[Air-L] CfP: Public and Situated Displays to Support Communities - OZCHI 2008 Workshop

[Marcus Foth]

PUBLIC AND SITUATED DISPLAYS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES
Workshop in conjunction with OZCHI 2008: http://www.ozchi.org/

Tuesday 9th December 2008
James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

http://wraydisplay.lancs.ac.uk/ozchi08
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42033775024


KEY DATES
Submission deadline extended to October 10th. Please note that  
workshop participants are eligible for early bird registration after  
the normal deadline.

October 10th 2008:	Submission deadline
October 24th 2008: 	Notification of acceptance
October 31st 2008: 	Camera-ready submission
December 9th 2008:  	Workshop


AIMS AND SCOPE
This OZCHI 2008 workshop will discuss the ways that public, situated  
displays can support communities. Our primary aim is to explore the  
potential for situated displays to support communities of all kinds by  
bringing together many individual community display projects, with the  
added benefit of increasing awareness and communication between  
researchers involved in this field. We hope to share experiences of  
working with communities and the challenges this can involve and  
explore the different approaches, techniques and technologies used by  
the workshop participants.

In doing this, we aim to learn which of those have proved successful,  
which have not been so successful, and facilitate comparison of the  
various approaches and the contrasting communities in which they were  
based. It is our hope that the workshop will encourage collaboration  
between disparate research groups, and if suitable the outcomes of the  
event may be considered for publication in an appropriate venue.

The day will comprise conference-style paper presentations, discussion  
of emerging themes and issues from the presentations, and a group  
design exercise based around a scenario for a new community display.

We welcome all contributions related to the use of public situated  
displays in supporting communities. Relevant areas for discussion  
include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Exploration of different settings and deployment environments
- Techniques for gathering requirements and information for design
- Display designs and design techniques
- Discussion of key deployment challenges
- Issues arising from working with communities
- Evaluation of community displays and different interaction techniques
- Issues arising from display content and repurposing of content
- Access control and possible solutions and approaches
- Persuasiveness and community-building effects
- Sustainability and evolution of solutions
- Managing multiple displays
- Enticing and encouraging users, incentives to contribute
- Role of gatekeepers and local champions
- Spaces and places


SUBMISSION
We invite submissions of up to three pages in OZCHI submission format  
(see http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/Submitting)

Submissions should be made via the workshop site:
http://wraydisplay.lancs.ac.uk/ozchi08


PROVISIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Michael Arnold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Margot Brereton (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK)
Matt Jones (Swansea University, UK)
Christian Kray (Newcastle University, UK)
Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Ann Morrison (University of Queensland, Australia)
Kenton O'Hara (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK)
Mark Perry (Brunel University, UK)
Fiona Redhead (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch University, Australia)
Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University, UK)


ORGANISERS
Nick Taylor (Lancaster University, UK)
Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University, UK)
Christine Satchell (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Ian MacColl (Australasian CRC for Interaction Design)


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Dr Marcus Foth
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
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