UCD Project News Edition 31, September 20, 2004
UCD Project News is a fortnightly e-newsletter devoted to increasing
awareness of user-centred design (UCD) principles and contributing
towards a culture of UCD within the Smart Internet Technology CRC.
UCD Project News will not be published over the next six weeks.
This takes into account the semester break and international conference
schedules. We look forward to connecting again in November 2004.
Charlotte Scarf, Editor Charlotte.scarf@rmit.edu.au
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In this issue:
1. Supriya: UCD Group Prepares for Annual Conference
2. Smart Internet Annual Conference Draft Agenda
3. Project Highlight: Nightingale
4. Upcoming Conferences & Calls for Papers
5. Useful Links & References
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1. Supriya: UCD Group Prepare for Annual Conference **************************************
We are preparing for the annual Smart Internet Technology CRC conference.
It is as if all the e-mails and telephone conferencing finally yields
the important face-to-face contacts. This year the UCD group has
had very significant linkages with the technology researchers and
corporate partners. It has placed us in a good position as we move
forward in the activity territories that will shape the CRC agenda
in the next year. Our researchers in Tasmania and Griffith are presenting
on health. At RMIT we are working in the banking and finance area.
We are also continually examining the issues of privacy, security
and identity. It promises to be an exciting time.
Supriya
Assoc Prof Supriya Singh,
Project Leader
supriya.singh@rmit.edu.au
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2. Smart Internet Annual Conference Draft Agenda **************************************
22nd September 2004 Smart Internet Homes and Communities Room 9ABC,
Australian Technology Park Draft Agenda
8:30 Welcome tea and coffee
9:00 Welcome from the Conference Chair: Darrell Williamson, CEO,
Smart Internet Technology CRC
9:05 “An Industry overview and the importance of continued
R&D and collaboration in Australian ICT” Neville Roach,
Chairman, Smart Internet Technology CRC
Banking and Commerce
9:25 “Westpac’s Internet Agenda Moving Forward”
Freya Elliott, Westpac (20mins paper, 10mins questions)
9:55 “Activity Centered Social Banking” Supriya Singh,
User Centered Design (20mins paper, 10 mins questions)
10:25 “About Legalco and the Smart Internet” Legalco
Representative (20 mins paper, 10mins questions)
10:55 “The Business Innovation Cycle” Roger Kermode,
Smart Internet (20 mins paper, 10mins questions)
11: 25 Morning Tea
Health 11:45 “Possibilities for Speech Based Assistants in
Smart Housing Applications” Gunela Astbrink, User Centered
Design (20 mins paper, 10mins questions)
12:15 “Whither eHealth?” Paul Turner, User Centered
Design (20 mins paper, 10 mins questions)
12:45 “Clinical Communicator for Supporting Teamwork in Intensive
Care” Wayne Wobcke, Smart Personal Assistants (20 mins paper,
10 mins questions)
1:15 “A Context Inference and Multi-Modal approach to mobile
information access” Aaron Quigley, Intelligent Environments
(20 mins paper, 10 mins questions)
1:45 Lunch
Entertainment
2:45 “An Overview of Telstra’s Internet Agenda”
Belinda Ward, Telstra (20 mins paper, 10 mins questions)
3:15 “The Future of DICE (Dense Immersive Communications Environment”
Paul Boustead, Smart Networks (20 mins paper, 10 mins questions)
3:45 Afternoon Tea
4:05 “Personalisation for Smart Personal Assistant”
Eric McCreath and Joshua Cole, Smart Personal Assistants (20 mins
paper, 10 mins questions)
4:35 Security (20mins paper, 10 min questions)
Divining the Future of the Internet
4:55 “Communication Futures: Methodologies and Approaches”
Alex Burns, User Centered Design (20 mins paper, 10 mins questions)
5:25 Discussion
5:30 Close
7:00 Dinner at Bar Cleveland 433 Cleveland Street Redfern (Bus will
pick up and deliver to and from hotel)
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3. Project Highlight: Nightingale
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Project Nightingale is an exploratory research project aimed at
helping Australia's aging population reminisce for social and intellectual
fitness. In line with the Federal Government's National Health Priority
Area (NHPA) initiative and National Research Priorities, the exercise
is a joint project between the National ICT Australia, the Smart
Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre and the University
of Sydney and will explore the needs of Australia's aging population
and the role of smart wireless networks and pervasive computing
in memory sharing and reminiscing.
As Australia's Baby Boomers flood into the country's aging population,
reminiscing provides an important stimulant for mental and physical
health. Nightingale aims to discover how technology can assist.
New innovations such as pen-and-paper interfaces, an interactive
and collaborative DiamondTouch table and smart wireless personal
servers are all being harnessed to see not only how they can encourage
and capture memories, but how they can integrate with the users'
natural environment and lifestyle. By removing the need for the
PC, keyboard and mouse, the benefits of new technology can be delivered
in a more familiar and natural way.
