Call for Papers
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The 2008 Workshop on
Emotion in HCI
- Designing for People -
to be held at the
HCI 2008 conference
Liverpool
John Moores University
2nd September 2008
http://www.emotion-in-hci.net/workshopHCI2008/
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Deadline: 03 July
Emotion plays an important role in our interactions with people and
computers in everyday life. Emotions, some believe, are what make
our interactions human. An increasing number of conferences,
symposia, workshops, journals and books address the subject of
emotions and their role in Human-Computer Interaction, including
workshops at the last three HCI conferences.
This recent affective awareness is leading designers and HCI
researchers to try and understand the subtleties of emotion and its
effect on our behaviours. This is encouraging for a young field of
research, and there exists many exciting directions where this field
may be expanded. The specific areas of interest span recognition and
synthesis of emotion in face and body, emotion sensors, speech
specifics, and the influence of emotion on information processing
and decision-making, interaction metaphors, design aspects, and many
more. Despite these different areas of interest, there are common
obstacles each of us face in our work.
TOPICS AND THEMES
With this year's conference having the theme "Culture, Creativity,
Interaction", we would like to encourage contributions which take
particular account on cultural aspects in HCI related emotion
research, and on effects of affect and emotion on creativity. Hence,
the following list of specific and more general topics is non-exclusive:
* How do emotions relate to culture, creativity and interaction?
* How do emotions relate to hot topics in HCI such as engagement,
motivation, and well-being?
* Are there reliable and replicable processes to include emotion
in HCI design projects?
* Which ethical issues arise and how to address these?
* How do applications currently make use of emotions?
* What makes applications that support affective interactions
successful, how do we know, and how can we measure this success?
* What value might affective applications, affective systems,
and affective interaction have?
* What technology is currently available for sensing affective
states, and how reliable are they?
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop will meet the requirements of individuals working in
the different fields affected by emotion, giving them a podium to
raise their questions and work with like-minded people of various
disciplines on common subjects. It will use predominantly small
group work, rather than being presentation-based and will be
focussed on selected topics based on the contributions. As with
previous workshops, which resulted in a Springer book publication,
this interactive and focused workshop is designed to produce
tangible and citable outcomes.
PARTICIPATE NOW
To become part of this discussion please submit an extended abstract
of your ideas or demo description. Case studies describing current
applications or prototypes are strongly encouraged, as well as
presentations of products or prototypes that you have developed.
The abstract should be limited to about 800 words. Submission
instructions and a template are available on the workshop website:
http://www.emotion-in-hci.net/workshopHCI2008/
Accepted contributions will be published on the workshop's homepage
with the possibility to extend them to short or full papers of 4 or
8 pages, resp.
Please note that registration to the HCI conference is required in
order to take part in the workshop (at least for the day of the
workshop). Early bird registration deadline is 1 August.
Dates:
03 July - position paper deadline
23 July - notification of acceptance
01 August - early registration deadline
02 September - workshop
For a more detailed description of the workshop visit the workshop's
web site:
http://www.emotion-in-hci.net/workshopHCI2008/
Submit your position paper/demo description (800 words) to
submissions at emotion-in-hci.net
For inquiries please contact the organisers:
cpeter at igd-r.fraunhofer.de
bcrane at umich.edu
m.fabri at leedsmet.ac.uk
harry.agius at brunel.ac.uk
l.axelrod at sussex.ac.uk
The conference web site with registration information is
http://www.hci2008.org
Workshop committee:
Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Elizabeth Crane, University of Michigan, USA
Marc Fabri, Leeds Met University, UK
Harry Agius, Brunel University, UK
Lesley Axelrod, Interact Lab, UK
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Christian Peter
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock
Human-Centered Interaction Technologies
Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Phone: +49 381 4024-122, Fax: +49 381 4024-199
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