications format, including a brief biography. As a
pre-workshop activity, participants are also asked to document their own
use of technology for one night.
Submissions to: [log in to unmask]
Deadline: 31 October/Halloween/Midnight
Notification: 28 November 2007
Workshop date: 6 April 2008
Location: Florence
Looking forward to your submissions,
Wendy March, Intel Research,
Dawn Nafus, Intel Research,
Laurel Swan, Brunel University,
Alex Taylor, Microsoft Research
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