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We are pleased to announce an exciting and diverse programme of
workshops to be held in conjunction with the 25th BCS conference on
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2011). HCI 2011 will be held in
Newcastle upon Tyne from the 4th to the 8th of July 2011, hosted by
Northumbria University (see http://www.hci2011.co.uk/ for more
details).

Workshops will take place on Monday the 4th and Tuesday the 5th of
July, the two days preceding the main conference. Workshop
participants will be required to pay a £90 workshop fee; a reduced fee
of £60 will be granted to those who also register for the conference.

The workshop programme for both days is given below. The general
deadline for position papers is the 1st of May 2011, although please
check individual workshop webpages for specific attendance criteria.
Please note that in a couple of instances the webpages are not yet
live, where this is the case we have included placeholder URLs for
your information.

We look forward to an exciting series of events.
Siân Lindley and Peter Wild (HCI 2011 workshop co-chairs)


***Workshop Programme for Monday 4th July 2011***

*EuroHCIR2011 - The 1st European Workshop on Human-Computer
Information Retrieval*
Max Wilson, Tony Russell Rose, Birger Larsen, James Kalbach
This workshop aims to stimulate the European industrial and academic
interest in Human-Computer Interaction with Information Retrieval,
matching the ongoing series of workshops taking place in the USA.
http://fitlab.eu/euroHCIR2011/

*HCI4WELL2 - The 2nd Workshop on HCI for Wellness: Using computers to
improve mental wellness*
Rich Picking, Julie Doyle, Christopher Buckingham, Stuart Cunningham,
Ann Adams, Alan Newell, Paula Alexandra Silva Paula Fraunhofer
Continuing from the first HCI4WELL workshop at HCI2010, we consider
user interface design for wellness, an area of health which recognizes
a person's physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and social
needs.
http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/pickingr/hci4well2.shtm

*When Words Fail: What can Music Interaction tell us about HCI?*
Katie Wilkie, Rose Johnson, Simon Holland, Grégory Leplâtre
This workshop aims to explore research on any aspect of Music
Interaction, and to collectively consider lessons for HCI in general.
http://mcl.open.ac.uk/workshop

*Sixth International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Collaborative
Computing (iUBICOM 2011)*
Rahat Iqbal, Jacques Terken, Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Anne James
We aim to discuss challenges for design that arise from the vision of
Ubiquitous Computing. The workshop theme is 'balancing technological
and human factors for better design of ubiquitous computing.
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/research/dsm/iUBICOM/iUBICOM2011.html

*UXCF2011 - Common Curriculum Workshop for UX*
Tom McEwan, John Knight, Chandra Harrison
This workshop builds on UXCF2010, which kick-started definition of UX
competency, and aims to define UX model curricula for short courses,
modules and degrees.
http://www.uxcf.org

*Designing Cool*
Janet Read, Daniel Fitton, Russell Beale, Linda Little
This workshop examines cool in the context of interaction design and
the extent to which technology can be appropriated for cool. Only cool
people should attend :)
http://www.chici.org/cool2011

*The Second International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and
Interaction Design*
(this two-day workshop continues on Tuesday)
Shaowen Bardzell, Ann Light, Jeffrey Bardzell, Mark Blythe
The symposium seeks to strengthen the dialogue among the disciplines
contributing to culture, creativity and interaction design research,
providing a lasting forum for interdisciplinary analysis and
experiences of digital media.
http://ccid2.wordpress.com


***Workshop Programme for Tuesday 5th July 2011***

*The Second International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and
Interaction Design*
(this two-day workshop continues from Monday - see above for full details)

*Integrating Ambient Information into Healthcare Environments*
Ruth Dalton, Nicholas Dalton, Paul Marshall, Rebecca Cain, Christoph Hölscher
This workshop will focus on the overlap between hospital building
design and information design to examine how embedding
context-specific, ambient information in healthcare buildings may
support and guide the patient/visitor.
http://ambientinfomationhealthcareworksho.blogspot.com/

*Delivering User Centred Mobile Design: Commercial realities and UCD
methodology*
Chandra Harrison, Charlotte Magnusson, Benjamin Poppinga, Sam
Medrington, Whan Stransom, Ginger Claassen
Practitioners and academics will discuss methods to translate and
communicate user requirements to stakeholders, to encourage best
practice and to address commercial limitations to improve delivery of
user-centred mobile designs.
http://ducmd11.offis.de

*PPD11 - Workshop on Coupled Multi-display Environments (MDEs) in Classrooms*
Aaron Quigley, Alan Dix, Sriram Subramanian, Stephen Brewster, Miguel A. Nacenta
Classrooms present particular educational contexts for Interactive
Display Ecosystems or Multi-Display Environments we aim to explore in
this workshop.
http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ppd11

*Beyond Mobile Context: New and unexplored practices in mobile
interaction design and research*
Michael Leitner, Johann Schrammel, Manfred Tscheligi
This workshop invites mobile interaction designers and researchers to
discuss current and future mobile technologies and to scrutinize the
design and evaluation methods in that area.
http://beyondmobilecontext.wordpress.com/

*Supporting Collaboration through Multimodal and Cross-modal Interfaces*
Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tony Stockman, Fiore Martin
With growing possibilities of using various modalities in interaction
comes new opportunities for supporting richer, more effective and
engaging collaborations. This workshop examines the issues associated
with the design, implementation and evaluation of multimodal and
cross-modal collaborative systems.
http://ccmi.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/hciworkshop

*The 3rd Workshop on HCI and Services*
Peter Wild, Emma Pickering, John Knight, Stefan Holmlid
Services are considered one of the key areas to focus on for growth
and innovation within economies. Approaches to service design have
emerged that share HCI commitment to working with and for people, the
workshop will continue the exploration of the links between the two
fields.
http://www.peterjwild.org/workshops/HCI&Services3/

*Health, Wealth and Identity Theft: Designing usable privacy and
security mechanisms for happiness online*
Lynne Coventry, Paul Dunphy, Ivan Flechais, Tristan Henderson, Mike
Just, Linda Little, Karen Renaud, Melanie Volkamer
Exploring the design and evaluation of usable security and privacy
mechanisms for protecting users online.
http://di.ncl.ac.uk/bhci-securityprivacy/

*Online Patient Experience (PEx) and its role in e-health*
Sue Ziebland, Pamela Briggs, John Powell, Liz Sillence
This workshop aims to discuss the rise of patient-generated content on
the Internet, in the form of online patient experiences (PEx) and to
share new approaches and findings.
https://sites.google.com/site/opex2011/

*HCIEd 2011 - Ten years on! What's going on?*
Gavin Robert Sim, Janet Read, Lynne Coventry, Lars Oestreicher
It has now been 10 years since the beginning of the HCI Educators
series. To celebrate this moment the HCI Educators workshop at
Newcastle is encouraging participation around reflection on practice,
and innovation for the future.
http:/www.hcied.org/<http://www.hcied.org/>









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