~~~~~~~ BRITISH HCI GROUP NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/ ~~ ~~ All news to: [log in to unmask] ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ~~ ~~ not the News Service ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Submissions: Organisational Overviews - HCI 2000 http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~hci2000/ Key Dates Submissions should arrive by the 15th of May, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be by 12th of June, 2000. Organisational Overviews provide summaries of HCI work taking place in organisations. Overviews may describe HCI work in university, corporate, or government research groups or institutions; product development or consultancy organisations; countries or geographical regions; collaborative efforts involving several groups or organisations; or partnerships of different types of groups, or groups cooperating across geographical, political, or cultural boundaries. The emphasis is on the circumstances and context within which this work is occurring, focusing on the underlying goals, policies, and organisational background, and perspectives of past, present and future HCI efforts. Of interest is the big picture: how did a group come into being; how do the participants influence each other as well as other groups with whom they are affiliated; the group's plans and visions for the future; and the basis for these plans. Organisational Overviews provide a contrast to presentations that spotlight a restricted number of technically or scientifically interesting results. Attendees of the presentations should be able to see the shared perspectives between groups despite different cultural, organisational, and geographical backgrounds in order to foster future collaborations and affect work within HCI in the upcoming century. Review Criteria Submissions will be reviewed independently by a multidisciplinary group drawn from industry and academia. Reviews will consider the: level of interest that members of the HCI community will have in the work extent to which the overview informs the HCI community of current HCI activity ways in which future HCI innovations are envisaged potential of the work for stimulating co-operation and collaboration within the HCI community. Format Prepare a two-page camera-ready extended abstract of the Organisational Overview. It must be in the Conference Publications Format. An electronic submission should also be sent as a PDF file by email (see the web pages for this format). This is optional, but will greatly assist the reviewing process. If you are unable to send a PDF file please contact us to make alternative arrangements. The extended abstract should include: HCI domains addressed by the organisation's work focus, themes, major processes, organisational setting, history, and future plans, people involved (e.g. number and backgrounds), specific projects and/or special approaches key publications, products, or other results Your submission must be in English. Your submission should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications. Responsibility for permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people rests with you, not HCI 2000. Upon Acceptance Extended abstracts of accepted submissions will be published in Volume 2 of the HCI 2000 Conference Proceedings. At the conference, the overview should be presented by a major participant in the work and based on the material described in the extended abstract. Organisational Overviews are 30 minute presentations, including 5 minutes for questions. Contacts Any submissions or queries should be made to Lynne Hall Department of Computing and Mathematics, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 8ST Email [log in to unmask] Telephone +44-191-227 4727 Fax +44-191-227 3662 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To receive HCI news, send the message: ~~ ~~ "JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname" ~~ ~~ to [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Newsarchives: ~~ ~~ http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/bcs-hci/ ~~ ~~ archive.html ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To join the British HCI Group, contact ~~ ~~ [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%