Brisbane’s GreenHeart Fair

On Sunday 8 November 2009, CitySmart will host GreenHeart Fair at Mt Gravatt Showgrounds.

The event will include:

• FREE activities for the whole family
• Sustainable-living exhibits, presentations and workshops
• Live performance by Troy Cassar-Daley
• Children’s entertainment and activities
• Delicious, healthy local and international food and drink
• Free native plants for your garden provided by Brisbane City Council
• Free book swap and competitions with great prizes to be won

The fair will run from 10am-3pm at the Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, 1644 Logan Rd, Mt Gravatt.

For further information, visit the website link below:
http://www.citysmart.com.au/02_cal/details.asp?ID=4

Call for Participation

Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture

Full day workshop at OZCHI 2009
24 Nov 2009, The University of Melbourne

http://food.urbaninformatics.net/events/ozchi2009/
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/HUNGRY247
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128413300549

This workshop proposes to explore new approaches to cultivate and support sustainable food culture in urban environments via human computer interaction design and ubiquitous technologies.

Food is a challenging issue in urban contexts: while food consumption decisions are made many times a day, most food interaction for urbanites occurs based on convenience and habitual practices. This situation is contrasting to the fact that food is at the centre of global environment, health, and social issues that are becoming increasingly immanent and imminent. As such, it is timely and crucial to ask: what are feasible, effective, and innovative ways to improve human-food-interaction through human-computer-interaction in order to contribute to environmental, health, and social sustainability in urban environments?

This workshop is an open and active forum for forward- thinking practitioners and scholars across disciplines to discuss this question, and plan and promote individual, local, and global change for sustainable food culture.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WORKING IN FOOD HCI RESEARCH.
YOU DO NEED TO BE HUNGRY (for networking, knowledge, creativity, fun, and of course, food!)

We suggest, but do not limit to, three broad topics of interests for
this workshop:

- Participatory networks
- Research and design methods
- Deployability and interoperability

We kindly ask prospective participants to submit a short position
statement (300-500 words) or abstract by 20th September 2009. Please
send all submissions and queries to Jaz Choi at h.choi@qut.edu.au.
Acceptance notification will be sent by 27th September 2009.

We’re happily extending the submission deadline for our workshop,
Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture at OZCHI 2009,
till October 5, 2009. We plan to dedicate the following day to review
all the submissions and respond so that you will have a day to take
the early bird offer.

If you’re interested to attend, please submit a short position
statement (300-500 words) or abstract by Oct 5, 2009. And please
encourage your colleagues who may be interested in the topic. More
details below.

cheers,
jaz, greg, marcus, eli, and tad.

Important Dates:
- 05 Oct 2009: Submission of position statements
- 06 Oct 2009: Notification of acceptance
- 24 Nov 2009: Workshop

Organisers:
- Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Greg Hearn (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Eli Blevis (Indiana University, USA)
- Tad Hirsch (Intel, USA)

14/08/2009 Interview with Linda Carroli

Interview with Linda Carroli who is a writer, editor, researcher and consultant, investigating the areas of art, science, technology and urbanism. The interview discusses Linda’s move from journalism to urban planning. Furthermore, it explores the Placing Project and Linda’s thoughts on making urban planning more engaging for society.

02/07/2009 Interview with Joanne Jakovich.

Interview with Joanne Jakovich who is an interactive architect and researcher at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). This interview discusses Joanne’s time spent in Japan, her research projects, Joanne’s thoughts on architecture and technology, and her involvement with the Urban Islands projects on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island.

Street Computing workshop at OZCHI 2009
Tue 24th Nov 2009, Melbourne

The Street Computing workshop, held in conjunction with OZCHI 2009, solicits papers discussing new research directions, early research results, works-in-progress and critical surveys of prior research work in the areas of ubiquitous computing and interaction design for urban environments.

Urban spaces have unique characteristics. Typically, they are densely populated, buzzing with life twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. These traits afford many opportunities, but they also present many challenges: traffic jams, smog and pollution, stress placed on public services, and more. Computing technology, particularly the kind that can be placed in the hands of citizens, holds much promise in combating some of these challenges. Yet, computation is not merely a tool for overcoming challenges; rather, when embedded appropriately in our everyday lives, it becomes a tool of opportunity, for shaping how our cities evolve, for enabling us to interact with our city and its people in new ways, and for uncovering useful, but hidden relationships and correlations between elements of the city.

