4TH WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE AND USABILITY ENGINEERING CROSS-POLLINATION: USABILITY EVALUATION OF ADVANCED INTERFACES

TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009

4TH WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE AND USABILITY ENGINEERING CROSS-POLLINATION: USABILITY EVALUATION OF ADVANCED INTERFACES

(WORKSHOP OF IFIP WG 13.2)

http://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/EVAL/
Regina Bernhaupt, Peter Forbrig, Jan Gulliksen and Janet Wesson

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

HCI experts, software engineers and usability engineering are affected by a mutual influence that we call “cross-pollination”. Examples are task specifications, design patterns and life cycle models. These examples were in-vented in one field and later on adapted in a new context. New developments in intelligent and adaptive environments and mobile computing require new solutions, especially for usability evaluation methods. The key attribute of advanced interfaces is that they need to adapt to time, location and usage which makes them very difficult to evaluate using standard techniques. The workshop will focus on how to integrate and extend traditional evaluation methods in order to optimally evaluate the usability of advanced interfaces in their specific context of use. Experts in HCI, software and usability engineering need to learn from each other to facilitate and encourage this convergence. The workshop aims to be a forum for sharing ideas about potential and innovative ways to cross-pollinate the expertise among the different communities and to show examples, which can stimulate industrial software development. Additionally it should provide a forum that will help to grow a community of interest in this area.

Participants have to prepare a position paper of 4 to 10 pages which will be reviewed. Selected papers will be published on the workshop web site ( http://wwwswt.informatik.unirostock.de/EVAL/ ) and will be presented during the workshop. The outcome of the workshop will be a white paper presented on the web site of the work-shop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the usability evaluation of the following advanced interfaces and interactive systems:

  • Adaptive Interfaces
  • Context-aware Interfaces
  • Human-Robot Interfaces
  • Intelligent Interfaces
  • Location-aware Interfaces
  • Mobile Interfaces
  • Novel Interfaces

Important dates:
June 8 abstract submission deadline
June 15 submission deadline
June 29 information about acceptance
July 13 submission of revised paper
July 20 publication of papers on the workshops web site

For more details visit http://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/EVAL/.
Proposals should be submitted via this web site.