[Asis-l] OZCHI 2008 - CFP Information Science & HCI

[Amanda Spink]

Call for Papers
Workshop on "Information Science and HCI: Information Behaviour Design”
http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ISHCI08.html
Tuesday, 9 December 2008 Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia

The workshop is part of OzCHI 2008 (The Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference)
Technical program 10-12 December 2008

Information science is the study of information related behaviours, including cognitive
and social modeling of information behaviours, and the design of systems that support
information behaviours. Information science is related to disciplines such as
librarianship, information systems, human-computer interaction, psychology, and
computer science. Information behaviour modeling and design is also important
research for Web search engines and Web 2.0 development.

HCI is concerned with designing, implementing and evaluating interactive computer
systems for human use. These two fields have tremendous overlap in their concerns,
with complementary knowledge and skills to offer each other.
The goal of this OzCHI workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in
information science, HCI, and the ways in which they (should) inform each other.
This workshop is one of a planned series of workshops developing the relationship
between information science and related disciplines including human-computer
interaction (this conference), information systems and computer science.
Workshop Description:

The proposed OzCHI Workshop will be a multidisciplinary forum exploring the
relationship information science and HCI research for information behaviour modeling
and design. Questions of interest range from more general questions regarding the
understanding, modeling and supporting of information behaviors in specific contexts to
very specific topics including IR andf Web/IR: how to best model and understand user
behavior, how to translate user modeling into interfaces and systems design, how to
evaluate those systems, and how to assess social and business impacts.
Presentations and discussions will include of theoretical foundations, user studies,
interface and systems designs, methodologies, and case studies. We anticipate a wide
range of participants from both the research and development communities.
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The workshop will be held in a half day. The schedule will accommodate brief
presentations from both academics and industry researchers plus focussed plenaries
and discussions.
1. Introduction by workshop chairs
2. IS inspiring HCI: three topically related presentations
3. Brief discussion
4. HCI inspiring IS: three topically related presentations
5. Brief discussion
6. Breakout sessions
7. Summary by workshop chairs & Next steps
8. Close
Submissions and Evaluations:
Participants should prepare a 1 page statement of interest and relevant experience and
are also encouraged to submit a 2-3 page paper on a topic of interest to the discussion.
Papers should clearly identify how they contribute to exploring the Information Science
(IS) - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) nexus eg by suggesting questions raised by
their research that could be discussed at the workshop.

Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers for acceptance in the workshop
proceedings. The organizers will arrange for publishing the workshop proceedings as a
technical report as well as on a web site. As experienced editors we are also looking at
publishing revised and expanded versions of the papers as a special issue in an
established, topically related journal.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Design of systems and interfaces to support information access
Exploring, modeling and supporting information behavior
Interactive information retrieval
Interaction with information environments
Web/IR search
Mobile Web search
Web personalisation
Online communities

Paper Submission deadline: Friday, 10 October 2008
Acceptance Notification: Friday, 17 October 2008
Workshop registration requested by: Friday, 24 October 2008
Submissions by email to:
Christopher Lueg christopher.lueg [at] utas.edu.au
See URL http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/ISHCI08.html for updates.
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Workshop Facilitators:
Dr. Christopher Lueg is Professor of Computing at the University of Tasmania. His
research interests tend to manifest at the intersection of computer science, information
science and cognitive science. Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction with
Information and Information Behavior are long-standing areas of interest. Other active
research areas include information sharing in online communities, spam filtering and
digital redlining (and more general questions of information access and equity), context
awareness and mobile wayfinding support. He edited (with Danyel Fisher, now
Microsoft Research) the book From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social
Information Spaces published by Springer in the CSCW series.
URL http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/users/clueg/
Gregor McEwan, MSc is a Research Engineer with the Braccetto project in the HxI
Initiative. He is currently employed by NICTA. His research interests are primarily in the
field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), specifically building groupware
to support small communities of intimate collaborators. His current work involves
supporting synchronous, time-critical collaboration in mixed-presence groups.
Amanda Spink, PhD is Professor of Information Technology at the Queensland
University of Technology. Her research focuses on studies of information behaviour,
Web search and cognitive information retrieval. The National Science Foundation,
Andrew R. Mellon Foundation, NEC, IBM, Microsoft, Excite, AlltheWeb.com, Infospace
Inc, Vivisimo, Alta Vista and Lockheed Martin have sponsored her research. She has
published over 340 journal articles and conference papers, with many in the Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing
and Management, Interacting with Computers, IEEE Computer, and Internet Research,
the ASIST, ACM and IEEE Conferences. Her recent books include Web Search: Public
Searching of the Web, New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval, New
Directions in Human Information Behavior, and Web Search: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives – published by Springer, and the forthcoming book Handbook of Research
on Web Log Analysis for Idea Group.
URL http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/
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Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au<http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/>
Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink at qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink at qut.edu.au>
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/
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