Due to many requests we have extended Paper Deadline to 23rd January 2009
HCIEd 2009 – Playing with our Education
HCIEd 2009 is the annual international conference of Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) educators. The theme of this year’s conference is PLAY –
education through play, play through education. Play is enjoyed by all and in
terms of HCI education it is a concept that can be considered from many
viewpoints.
Initiated by the BCS Interaction SG (previously the BCS HCI Specialist Group)
in 2001 as an informal workshop amongst HCI educators, the workshop has
since grown into a small conference with strong participation from various
national and international HCI organisations. This year the event is organised
by the University of Abertay, Dundee and co-sponsored by IFIP WG 13.1
Education in HCI and HCI Curriculum and the BCS Interaction SG.
HCIEd 2009 will seek to extend the discussions of previous conferences and
continue the remit of HCIEd 2008 to consider “Architecting the Future”. In
previous years the roles of inventivity and creativity have been the focus of
the discussions and presentations and we believe that continuing varied
discussions across these issues creates a virtuous circle of educational
pedagogy.
We therefore cordially invite educators, researchers, developers, artists and
practitioners to take part in this event and to contribute original work from any
relevant perspective that reflects on their own practice.
HCI education continues to look at a variety of areas, methods and issues. As
previously, we encourage papers that wish to discuss any novel and
interesting aspects of teaching HCI.
This year we also particularly welcome contributions that specifically address
the theme of play and so topics of particular interest in this call include, but
are not limited to:
Teaching interactivity and design through the theory and technology of Play.
Designing and developing the interfaces of Play by considering concepts such
as unobtrusive interaction and collaborative interaction.
Consideration of the appeal of the new technology of play to all generations
and how that impacts on interactive processes.
HCI education needs to consider the importance of Play as a tool to aid our
teaching, but also presumably must ensure that interfaces and interaction
styles of play are part of the curriculum. We therefore also encourage papers
that describe methods for teaching the concepts of Play at the interface, in
terms of design, developing, interaction styles, users, etc.
To emphasise the wide remit of this call we view the following areas as of
relevance:
HCI education theories, methods and practices
Interaction design principles
Techniques, methods and environments for design or development through Play
Education and training methods that encourage the design for Play
Individual and collaborative practices for enhancing the Play interface
Creative design process
Concept, development and evaluation of interactive systems
Interactivity and experience
Case studies on education, play and/or design
Transdisciplinary methods and models
The conference proceedings will be published by the Abertay University Press
and electronically by the BCS. A post conference publication of selected
papers is envisaged through Springer.
We welcome long papers, short papers/posters
Long Papers
Long Papers should present studies that contribute to our understanding of
HCI education as an engaging experience, critical and reflective approaches to
the design of interactive technology, research on how to approach the
concept, development and evaluation of innovative as well as mundane
artefacts related to Play or other interesting concepts related to HCI
Education.
Deadline: 23rd January 2009
Short Papers
Short papers and posters can be based on case studies or reports of best
practices showing the process by which the concept of Play or other aspects
of interest to HCI education can be encouraged and experienced by HCI
students. Also, these may report small experiments or techniques in a concise
format.
Deadline: 23rd January 2009
All papers will be double blind refereed and should respect the ACM SIGCHI
two-column format (see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages in the prescribed format and
short papers no longer than 4 pages, including all the additional materials such
as references, appendices, and pictures. Full research papers must include a
title, sufficient space for the author names, contact information and
affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. The abstract must be
no longer than 150 words and must be included in the paper; it must clearly
state the paper’s contribution to the conference subject. All references must
be complete, accurate and accessible to the public, formatted in the
prescribed ACM format style.
If you have any queries related to the submission system, please email
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It is anticipated that a number of workshops will be offered which will explore
the use of playful interaction as an educational tool for HCI
Key Dates
15 September 2008:
First call for papers
3 December 2008:
Last call for papers
23 January 2009
Deadline for submission of papers
19 January 2009
Early bird registration opens
25 February 2009
Authors notified of accepted papers
11 March 2009
Late registration begins
18 March 2009
Final versions (camera ready copies) of accepted papers due
22-24 April 2009
HCIEd 2009 Conference
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