CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
IUI 2005
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
9-12 January 2005, San Diego, California
http://www.iuiconf.org/
IUI 2005 will be the major conference of the year 2005 in
the area of intelligent user interfaces.
If you might be interested in organizing a workshop or in
presenting a tutorial, please read the relevant call
below. (To skip straight to the tutorial call, search for
the word "tutorial".)
The submission deadline for both types of proposal is:
Monday, 16 August 2004.
CALL FOR IUI 2005 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal forum
where practitioners and researchers can discuss their
current work and issues of common interest. The formats of
the workshops will be determined by their organizers, who
are encouraged to foster discussion and exchange of ideas by
including mechanisms other than traditional paper
presentations.
Workshops can focus on the principles of intelligent
interfaces and their applications in the field of
human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence,
including methodologies, applications, and evaluation. They
can also focus on tools, design environments, and related
infrastructure that assist designers and developers in the
user interface development life cycle. Workshops are
intended to last a half day or a full day. They will be held
on Sunday, 9 January 2005, just before the technical
sessions.
Submission Format
Each proposal should contain the following information:
1. A cover page including:
- Workshop title
- Name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address for
each organizer
- Identification of the primary contact person(s)
2. Background and Motivation:
What is the overall topic of the workshop? Why is this topic
of particular interest at this time? If the workshop has
been organized in the past at an IUI or other conference,
please give details (audience, URL) and describe why it
should be held again and how improvements will be made.
3. Objectives:
What are the objectives that the workshop aims to achieve?
Objectives may include (a) targeting a predefined set of
focus questions, (b) presenting alternate views on a
particular issue that is of concern to the IUI community and
attempting to resolve the issue, (c) identifying priorities
for new directions of research, and/or (d) initiating the
appropriate collaborations.
4. Format:
Give a description of the proposed workshop format,
including the planned activities (such as position
statements, invited talks, panels, demos, and general
discussion), as well as how these activities address the
workshop objectives. Preference will be given to proposals
for activities designed to fuel discussion and interaction
among participants; workshops consisting solely of paper
presentations are discouraged. Provide a preliminary
schedule with estimated times. Design your schedule for a
length of 3 hours (half-day workshop) or 6 hours (full-day
workshop) with a lunch break and one or two coffee breaks,
respectively.
5. Potential Participants:
Indicate how you plan to select participants and
contributions to the workshop. State your estimate of the
number of participants. If possible, give a list of
tentatively confirmed participants.
6. Organizers:
Give short descriptions of each of the organizers'
qualifications related to the workshop topics. Indicate if
you are planning to have a program committee to help with
the organization/review process, and give names and contact
information of PC members, if available.
Organizers' Responsibilities
The organizers of a workshop will be responsible for:
- Producing a one-page abstract for inclusion in the
conference proceedings.
- Producing and distributing a Call for Participation. It
should be made clear that all workshop participants are
required to register for both the IUI conference and for
the workshop.
- Selecting the workshop participants and the contributions
to be included in the workshop.
- Maintaining a web site that contains the materials from
the workshop and links common important dates to the IUI
website to ensure coherence.
- Producing the workshop notes. The notes must be
distributed in printed form to the workshop participants
at the conference site, at or before the beginning of the
workshop. They must also be made available via the
workshop website.
- Scheduling and coordinating the activities of the
workshop.
Schedule
- Monday, 16 August 2004: Submission of proposal
- Monday, 30 August 2004: Notification about acceptance or
rejection
- Monday, 6 September 2004: Submission of call for
participation
- Sunday, 9 January 2005: Workshop
Submission
Proposals should be sent (preferably in electronic form) to
Jihie Kim, IUI 2005 Workshop Chair
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Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: +1 (310) 448-8769
Fax: +1 (310) 823-6714
CALL FOR IUI 2005 TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
The IUI 2005 Program Committee solicits proposals for the
Tutorial Program. Tutorials will be held on Sunday, 9
January 2005, just before the technical sessions of the
conference.
Objectives and Tutorial Types
Tutorials should serve one or more of the following
objectives:
- Introduce novices to major topics concerning intelligent
user interfaces.
- Provide instruction in established practices and
methodologies.
