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Rob Procter <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:02:29 +0000
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CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS 
CHI 2006 Workshop: Usability Research Challenges for Cyberinfrastructure and Tools 
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Venue: Montreal, Canada http://www.chi2006.org/ 
Dates: 22 April 2006 
Website: www.ncess.ac.uk/chi-workshop/ 

We invite position papers for the CHI 2006 Workshop entitled "Usability Research Challenges for Cyberinfrastructure and Tools".  

Cyberinfrastructure (e-Science in the UK) is a global project in technological innovation whose aim is nothing less than to bring about a radical transformation in research practices. The cyberinfrastructure vision is of data and information intensive, large-scale, distributed, dynamic and inter-disciplinary research collaborations. As the focus moves from concept demonstrators to generic tools supporting real users, and users? experiences of pilot projects is absorbed and analyzed, important challenges for usability research are beginning to emerge. Meeting these challenges is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor, requiring close cooperation between usability researchers, developers and users of cyberinfrastructure.  

This one-day workshop seeks, within the context of the CHI conference, to engage the CHI community in an articulation of emerging cyberinfrastructure usability challenges and solutions. 

Position papers are invited on any relevant topic, including (but not limited to): 

o Case studies of research practices and their implications for the cyberinfrastructure vision. 
o Case studies of data creation, management and sharing in large scale, collaborative, distributed research and their implications o for the design of user interfaces and tools. 
o Case studies of usability issues and solutions in tools and applications of cyberinfrastructure. 
o Usability issues relating to trust in large scale, collaborative research, including trust among collaborators and trust in the o technologies of collaboration. 
o Functional requirements and user interfaces for collaboratories. 
o User-centered methodologies for requirements gathering, design, development and evaluation of cyberinfrastructure and tools.

Position papers should 3-4 pages and should be sent by December 22 to [log in to unmask]  

For additional information, including submission format, please visit the website: www.ncess.ac.uk/chi-workshop/

IMPORTANT DATES 
Paper submissions                                December 22 2005    
Notification of acceptance                       January 23 2006      
Workshop                                             April 22 2006      

For further information, please contact [log in to unmask] 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 
Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester University 
Christine Borgman, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 
Geoffrey Bowker, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University 
Marina Jirotka, Centre for Requirements and Foundations Oxford University Computing Laboratory 
Gary Olson, School of Information, University of Michigan 
Cherri Pancake, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University 
Tom Rodden, Computer Science, Nottingham University 
mc schraefel, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton 

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