USAB 2010 - 6th Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society

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

Klagenfurt University, 4.-5. November 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).

Special Thematic Sessions:

-Ambient Assisted Living
-HCI Patterns
-Future Interactive Learning Systems
-Interactive Multimedia Applications

Additional Special Thematic Sessions are welcome, potential session organizers are encouraged to submit their proposal until May 31, 2010

The 6th Symposium of the Workgroup HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society will take place in Carinthia (Southern Austria) this year from Nov. 4th to Nov. 5th.

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).