Apologies if you recieve multiple copies of the CFP.
-Sheetal
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
* Raj Reddy, CMU, USA (to be confirmed)
Program Committee (to be updated):
* 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 Roib�s, Vodafone, UK
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: November 11, 2007 (11:59 pm Spain Time)
* Notification: December 01, 2007
* Early Registration Deadline: December 03, 2007
* Workshop: January 13, 2008.
Websites
* IUI4DR Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr
* IUI '08 Conference : http://www.iuiconf.org/
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