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!!!Final Call for papers!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE
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Call for Papers:

Workshop on Cultural usability and Human Work Interaction Design

Sunday, 19th October 2008, Lund, Sweden
In conjunction with NordiCHI 2008

Deadline for submissions: September 1st 2008.
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This workshop analyzes the use of techniques to connect empirical work analysis and interaction design in different cultural contexts. In industry, a wealth of usability evaluation methods is used to evaluate computer software user interfaces and other interactive products:
Inspection methods, Workplace observation, Think-Aloud Usability Test, etc. These techniques often give - seemingly - similar results when applied in diverse cultural settings, but experience shows that we need a deep understanding of the cultural, social and organizational context to interpret the results, and to transform it into interaction design.

The workshop will present current research into cultural usability and human work interaction design. Cultural usability is a comprehensive concept which adheres to all kinds of contexts in which humans are involved (private family, work, public and private organizations, nature and climate, etc.).

The purpose of the workshop is to enable practitioners and researchers to analyze the use of techniques that connect empirical work analysis and interaction design in different cultural contexts. The workshop presentations and discussions may form the input to a call for a special issue. We expect the participants will be people attending NordiChi2008 with an interest in connecting empirical work analysis and interaction design in different cultural contexts. The workshop will be conducted in a good social atmosphere that invites to openness and provides time to reflection.

We invite position papers about:
*       The use of ethnographic methods to generate scenarios and use cases in a
foreign country
*       Work style modeling in different cultural contexts
*       Using card sorting methods to discover cultural differences in
information architecture and design preferences
*       Usability testing and cultural differences in socializing and
communication
*       Recruiting 'surrogate users' in usability practice and research
*       Socio-technical design in different cultural contexts
*       The use of elicitation techniques with different cultures
*       Conceptual framework of cultural factors in interaction design
*       Cultural aspects of interaction methods and languages
*       Evaluation of the cultural effects of new interactive products
*       Experiences and best practices of cultural usability
*       Localization of usability methods or research methods
*       Cultural factors related to usability
and other perspectives on Cultural Usability and Human Work Interaction Design.

Position papers should be up to 10 pages in the conference publication format, and should be sent in pdf format to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by September 1st, 2008.  Notification of acceptance will be provided by September 7, 2008. All accepted papers will be published in proceedings accompanying the workshop. In addition, it is envisaged that edited versions of the papers presented in the workshop will appear in a edited book.


The conference publication format can be found here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

More information about the workshop may be found here:
http://ilex.cbs.dk/hwid/
www.culturalusability.com


General information about NordiCHI 2008 can be found at:
http://www.nordichi2008.org/


Organizers:
*       Torkil Clemmensen, associate professor, Department of Informatics, CBS,
Denmark; chair of IFIP WG 13.6 HWID, project coordinator of CultUsab research project
*       Rikke Ørngreen, Center for Applied Information Communication
Technologies, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; secretary IFIP WG 13.6 HWID and project manager for CaseMaker
*       Kerstin Roese, User-centered Product Development, University of
Kaiserslautern, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Germany
*       Annelise Mark Pejtersen, professor, Center of Cognitive Systems
Engineering and the University of Washington, Denmark  and USA. Chair of IFIP TC13 on HCI
*       Lynne Dunckley, professor, Thames Valley University, London, UK.
Director of Research for TVU Institute for Information Technology and Leader of HCI aspects of EPSRC Vesel project
*       Pedro Campos, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics and
Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal
*       Xianghong Sun, associate professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
*       Pradeep Yammiyavar, professor, Department of Design, Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati, India


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