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The WWW'12 workshop on updating and interlinking HCI, web and graphics
curricula shall be taking place on 16 April in Lyon, France. We seek
position papers and poster abstracts, due one week today, on February
6.
The full CFP is below.
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WWW 2012 Workshop: HCI, Web and Graphics Curricula at the Crossroads
of Science, Design and Technology
http://www.clarehooper.net/hciwebgraphics/
Contributions are invited to this one-day workshop, running on 16
April at ACM WWW2012, Lyon, France.
==Overview==
The evolution of rapidly changing and increasingly diverse and
sophisticated web-based systems provides evidence to justify revising
our definitions of the core computing/informatics curriculum. We can
also see evidence by looking at web scientists who are establishing a
research framework that studies the theory and practice of social
machines. These insights and understandings are highly valuable in
advancing our understanding of how we manage, build and evolve the web
and its associated human interactions.
In business there is an increasing demand for well-informed and
technically skilled graduates and postgraduates. Too often, however,
students are being taught and guided through sets of fundamentals that
were identified and established when computing and informatics were
first emerging as a discipline.
This workshop provides a forum for cross-disciplinary discussions
between researchers, designers and architects of web technologies. It
will be an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences that are
emerging in this important area. There is much common ground that can
be established across these apparently diverse communities. This
workshop provides an opportunity to collaboratively begin to address
the task of coordinating curricula from the HCI, Web and Graphics
domains for the benefit of students, academic and business alike.
==Objective and goals==
The objective of this workshop is to coordinate the community of
practice as we share scholarly insights into the learning outcomes of
the relevant domains and into the relationships between these
outcomes.
Goals include:
* List important concepts common to the fields of HCI, graphics,
component-based programming and web technology: work at the level
encountered by students of a university computer science programme.
* Link these concepts to well-known/useful resources: relevant
definitions, examples, exercises, books, papers, tutorials, software,
useful web sites, etc.
* Discuss how these concepts should be introduced and answer the
following questions:
--What are the most important concepts to convey to students, and what
are the main pitfalls?
--Are there dependencies between the various concepts involved? Try
and build a graph of dependencies.
--Are some concepts more important than others?
--Are some concepts more difficult to acquire than others? An
indication of level at which they should be introduced would be
valuable for building a curriculum.
--Are there other relationships between concepts that are useful to
consider for a curriculum?
--Can these concepts be organized hierarchically in order to identify
parallels and structure the curriculum?
--Are some teaching methods more suitable for sets of concepts than others?
==Audience and themes==
WWW provides a forum for collaboration between technologist
practitioners and academics that is of special value. Of all aspects
of the computing/informatics curriculum, HCI and Graphics are areas
that can most benefit from the broad community who participate in WWW.
Similarly, the profile of this work will be of benefit to both
academic and business communities.
The workshop will address the topic of the Web/HCI/Graphics curriculum
in the context of current and ongoing technological developments that
surround the use and development of the web. It is relevant for all
academics, technology trainers and businesses who are concerned with
the development and use of web based applications.
Themes include: the web, HCI, graphics and design education; the
structure of concepts in these areas; interdisciplinary work; and
pedagogy.
==Author information: contributions and important dates== This will be
a highly participative and interactive workshop. We seek two types of
contribution:
1. Position papers (up to 2000 words)
2. Poster abstracts (up to 1000 words)
Please submit your contributions via Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2012hwg
Attendees whose position papers are accepted will be invited to make a
presentation to the workshop in the form of a pecha-kucha. Poster
papers will be presented and discussed in the poster session of the
workshop. All submissions should be formatted according to the ACM
templates.
Important dates:
* February 6, 2012: Submissions due
* February 17, 2012: Notification to authors
* February 26, 2012: Camera-ready deadline for accepted submissions
==Publication of contributions==
All accepted contributions and abstracts will be published online
through the University of Southampton. All attendees will be invited
to submit a full paper (developed after the workshop or revised from a
position paper) for publication subsequent to the workshop.
Discussions will be sustained through the workshop wiki. A special
issue in a journal on that subject might also follow the discussions
in the workshop.
==Organisers==
* Su White, University of Southampton, UK
* Clare Hooper, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK
* Mountaz Hascoët, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France
Programme Committee
* Birgit Pröll
* Clare Hooper
* Claudia Rodda
* Mountaz Hascoët
* Paul De Bra
* Su White
* Željko Obrenović
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