[Air-l] !! Corrected Version!! -> Call for Submissions-Toronto Usability Summit

[Daniel Ponech]

Apologies for the second message. The email address for submissions in the
previous announcement was invalid and has been corrected in the version
appended below.


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Call For Proposals
Toronto Usability Summit 2003

Conference Description
The Toronto Usability Summit (TUS) is a multi-disciplinary gathering of
usability professionals dedicated to advancing the skills and qualifications
of practitioners in a wide range of fields.

Conference participants include user interface designers and users, software
developers, managers of human-computer interface projects, human factors
practitioners, interface evaluators and testers, industrial designers,
teachers of HCI, information architects, researchers in human-computer
interaction, and professionals in other areas seeking to gain an
understanding of how HCI relates to their specialties.


Submission Types
Presentations
Presentation sessions focus on a practitioner¹s ideas and experience with
usability methods, skills, philosophy, design, business case studies, or
other relevant topics. No commercially available or vendor products will be
accepted for demonstrations. Presenters should refrain from any product
endorsements.

Workshops
Workshops provide participants with the opportunity to develop new
methodologies, techniques, and skills. Workshop topics range from practical
guidelines and standards to methods and techniques.

Topics
 - Tutorials cover a wide range of HCI-related topics. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to:
 - Usability & aesthetics
 - Requirements capture and analysis techniques
 - User interface development software (Visio, Tinderbox, Gene)
 - Practices and/or methodologies for design, cognitive engineering,
usability engineering, etc.
 - Usability techniques (guerrilla, low fidelity prototyping, etc.)
 - Information visualization and retrieval
 - Multimedia, multimodal interfaces
 - Design for non-traditional systems, e.g., games
 - Web design and applications
 - Interfaces for home, wearable computing, etc.
 - HCI in corporate settings

Submissions on emerging topics such as new techniques for usability or for
capturing and reusing HCI knowledge, as well as new interfaces for the home
or biomedical devices are encouraged.


Target Audiences
Beginner/Generalist
Sessions designed for people who are new to usability should assume little
or no prior knowledge or experience with usability concepts and techniques.
These sessions should focus on bringing new people up to a minimum
competency in a subject area as quickly as possible, so that they may take
advantage of a broader range of sessions at this same conference. UPA will
attempt to schedule these sessions early in the conference week.

Advanced/Specialised
These topics teach new skills to current practitioners, enhance existing
skills, share knowledge and experience to broaden one¹s knowledge of both
craft and business, and build the usability community. Experienced
practitioners are the people most likely to encounter new problems and
issues (beyond basic skills), and need to have knowledge of both techniques
and resources that will help them cope with any challenge.

Duration       
Presentations last approximately 50 min.
Workshops are three hours long.


Proposal Requirements
Prepare a PDF format of the proposal, no longer than two pages, for review
purposes. It must:

 - indicate the type (Presentation, Workshop)
 - identify the target audience (Beginner/Generalist, Advanced/Specialist)
 - describe the learning objectives
 - describe the material that will be covered
 - briefly outline how the tutorial will be conducted
 - in cases of multiple instructors, indicate role and percentage
involvement of each instructor

If the proposed workshop or presentation has been delivered previously, the
proposal should include where the tutorial has been given and how it will be
modified for TUS 2003.

For the attendee background, include any prerequisites such as knowledge of
HCI content, processes, and procedures. State any skills that are needed to
understand tutorial content or to complete the exercises. Specify whether
the session is intended to introduce participants to an area or further
develop the expertise of knowledgeable participants.


Submitting Your Proposal

Persons interested in presenting or leading a workshop should send their
proposal, in .pdf format, as well as contact information (name, affiliation,
postal address, telephone/fax, email address) to: submissions at tus.ca by
January 31, 2003.


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Daniel Ponech, M.A.
Founding Co-Chair
Toronto Usability Summit
www.tus.ca


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