Call for Participation: Interacting with temporal data a workshop at CHI 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts http://temporal.csail.mit.edu/ Is time just another attribute of data? Or is it something more? We are interested in gathering together a diverse group of researchers who deal with time as a fundamental component of interactive systems: sometimes as a resource, sometimes as a problem to be solved. Our goal is to investigate the temporal dimension in user interfaces, across disciplines. Time brings meaning to data, especially data about the real world. Time is also essential for understanding human activity and an essential element of design processes. Sometimes we address time explicitly, sometimes implicitly. It structures how people interact with computers, but is also a measurable effect of that interaction. The goal of this workshop is to explore human-computer interaction from a temporal perspective. This workshop is not a mini-conference but will be highly interactive, participatory and hands-on, with a combination of whole-group focused discussion and small-group brainstorming. We will define problems, generate ideas and share common concerns that arise in our research, including data capture, log management, and visualization of human activity over time. Our goal is to create a community of people interested in these issues and to create a special issue of a journal that explores them in greater depth. Participation We invite researchers and interaction designers who explore the use of time in interactive systems. Our goal is to bring together people with diverse perspectives, practices and problems. Participants should submit a short position paper paper (2-4 pages) that addresses an issue concerning temporal data or time in interactive systems, including: * A particular application domain of interest * The nature of temporal data this domain: structure, frequency, significance. * Principal interaction challenges pertaining to data capture, sharing, or use within this domain. * Particular techniques and approaches that you have personally tried (if any). * One (most important) interaction challenge that that you wish to discuss or solve. Please use the CHI Extended Abstracts Format to temporal-chi09 at csail.mit.edu and let us know by November 30 if you plan to submit and send the paper by December 31, 2008 Schedule The workshop will consist primarily of hands-on small-group interaction sessions. After a "CHI Madness" series of quick presentations, to give us all a sense of each participant's perspective, we will break into small brainstorming and prototyping groups. The proposed schedule is below. Position paper deadline: December 31, 2008 (let us know by November 30 if you plan to submit) Workshop: Saturday, April 4, 2009. * 09:00 - welcome and introduction (all) * 09:20 – 3-minute madness: short presentations from participants (all) * 10:30 - break * 10:45 - scenario development (small groups) * 12:30 - lunch * 13:30 - video prototyping (small groups) * 15:30 - break * 16:00 - group presentations and discussion (all) * 16:40 - next steps and conclusion * 17:00 - end Post-workshop goals: * to create a cross-disciplinary community of researchers interested in temporal interaction and visualization * to establish a community-moderated blog and repository of resources, and, * to edit a special issue of a journal that incorporates ideas, conclusions and recommendations that result from the workshop. Organizers Wendy Mackay is research director at INRIA Saclay and Vice President of Research in Computer Science at the University of Paris-Sud in France. Her research group, in|situ|, focuses on situated interaction, with four main research themes: interaction paradigms, multi-disciplinary design methods, engineering of interactive systems, and mediated communication. Max Van Kleek is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL investigating personal activity capture, user modeling and data mining for personal information management (PIM). Aurélien Tabard is a Ph.D. candidate in the InSitu team at INRIA and Université Paris-Sud. His research concerns the study, design and evaluation of systems supporting a reflection and management of information. Please direct your questions and comments to temporal-chi09 at csail.mit.edu - and we look forward to your participation! -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete at inria.fr AVIZ Team Leader, INRIA www.aviz.fr INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud tel: +33 1 69156494 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240
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