---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dearden, Andrew M <A.M.Dearden@shu.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:26 Subject: [hci4d] 2nd CfP - Interaction Design & International Development Conference / India HCI To: "hci4d@googlegroups.com" <hci4d@googlegroups.com> Interaction Design & International Development Conference / India HCI 20-24 March 2010, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India 2nd Call for Papers High quality designs increasingly important for users, for industry, and for society across the world. India and the other emerging economies have been designing, implementing, using and exporting interactive software, hardware and systems. These settings bring new challenges for human-computer interaction design - of a wide variety of cultures and languages, of different levels of literacy and education, of new sets of users with different experience, attitudes, expectations and capabilities. They also raise issues of designing technology to support social and economic development for marginalised groups, of designing interactive technologies that are not only affordable by the poor but even those that will help in alleviating poverty. The other perspective is of industrial practice. On the one hand technology companies in India are process conscious, with many CMMI and ISO certificates. On the other, the HCI research and practice is still maturing. Challenges are many – of limited number of people with the right HCI skills, of low HCI awareness among the development and marketing, of integrating HCI activities in mainstream software development, of limited contact with the end-users, of the need to develop new techniques to suit this context, and of responding to major economic shocks such as the current recession. India HCI in conjunction with the IFIP TC13 Special Interest Group on Interaction Design for International Development (India HCI / IDID 2010) will provide a unique forum to explore these challenges. We shall bring together researchers and practitioners from the India, South Asia, and worldwide to explore these challenges and to share latest research. We invite contributions relating to:    * HCI in the industry of emerging economies    * HCI contributions in social and economic development    * HCI for products & services in emerging markets, including for mobile systems    * HCI and designs for low-literacy users    * HCI and designs for bottom-of-the-pyramid users    * HCI for remote contexts (international outsourcing / global software development)    * HCI responses to a world in recession We are inviting submissions of the following types:    * Peer reviewed full / short papers: path-breaking new knowledge, referenced and rigorously validated    * Peer reviewed design case studies: experience gained from a particular interaction design project    * Industry presentations: techniques or methods that work in the industry shared by experts    * Student design projects: HCI projects that were done by students    * As well as some interesting “un-conferenced” events. IMPORTANT DATES: # Papers and design case studies Abstracts due:                                   1 December 2009 Papers due:                                     15 December 2009 # Industry presentation abstracts:        1 January 2010 # Student design projects:                  1 January 2010 # Notification of acceptance:              22 January 2010 # Early registration deadline:                1 February 2010 # Conference:                             20-24 March 2010 More information: www.idid2010.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=.