CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Night and darkness: Interaction after dark, CHI '08 Workshop Here's the first call for position papers for our CHI '08 Workshop "Night and darkness: Interaction after dark". We're after lots of ideas and possible future directions and not just work that's been completed. Details are available here: <http://research.microsoft.com/~ast/chi/darkness/> Here's a summary: Many of us work and socialize late into the night, some increasingly so. However, most information technology is still designed in the daytime with little thought given to its behaviour or use after dark, even if the technology itself can sense the darkness. How then might the behaviour of our technology change as night falls? The aim of this workshop is to use the themes of darkness, safety, night time people and night time activities to explore new opportunities for interaction design. Running through the afternoon and evening, the workshop will allow for the brief presentation of position papers, but most activity will focus on group-based discussion and design exercises, followed by an in-situ brainstorm of design ideas in the darkness of Florence. A workshop blog will be maintained after the workshop, allowing for participants to continue discussions, form collaborations and, hopefully, co-ordinate plans for future research. Authors are invited to submit a two-page position statement in the CHI conference publications format, including a brief biography. As a pre-workshop activity, participants are also asked to document their own use of technology for one night. Submissions to: [log in to unmask] Deadline: 3 October 2007 Notification: 28 November 2007 Workshop date: 6 April 2008 Location: Florence Looking forward to your submissions, Wendy March, Intel Research, Dawn Nafus, Intel Research, Laurel Swan, Brunel University, Alex Taylor, Microsoft Research --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------