http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5204 <pre>Third CALL FOR PAPERS (with apologies for cross-posting) **** Please distribute **** ============================================================= Workshop on KINECTing MobileHCI at MobileHCI 2012 http://www.kmhci.com Markus Löchtefeld, Lauren Norrie, Sven Gehring, Roderick Murray-Smith &amp; Michael Rohs San Francisco, US Spetember 21th 2012 ============================================================= === TOPIC === The Microsoft Kinect provides a cheap and robust depth sensor as an off-the-shelf-product that opens a rich design space for mobile HCI researchers. Tracking a user's body motion, pose and the position of each limb is now possible this can help to create new interaction as well as evaluation methods. The workshop on KINECTing Mobile Human Computer Interaction is meant to explore how mobile devices and mobile interaction can be enhanced through the capabilities of the Microsoft Kinect as well as new experiences and Kinect-augmented services for mobile devices that emerge from this new technology. Besides a strong relation to the Kinect, topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Novel interaction techniques • Spatial and proximity based interaction • Ad-hoc created situated spaces • Advanced mobile hardware prototypes • Whole-Body Interaction in mobile contexts • Advanced services based on position data of the Kinect • Evaluation and documentation of mobile usability using the Kinect We want to use the workshop as a starting point to discuss possible formats and platforms for exchanging skeletal data captured during mobile usability evaluations. The goal is to set a new standard for reproducible evaluation techniques in mobile settings. === Workshop Format and Submissions === The workshop on KINECTing MobileHCI is a full-day workshop with an extended thematic scope and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with multidisciplinary insights being explicitly encouraged. We ask for papers (two-pages position-statement-paper or four-pages research-paper) that address one or more of the research questions mentioned above, or that describe findings that relate to these research questions based on systems the authors have built. We highly encourage bringing a demonstration of your prototype if available and presenting it at the Workshop! Papers should be formatted according to the standard HCI Archive format. ( http://www.mobilehci2011.org/sites/default/files/MobileHCI2011archivalformat_final_acmcopyright.docplease remove the copyright notice). Papers should be submitted using the electronic submission system available on the website (http://www.kmhci.com). At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of an international program committee. All accepted papers will be made available online on the workshop website === IMPORTANT DATES === May 25, 2012: Submission Deadline June 29, 2012: Author Notification July 29, 2012: Submission of camera-ready version September 21, 2012: Workshop in San Francisco, US === Website and more Information === http://www.kmhci.com If you have any additional questions please contact us via email: markus.loechtefeld&lt; at &gt;dfki.de === Organizers === Markus Löchtefeld, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Lauren Norrie, University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science, United Kingdom Sven Gehring, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Roderick Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science, United Kingdom Michael Rohs, Univeristy of Munich (LMU), Germany === Program Committee === Sebastian Boring (University of Calgary, Canada) Florian Daiber (DFKI, Germany) David Kim (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) Sven Kratz (University of Munich, Germany) Antonio Krüger (DFKI, Germany) Petteri Nurmi (HIIT, Finland) Antti Oulasvirta (MPI, Germany) Enriko Rukzio (University Duisburg Essen, Germany) Sriram Subramanian (University of Bristol, UK) John Williamson (University of Glasgow, UK) </pre> Markus Löchtefeld 2012-05-15T21:57:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5199 <pre>Hello All, Some time ago, I remember reading a webpage about ten evidence-based heuristics that are an improved version of the ten Nielsen heuristics. I remember that the webpage had both the original heuristics and the improved ones listed on it, but I can't seem to find it any more. Does anyone by chance have the URL for this? Best, Chris Martin -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Postings must be in plain text CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Chris Martin 2012-04-06T17:42:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5198 <pre>Hello, Michigan State University is conducting a brief online survey of potential designs for a mobile phone application that will allow visitors to find information about recreation activities at Corps of Engineers' lakes. You can help us by filling it out at http://bit.ly/MSU_Lakes. The project overview is on: http://bit.ly/MSU_Lakes_Overview. Thanks, Sarah Sarah J. Swierenga, PhD, CPE Director, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting (UARC) Michigan State University 517-353-8977 &lt;mailto:sswieren&lt; at &gt;msu.edu&gt; sswieren&lt; at &gt;msu.edu usability.msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Email mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org with any comments, questions or problems CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Sarah Swierenga 2012-03-05T16:26:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5196 <pre>Hi Everyone, As part of my PhD thesis, I am collecting responses to a questionnaire survey on User eXperience. More than 100 Usability/UX researchers and practitioners have already been invited to perform this exercise and most of them agree on the fact that there is still a definite need for a standardized definition of the term UX. By sharing your views on UX, your participation in this survey will help bringing the concept of UX to maturity. Therefore, it would be a great help if you could participate and also share it with your friends or colleagues working in the field of HCI, design, marketing or IT engineering. Please find below the description of the survey and the link to participate. Thank you very much for your support and co-operation! -------------------- Get involved in UX research! Online survey: Towards a shared definition of User eXperience Available in english, german or french version. Have you ever heard of the concept of User Experience (also called UX)? Does its definition seem clear to you? At present, despite its popularity among practitioners, it is a challenge to reach a shared definition of UX by converging different understandings about the meaning and scope of UX. Following a study by Law, Roto, Vermeeren &amp; Hassenzahl (2008), we are collecting responses to the questionnaire from usability/UX researchers and practitioners. Regardless of your profile and background get involved and help bringing this concept to maturity by sharing your views on User eXperience ! Please answer the survey online: - english: http://bit.ly/uxsurvey-en - german: http://bit.ly/uxsurvey-de - french: http://bit.ly/uxsurvey-fr Many thanks for your support ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carine LALLEMAND Research Engineer Psychology, Ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction Public Research Centre Henri Tudor Service Science &amp; Innovation Department (SSI) 29, avenue John F. Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg Phone : +352 42 59 91 - 2923 Fax : +352 42 59 91 - 777 Mail : carine.lallemand&lt; at &gt;tudor.lu Skype : carine.lallemand / twitter : &lt; at &gt;carilall www.tudor.lu Please do not print this document unless it is necessary. Consider the environment. -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Postings must be in plain text CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Carine Lallemand 2012-03-01T11:03:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5195 <pre>Hi – thank you to the people who responded to my question on a cloud-based community! Here are the answers I received: ***************************************************** Have you checked out basecamp? The 37 signals guys really know their stuff. - Willie ***************************** The standard these days is Basecamp. http://basecamphq.com/ ***************************** Hi Kay, Here is a similar question and answer I posted a while ago. It focuses on graphic deliverables, but some of the tools may work for what you want: QUESTION: Looking for a better way for clients to review and comment on our work online I’m envisioning a chat tool that would allow me to do the following: • Display a Web page, graphic, or Flash animation on the Web. • Allow a client to visually highlight part of it. • Create a chat thread associated with the highlighted area. • Support multiple chat threads for different highlighted areas. • Spellcheck chat contents. • Archive the chat thread. Does anyone know of such a tool? It seems that Adobe CS4 has something built in or there maybe something in an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool like Rational Jazz. ANSWERS: I found some tools that do exactly what I want. Front runners are: proofHQ (http://www.proofhq.com/html/main-features.html, http://www.appappeal.com/app/proofhq/) Highly polished, works with or without Basecamp ConceptShare (http://www.conceptshare.com/tour.html, http://www.appappeal.com/app/conceptshare) Highly polished, works with or without Basecamp, Flash based Cozimo (http://www.cozimo.com/, http://www.appappeal.com/app/cozimo/ Promising but I’ll need to dig deeper to see if it has all of what I need These are similar but seem to be missing core requirements: http://www.noteboxapp.com/ Seems to only support static files. Seems not have chat support, only notes. http://vyew.com/site More for conferencing. Doesn’t seem to support chat associated with a comment http://www.inmotionnow.com/overview.html Cannot really figure out if this is suitable without speaking to one of their sales reps. ************************ I would suggest Conceptshare (http://www.conceptshare.com/) Zyncro (http://www.zyncro.com/) TeamBox (http://teambox.com/) or of course GoogleDocs Cheers, Ferran www.zumaques.com El 28/02/2012 15:52, Kay Corry Aubrey escribió: Hi - I'd like to be able to share UI designs with my client via an online community. I'd be looking for something very simple, secure, reasonably priced, and cloud-based. I'd post screen shots, UML diagrams, stories, etc and the client team needs to have the ability to