Apologies for cross-posting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop DCIS 2012 @ AVI 2012, Capri, Italy (May 21 or 25, 2012) "Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning." Website: http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission until: March 19, 2012 (4 page research & position papers, ACM SIG Proceedings Format) ‘Interactive spaces’ are physical environments or rooms for co-located collaborative work that are augmented with ubiquitous computing technology. Their purpose is to enable a computer-supported collaboration between multiple users based on a seamless use of different devices for natural post-‘Windows-Icons-Menu-Pointer’ interaction, e.g., multi-display environments, multi-touch walls, interactive tabletops, tablet PCs, tangible user interfaces or digital pen & paper. These environments can serve to support or augment group activities such as presentation, discussion, brainstorming, sketching, drafting or sensemaking. While the original vision of ‘interactive spaces’ can be traced back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, many findings about the theory, design and practice of interactive spaces have to be re-evaluated today. Due to the recent advances in commercially available hardware and software (novel tabletops such as Microsoft Surface 2.0, light high-performance tablets and tablet PCs, pico projectors & depth cameras for gestural and 'touch anywhere' interaction, operating systems bridging mobile and stationary devices, e.g. Microsoft Windows 8), this field moves quickly and formerly impossible designs and visions can now be put into practice. This new generation of interactive spaces with natural user interfaces is of great relevance in knowledge-intensive and collaborative domains such as e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning. The DCIS 2012 workshop aims at documenting and advancing the current state-of-the-art of co-located collaboration in interactive spaces. Our goal is to identify the essential research challenges and formulating a future research agenda by inviting high-quality position and research papers from HCI, Information Visualization, CSCW, e-Science and CSCL. This multi-disciplinary perspective is intended to provide an overview of the field beyond the typical boundaries of disciplines. *** Submissions: *** We invite high-quality non anonymized research and position papers of up to 4 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings format http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis@inf.uni-konstanz.de. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by anonymous reviewers from the workshop’s program committee. All accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website. Extended versions of selected submissions will be published in a special issue of the Springer journal ‘Personal Ubiquitous Computing’ (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779). Topics include but are not limited to: - Understanding users’ natural collaboration in rooms when using interactive spaces or non-digital physical artifacts. - Conceptual frameworks for natural user collaboration, learning and interaction. - Novel designs of interaction techniques, visualizations, smart furniture or devices for natural collaboration in interactive spaces. - Enabling technologies for natural interaction in interactive spaces ranging from software frameworks to computer vision and new sensor technology. - New observation and evaluation approaches for interactive spaces (e.g. longitudinal evaluation). - Best-practice examples and lessons learned from different application domains based on the experiences of academics and industry. As participants, we invite researchers from academia (professors, postdocs, PhD and graduate students), researchers from research labs, and practitioners from industry. In particular, we invite professional users of interactive spaces (e.g. designers, scientists, architects, analysts, journalists) to report about their real-world tasks, needs and experiences. Please note that the submission and acceptance of a research or position paper is necessary for attending the workshop (max. 3 participants per paper). *** At the workshop: *** We aim at high-quality 25 minute presentations (15 minute talk, 10 minute discussion) for each peer-reviewed submission. The presentations are followed by an open discussion or working groups to formulate a future research agenda for collaborative interactive spaces from the different domains. We hope to continue our discussion in a relaxed informal atmosphere at a workshop dinner as social event in the evening. *** Important dates: *** Submission deadline for research & position papers: March 19, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2012. Date of the workshop: May 21 or 25, 2012. *** Contact: *** For question about the workshop please contact hans-christian.jetter@uni-konstanz.de. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis@inf.uni-konstanz.de. *** Organizers: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Media Design, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. *** Journal Publication Chair: *** Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York. *** Program Committee: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York tbc --  Hans-Christian Jetter (M.Sc.) Human-Computer Interaction Group http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/staff/Jetter University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Box D 73, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Room D 212, Phone +49-7531-88-3534