[ELECTRON] Fwd: CFP: Physicality 2009 - towards a less-GUI interface

[Simon Yuill]

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From: Kostas Karpouzis <kkarpou at cs.ntua.gr>
Date: 2009/7/10
Subject: [humaine news] CFP: Physicality 2009 - towards a less-GUI interface
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Third International Workshop on Physicality in conjunction with HCI 2009
Conference
Cambridge University, UK
1 September 2009

http://www.physicality.org/physicality2009/

As digital technology invades more and more of the devices and products
that surround us, it is increasingly important that interaction
designers and product designers are able to make sense of the subtle
interactions between physical form and activity and the way these
influence and are influenced by digital functionality and interaction.
We need to take seriously the physical nature of the devices with which
we interact and the nature of our own bodies and brains so we can
produce better design.

This multi-disciplinary workshop is the third in its series and we would
like to explore towards a less-GUI interface as a theme, especially the
extent to which effective physical design can reduce the reliance on
such screens or obviate them entirely.

Despite the dramatic increase in power and functionality in contemporary
information appliances, interaction methods continue to be heavily
dependent on more and more overloaded small graphical user interfaces.
Tiny screens are proliferating on appliances in the home, devices in
cars and on the phones, and media players we carry on our bodies.
However, an ageing population means that such screens may have
increasingly limited utility, and even for those with full sight,
staring at a tiny screen is not always optimal whether operating a
remote whilst watch TV, or navigating down a busy street.

We welcome position papers that address towards a less-GUI interface
theme, but also those covering other areas of physicality including:
enabling technologies for haptic input and output;
physicality and fidelity in design;
design at the physical-digital frontier;
philosophy of physicality;
artefact-focussed social interaction;
physically-inspired interaction in virtual worlds;
creativity and materiality;
interactive art and performance;

Important Dates

Submission Deadline 17 July 2009
Acceptance Notification 31 July 2009
Camera-ready Deadline 17 August 2009

We invite submissions in the form of a 2-6 page position paper in ACM
Format (see web site for more details). We would also like to encourage
contributions in other forms (e.g. demonstration, artwork, performance)
but please contact us. Submissions and enquiries should be sent to:
<devina AT physicality.org>

All submissions will be pe the basis of originality, contribution to the
field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the
workshop. All accepted contributions will be published in the workshop
proceedings as either short or long papers.

The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations
and a design session based on the main theme. There will also be a
poster session that will allow participants to showcase their work or
demonstrations.

Previous workshops in the Physicality series have attracted a mixture of
designers and technologists, artists and architects, psychologists and
philosophers; we expect a similar eclectic and enthusiastic combination
of researchers and practitioners from industry and academia for this event.

The workshop is sponsored by DEPtH: Designing for Physicality research
project, an AHRC/EPSRC funded Designing for the 21st century Initiative.