---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nitendra Rajput <rnitendra@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:46 Subject: [hci4d] Final Call: IUI4DR 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions with IUI 2011 To: hci4d@googlegroups.com Call For Papers:          2nd International Workshop on IUI4DR - Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions                                                        (in conjunction with IUI '11)                                                Stanford University, Palo Alto, California                                                   February 13, 2011                                  http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr Organisers:   * Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM Research, India   * Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA   * Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India   * Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, India Program Committee: Ed Cuttrell, Microsoft Research,  India Krzysztof Gajos, Harvard University Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Research, USA Beth Kolko, University of Washington, USA Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK Matthew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University Wendy Kellogg, IBM T.J Watson, USA Oscar Murrilo, Microsoft Research, USA William Wong, Middlesex University, UK Theme Considering the social, cultural, educational and economic diversity of developing regions, the challenge is to develop appropriate and effective interfaces/interaction techniques that will enable these users to access services that currently remain elusive to them. The focus areas of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Interfaces for interaction with multimedia content:  Audio, images and video content is easy to understand for low-literacy users. From an interaction perspective, therefore, we need to specifically look at interfaces that can enable easy creation and navigation of such content. Intuitive Interfaces: Any interface that has a high learning curve is always difficult to proliferate in developing regions. Most prominent interfaces are either intuitive to use or are easy enough to spread by word of mouth. Intuitiveness of an interface is the key to its proliferation. Collaborative learning interfaces: Proxy usage of IT services is very common in developing regions. It is important to develop interfaces that enable users to directly use the services irrespective of their literacy levels or exposure to IT. Interfaces that enable users to facilitate other users to navigate content or access services through collaborative usage will help proliferation of services. Language independent interfaces: There are around 2000 languages in Africa and more than 20 in India. So interfaces that are not too language processing dependent would be more scalable and have wider applicability. Case studies and evaluations: of applications/interfaces successfully deployed or tested in the areas of healthcare, education, e-governance, agriculture etc. We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories: (a) Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to interesting research directions, (b) Early results or work-in-progress that has significant promise, or, (c) Full papers. Papers should be of 4-6 pages in length in the IUI publication format. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available at the workshop website. All submissions should be in the PDF format and should be submitted electronically through the IUI4DR Easychair Conference site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iui4dr11). Since the submission deadlines are dependent on the IUI conference, we will not be able to grant any extensions in any circumstances. Since the workshop also aims to be a meeting point for researchers working in this area, at least one author of accepted papers should attend the workshop to present their work. Key Dates Paper Submission:    Oct 29, 2011 Paper Notification:     Nov 21, 2011 Camera-ready:          Dec 10, 2011 Demo Submission:    Dec 10, 2011 Demo Notification:     Dec 17, 2011 Websites * IUI4DR Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr * IUI '11 Conference : http://www.iuiconf.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hci4d" group. To post to this group, send email to hci4d@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=en.