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DEADLINE EXTENDED (new deadline FEB 7)

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CFP Visual Thinking & Digital Imagery Workshop CHI 2012 : (5th May 2012)

Format and Goals

This workshop focuses on exploring the centrality of visual literacy and
visual thinking to HCI. Drawing on emerging critical perspectives, the
workshop will address visual literacy and visual thinking from an
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design-orientation, foregrounding
the notion that imagery is a primary form of visual thinking. Imagery--which
subsumes digital imagery--goes well beyond sketching and beyond
storyboards, screenshots and wireframes. We will address how a broader
framework for visual thinking and imagery in HCI can play a role in raising
the visual standards of HCI research and practice. Workshop participants
will investigate possibilities for developing a culture of curatorial gaze
in HCI, in order to (i) promote collection of digital images as a method
appropriate for a design-oriented discipline, (ii) invite others to
contribute to a genre of working and corpus of imagery unique to HCI, and
(iii) to expand the approaches that design-oriented HCI may productively
and creatively draw upon.

 Participant Selection Criteria & Requirements for Imagery and Optional
Accompanying Position Papers

In keeping with the transdisciplinary foundation of visual thinking and
design-oriented HCI, we hope to bring together a diverse group of HCI
researchers and practitioners, as well as practitioners and academics in
disciplines including (but not limited to) visual studies, design,
photography, criticism, art, cultural studies, social sciences, and the
humanities. First and foremost submissions will consist of visual
thinkingand/or
digital imagery artifacts for curatorial review in advance of the workshop.
A textual explanation or critical analysis of the artifact(s) of no more
than 4 pages in the CHI 2012 Extended Abstract format may be included.
Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers, and 15-20 will be accepted.
Accepted submissions will be placed on the workshop website, along with
links to relevant literature.



Important Dates and Where to Submit Imagery and Papers

Submit your Imagery (PDF or JPG) and Optional Accompanying Position Paper
(Formatting instructions, Extended Abstracts Format, 4* pages or less, not
counting your image files) by email to [log in to unmask]



*EXTENDED FEB 07 2012* Imagery and optional accompanying position paper due
for review/selection

Feb 10 2012 Notification to workshop participants by organizers

Mar 16 2012 Advance registration ends

* It is not the end of the world if you exceed the page limit by a little,
and perfectly fine if your paper is very short; it is primarily your image
files that are most interesting for this particular workshop.



Note

At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the
workshopand all participants must register for the
workshop and for at least one day of the conference.



Organizers

Eli Blevis School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University at
Bloomington, Indiana USA [log in to unmask]

Elizabeth F. Churchill Internet Experiences Group, Yahoo! Research, 4301
Great America Parkway. Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA [log in to unmask]

William Odom HCI Institute Carnegie Melon University Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
USA [log in to unmask]

James Pierce HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA
[log in to unmask]

David Roedl School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University at
Bloomington, Indiana USA [log in to unmask]
Ron Wakkary School of Interactive Arts & Technology Simon Fraser University
Surrey, BC, Canada [log in to unmask]