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The Ninth Danish HCI Research Symposium
The Ninth Danish HCI Research Symposium
Monday December 14, 2009 at Aarhus University.
Register to dhrs09@cs.au.dk no later than December 10
We are happy to announce the seventh Danish Human-Computer Interaction Research Symposium. It will take place on Monday December 14, 2009 at Aarhus University, Denmark. The symposium will include an invited keynote speaker in addition to a number of paper presentations and poster sessions.
Since 2001 the annual Danish Human-Computer Interaction Research Symposium has stimulated networking and provided an overview across the various parts of the Danish HCI research scene. Previous symposia have been hosted by University of Aarhus (2001 and 2006), University of Copenhagen (2002), Roskilde University Centre (2003), Aalborg University (2004 and 2008), Copenhagen Business School (2005), IT-university of Copenhagen (2007).
This year's symposium will continue the tradition at Aarhus University. We invite researchers from academia and industry to participate by submitting a paper on recent or ongoing work.
Proceedings
Proceedings can be downloaded [1].
Keynote
We are happy to announce this years keynote lecturer, Charles Ess: “Culture”: Does It Matter Anymore?
Abstract: The biennial conference series on “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication” (CATaC - see <www.catacconference.org>) began in 1998 with what was then a relatively novel observation: most of the Anglophone, especially then U.S. dominated discourse regarding the Internet and the Web, rested on a technological instrumentalism that presumed that these technologies were somehow “just tools,” i.e., neutral instruments disconnected from any culturally-variable factors (including values, practices, beliefs and communicative preferences). For those of us able to travel and communicate across national and cultural boundaries, however, it was becoming quickly obvious that the explosive diffusion of the once U.S.-centered web brought in its train a number of “cultural collisions” in which the cultural-specific values and communicative preferences in fact built into these technologies clashed in one or more ways with the values and preferences of local, “target” cultures. The CATaC conferences brought together a wide range of increasingly sophisticated culturally-oriented research and reflection, demonstrating first of all that, indeed, cultural values and communicative preferences profoundly shape the design, implementation, and use of ICTs - and hence, designers who wished to avoid “computer-mediated colonization” (i.e., the imposition of one set of values and preferences upon those holding different values and preferences) would need to take cultural differences into account. On the one hand, this approach to HCI and related design fields has become gradually more mainstream. At the same time, however, more recent work highlighted at the CATaC conferences has radically critiqued not only the prevailing frameworks used in cultural analyses for the sake of a more “culture-aware” approach to design (most importantly, those developed by G. Hofstede and E.T. Hall) - but, more fundamentally, the very concept of ‘culture’ itself. In my lecture, I will provide an overview of these three phases of scholarship and research, i.e., (1) examples (1998-2006) of how culturally-variable beliefs, practices, and communicative preferences manifest themselves in the design, implementation, and reactions to ICTs; (2) emerging critiques (2004-2008) of Hall, Hofstede, and the very notion of ‘culture’ itself; and (3) emerging suggestions for HCI and design that seek to avoid cultural colonization, but now on the basis of concepts and analytical frameworks that intend to go beyond Hall, Hofstede, and ‘culture’ as such.
Program
The Symposium starts at 9 and ends at 17. Sessions take place in The Small Auditorium, IT-huset/INCUBA, Aabogade 15, 8200 Århus N.
Use this link and find the final program: [2]
Call for papers
Submission deadline December 1st 2009,
Participation is based on submission of a short paper: max 4 pages in ACM Sigchi format [3]. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and printed in the proceedings. The program committee selects papers for either plenary or poster presentation.
Symposium papers can present work in progress, recent published work, organizational overviews, teaching experiences, etc.
We invites researchers working with HCI in the broadest sense, including ethnographical, sociological, aesthetic, psychological, business oriented, and numerous other approaches to researching the interaction between humans and computers, including implementation and evaluation of new and innovative interaction techniques and models for implementing modern interactive systems.
Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers according to the following criteria:
1. They address HCI in a broad sense 2. They are reasonably complete 3. They have a reasonable research quality
The working language of the symposium is English.
Submit by sending your paper to dhrs09@cs.au.dk
Important Dates
December 1, 2009: Deadline for submission of symposium papers.
December 5, 2009: Notification of authors.
December 10, 2009: Deadline for registration.
Submission procedures, further information and updates will be available soon.
Registration
The registration fee is 600 DKK. It includes printed proceedings, lunch, refreshments and the Danish Christimas treat glögg & æbleskiver.
All participants, should send a registration-message to dhrs09@cs.au.dk and state name of participants, their affiliation and email-adress (we need that info for creating name tags and list of participants).
Employees at AU, will be asked to make an internal payment.
Participants not working at AU, must pay via the AU webshop: [4]
Committee
The symposium is organized by Anne Marie Kanstrup (kanstrup@hum.aau.dk) and Olav W. Bertelsen (olavb@cs.au.dk)
Links to proceedings from previous DHRS
Links to all proceedings can be found at the website of sigchi.dk: [5]
or here:-)
DHRS2001 [6]
DHRS2002 [7]
DHRS2003 [8]
DHRS2004 [9]
DHRS2005 [10]
DHRS2006 [11]
DHRS2007: [12]
DHRS 2008: [13]