The increasing availability of an urban computing infrastructure has lead to new and exciting ways inhabitants can interact with their city. This includes interaction with a wide range of services (e.g. public transport, public services), conceptual representations of the city (e.g. local weather and traffic conditions), the availability of a variety of shared and personal displays (e.g. public, ambient, mobile) and the use of different interaction modes (e.g. tangible, gesture-based, token-based).

This workshop solicits papers that address the above themes in some way. We encourage researchers to submit work that deals with challenges and possibilities that the availability of urban computing infrastructure such as sensors and middleware for sensor networks pose. This includes new and innovative ways of interacting with and within urban
environments; user experience design and participatory design approaches for urban environments; social aspects of
urban computing; and other related areas.

TOPICS

This workshop encompasses a broad range of research disciplines. The possible topics for discussion at this workshop are therefore also wide-ranging, and include:

• Ubiquitous computing for urban environments
• People as sensors/ad hoc infrastructure
• Large-scale social interfaces
• User experience and interaction design for the city (e.g., gesturing in the large)
• New and innovative urban interfaces
• Discovering urban computing components
• Urban “mashups”
• Designing for participation on an urban scale
• Development and engineering practices for urban computing
• Design methodologies for urban computing
• Privacy and Policy

WORKSHOP GOALS

Urban computing research draws on fundamental research from disparate fields: HCI, ubiquitous computing, distributed computing, sociology and many others. It is, perhaps, at the cross-section of these fields that the most interesting opportunities for urban computing research lay. The goal of this workshop is to examine the technical developments and social practices within the sphere of “street computing” and identify the really important areas of future research.

Our goals can be summarised as follows:

1. Inspiring presentations. The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to inspire, garner feedback
and grow ideas through their presentations.
2. Vibrant open discussion. All workshop participants will engage in an open discussion during which they may draw links between the presented papers, propose directions for future research, suggest non-directions for future research.
3. Identification of research areas. At the end of the day, we will assimilate the workshop findings into a set of
important research questions that we agree must be addressed as a priority.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The authors of each accepted paper will be allocated time to present their work to the workshop participants. The
duration of each presentation will be decided at a later date. Depending on the number of submissions we receive, it may run for either half a day or a full day. After the presentations, time will be set aside for an open discussion of the particular characteristics of urban environments that make them challenging and interesting from a HCI perspective as well as relevant to urban citizens and urban living. Through this discussion, we will map out a considered and cogent set of research challenges that we can all use both to inform our individual research agendas and to identify potential collaborations. At the conclusion of the day, the Telstra Most Interesting paper award will be announced by the workshop organisers. The prize is a Nokia E51 phone, sponsored by Telstra.

SUBMISSION

The workshop will accept extended abstracts (1-2 pages) for peer review. These abstracts should be submitted to Ricky.Robinson [AT] nicta.com.au on or before 25 September 2009. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to prepare a six-page paper in OZCHI format (http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/ozchipaper_template2009.doc) and a 20 minute presentation. At least one author of the accepted paper must register for the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

• 25 Sep 2009 – Extended abstracts due
• 05 Oct 2009 – Notification of acceptance
• 07 Oct 2009 – OZCHI Early Bird Registration closes
• 06 Nov 2009 – Camera ready full paper due
• 24 Nov 2009 – Street Workshop

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Ricky Robinson (NICTA)
Markus Rittenbruch (NICTA)
Margot Brereton (QUT)
Stephen Viller (UQ)
Marcus Foth (QUT)

OZCHI 2009 – Design: Open 24 | 7

21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA)

23 – 27 November 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ozchi.org/

CALLING: Short Papers | Industry Case Studies | Demos & Posters | Doctoral Consortium Applications | Workshop and Tutorial Participation | 24 Hour Design Challenge Entries | Student Volunteers

NEWS

.. Submission deadline extended to 4 Sep 2009
.. Keynote speakers’ names, bios, photos online
.. Two full days of workshops and tutorials on 23 + 24 Nov
.. 24 days from now until the online challenge starts: ozchi.org/24

IMPORTANT DATES
(short papers, industry case studies, demos & posters, and doctoral consortium only)

