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Call for Participation 

Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems (Session F4)
at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling & Software (iEMSs 2014) 
San Diego, California, USA
15-19 June 2014

Organizers: 
Daryl H. Hepting, Steven Frysinger, and Markus Wrobel 

Description: 
Environmental Informatics (or enviromatics) is a maturing subject with 
interdisciplinary roots. The application of information and communication technology (ICT) to the 
environment is emerging as one of great importance as the health of our planet gains priority on 
research agendas. Modelling is an important aspect of enviromatics, but it is not the only one. 
In order for all citizens to participate in decision-making, both the collection and utilization of 
environmental data must be democratized. Cloud-based platforms that support visual analytics to 
explore global-scale databases in personally meaningful ways; mobile solutions that allow effective 
participation in citizen science and contribution to international databases; and handheld solutions 
to interacting with local data are some examples that can help to achieve the goal. Underlying the 
larger benefits of enviromatics as a tool for policy decisions is the architecture that enables those 
decision-making processes. To maximize the value of the enviromatics infrastructure, interaction 
design must be an integral part of the architectural plan. From a citizen’s perspective, can ICT help 
with specific decisions and with placement of those decisions in an appropriate context for action? 
We seek to put work on interaction design and human computer interaction into the context of 
enviromatics, with the goal of understanding how to draw on and apply existing knowledge to 
enviromatics so that efforts are focused on refinement and adaptation instead of 
reinvention. Topics include, but are not limited to: usability analyses; decision psychology; task 
analyses (including, for example, decision support); validation of ICT tools; human-computer 
interface design; and human performance evaluation. In each of these, we encourage consideration 
of various platforms, from mobile smartphones to the cloud.

Abstracts may be submitted for either oral or poster presentation. Accepted submissions for oral 
presentation will be followed by a request for a six-page journal-quality technical research paper 
that will be refereed and peer-reviewed by session organizers and ultimately published in the 
conference proceedings. To submit your abstract, please visit the conference web site:

www.iemss.org/iemss2014

Please submit abstracts by 31 December 2013.

iEMSs 2014 is the official biennial conference of the International Environmental Modelling & Software 
Society, sponsors of the high impact journal, Environmental Modelling & Software. iEMSs 2014 is 
co-sponsored by The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI), 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the host organizations, Brigham Young 
University and Berkeley Lab. The theme for the conference is “Bold Visions for Environmental Modelling” 
and we hope to see a lot of exciting new and “bold” visions presented at this meeting. The conference 
is organized around a series of themes, streams, and sessions. 

Key streams include:
* Cyberinfrastructure and Cloud Computing for Environmental Modelling
* Integrated Environmental Modelling
* Climate Change Modelling
* Environmental Modelling Uncertainty Issues
* GIS and Visualization
* Environmental Modelling for Health and Human Issues
* Software and Model Design
* Data Mining and Algorithms for Environmental Modelling
* Applications of Environmental Modelling

If you have questions about the session, please contact Daryl Hepting ([log in to unmask]).
If you have questions about the conference, please contact the conference convenors, 
Dr. Dan Ames and Dr. Nigel Quinn ([log in to unmask]).

Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor  * Department of Computer Science * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
[log in to unmask]    * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210  * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312

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