[humaine news] CFP: BCS HCI 2010: Play is a Serious Business

[Kostas Karpouzis]

*** First announcement and Call for Papers ***

HCI 2010: Play is a Serious Business

The 24th BCS International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Dundee, UK, 6th-10th September 2010
http://www.hci2010.org

For over 25 years the BCS HCI conference has brought together 
researchers, developers and industrialists from around the world to 
discuss the wide range of topics and ideas encompassed within Human 
Computer Interaction. As a result, networks have been created, 
partnerships formed, new research has been generated, and good work has 
been disseminated. Next year the conference takes place in Dundee, 
Scotland, from 6th to 10th September, and, in addition to the usual wide 
range of topics, has the special theme “Play is a Serious Business”. The 
theme reflects the development of the University of Abertay as a Centre 
of Excellence in Computer Games Education, and the cluster of industrial 
companies involved in all aspects of the Computer Games industry in 
Dundee, and there will be opportunities for delegates to interact with 
games designers and developers, and their products, at the conference.

This call seeks submissions from academics, researchers, students,
industrial and commercial practitioners in the following forms:

* Full research papers – maximum of 8 pages, on recent, unpublished 
research on any HCI research topic.

* Industrial practice papers – the conference will have two industrial
practice threads running alongside the HCI research threads on at last 
one day, these threads being “Mobile HCI” and “Computer Games”, and
practitioners are invited to submit papers, up to a maximum of 8 pages, 
on any aspect of research, development or industrial practice related to 
these two topics.

*  Encounter papers – these are short, maximum 4 pages, papers and
presentation outlines that will be presented to delegates in an 
interactive format involving a direct promenade-style interaction with 
the authors (more detail will be provided on the conference website). 
These papers can reflect any of the topics identified in the call, and 
should be identified as fitting one of four themes for these papers:

- Student work (please note, a separate call for papers for the PhD 
Forum will follow)
- Research ideas
- Research in progress
- Commercial and industrial applications

Each of these themes will appear in separate encounter paper sessions at 
the conference, so please ensure when making your submission that you 
clearly indicate which theme your paper represents.

All papers should be formatted to the ACM standard, see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates , and will 
appear on-line in the BCS EWiCS series and the ACM Digital Library. 
Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system, which will open 
for submissions early next year and will be linked from the conference 
website with detailed instructions.

Conference topics:
Including but not limited to
-– Adaptive and adaptable systems
-– Affective interaction
-– Ambient intelligence
-– Artistic and aesthetic aspects of interaction and interface design
-– Boundaries
-– Brain-computer interfaces
- Computer games design and development
-– Design cases
-– Design methods
-– End-user development
-– Evaluation methods
-– Evolvable HCI
-– Group and organization interfaces
-– Human values
-– Information visualization and presentation
-– Innovative interface design
-– Interface agents and interface characters
-– Languages
- Mobile HCI (including industry theme)
-– Models of interaction
-– Multimodal interfaces
-– New interaction techniques and devices
-– Participatory design
- Play and the use of play
-– Studies of organizations, technology and work
-– Theory and foundation of HCI
-– Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
-– Universal access
-– Usability studies
-– User-centred design

HCI 2010: Important dates
19th March, 2010: Submission of full research papers, industrial 
practice papers and encounter papers
30th April, 2010: Notification of acceptance to authors
28th May, 2010: Final submission of web-ready papers
25th June, 2010: Final date for early-bird registration (authors must
register by this date for inclusion in programme)
6th & 7th September 2010: Workshops, tutorials and PhD Forum (doctoral
consortium)
8th-10th September 2010: HCI 2010 conference

For further information, please see http://www.hci2010.org

Papers will be reviewed by a pool of international HCI experts.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the
conference by the early-bird deadline, or the paper will be removed from 
the programme.

The BCS HCI conference series is organised on behalf of the British 
Computer Society Interaction Specialist Group.