04 Sep 2009 EXTENDED submission deadline
02 Oct 2009 Notification of acceptance
09 Oct 2009 Camera ready papers due

CONFERENCE THEME

The 2009 conference theme is Design: Open 24/7. Accessibility, inclusivity and dissolving boundaries are core to the Open 24/7 theme for the design of human interaction with and through digital technologies. The integration of digital technologies into our everyday life allows for a seamless transitioning between open and closed, work and leisure, public and private. Open implies participation and collaboration across traditional borders between individuals, organisations and disciplines. OZCHI 2009 provides a forum to discuss all aspects of openness, open borders, open participation, open source and open architecture. Theme-related submissions may address these topics:

.. Open always-on real-time ubiquitous and pervasive designs
.. Open design and universality versus situatedness, contextualisation and personalisation
.. Open source for design – design for open source
.. Open mind – new ideas, concepts and approaches from outside HCI
.. Beyond open – never closed: design for escapism

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Submissions in all areas of HCI are encouraged. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics: Augmented Reality | Context and Location Awareness | Education and HCI | Health Care and HCI | Innovative Design Methodologies | Smart Service Delivery | Sustainability | Universal Usability and Accessibility | Urban Informatics | Tangible User Interfaces | Visualisation Techniques | Working across Cultures

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions must be written in English. Both long and short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. Accepted long papers and short papers will be available in the published proceedings. At least one author of any accepted submission must register and attend the conference and present the paper for publication in the proceedings. All submissions must use the two column OZCHI proceedings template: http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/ozchipaper_template2009.doc and be submitted to the conference submission site: http://precisionconference.com/~ozchi

Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University, Denmark & Jeni Paay, CSIRO
Technical Program Chairs
program@ozchi.org

SHORT PAPERS

Short length papers, up to 4 pages, should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.

Stephen Viller, UQ & Rebecca Schultz, WorkSafe Victoria
Short Papers Chairs
shorts@ozchi.org

INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES

Industry Case Studies demonstrate how user experience professionals have applied human-computer interaction to create practical solutions to commercial situations. Presentations may include areas such as: challenges faced in implementing methods and techniques; development of new or improved techniques; or incorporating usability into an organisation. Submissions should contain:

1. A 250 word summary for the conference program including: the issue addressed; what will be presented; and relevance to the HCI community.
2. A proposal outlining the presentation and the rationale behind it, including:
◦ Session title
◦ Presenter(s) name and organisation
◦ A brief background of the presenter(s) and organisation
◦ The business problem addressed
◦ The approach and/or solution
◦ Challenges and issues that emerged throughout the project
◦ Benefits and limitations
◦ If applicable, how a similar approach or solution could be used in other contexts
◦ Relevance of the case study to other HCI professionals
◦ Technical requirements for delivering the presentation

Submit Industry Case Studies by email to: industry@ozchi.org

Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting & Shane Morris, Microsoft
Industry Chairs
industry@ozchi.org

DEMOS & POSTERS

Demonstrations and posters provide an attractive way to showcase real outcomes of human-computer interaction research and development. These sessions offer a platform to share ideas, concepts and work-in-progress face-to-face with the OZCHI community in a way that a paper presentation cannot. Proposals for demos and posters should be submitted on 2 pages using the OZCHI proceedings template, and sent to demos@ozchi.org

Ben Kraal, QUT & Ricky Robinson, NICTA
Demos & Posters Chairs
demos@ozchi.org

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 23 Nov 2009. The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a 2 page research proposal following the OZCHI Proceedings template and submitted via email to dc@ozchi.org. Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals.

