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~~~~~~~ BRITISH HCI GROUP NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/ ~~ ~~ All news to: [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ~~ ~~ not the News Service ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Participation Technology has escaped from the zoo: studying usability in the wild (September 11th, 2007) in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil http://www.cs.indiana.edu/surg/interact2007/ <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/surg/interact2007/> held in conjunction with the 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Interact'2007 http://www.interact2007.org/ Aims and goals of the workshop A highly energetic and interactive exploration, the workshop will investigate usability in the wild, where laboratory modeling ends and reality begins. The workshop will investigate methods to gather sufficient usability feedback in non-traditional environments-those environments where change is rapid, unpredictable and difficult to control. Driven by emergent themes from participant submissions, the workshop aims to address the challenges faced by researchers working in non-traditional environments, reviewing how data can be collected under limited control and how data can be analyzed using methods applicable to the evaluation of limited usability data. Additionally, participants will collaboratively review social responsibility challenges in each non-traditional environment, such as maintaining the health and safety of researchers and participants without distracting from primary tasks. Successful submissions will be grouped into domains. Based on previous workshops, the following domains will likely, but not necessarily, emerge: -Healthcare -Community -Military -Mobile & Location Based Games -Everyday Life Topics of interest include: - Usability Evaluation and Evaluation Methods - Social Responsibility - Ubiquitious and Context Aware Computing - Safety Issues and Human Error - International and Cultural Aspects of HCI - Mobile Computing Structure of the workshop Using illustrative non-traditional environment photographs, workshop participants will start to discuss challenges; sharing potential and adopted usability techniques. Next, thematic panels will briefly introduce approaches, then allow group discussion to explore in greater depth particular challenges and topics of interest. Finally, the workshop will review generalisable themes and strategies, working toward the development of a non-traditional environment usability framework-further developed and explored through future collaborations. Submission Submissions should be a position paper up to four pages in length. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0), including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word for Windows format. Please include an illustrative photograph(s) of a non-traditional environment for participant review and discussion. Papers and photograph(s) should be submitted to [log in to unmask] Important dates: - June 26th 2007: Submission of full and position papers - July 10th 2007: Notification of acceptance - August 5th 2007: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due - September 11th, 2007: Workshop Publication Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue journal to be named at a later date. Workshop Co-Chairs: Paul Rohwer, Indiana University, USA Julie Maitland, University of Glasgow, UK Workshop Programme Committee: Gisele Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kay H. Connelly, Indiana University, USA Valerie Lafond-Favieres, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Katie A. 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