comment and post their own stuff. WIKI capability would be great. Can anyone suggest some reliable online community products they've used? I'll collect &amp; summarize people's recommendations. Thank you - Kay Kay Corry Aubrey, user-centered research and design Usability Resources Inc | &lt;http://www.UsabilityResources.net&gt; www.UsabilityResources.net | &lt;mailto:Kay&lt; at &gt;UsabilityResources.net&gt; Kay&lt; at &gt;UsabilityResources.net LinkedIn profile - &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaycorryaubrey&gt; http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaycorryaubrey Phone: 781-275-3020 | Fax: 1-781-998-0325 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Kay Corry Aubrey 2012-02-29T18:35:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5193 <pre>Hi - I'd like to be able to share UI designs with my client via an online community. I'd be looking for something very simple, secure, reasonably priced, and cloud-based. I'd post screen shots, UML diagrams, stories, etc and the client team needs to have the ability to comment and post their own stuff. WIKI capability would be great. Can anyone suggest some reliable online community products they've used? I'll collect &amp; summarize people's recommendations. Thank you - Kay Kay Corry Aubrey, user-centered research and design Usability Resources Inc | www.UsabilityResources.net | Kay&lt; at &gt;UsabilityResources.net LinkedIn profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaycorryaubrey Phone: 781-275-3020 | Fax: 1-781-998-0325 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Email mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org with any comments, questions or problems CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Kay Corry Aubrey 2012-02-28T14:52:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5191 <pre>VIGTA 2012 – First International Workshop on Visual Interfaces for Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Applications Workshop at AVI2012 - Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012 http://vigta2012.dieei.unict.it/ Overview ======== The importance of having image/video database containing high quality ground truth annotations generated by humans for a variety of computer vision applications is recognized by the whole machine vision community. Indeed, one of the most significant efforts during the evaluation process is represented by the development of accurate truth and comparing this truth to the decision of image and video processing applications. For example, datasets with ground truth labels are necessary for supervised learning of object categories. However, the cost of providing labelled data, which implies asking a human to examine images and provide labels, becomes impractical as training sets grow. The computer vision community has mainly directed its attention to develop methods for collecting large scale datasets by exploiting the collaborative effort of a large population of annotators. Although there exist functional, task-oriented requirements for tools supporting ground truth labeling, the research still lacks in following human computer interaction paradigm to develop user-oriented tools. In fact, annotators, must be at the centre of such tools since the ground truth needs to be established by humans who, for example, on a video sequence of five minutes captured at 30 fps, have to annotate manually a total of 9000 frames. Therefore, tools for ground truth annotation must be user-oriented, providing advanced visual interfaces able to speed-up the process of ground truth creation by helping users, through the integration of computer vision methods and multi-users ground truth annotations, to finish the task in a reasonable amount of time with less effort. The workshop aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers both in computer vision and in HCI and in multimedia research to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing visual interfaces for ground truth data generation, thus promoting interdisciplinary research between computer vision, HCI and multimedia research. Topics of interest ================== The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to: * Adaptive and multimodal interfaces * Comparative analysis of existing tools * Interactive and Collaborative Interfaces * Mobile and Web 2.0 Interfaces * Computer vision methods supporting automatic or semi-automatic machine tagging for ground truth data annotation * Incorporation of Semantic Data in Interfaces * Web Semantic approaches for ground truth representation and sharing * Tools and Applications Important dates =============== * Deadline for paper submission: March 22, 2012. * Notification of acceptance: April 08, 2012 * Camera Ready Paper and Registration: April 15, 2012 * Date of the workshop: May 21, 2012 Submission ========= Submissions to VIGTA 2012 workshop must be original and have not been published or submitted elsewhere. All papers must be written in English. The submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind procedure by at least two members of the Program Committee. The papers must contain no information identifying the author(s) or their organization(s). All papers must strictly have page limit of 6 pages, which conforms to the ACM SIG Proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). To