Margot Brereton, QUT
Doctoral Consortium Chair
dc@ozchi.org

24 HOUR DESIGN CHALLENGE

This year OZCHI will be preceded by a student design challenge in two rounds organised as two 24 hour events. The first round takes place online on 12 September 2009, 8am (AEST). The second round will be held at OZCHI on 24 November 2009. In both rounds teams of 2-5 students are invited to develop a solution for a state-of-the-art research problem acquiring interaction design and HCI skills. Top entries will be awarded a travel scholarship for the conference (round 1) and prizes sponsored by our industry partners (round 2). For more information visit http://www.ozchi.org/24

Martin Tomitsch, Andrew Vande Moere, The University of Sydney & Jeremy Yuille, RMIT/ACID
Student Design Challenge Chairs
sdc@ozchi.org

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Monday 23rd Nov 2009
User Requirements Gathering (tutorial)
OZeWAI Web Accessibility (workshop – day 1 of 2)
OZCHI Doctoral Consortium

Tuesday 24th Nov
Web accessibility (tutorial)
OZeWAI Inclusive Information Society (workshop – day 2 of 2)
Designing for Healthy Living (workshop)
Smart Health ’09 (workshop)
Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture (workshop)
Multi-channel Content Presentation (workshop)
Evaluating Virtual Worlds (workshop)
Street Computing (workshop)
OZCHI 24 Hour Student Design Challenge

Please refer to the individual workshop and tutorial pages for further details:
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/WORKSHOPS

Lian Loke & Toni Robertson, UTS
Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Chairs
workshops@ozchi.org

VOLUNTEERS
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/VOLUNTEERS

OZCHI actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the HCI community, meet other students in the field, and attend the premier HCI conference Australia. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in HCI, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email volunteers@ozchi.org with your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a resume, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 28 Aug 2009.

Hilary Davis, University of Melbourne & Debra Polson, QUT/ACID
Volunteers Chairs
volunteers@ozchi.org

KEYNOTES
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/KEYNOTES

.. Bill Moggridge, Co-founder of IDEO.com
.. Patrick Hofmann, Head of User Experience, Google Australia
.. Yvonne Rogers, Director, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Open University, UK

See you in Melbourne!

Marcus Foth, QUT
Conference Chair
chair@ozchi.org

16/03/2009 Interview with Helen Klaebe.

Interview with Dr Helen Klaebe, Senior Research Fellow at the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. This interview discusses digital story telling, urban history and its connection with urban informatics and Dr Klaebe’s involvement in the Kelvin Grove Urban Village.

The submission deadline for OZCHI 2009 long papers and workshop & tutorial proposals has been extended until 19 June 2009.

Paper submission site now open at: http://precisionconference.com/~ozchi

Full Call for Papers at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=55106281013
and http://www.ozchi.org/

Hope to see you all in Melbourne in November
Best Regards,
marcus
Heathrow airport

21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA)

23 – 27 November 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia

http://www.ozchi.org/

Paper submission site now open: http://precisionconference.com/~ozchi

OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, and social scientists.

The main conference will be from Wed 25 to Fri 27 Nov 2009, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on Mon 23 and Tue 24 Nov 2009.OZCHI will take place back-to-back with HFESA 2009: http://www.hfesaconference.org.au/ scheduled to run from 22-25 Nov 2009. The venue for both conferences is the ICT building of the University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St, Parkville.

We are very excited to announce the following keynote speakers for this year’s OZCHI conference:

• Bill Moggridge, Co-founder of IDEO.com
• Patrick Hofmann, Head of User Experience, Google Australia
• Yvonne Rogers, Director, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Open University, UK

We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Australia’s design capital.

Marcus Foth, QUT
Conference Chair
chair@ozchi.org

Important Dates

Long papers, and workshop & tutorial proposals
19 Jun 2009: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE
14 Aug 2009: Notification of acceptance
28 Aug 2009: Camera ready papers deadline

Short papers, industry case studies, demos & posters, workshop papers, and doctoral consortium
28 Aug 2009: Submission deadline
25 Sep 2009: Notification of acceptance
02 Oct 2009: Camera ready papers deadline

Conference Theme

The 2009 conference theme is Design: Open 24/7. Accessibility, inclusivity and dissolving boundaries are core to the Open 24/7 theme for the design of human interaction with and through digital technologies. The integration of digital technologies into our everyday life allows for a seamless transitioning between open and closed, work and leisure, public and private. Open implies participation and collaboration across traditional borders between individuals, organisations and disciplines. OZCHI 2009 provides a forum to discuss all aspects of openness, open borders, open participation, open source and open architecture. Theme-related submissions may address these topics:

• Open always-on real-time ubiquitous and pervasive designs
• Open design and universality versus situatedness, contextualisation and personalisation
• Open source for design – design for open source
• Open mind – new ideas, concepts and approaches from outside HCI
• Beyond open – never closed: design for escapism

