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iHCI 2012: 6th Annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference: ’Poetics of Design, Narratives of Use’

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Call for Papers

2012 marks the sixth year of the annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Conference. This year iHCI will take place on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st June at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

The conference theme for 2012 is 'Poetics of Design, Narratives of Use’, with a focus on discussing, exploring and challenging the role that different artefacts, perspectives, methods and tools play in the design of new technologies.

Submissions will discuss the frames, discourses, resources and symbols that we employ at different stages of the design process, from ideation and conceptualisation through to the appropriation and evaluation of computing, across a range of use contexts: artistic, cultural, social, organisational and educational. The particular emphasis of this year’s conference will be to look at the broad range of methods – artistic/impressionistic, creative and scientific - we use to design, implement and evaluate technology, and to share stories of the design, deployment and evaluation of computing in context. Areas for consideration will include, inter alia:

• Creative methods and tools to conceptualise, visualise and communicate technology design;
• Adaptive and iterative design-based deployment of technologies to enhance users’ experience in a diverse array of contexts;
• Narrative approaches, methods and frames for eliciting, analysing and appropriating user evaluation data;
• Storytelling as a framework for the design of meaningful interaction with computing.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Rod Stoneman is the Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board until September 2003 and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television in the United Kingdom. He has made a number of documentaries, including Ireland: The Silent Voices, Italy: the Image Business, 12,000 Years of Blindness and The Spindle, and has written extensively on film and television. He is the author of Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; A Case Study of Politics and the Media and the coeditor of ’ The Quiet Man’… and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford and Ireland (with Seán Crosson) and Scottish Cinema Now (with Jonathan Murray and Fidelma Farley).

Technologies and Topics
We welcome contributions that include, but are not limited to, any of the following technologies and topics of interest:

• Accessibility & Universal Access
• Collaboration, groupware and social networks
• Context-aware systems
• Education and Play
• Ethnographical and field studies
• Evaluation methods and frameworks
• Evaluation and usability
• Group interaction and mobility
• Human-centred design practices, tools and methods
• HCI Theory and Practice
• Inclusive Design
• Information visualization and presentation techniques
• Interactive Art
• Novel user interfaces, interaction techniques and technologies
• Novel or speculative research practices
• Mobile, Ambient, Augmented or Tangible HCI
• Multimodal interaction and interfaces
• Multi-cultural interaction
• Technologies for Learning
• Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
• User-centred design
• Usability investigation and evaluation
• Virtualisation and Cloud Computing
• Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors

Submission Categories
Submission categories are consistent with previous conferences and are as follows:

• Long papers
• Short papers
• Student papers
• Posters/Demos/Showcase

Guidelines for Authors

• Please submit full papers, not abstracts.
• Papers should be anonymised and submitted in either MS Word (.rtf; .doc; .docx) or alternatively PDF formats.
• Long papers should not exceed 6 pages (approx. 6000 words or less).
• Short papers should not exceed 4 pages approx. 4000 words or less).
• Student papers should not exceed 4 pages (approx 4000 words or less).

Submission
All papers should be formatted to the ACM standard. Templates may be downloaded for use at the following location:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Important Dates
Submissions: 30th April
Author Notifications: 21st May
Conference: Wednesday 20th – Thursday 21st June

iHCI 2012 Conference Chairs
Fiona Concannon, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), NUI Galway, Ireland
Edward Curry, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland
Sean Duignan, Department of Computing and Maths, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland
Enda Fallon, Industrial Engineering, NUI Galway, Ireland
Tony Hall, School of Education, NUI Galway, Ireland
Jim Lenaghan, School of Education, NUI Galway, Ireland
Bonnie Long, School of Education, NUI Galway, Ireland
Seán Ó Grádaigh, Scoil an Oideachais, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh
Krystian Samp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland

iHCI 2012 Program Chairs
Tony Hall, School of Education, NUI Galway, Ireland
Julie Doyle, Centre for Affective Solutions for Ambient Living Awareness (CASALA), Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland     

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