CfP: CHI '08 Workshop, Urban Mixed Realities:Technologies, Theories and Frontiers

Urban Mixed Realities: Technologies, Theories and Frontiers

A workshop at CHI 2008: April 6th 2008, Florence, Italy

Submission deadline: 17th October 2007

Urban mixed realities represent a growing and exciting area of research which requires new ways of thinking about issues such as usability, place and presence. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from fields as diverse as presence and pervasive games with the objective of discussing the emerging issues within this growing field. We invite all those with an interest to submit a position paper, some suggested topic areas are listed below:

•The role of the urban environment in shaping content and technologies
•Interaction issues within urban environments
•Frameworks and theories: place, presence, co-operative systems and cognition
•Technologies: from mobile phones to head-mounted displays
•Design and evaluation methodologies
•The role of art and performance in urban mixed realities
•Personal and societal issues related to the use and deployment of urban mixed reality systems
•Applications of urban mixed reality technologies: games, cultural heritage, emergency response training, pervasive games, social networking etc.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
You are invited to submit a position paper (maximum four pages) using the CHI extended abstracts format. These should be submitted to Rod McCall (rod.mccall@fit.fraunhofer.de). Please place “Workshop Submission” in the email subject field. The deadline for submissions is October 17th 2007, with notifications being issued by the 28th November 2007. At least one author from each paper will be required to attend the one day workshop which is being held during CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy. The cost of the workshop is $150.

AFTER THE WORKSHOP
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the PsychNology Journal on the theme of the workshop (http://www.psychnology.org/ ). We also expect an article about the workshop to appear in the British HCI group's Interfaces magazine.

For more information please visit: www.ipcity.eu
CHI 2008: www.chi2008.org

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Rod McCall, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
Ina Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado, USA
Luciano Gamberini, University of Padova, Italy

Associated Link: IPCity - more information

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