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*****Deadline for Paper Submissions Extended********
Call For Papers:
Workshop on IUI4DR - Intelligent User Interfaces for
Developing Regions
(in conjunction with IUI '08)
Canary Islands, Spaiin
January 13, 2008
http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr
Organisers:
* Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM Research, India
* John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
* Apala Lahiri Chavan, Human Factors International, India
* Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
Advisory Committee:
* Michelle X Zhou, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Program Committee:
* Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Canada
* Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
* Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology,
Korea
* Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India
* Oscar Murillo, Microsoft, Colombia
* Shimei Pan, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
* Pearl Pu, EPFL, Switzerland
* Anxo Cereijo Roibas, Vodafone, UK
* Andy Smith, Thames Valley University, UK
* Andrew Thatcher, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Theme:
Information Technology has had significant impact on the society and has
touched all aspects of our lives. So far, computers and expensive
devices have fueled this growth. It has resulted in several benefits to
the society.
The challenge now is to take this success of IT to its next level where
IT services can be accessed by masses. "Masses" here mean the people who
(a) are not yet IT literate and/or
(b) do not have the purchase power to use the current IT delivery
mechanisms (PC centric model) and/or
(c) do not find current IT solutions and services relevant to their life
or business.
Interestingly, a huge portion of the world's population falls in this
category.
To enable the IT access to such masses, this workshop aims to focus on
easy-to-use and affordable, yet powerful, user interfaces that can be
used by this population.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers in the industry and the
academia to focus on user interface issues related to designing
interfaces for this population.
Topics of Interest:
Considering the social, cultural, educational and economic diversity of
developing regions, the challenge is to develop appropriate and
effective interfaces/interaction techniques that will enable these users
to access services that currently remain elusive to them. The focus
areas of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Novel and effective interfaces that reduces the cognitive load on
the
users who usually operate in chaotic environments:
People in developing regions often would access these
interfaces
in noisy and crowded surroundings. Providing privacy through
the
intelligent UI and handling the noise would be a challenge
for such
interfaces.
* Interfaces for semi-literate and illiterate users:
Iconic interfaces, speech-based interfaces and multimodal
interfaces offer promising solutions to overcome literacy
issues.
Any other interface that does not need language skills will be
of
interest to this workshop.
* Designs tailored to factor social and cultural issues:
If an interface technology is culturally not acceptable to a
society, it may not have acceptability. So interfaces that
reflect the
culture of the society are bound to be promising.
* Shared user interfaces and devices:
People developing regions seldom own a computing device on an
individual basis. Access to applications or services is mainly
through
kiosks or phones. Most families now own a cell phone that is
shared
among family members.
* Cost-effective interfaces:
Since the purchase power of this society is not high,
expensive
and sophisticated interfaces may not be the right choice.
Intelligent
use of cost-effective devices will therefore be more
acceptable
for this population.
We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories:
(a) Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to
interesting research directions, (b) Early results or work-in-progress
that has significant promise, or, (c) Full papers. Papers should be of
4-6 pages in length in the IUI publication format. The LaTeX
(http://www.iuiconf.org/LaTeXclassfile.zip) and Microsoft Word
(http://www.iuiconf.org/chi2008pubsformat.doc) templates are available
through these links. All submissions should be in the PDF format and
should be submitted electronically through the IUI4DR Easychair
Conference site (http://www.easychair.org/iui4dr08). Since the
submission deadlines are dependent on the IUI conference, we will not be
able to grant any extensions in any circumstances.
Since the workshop also aims to be a meeting point for researchers
working in this area, atleast one author of accepted papers should
attend the workshop to present their work.
Demos:
In addition to the papers, participants are also invited to submit
interesting demonstrations of working systems. These demos should
reflect the usability of the systems for developing regions. A one page
description of the system should be submitted through the workshop
submission site by November 11, 2007. The description should also
provide any equipment that is required for the demo. Needless to say, if
accepted, the demonstrators should be able to travel to the workshop for
presenting their work.
Key Dates
* Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: Nov 19, 2007 (11:59 pm Spain Time)
* Notification: Dec 10,
2007
* Early Registration Deadline: Dec 17, 2007
* Workshop: Jan 13, 2008.
Websites
* IUI4DR Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr
* IUI '08 Conference : http://www.iuiconf.org/
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