submit your research paper, please send it to vigta&lt; at &gt;dieei.unict.it All accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in special issues of international journals. Workshop Organizers =============== * Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy * Bas Boom, University of Edinburgh, UK * Jiyin He, Center of Mathematics &amp; Informatics (CWI), the Netherlands Please contact us at vigta&lt; at &gt;dieei.unict.it Program committee =============== * Emmanuelle Beauxis-Aussalet, Center of Mathematics &amp; Informatics (CWI) (Netherlands) * Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Lynda Hardman, Center of Mathematics &amp; Informatics (CWI) (Netherlands) * Xuan Huang, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Isaak Kavasidis, University of Catania (Italy) * Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece) * Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Center of Mathematics &amp; Informatics (CWI) (Netherlands) * Simone Palazzo, University of Catania (Italy) * Jenny Benois-Pineau, University Bordeaux (France) * Anna Bosch Rue, University of Girona (Spain) * Simona, Ullo IIT – Genova (Italy) -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Email mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org with any comments, questions or problems CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Jiyin HE 2012-02-22T11:41:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5190 <pre>One of the many nice aspects of Wikipedia is that its articles typically contain various links to related articles. But which related articles are most relevant? A PhD student of mine, Ricardo Kawase, tries to find this out with a short evaluation. If you have 10 to 15 minutes to spare, it would be great if you could participate. Just follow the link and read the instructions: http://www.l3s.de/~kawase/wikieval/start.php Your participation is voluntary, and you can stop the evaluation at any time by closing your browser window. Your answers will be stored anonymously and used for research purposes only. Many thanks in advance! Eelco Herder &amp; Ricardo Kawase (L3S Research Center, Germany) -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Eelco Herder 2012-01-30T15:45:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5188 <pre>Hello all, I'm searching for works/projects involving automatic generation of web or GUI interfaces from specifications/schema of data types or database structure and would be grateful for any pointers or links you might be able to share. I'm looking for things such as iTask (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2050135.2050145) or SUPPLE (http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/supple/). If there is a better HCI forum where I could direct my query, I would be appreciate knowing about it as well. Thanks very much! --- nadeem </pre> Nadeem Abdul Hamid 2012-01-15T03:34:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5187 <pre>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012) http://events.declarative3d.org/Dec3D2012 in conjunction with WWW2012, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) 16-20 April 2012, Lyon, France http://www2012.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, you are invited to submit your papers to the 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture, co-located with the WWW2012 conference. The workshop aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both the Web and 3D graphics communities to meet and talk about an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the Web technology stack in a declarative way. === Topics === Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Declarative 3D Use-Cases and Requirements: Discussion of the use cases, where embedding 3D data in HTML using declarative approach provides significant benefit; deduction of the requirements for the D3D specification. * Declarative 3D and DOM: Discussion of integration of 3D with existing and future W3C standards, specifically: integration of high-level scene concepts; integration with client and server side rendering services, 3D REST; integration with existing security aspects for content delivery and visualization; content portability and platform independence. * Declarative 3D in current web browsers: Exploring how the incorporation of declarative 3D graphics can be done in currently popular web browsers (e.g., by using WebGL in WebKit or Gecko); what are the possible difficulties? * Semantics of 3D objects in DOM: Discussion of how descriptive 3D can be combined with semantics. This includes topics such as querying and manipulation of graphical objects, mash-up from several sources, integration of RDF technology, creation of useful APIs based on web services etc * Declarative 3D User Interface Issues: Novel interfaces and interaction methods for online 3D + HTML content; mobile 3D Web interfaces, interaction techniques; accessibility and usability of 3D Web content. === Submissions === We seek three kinds of submissions: * Full technical papers - should not exceed eight pages in length in ACM format; * Short technical papers and position papers - up to four pages in ACM format; * Demo descriptions - two-page description of the application in ACM format, ideally accompanied with a link to a demo; Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not follow a double-blind review process. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings (published online at CEUR-WS). Please submit papers via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dec3d2012 === Important Dates === * Submission deadline: 22nd February, 2012, 23:59 CET * Notification of acceptance: 6th March, 2012 * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 22nd March, 2012 * Workshop date: 17th April, 2012 === Organising Committee === * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Kristian Sons, DFKI === Programme Committee === * Rémi Arnaud, Screampoint * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Anita Havele, GlobalEdge/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Yvonne Jung, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Fabio Pittarello, Ca'Foscari University * Nicholas Polys, Virginia Tech/Web3D Consortium * Sandy Ressler, NIST * Philipp Slusallek, DFKI * Kristian Sons, DFKI * Neil Trevett, Khronos/NVidia * Krzysztof Walczak, Technical University of Poznan For any further informations, please contact organizers via dec3d2012&lt; at &gt;easychair.org -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Email mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org with any comments, questions or problems CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Jankowski, Jacek 2012-01-11T10:05:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5186 <pre>For many people, December is a month of giving and receiving presents. Online stores such as Amazon help you to find the right presents by recommending you items that you might like. We would like to find out what you think of these recommendations. If you have an Amazon account, please participate in this survey. It doesn't take long (about 15 minutes), it's actually quite fun and you might learn some new things. Please click on the following link for the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/66VMGZ5 Your participation is voluntary, and you can stop the survey at any time by closing your browser window. Your answers will be stored anonymously and used for research purposes only. Many thanks in advance and enjoy your Christmas holidays. Best, Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany) Nava Tintarev (University of Aberdeen, UK) -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Eelco Herder 2011-12-19T11:35:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5185 <pre>(Apologies if you receive more than one of these.) Some of you did a card sort for me a couple of months back. The results have been used in an article that is currently with the editor, so hopefully it will be available early next year. In the meantime, I have another project on the same lines (fruit and vegetables) but it's a little bit longer. It should still only take between 10 and 15 minutes. Also, for reasons I cannot go into just yet, there are some very specific instructions (these are repeated on the web site): 1. If you were born in an ODD year, create a group called Green Vegetables. DO NOT create a group called Salad Vegetables or similar. Then follow the remaining instructions starting at 3, below. 2. If you were born in an EVEN year, create a group called Salad Vegetables. DO NOT create a group called Green Vegetables or similar. Then follow the remaining instructions starting at 3, below. 3. All groups (from steps 1 or 2 above and the others you are free to create) should have between 2 and 6 items. 4. No groups should be given Latin names - so avoid brassicas, alliums and so on. 5. No groups should be personal - so no 'I don't like these', 'I grow these at home', 'Yuck' (this is a real group name from a previous study!) I will choose an email address at random from the results, so make sure your email address is correct. It will not be used for any other purpose. If your address is drawn and you have followed the instructions above you have won the draw. I will contact you to see what country you would like your gift voucher for. The URL for the card sort project is http://bit.ly/vMQkwW It will be open until Friday 16 December. Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd User Experience Strategist UK 01235-522859 World +44-1235-522859 US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM mailto:william.hudson&lt; at &gt;syntagm.co.uk http://www.syntagm.co.uk skype:williamhudsonskype twitter:SyntagmUCD Syntagm is a limited company registered in England and Wales (1985). Registered number: 1895345. Registered office: 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon OX14 2DS. UX and UCD courses in London and Brussels www.syntagm.co.uk/design/schedule.