Michael Coburn, a PhD student with the User Centred Design Project
is currently working with members of Project Nightingale in an effort
to integrate new understandings about representation and interaction
design into their work. As part of this effort, a user trial will
be undertaken before the end of the year in order to examine the
usability of some new user interface devices for reminiscence applications
and other information environments.
For further information on Project Nightingale, please contact:
Aaron Quigley on aquigley@it.usyd.edu.au
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4. Upcoming Conferences & Calls for Papers *************************************
* Call for Papers for Journal of Human-Computer Studies Special
Issue on HCI Research in Privacy & Security
Members of the HCI, security and privacy communities are invited
to submit 500–1000 word abstracts of full papers for inclusion
in this special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer
Studies by December 1, 2004. Authors will be selected to submit
full papers of 6,000–8,000 words based on review of abstracts.
The special issue will cover HCI aspects related to both privacy
and security.
Submissions on any of the following topics as well as related topics
are welcome: HCI issues in privacy regarding work and personal contexts;
Usable security; User views, models and requirements regarding privacy
and security; Privacy, anonymity, and encryption; Privacy user interface
issues in pervasive computing; and Enterprise and end-user views
of privacy and security.
Please submit abstracts in .pdf format to: ckarat@us.ibm.com
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* Call for Papers for UAIS Special Issue on Information Systems
Accessibility
The UAIS Journal solicits original research contributions addressing
the accessibility, usability and acceptability of Information Society
Technologies by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, and through any media
and device. Universal access refers to the systematic effort to
proactively apply principles, methods and tools of universal design,
in order to develop Information Society Technologies that are accessible
and usable by all citizens. The Journal's unique focus is on theoretical,
methodological, and empirical research, of both technological and
non-technological nature, that addresses equitable access and active
participation of potentially all citizens in the Information Society.
The best papers from the IT Systems Accessibility minitrack at AMCIS
2004 have been invited to submit to a special issue of the Universal
Access in the Information Society Journal (UAIS) on Information
Systems Accessibility. Additional high-quality (near journal ready)
papers are invited to submit to this special issue as well. The
aim is to publish original work highlighting various issues regarding
accessibility. Authors of submissions should carefully explain how
the work and results presented contribute to facilitating and promoting
universal access. The deadline for submission of papers is November
10, 2004.
http://www.springeronline.com/east/journal/10209/
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* IFIP WG 9.2 Conference on Landscapes of ICT and Social Accountability
The conference will be held from 27th to 29th June 2005 at the University
of Turku, Finland. It is being organised by the Working Group on
Social Accountability of the International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP), a non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organization
for national societies working in the field of information processing.
The conference aims to review the landscapes: what are the social
consequences of information and communication technologies today
and how are they evolving? The call for papers is now open, with
submissions due October 1, 2004. Topics of interest include ICT
and social accountability in relation to: Philosophy, ethics and
sociological aspects; Culture and education; Social aspects; Politics
and regulation; Economics and work; Technology, virtual reality
and emerging technologies; and New challenges: what needs to be
done?
http://www.cs.utu.fi/ifip/WG9.2_Conference_2005/
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* GOR 05
The Seventh International General Online Research Conference (GOR
05) will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of March, 2005 at the University
of Zurich, Switzerland. The aim of the conference is to document
the progress of Internet science, innovative developments, and practical
experience.
If you would like to contribute to the conference by presenting
a paper or a poster, please submit a 350-word abstractvia the Web-based
online tool located at http://www.gor.de no later than September
30th 2004. Conference topics include theories, methods, and empirical
findings concerning social and business aspects of the Internet
and mobile communication.
http://www.gor.de
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5. Useful Links and References
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* Kath Straub, "Tell me the story... The Unifying Role of Scenarios
in Conceptual Design," UI Design Update Newsletter, April,
2004
Kath Straub, Chief Scientist of HFI, discusses the importance of
scenarios in the early stages of conceptual design. “They
bring a level of coherence to system and business requirements by
providing a coherent "real world" task-level description
of the motivation and events that trigger tasks and the users flow
as they navigate to task completion. They also provide a design-neutral
bridge between engineers working on different modules of the interface
design to maintain a holistic view of the design process. Finally,
they provide a common ground for communicating and conveying the
minds and needs of the users to the system models that the developers
create which is meaningful and accessible to both groups.”
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/apr04.asp
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* Siyanda
Siyanda is an online database of gender and development materials.
It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share
ideas, experiences and resources. It contains a large number of
papers on gender-sensitive approaches to the development of information
and communication policies, programmes, and systems.
http://www.siyanda.org/
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