USAB 2010 - USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

USAB 2010: HCI IN WORK & LEARNING, LIFE & LEISURE (ALL aspects of Human-Computer Interaction and Usability)

Klagenfurt University, 16.-17. September 2010
Venue: Hotel Lindner Seepark Hotel Congress & Spa directly at the beautiful beach of Lake Wörth

Email: contact-AT-usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at

HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote: Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Plattner Institute, HPI): Mobile Phones - on their way to becoming the computational platform of the world

Welcome Adress: Silvia Zimmermann, President of Usability Professionals Association (UPA): The Future of Mobile Experiences

Industrial Track: Putting HCI into Best Practice The Industrial Track is designed as a means to bring together practitioners of different industrial areas as well as practitioners with scientists (Details below).

The 6th Symposium of the Workgroup HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society will take place in Carinthia (Southern Austria) this year from Sept. 16th to Sept. 17th.

The topics are structured alongside (but not limited to) the following three dimensions:

1) Special user groups (children, elderly, healthcare professionals, tourists, students, teachers, ...)
2) Issues on practical application of HCI in the work place (process aspects, HCI patterns, cost/benefit analyses, ...)
3)Future trends in HCI, ...

We encourage and cordially invite authors to submit their original work related to all topics of HCI and Usability enumerated as

a) long papers (>=14 pages),
b) short papers (between 8 and 14 pages),
c) Workshops and Tutorials (4 pages)
d) posters (2 pages).

Accepted conference papers, workshops and tutorials will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Templates are provided on the symposium website. The submission will be open by April 1st on Easychair https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=usab2010

IMPORTANT DATES

April 25 May 9
Deadline for submissions in all categories (extended)
May 16 May 23
Author notification
June 6
Deadline for revised papers
June 20
Final decisions and notifications
July 4
ABSOLUTE DEADLINE for camera-ready papers (strict)
Sep. 16 - Sept. 17
Symposium

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS

Industrial Track: Putting HCI into Best Practice

see Industrial Track page for details

Special Issue of JITT

Authors of high rated papers on e-tourism or related areas will also be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Tourism (JITT, http://ojs.modul.ac.at/index.php/jitt).

Free admittance to AAPC 2010

Attendees of USAB 2010 are entitled to visit the co-located ?Alps Adria Psychology Conference“ ( http://aapc2010.uni-klu.ac.at) for free ? and vice versa.

Looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Carinthia,

Gerhard Leitner
Martin Hitz
Andreas Holzinger

Website: http://usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at

Email: contact-AT-usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at

Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Interfaces, Usability Engineering
Category: Informatics
Last Updated (Monday, 26 April 2010 06:01)