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Postings must be in plain text CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> William Hudson 2011-12-08T10:26:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5184 <pre>Dear Gamer, I would like to invite you to participate in our anonymous survey about video games and their attributes. This survey is part of a research study hosted at DePaul University to determine a framework for video games intrapersonal attributes. This is a follow up survey from a previous one done two months ago. The attributes we are most concerned with are challenge, control and goals. This survey in particular would help us map those attributes to different game genres. Please only respond if you are at least 18 years old and an experienced video games player. The survey is only 30 multiple choice questions so we appreciate your participation and effort. At any point during or before the survey, you can close it and your answers will not get recorded. Also, you are not liable to answer any personal information because this is an anonymous survey. If you would like to respond to the survey, please go here: http://www.surveyshare.com/s/AQA2JVB Thank you for your time. &lt;Please forgive the cross-posting&gt; - Ali A. Alkhafaji Senior Software Engineer Infor Global Solutions Ali.Alkhafaji&lt; at &gt;infor.com Ali.A.Alkhafaji&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Mobile: (312) 731-9628 Office : (312) 474-7230 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original. -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Quote only what you need from earlier postings CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Ali A. Alkhafaji 2011-12-03T22:51:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5183 <pre>Dear all, In The Netherlands, at the Design for Usability project, we are developing a User Centred Design Method Exploration Tool &lt;http://www.uselog.com/2011/11/realizing-ucd-method-exploration-tool.html&gt; . This tool is an online platform where user-centered design professionals can explore and compare UCD methods in a fast an visual way. Detailed information about each method is available, aimed at the execution of the method. The current state is that we have several prototypes, visualizing parts of the interaction that we are looking for, of which some can be seen through the link above. The design is mature to the extent that we can actually start implementing, but we need funding for that. I am sending you this e-mail because the UCD Method Exploration Tool is one of the 24 nominees for TU Delft's Innovation Award &lt;http://tudelft.nl/en/cooperation/innovation-tu-delft/&gt; , and to get to into the final round of this competition it needs your vote &lt;http://enquete.tudelft.nl/nq.cfm?q=3acb7f5c-1a4b-d1cb-500d-3a3c1c0a8696&gt; (nr. 21, bottom of page). With the prize, we will be able to partly finance the project. So, if you like the idea, please vote :-) And help us to get more votes by spreading the word! Twitter, blog, email, but get as many UCD professionals as possible to help us! When you do so, you could refer to the blog post about the tool on Jasper van Kuijk's &lt;http://www.uselog.com/2011/11/realizing-ucd-method-exploration-tool.html&gt; website. We're also on the lookout for experienced practitioners and academics who would like to get involved in this project, for example by reviewing prototypes or contributing and evaluating method descriptions. And - as is probably clear - please also contact us if you have advice on how we could fund our project. Thank you in advance, Tristan Weevers (Tu Delft, the Netherlands) -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Postings must be in plain text CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Tristan Weevers User Centered Design 2011-12-02T09:52:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5182 <pre>Dear Sir/Madam, I hope you are doing well. I am currently researching user experience for e-Commerce websites. I have developed a survey related to IKEA's website and would like to invite you to take part in it. All data will be processed anonymously and remain completely confidential. As the data are critical for me to proceed to the next phase of my research work, your prompt responses to the survey will be urgently needed and highly appreciated. The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and can be found below: http://www.kesfedici.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=98921&amp;lang=en There will be a prize of 'USD $50' Amazon Voucher for the WINNING participant. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me. Thank you very much for your kind attention and consideration of my request. Regards, Al Sokkar *** This unpaid research is conducted completely independent from the IKEA Ltd *** -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Al Sokkar, Abdullah A.M. 2011-12-01T20:27:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5181 <pre>Hello - Thanks to the people who responded to my request yesterday for a consultant who has worked with 508 compliance as it relates to the elderly population. I have forwarded your messages to my friend who has this need. Here are the referrals folks sent: From: Heather Hedden [mailto:hedden.heather&lt; at &gt;gmail.com] On Behalf Of Heather Hedden Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:44 AM To: Kay Corry Aubrey Subject: Re: seeking referral for usability person with expertise in 508 compliance for elderly Hi Kay, PJ Gardner does, or at least know who does. &lt;mailto:pjgardner&lt; at &gt;gidi.biz&gt; pjgardner&lt; at &gt;gidi.biz See also: &lt;http://www.boston-ia.org/&gt; http://www.boston-ia.org/ </pre> Kay Corry Aubrey 2011-11-10T15:57:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5180 <pre>Call for participation Dear all, We are researching the interoperation of software development and software localization with regards to its impact on effort and quality in actual software