- Survey a mature area of IUI research and/or practice.
- Motivate and explain an IUI topic of emerging importance.
- Introduce IUI experts to an IUI subarea in which they are
not specialists.
Previous IUI tutorials have included:
- Introduction to Intelligent Interfaces
- Designing and Evaluating IUIs
- Intelligent Interface Agents
- Designing User-Adaptive Systems
- Programming by Demonstration
- Animated Pedagogical Agents
Duration
Tutorials may last a half day or a full day. Half-day
tutorials are three hours long (not including breaks).
Full-day tutorials are six hours long (not including
breaks).
Submission Format
Those interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a
proposal to the Tutorial Chair with a maximum length of 5
pages. A tutorial proposal should contain the following
information:
- Title. Title of the tutorial, up to 60 characters.
- Description. A brief description of the tutorial,
suitable for inclusion in the conference registration
brochure, including both a one-sentence and a
one-paragraph description.
- Duration. Duration of your tutorial (half- or full-day).
- Objective. Indicate which of the objectives listed above
are best served by the proposed tutorial.
- Justification. An explanation of why the tutorial topic
would be of interest to a substantial part of the IUI
audience.
- Audience. Characterization of the potential target
audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite
knowledge.
- Outline. A detailed outline of the tutorial, including a
schedule of events with time allocations.
- Instructor Biography. A brief resume of the instructor(s),
which should include name, postal address, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area,
any available example of work in the area (ideally, a
published tutorial-level article or slides on the
subject), evidence of teaching experience (including
references that address the proposer's presentation
ability), and evidence of scholarship in IUI, AI, and/or
HCI (equivalent to a published IUI conference paper, a
UMUAI journal article, or a tutorial syllabus).
- Materials. Describe and provide samples of materials that
will be included in the tutorial notes.
- Multiple Instructors. In cases of multiple instructors,
indicate the role and percentage of involvement of each
instructor.
- Requirements. List any materials needed to run the
tutorial, such as audio/visual needs, supplies for each
participant, and/or limitations on the number of
participants.
Tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field
and should therefore present well-established information in
a balanced way. Tutorials should not advocate a single
avenue of research or promote a product.
If the proposed tutorial has been given previously, the
proposal should include information about where the tutorial
has been given and how it will be modified for IUI 2005. If
the tutorial has been given at a previous IUI conference,
describe how changes to the tutorial will address comments
from previous attendees. Additional materials may be
submitted, but they will not necessarily be taken into
consideration in the review process.
Tutorial Notes
Tutorial notes should include:
- An introduction to the topic
- Copies of all overhead transparencies and slides
- An annotated bibliography
- Copies of relevant background material or scholarly papers
(for which the instructors have obtained any necessary
reprint permission)
- Material for any tutorial exercises
The instructor will be responsible for preparing prints or
copies of the tutorial notes before the conference. The
instructor will be notified approximately a week before the
conference of the number of preregistered participants. The
cost of reproducing the tutorial notes will be reimbursed.
Review Criteria
Tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their
estimated benefit for prospective participants and on their
fit within the tutorial program as a whole. Factors to be
considered include:
- Relevance, timeliness, importance, audience appeal, and
attendance limits
- Suitability for presentation in a half-day or a full-day
tutorial format
- Use of presentation methods that offer participants direct
experience with the material being taught
- Past experience and qualifications of the instructors
Selection will also be based on the overall distribution of
topics, approaches (overview, theory, methodology, how-to),
audience experience levels, and specialties of the intended
audiences.
Schedule
- Monday, 16 August 2004: Submission of proposal
- Monday, 30 August 2004: Notification about acceptance or
rejection
- Monday, 6 September 2004: Submission of title, abstract,
and speaker biography
- Sunday, 9 January 2005: Tutorial
Compensation
An honorarium will be awarded for each tutorial. If a
tutorial has two or more instructors, the honorarium will be
shared among them. Instructors must pay for their own travel
expenses and conference registration.
Submission
Proposals should be sent (preferably in electronic form) to:
Jihie Kim, IUI 2005 Workshop Chair
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Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: +1 (310) 448-8769
Fax: +1 (310) 823-6714
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