Hi, The first deadline for the CHI2009 conference is coming up fast (July
18 for workshops and tutorials). I'm the co-chair of the User Experience and Usability portion of the CHI 2009 conference and am inviting both design and usability colleagues to submit proposals for next year's CHI conference. We would like to have a strong New England representation at CHI 2009 in Boston so if you have any ideas and want to kick them around, you can contact me or the User Experience and Usability Co-chairs at the email at the end of this message. We are also looking for ideas about possible panels for the conference that would be of interest to user experience and usability practitioners. The message below highlights the types of proposals and dates and provides a link to the conference page with details. One thing that has changed is the review process. Rather than send papers out to the general CHI community, papers will now be read by colleagues with expertise in the particular area. Thanks, Chauncey Wilson Senior User Research AEC Revit Product Design ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The CHI 2009 User Experience and Usability (UXU) Committee would like to encourage practitioners to join us at the next CHI conference. The conference will be held April 5 - 9, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Although the CHI conference has always had a strong contingent of practitioners among its attendees, the criteria for acceptance of papers have tended to be similar to those of a journal, which has given the conference a reputation for being more academic than practical. This year, we are explicitly seeking to address the expressed concerns of practitioners that they want a stronger voice within the CHI community. After all, it is only by participating and collaborating with our friends and colleagues in the academic and research domains that we can move the profession ahead. Therefore, it is our goal as the User Experience and Usability co-chairs to increase the quality and quantity of UX and usability practitioner and researcher submissions, with the intent of benefiting both the practitioner and the research communities. We will strive to collect contributions in the fields of usability and user experience design that introduce innovative practices and research findings that can improve design practice. The CHI 2009 Call for Papers can be found at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/. CHI 2009 provides a variety of formats for communicating your usability and user experience work, including: • Workshops, proposals due July 18, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Workshops.html • Courses, proposals due July 18, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Courses.html • Papers and Notes, proposals due September 19, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/PapersNotes.html • Video Showcases (NEW!), proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/VideoShowcase.html • Case Studies, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/CaseStudies.html • Panels, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Panels.html • Interactivity, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Interactivity.html • Special Interest Groups (SIGs), proposals due January 7, 2009, Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Sigs.html • Works-in-Progress, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/WorkInProgress.html • Alt.Chi, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Alt.Chi.html • Student Design Competition, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/StudentDesignCompetition.html • Student Research Competition, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/StudentResearchCompetition.html Our committee would like to invite user experience and usability practitioners to submit proposals for CHI2009 and help us make this a strong practitioner presence. The earliest deadline, for workshops and tutorials, is July 18, only 10 days away. If you have ideas for one of the presentation formats on which you would like some quick feedback, or if you have a great idea for an invited speaker, you can contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We hope to see you at CHI 2009. Susan Dray, Dray & Associates, Inc. Arnie Lund, Microsoft Corporation Chauncey Wilson, Autodesk, Inc. Elizabeth Buie, Luminanze Consulting, LLC Contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- IxDA Boston organisers: Lisa, Jesse, Harun & Pauric local site: http://www.bostonixda.org Feed: http://boston-ixda.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