products. Among others, we're looking at how different roles shape the localization of a product. For example, what preconceptions and competences do UI experts bring to software localisation? To this end, we're looking for participants willing to complete a 20 minute survey. Participants should have worked on international/localised software in an active role, e.g. software engineers, user interface designers, project managers, translators etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to distribute this call for participation. The survey can be found at this link: http://samsa.uwl.ac.uk/locdevsurvey/survey.html If you have questions, comments or feedback, please feel free to contact us at locdevresearch&lt; at &gt;uwl.ac.uk. Thank you very much, yours Malte Ressin -------------------------- ---- Malte Ressin Research Student, Centre for Internationalisation and Usability, Room TC357 University of West London, St Mary's Road, Ealing - London W5 5RF profile: http://www.research.uwl.ac.uk/staffprofiles/view_profile.aspx?email=Malte.Ressin&lt; at &gt;uwl.ac.uk ________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Use the archives to research common questions CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 2011-11-10T14:11:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5179 <pre>Hi - Can anyone on the list please recommend a usability consultant who has expertise in 508 compliance for the elderly? Please send me their name and contact info. Thanks, Kay Kay Corry Aubrey, user-centered research and design Usability Resources Inc | &lt;http://www.UsabilityResources.net&gt; www.UsabilityResources.net | &lt;mailto:Kay&lt; at &gt;UsabilityResources.net&gt; Kay&lt; at &gt;UsabilityResources.net LinkedIn profile - &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaycorryaubrey&gt; http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaycorryaubrey Phone: 781-275-3020 | Fax: 1-781-998-0325 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Quote only what you need from earlier postings CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Kay Corry Aubrey 2011-11-09T14:58:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5178 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Apologies for cross-posting - Please forward to your students/colleagues, who might consider participating ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 2ND WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-AWARENESS IN RETRIEVAL AND RECOMMENDATION (CARR 2012) in conjunction with IUI 2012 February 14, 2012 - Lisbon, Portugal http://carr-workshop.org General Information: -------------------- Following the successful 2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation we are delighted to invite you to the second installment which will be held in conjunction with the 2012 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Context-aware information is widely available in various ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices, annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining them ad-hoc. Further relevant issues are personalizing and adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the user’s current situation (device, location) and interests. In this workshop we focus on the integration of context for retrieval and recommendation. We recognize a general content context and a user-centric content context. A general content context is a common case defined by time, weather, location and many similar other aspects. A user-centric content context is given by the content of user profiles such as language, interests, devices used for interaction, etc. Call for Papers: ---------------- The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to handle context-awareness. Furthermore, the workshop aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other HCI, machine learning, information retrieval and recommendation. The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and synergies. The participants are encouraged to address the following questions: * Which benefits come from context-aware retrieval and recommendation systems? * How do user interfaces handle context? * In what ways can context improve HCI? * How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware technologies? * How should context affect the way information is presented? * Which new means for collecting user feedback does UbiComp provide? * What new type of items (beyond books, news and movies) are worth recommending by means of context-aware systems (e.g. places, friends, apps)? The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects: * Context-aware information retrieval * Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering * Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning * Ubiquitous and context-aware computing * Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI * Context-aware advertising * Recommendations for mobile users * Context-awareness in portable devices Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically through the CaRR page in EasyChair (which will be made available at a later point in time). Important Dates: -------------------------- * Paper submission: December 23rd, 2011 * Notification: January 20th, 2012 * Camera-ready submission: January 27th, 2012 * Workshop: February 14th, 2012 Organizers and Committees: -------------------------- General Chairs (info&lt; at &gt;carr-workshop.org): * Ernesto William De Luca - DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin * Matthias Böhmer - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) * Alan Said - DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin * Ed Chi - Google Inc. Program Committee (to be extended): * Omar Alonso - Microsoft, USA * Tim Hussein - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Linas Baltrunas - Telefonica Research, Spain * Shlomo Berkovsky - CSIRO, Australia * Toine Bogers - Royal School of Library Information Science, Denmark * Li Chen - Hong Kong Baptist University, China * Karen Church - Telefonica Research, Spain * Marco Degemmis - University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy * Ido Guy - IBM, Israel * Brijnesh-Johannes Jain - TU-Berlin, Germany * Dietmar Jannach - TU-Dortmund, Germany * Alexandros Karatzoglou - Telefonica Research, Spain * Carsten Kessler - University of Münster, Germany * Antonio Krüger - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany * Michael Kruppa - DFKI, Berlin, Germany * Martha Larson - TU-Delft, The Netherlands * Ulf Leser - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany * Pasquale Lops - University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy * Petteri Nurmi - HIIT, Finnland * Till Plumbaum - DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany * Francesco Ricci - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Markus Schedl - Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Armando Stellato - University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy </pre> Matthias Böhmer 2011-11-04T21:19:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5177 <pre>+++ sorry for cross postings +++ Dear UX fellow, an UX market impact survey has been launched. The purpose of the survey is to understand better applied user experience practices in the product development industry. The survey is targeted for people in an UX leadership position or another leadership position, overlooking user experience activities. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey. Here is the URL: http://UXImpactPDO2011.questionpro.com The survey is based on UX industry insights which are going to be published in the book Helmut Degen, Xiaowei Yuan (eds.): How to achieve more impact with user experience (McGraw-Hill)&lt;http://www.amazon.com/Best-Practices-Achieve-Impact-Experience/dp/007175251X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318870287&amp;sr=8-1&gt;. The book contains eleven case studies of how user experience practices are applied successfully in the industry with a proven product or business impact. The case studies are from companies in the United States, China, and Europe. If you have any questions, please contact me. Kind regards -Helmut ... Helmut Degen 609 933 0651 helmut&lt; at &gt;degen.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Use the archives to research common questions CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Helmut Degen 2011-10-17T16:59:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chi-web/5176 <pre>I would love to hear what you think about mobile platforms, app stores, mobile analytics, and the challenges of mobile application development. I’m a Senior Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, which provides research and advice to over 23,000 IT leaders, including C-level execs at companies like Adobe, RIM, Microsoft, and FedEx. We are launching a global study on mobile app dev and are interviewing a small group of developers to get things started. If you’re a mobile developer or development manager, we would love to talk to you. If you participate in the research, you will have a chance to express your views to some important technology leaders and gain exposure to a large group of potential clients. You’ll also receive an exclusive pre-publication copy of the report, available only to those who are interviewed. It will provide valuable insight into what your peers are doing in the rapidly changing mobile space. To participate, you simply need to have a phone conversation with us that will last about 45 minutes. There are a limited number of interview slots available so if you’re interested in participating, message or email me directly (hkiewe &lt;at&gt; infotech &lt;dot&gt; com) as soon as possible with the following information: 1) Three convenient dates and times for the interview. We are currently scheduling interviews from now until Friday, Oct 21st, between 05:00 and 22:00 GMT, with a preference for earlier times of day within this range. 2) A phone number we can reach you on for the interview. 3) Your time zone. I look forward to hearing from you soon, Howard Kiewe ------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Research Analyst Info-Tech Research Group 43 Front Street East Toronto On. Canada M5E 1B3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Email mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org with any comments, questions or problems CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/resources/web/faq.html MODERATOR: mailto:chi-web-request&lt; at &gt;acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> Howard Kiewe 2011-10-07T06:47:10 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.web.chi-web