Conference Topics

Submissions in all areas of HCI are encouraged. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics:

• Augmented Reality
• Context and Location Awareness
• Education and HCI
• Health Care and HCI
• Innovative Design Methodologies
• Smart Service Delivery
• Sustainability
• Universal Usability and Accessibility
• Urban Informatics
• Tangible User Interfaces
• Visualisation Techniques
• Working across Cultures

Submissions

Submissions for long papers now open: Long Paper Submission

All submissions must be written in English. Both long and short papers will undergo a double blind review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. Accepted long papers and short papers will be available in the published proceedings. At least one author of any accepted submission must register and attend the conference and present the paper for publication in the proceedings. All submissions must use the two column OZCHI proceedings template: http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/ozchipaper_template2009.doc

Long Papers

Full length papers, up to 8 pages, on original and substantive new work in any area of HCI are invited. Long papers should describe work that makes a significant contribution to HCI or describe broad insights gained from practical applications of HCI.

Jesper Kjeldskov & Jeni Paay, CSIRO User Experience Group
Technical Program Chairs
program@ozchi.org

Short Papers

Short length papers, up to 4 pages, should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.

Stephen Viller, UQ & Rebecca Schultz, WorkSafe Victoria
Short Papers Chairs
shorts@ozchi.org

Industry Case Studies

Industry Case Studies demonstrate how user experience professionals have applied human-computer interaction to create practical solutions to commercial situations. Presentations may include areas such as: challenges faced in implementing methods and techniques; development of new or improved techniques; or incorporating usability into an organisation. Submissions should contain:

1. A 250 word summary for the conference program including: the issue addressed; what will be presented; and relevance to the HCI community.
2. A proposal outlining the presentation and the rationale behind it, including:
   • Session title
   • Presenter(s) name and organisation
   • A brief background of the presenter(s) and organisation
   • The business problem addressed
   • The approach and/or solution
   • Challenges and issues that emerged throughout the project
   • Benefits and limitations
   • If applicable, how a similar approach or solution could be used in other contexts
   • Relevance of the case study to other HCI professionals
   • Technical requirements for delivering the presentation

Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting & Shane Morris, Microsoft
Industry Chairs
industry@ozchi.org

Demos & Posters

Demonstrations and posters provide an attractive way to showcase real outcomes of human-computer interaction research and development. These sessions offer a platform to share ideas, concepts and work-in-progress face-to-face with the OZCHI community in a way that a paper presentation cannot. Proposals for demos and posters should be submitted on 2 pages using the OZCHI proceedings template.

Ben Kraal, QUT & Ricky Robinson, NICTA
Demos & Posters Chairs
demos@ozchi.org

Workshops & Tutorials

Workshops and tutorials are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 23 and 24 Nov 2009. Proposals (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. A tutorial proposal should provide participants with clear outcomes. The workshop and tutorial program is not included in the main conference fee.

Workshops are a chance for people with common interests to meet for a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in HCI, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. OZCHI workshops might address basic or applied research, HCI practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organisational issues, or HCI education.

Each workshop should generate ideas that give the HCI community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the your workshop proposal.

Tutorials are full day or half day events designed to offer participants the opportunity to learn about specific HCI related concepts, methods and techniques. They are one of the best means of conveying introductory and advanced instruction on specific topics to an interested audience. Tutorials are a significant attraction to delegates and provide exposure in depth and breadth to HCI topics. We welcome both research and industry tutorial submissions. Tutorial submissions (max of 2 pages, OZCHI format) should include a clear list of outcomes for participants.

Lian Loke & Toni Robertson, UTS
Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Chairs
workshops@ozchi.org

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 24 Nov 2009. The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a research proposal in the format given on the OZCHI website. Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals.

Margot Brereton, QUT
Doctoral Consortium Chair
dc@ozchi.org

Volunteers

OZCHI actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the HCI community, meet other students in the field, and attend the premier HCI conference Australia. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in HCI, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email volunteers@ozchi.org with your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a resume, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 28 Aug 2009.

Hilary Davis, University of Melbourne & Debra Polson, QUT/ACID
Volunteers Chairs
volunteers@ozchi.org

Proudly presented by CHISIG – Australia’s Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group.