======================================================================== Blended Interaction: Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces CHI 2013 Workshop http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/blendedinteraction2013/ ======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Blended Interaction is interaction in physical environments including meeting rooms, studios, or libraries that are augmented with post-WIMP UI technologies to blend the power of digital computing with natural work practices and collaboration. Blended Interaction combines the virtues of physical and digital artifacts, so that desired properties of each are preserved while integrating computing power in a considered manner. Examples of Blended Interaction range from digital pen & paper and pen & multi-touch interaction to tangible displays in rooms of mixed or augmented reality. The ACM CHI 2013 Workshop on "Blended Interaction: Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces" is the first international workshop that will bring together leading experts in cognitive theories and post-WIMP designs and technologies to create a unified vision and theory of Blended Interaction in a multidisciplinary approach. WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions about the (1.) technology, (2.) vision, and (3.) theory of Blended Interaction and will carefully select participants to ensure an equal distribution of expertise from these three fields. Typical topics include, but are not limited to: * Display and sensor technologies that enable blending the digital and the physical * Interaction techniques and gestures that mimic and extend the real world * (Multi-)touch and/or pen input on everyday objects and surfaces * Tangible user interfaces, tangible information representations and tangible displays * Technology and designs for mixed and augmented reality * Collaboration concepts in interactive spaces, models and theories of collaboration * Theories and models of embodied cognition and “natural” interaction * Cognitive linguistics, conceptual blending, image schemata, metaphors * Models of reality-based and embodied interaction * Influence of proprioception and kinesthesia on cognition * Proxemics in human-computer interaction * Architecture, ergonomics and interior design of digitally-augmented physical environments * Visions of future human-computer interaction SUBMISSION DETAILS All papers should be submitted on the workshop homepage (http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/blendedinteraction2013/) by January 11, 2013. Participants will be selected based on their submission in either of two categories: 1.) short position papers (up to 4 pages in CHI extended abstracts format), in which they have to demonstrate informed positions about the topic 2.) workshop papers (up to 6 pages in CHI extended abstracts format) describing their on-going research. All contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers from an international program committee. Like in past workshops of the organizers (e.g., <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis), we plan on publishing extended versions of selected workshop papers in a special issue on Blended Interaction of a scientific journal. Deadline for submissions: Jan 11th, 2013. Notifications of acceptance: Feb 8th, 2013. One author of each paper is required to register to the workshop and one day of CHI'13. The one-day workshop will take place in conjunction with CHI'13 in Paris, on either April 27 or April 28 (exact date to be confirmed soon). Questions should be directed to hans-christian.jetter@uni-konstanz.de. ORGANIZERS Hans-Christian Jetter, University of Konstanz Raimund Dachselt, Technische Universität Dresden Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews David Benyon, Edinburgh Napier University Michael Haller, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria