2009 Fall Conference on New Communities

12 October 2009

On Monday 19 October 2009 SIGCHI.be organizes its first full-day conference on New Communities.

When and where?

When? Monday, 19 October 2009, from 8:30 till 18:00
Where? De Montil, Moortelstraat 8, 1790 Affligem - www.demontil.be

Who's it for?

Our first conference will bring together researchers and practitioners like usability specialists, designers, computer scientists and all people with a heart and mind set for Human-Computer Interaction.

Theme: New Communities

This year's theme, New Communities, addresses the heightened interest in building and supporting communities in all its shades: groupware, work communities, social networks, community software & tools. It also refers to the new community of Belgian HCI professionals that this conference wants to bring together, enabling people to step forward and present their work to their peers and to the broader ICT community.

Program

08:30 - 09:00 Arrival
09:00 - 10:00 Welcome speech and opening keynote
10:00 - 10:30 Morning break
10:30 - 12:00 Research paper presentations
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:30 Case studies
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon break
16:00 - 17:00 Research paper presentations
17:00 - 18:00 Closing keynote

Exhibitors

We thank the conference exhibitors for their support.

Keynote speakers

09:00 - 10:00 Communities of Practice: A conceptual frame for Human-Centred Computing (Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin)

Computer applications are getting increasingly interwoven in everyday life. To build these applications, we need to take the distinct practices of their (potential) users into account.
I will frame the talk by developing a practise-based perspective on social systems. Based on this perspective, I will suggest a research framework for human centred computing. To clarify this framework, I will present research being conducted currently at the University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT.

We are developing innovative applications for distinct domains such as: knowledge work in a German industrial association, a fire-brigade in the city of Paris, and an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in the city of Bonn.
Research in these particular domains is linked by overarching method development such as appropriation infrastructures, end user development, and 3D simulation environments of wearable computers' use.
Finally, I will discuss further research challenges when taking a practise-based view on human centred computing.

17:00 - 18:00 Geekiness is the new cool (Tom Palmaerts, Trendwolves)

In the mid nineties people started to question the concept of ‘youth subculture'. Dividing youngsters in different groups is not done. Youngsters were believed to be very individualistic. They mix and sample their own identity and subculture. Everyone forms his or her own subculture. Today online social network sites proved that this me-oriented view of youngsters needs to be revised. Youngsters are individualistic, but also curious and social. Communities are the new subcultures. Contemporary youngster communities are multilayered in space, place and time. How do they use social network communities? And how is technology effecting real life cultures. The cool kids online are not always the cool kids in real life ... but geekiness is the new cool ... so there is no problem for all of you.

Accepted papers

The following papers have been accepted:

- Technology for the Equadorian Hearing Impaired People: A novell use of Xstroke’s pointer gesture recognition algorithm for the recognition of Equadorian Sign Language (anonymized)

- User interfaces for direct and remote HRI for a swarm of robots assisting fire-fighters (Elvina Motard, Jeremi Gancet, Amir M. Naghsh, Chris R. Roast)

- Clubs, Stages, & Multitouch (Dries De Roeck)

- Learning CHI on FaceBook (Erik Duval, Gonzalo Parra, Sten Govaerts)

- Alignment of Business Processes and User Interfaces in the Context of Large Organizations (Kenia Sousa, Hildeberto Mendonça, Jean Vanderdonckt)

- Improving Intelligibility and Control in Ubicomp Environments (Jo Vermeulen, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx)

Case Studies

The "Case Studies" track will present practical case studies from industry with practitioner's experience reports. The following presentations have been accepted:

- The animated GUI: lessons from Disney (Kristel Van Ael/Joannes Vandermeulen - Namahn)

- From Cultuurweb to UiTinVlaanderen (Karl Gilis - AGConsult)

- AnySurfer Accessibility Monitor 2009 (Roel van Gils, Gijs Veyfeyken, Bart Simons, Nymphaea Notschaele - AnySurfer)

- Show me who was at my door and left me a message. fifthplay's smart building concept (Lore Nuyens - Human Interface Group)

- UI challenges of a temporal database (Bart Van Roey - The Talentbox)

- Collaborative Knowledge Management in Drupal: new tools to capture more knowledge with less effort on your community platform (Kristof Van Tomme - Pronovix)