[Due to the early registration deadline of the host conference, the submission deadline has changed to 10th of March, 2004] CALL FOR PAPERS AVI'2004 workshop First Workshop on Developing User Interfaces with XML: Advances on User Interface Description Languages ===================================================== NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th March ===================================================== http://www.edm.luc.ac.be/uixml2004/ In conjunction with AVI'2004 (http://www.di.uniba.it/~avi2004/), Abstract -------- For many years, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has witnessed a perennial race for the ultimate User Interface (UI) Description Language (UIDL) that would ideally capture the essence of what a UI could be or should be. Many people and teams from both the industry and the academic worlds have introduced UIDLs during history. Early UIDLs appeared when people firstly attempted to specify the look and feel of a UI. This attempt was particularly vivid when software appeared that produces UIs for multiple computing platforms, thus ensuring some form of portability of UIs. Then, the activity almost vanished until XML was considered widely enough to initiate a new family of UIDLs. Such UIDLs may pursue various goals: - Ensuring portability of UIs from one computing platform to another while preserving consistency. - Capturing UI requirements for an abstract definition that remains stable over time. - Improving the reusability of UI design. - Making one UI design for multiple devices, platforms, appliances. This goal is often referred to as the device-independence rendering. - Supporting extensibility and adaptability of UI. - Using a UI description to enable automated generation of UI code. Aims ---- This workshop aims at bringing together people working on/with XML-based UIDLs and any person interested in describing and/or developing UIs with XML. UIDL developers, designers and users are all among the potential participants. It is expected that from this exchange of discussion, a better mutual understanding will be raised to enable people to work more closely on some UIDLs rather than reproducing the same efforts in multiple locations. Topics ------ Participants are selected based on submitted position papers.You are invited to submit a position paper addressing XML-based UIDLs. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Comparisons of UIDLs in terms of goals, hypotheses, requirements, foundations, scope of the language, expressiveness of the language, modeling capabilities, range of obtainable UIs, tool support,... - Lessons learned, experiences, and design issues in the conception of XML-based languages for UIs. - Fundamental concepts in XML-based language design for UIs Submissions ----------- Individuals interested in participating in this one day workshop should submit a position paper of a maximum of 8 pages in ACM CHI format. Papers accepted for the workshop will be distributed to the attendees and published in a post-workshop book. Papers should be submitted to: [log in to unmask] Important Dates --------------- NEW Paper Submission Deadline: 10th March 2004 Notification: 25th March 2004 Instructions to Authors: 20th May 2004 Workshop on UIDL: 25th May 2004 Organisers ---------- Marc Abrams, Harmonia Inc. Jean Vanderdonckt, Universite catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve Quentin Limbourg, Universite catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve Kris Luyten, Limburgs Universitair Centrum The workshop web-page is located at http://www.edm.luc.ac.be/uixml2004/ and provides more information about the workshop. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [log in to unmask]