PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd International Workshop on
TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams for user interface design - TAMODIA’2004

Prague, Czech Republic • November 15-16, 2004
http://liihs.irit.fr/event/tamodia2004/

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The Third Worksop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams for user interface design will
be organised and hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science Czech of the
Technical University in Prague.

To design user interfaces for inter-active computer-based systems, many
Forms of expression have been used and some new forms are currently being
investigated by combining writing, drawing, sketching, gesture, and 
multimedia interacting capabilities. It is considered fundamental to capture
the essence of the users’ tasks to better inform the user interface design
process. Many activities in the development life cycle are concerned by the
quality of this capture.
This workshop is aimed at examining how multiple forms of task
expressions can significantly increase or decrease the quality of user
interface design as a process.

SCOPE
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We seek high-quality, original papers that address the theory, design,
development, evaluation of ideas, tools, techniques, methodologies in
(but not limited to) the following areas:
- Allocation of tasks
- Cognitive task models
- Derivation of UI from task: systematic processes and methods
- Diagrams for task representation: textual, graphic, animation, video
- Early requirements for task-based design
- Predictive task models
- Properties of tasks
- Simulation of tasks
- Sketching and gesture-based tools for UI design
- Software engineering models and techniques applied for task-based design:
data-flow diagrams, dynamics diagrams, Petri nets, semantic nets,
statecharts, static diagrams, state transition diagrams, UML models, etc.
- Task analysis
- Task-based design
- Task models: analytic and empirical modelling
- User affordance
- User interfaces for very complex or exceptional tasks
- User-task elicitation
- Visual programming
- Visualization of models involved in UI design process

SUBMISSIONS
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Papers written in English are solicited for presentations as talks in
long format.
Papers (limited to 15 pages) should highlight both the general scientific
contributions of the research and their practical significance. The
conference will consist in an oral presentation of long papers, along with
discussion.
Authors should follow the formatting instructions at:
http://liihs.irit.fr/event/tamodia2004/
Fundamental aspects of task-based design are particularly welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for paper submissions: 15 July
Notification of paper acceptance: 15 September
Deadline for final versions: 15 October


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
Pavel Slavík
Czech Technical University, Prague - Czech Republic
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Program Chair:
Philippe Palanque
LIIHS-IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse - France
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Program Committee:
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, CNRS, France
Rémi Bastide, University Toulouse 1, France
Gilbert Cockton, University of Sunderland, England
Pablo Castells, University of Madrid, Spain
Karin Coninx, Limburg Universitair Centrum, Belgium
Apostol Constantin-Gelu, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
Maria-Francesca Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy,
Anke Ditmar, Rostock University, Germany,
Peter Forbrig, University Rostock, Germany,
Elizabeth Furtado, Universidade Fortaleza, Brazil
Nick Graham, Queen University, Canada
Peter Johnson, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Hilary Johnson, University of Bath, United Kingdom,
Quentin Limbourg, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Vaclav Matousek, University of Western Bohemia, Czech Republic
Eric Nilsson, SINTEF, Norway
Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal
Fabio Paternò, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
Costin Pribeanu, National Institute for Research and Development in
          Informatics, Romania
Matthias Rauterberg, Technische Universiteir Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Dave Roberts, IBM, Warwick, UK
Dominique Scapin, INRIA, France
Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ahmed Seffah, Concordia University, Canada
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Centre for Advanced Research in Machine Learning,
Natural Language Processing and Conceptual Modelling, Romania,
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stephanie Wilson, City University, U.K.
Marco Antonio Alba Winckler, LIIHS-IRIT, France