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1st CFP: ACM CHIMIT '10 - HCI for IT Management
by Eben Haber 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

*Apologies for cross-postings* 2010 ACM Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT '10) http://chimit10.org November 12-13, 2010 San Jose, CA USA Co-located with the 24th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '10) http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/ ---------1st CALL FOR PAPERS (3 months to deadline)-------------- Since 2007, CHIMIT has been the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. At CHIMIT, researchers and practitioners share issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, collaborative work, computer systems, and management and service sciences to address cognitive, social, and technical issues in managing the increasing complexity of modern Information Technology (IT) systems. Information Technology (IT) is central to modern life. From our homes to our largest enterprises, we are surrounded by software and hardware components that support our work and personal lives: wireless access points, network routers, firewalls, virus scanners, databases, web servers, storage and backup systems, etc. These components exist to permit us to do other things, e.g., manage inventory, communicate with friends or customers, sell products through websites, yet all too often managing the underlying IT infrastructure takes time and resources away from the real work at hand. IT systems have grown increasingly complex over the years, and the cost for keeping the infrastructure running is now a significant burden. We are at a turning point where further advances in technology and business efficiency and growth require fundamentally new approaches to IT system design, management, and services. CHIMIT is an ACM-sponsored conference, and accepted Paper and Short Paper submissions will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. We are also soliciting submissions for Panels, Courses, and a non-archival Poster Session for work in progress. Suggested Topics ============== - User Studies of IT infrastructure management in context, exposing user needs, pain points, work practices, and examples of both successful and unsuccessful work. - Design - approaches to bring about improved, human-centered IT systems. - Experimental Studies on the usage of new or existing IT systems. - Tools and Techniques for improved administration, e.g., visualizations of system behavior, or collaborative interfaces. - Automation approaches to reduce administration workload or improve productivity. - Computer supported cooperative work ˆ how do those who manage an organization‚s IT interact with the users they support, their technical community, and other stakeholders? - Organizational Knowledge - how can shared knowledge improve IT management. - Processes and Practices - examples of best practices and improved processes in IT management. - New Technologies - how will the changing technological landscape (e.g., Cloud Computing, pervasive mobile devices, etc.) affect IT management? - IT Beyond the Enterprise - what are the implications now that we're doing backups, network configuration, etc. in the home? Submission Guidelines ================== Papers should be submitted in English. Instructions for authors are available at http://chimit10.org/submission.html CHIMIT '10 is accepting Papers and Short Papers, as well as non-archival Posters, Courses, and Panels. Important Dates ============ Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2010 Panels and Courses due: August 7, 2010 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2010 Posters due: September 10, 2010 Poster selections announced: September 26, 2010 CHIMIT Committee =============== General Chairs --------------------- Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Pepperdine University Adam Moskowitz Program Chairs --------------------- Tamara Babaian, Bentley University Konstantin Beznosov, UBC Steering Committee --------------------------- David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University Ken Chizinsky, Cisco Narayan Desai, Argonne National Labs Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs Research Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google NYC

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CHI 2010 Post - CHI begins in less than 3 weeks!
by Eben Haber 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

CHI 2010 less than 3 weeks away! Less than 3 weeks remain until CHI 2010 gets underway, so it's time to get ready. * Online registration ends on April 3 (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/registration.html#registration) * You can find a preview (http://www.chi2010.org/press/preview.html) of what to look for on the CHI website. * Also remember that course registration limits have been lifted, if you want to add more courses (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/courses.html) * There is still space in a few of the Atlanta HCI Tours for the Friday after the conference (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/events.html#tours) * Finally, be sure to check out the CHI Madness preview on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/CHIMadness2010#p) CHI 2010 iPhone App now Available It's CHI in your pocket! Thanks to Justin Weisz, Stephen Oney, and Jason Weise at CMU, there is an iPhone app for navigating the CHI 2010 schedule. Browse papers by session, title, or author, and build your own custom schedule of the things you want to see. Best of all, it's free! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chi-2010/id362206698?mt=8 Connect with CHI 2010 on Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr! Share your thoughts, experiences, and photos related to CHI 2010. For Flickr, tag photos with #chi2010. For Twitter, tag tweets with #chi2010 and optionally the session room. And become a fan of CHI 2010 on facebook to see updates from the conference organizers. The CHI 2010 website has pageswith the Twitter feed (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/twitter_stream.html) Flickr stream (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/flickr_stream.html) and Facebook updates (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/facebook_stream.html) Event Maps for CHI2010 Event Maps is a rich internet application intended to help people browse/organize/collaborate on multi-track conference events. Event Maps is brought to you by IBM Research - Watson and is being deployed for CHI 2010 attendees to help refine the system and provide an attendee benefit. Using Event Maps, you can browse, search and navigate the sessions of a conference via a zoommable interface. If you log in, you will be able to mark sessions of interest as favorites, export favorites, make comments, view the comments of others, and see the popularity of sessions according to favorite counts. Event Maps is an accepted Work In Progress for CHI 2010 and this "live demo" of the system is being provided as an adjunct to their poster. You can see the Event Map for CHI 2010 here: https://researcher.ibm.com/eventmaps/?eventId=CHI2010. CHI 2010: The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 looks outward to the human experience of computing in the world. "We are HCI" challenges our community to embrace the diversity of HCI in the world and to exclaim our commitment as a profession to empower people from all walks of life.

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LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP for the 1st International Masters in MediaArtHistories
by Image Science 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

The Department for Image Science and Leonardo/ISAST are pleased to announce their new cooperative effort, a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course in MediaArtHistories, with a start in May 2010! => LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist. => FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (low-residency; English language, international faculty) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER, Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science &Technology will be discussed. => DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Our students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria, Austria, Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. => LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and technology. Through publications, initiatives and public forums, Leonardo/ISAST facilitates cross-disciplinary research in these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. By enhancing communication between scientists, artists, and engineers, Leonardo supports experimental projects and interacts with established institutions of art and science to transform their research and educational practices. =>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society. Application documents (digital) : - Letter of Motivation - Application form - Copies/scans of certificates - Copy/scan of passport Application Deadline: 28. March 2010 Further Information: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah www.leonardo.info www.virtualart.at www.mediaarthistories.org Contact: Andrea Haberson Department for Image Science Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569 andrea.haberson(a)donau-uni.ac.at www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

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