A One-Day Workshop at ACL 2010 on Companionable Dialogue Systems Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference website: http://acl2010.org/ Uppsala, Sweden, July 15, 2010 Important Dates: April 5, 2010 Submission Deadline, authors to workshop organizers, in ACL format, following instructions on ACL site May 6, 2010 Notification of acceptances to authors May 16, 2010 Camera-ready paper due from authors to workshop organizers Jun 13, 2010 Compiled CDROM and proceedings images due from workshop book chairs to ACL-2010 publication chairs The current state of dialogue technology has come a long way since the abstract ideas of intelligent computer systems in the beginning of…

22-26 November 2010: OZCHI 2010 Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Queensland, Australia FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS IMPORTANT DATES Friday 25 June 2010: Submission of Long Papers/Tutorial proposals/Workshop proposals Friday 27 August 2010: Submission of Short Papers/Demos/Doctoral Consortium applications OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction and CHISIG’s (www.chisig.org) annual non-profit conference. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. We also welcome perspectives from design, architecture, engineering,…

Subliminal Communication in Human-Computer Interaction Journal: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Call for Papers Human- and computer-based interactions are ubiquitous in our everyday lives–everything from our mobiles, iPods, to a variety of computer systems creates serious cognitive demands when switching from one to the next. When used simultaneously, extra cognitive demands are placed on us and the likelihood of success is dependent upon our ability to apportion attention to multiple tasks simultaneously. To alleviate the cognitive load associated with interacting with varied computing-based devices, common UIs and modes of operation should be implemented, significantly reducing the amount of information we must…

First call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure (all aspects of Human-Computer Interaction and Usability) Co-located with the Alps Adria Psychology Conference 2010 Klagenfurt University, 16.-17. September 2010 http://usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at The 6th Symposium of the Workgroup  HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society will take place in Carinthia (Southern Austria) this year from Sept. 16th to Sept. 17th. The topics are structured alongside (but not limited to) the following three dimensions: 1) Special user groups (children, elderly, healthcare professionals, tourists, students, teachers.)  2) Issues on practical application of HCI in the work place…

On behalf of the organizing committee of the Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS), we would like to invite you to attend this exciting event that will happen in Dresden, September 6-8, 2010 (http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/). Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems is a direct successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in Herne in 2003, and in Berlin in 2006. The quality of systems which address human perception is difficult to describe. An engineering approach to quality includes the consideration of how a system is perceived by its users, and how the needs and expectations of…

Call for Submissions: EICS-MIXER: The Challenges of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems: A Bottom-Up Workshop To be held the *20th of June 2010 as a workshop of the EICS 2010 conference – BERLIN Organizers: Emmanuel Dubois, Philip D. Gray, Laurence Nigay Contact: mixer@irit.fr Web site: http://ihcs.irit.fr/dubois/Research/Events/EICS_Mixer/EICS_Mixer.htm THEME, GOALS, AND RELEVANCE Currently one of the most challenging aspects of interactive systems is the integration of the physical and digital aspects of interaction in a smooth and usable way. The design challenge of such Mixed Reality (MR) interactive systems lies in the fluid and harmonious fusion of the physical and digital worlds. Examples…