[Sigia-l] Call for Papers, Videos, Exhibits: CREATE 2009

[Stephen Boyd Davis]

CALL FOR PAPERS, VIDEOS AND EXHIBITS
 
CREATE 2009 
1-2 July 2009 
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
 
 
Boom or Bust: creating digital technologies in turbulent times
 
 
Create 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions,
whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction
paradigms. This is the third year of hosting the 'Create' conference.
 
This year, we are particularly interested in submissions from practitioners
and academics willing to share frank and open accounts of research and
design practice beginning to be shaped or influenced by the global economy
and climate considerations. However, we also welcome submissions related to
the more traditional themes of this conference. How do we work together as
designers and HCI specialists to come up with people-centred design, and how
do we work with others to make our designs a reality?
 
We are looking for three different types of submission all of which will be
peer reviewed
 

Short and extended papers
We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial, public,
government and research sectors. Cases can come from any paradigm - the web,
mobile and hand held, or consumer electronics. Please outline the problems,
capabilities, or new functions that were being addressed, and describe the
solutions you or your team created to resolve it. We are particularly
interested in receiving papers discussing issues related to recent global
events.  We also welcome theoretical and research perspectives on the
process of design innovation and approaches to creativity in HCI; how human
factors can be integrated within a creative design process, methods that
encourage creativity in interaction design, and the challenges of working in
multi-disciplinary teams.
 
Initial submissions should be no more than 3000 characters (approx. 500
words). Accepted papers can be either short papers 2 pages long, or be
extended to long papers of up to 8 pages.
 
 
Video papers
We welcome submissions which follow the themes for paper or showcase
submissions but would benefit from a more visual presentation style. For
example, this could be videos illustrating or describing large scale
installations that would not be technically or physically possible to
exhibit during the conference. We also welcome videos demonstrating novel
interactive artefacts that may be in the early stages of development,
project descriptions or creative visions of future interactive technologies.
 
 
Videos should be no longer than 7 minutes (including titles and credits) and
should not require any supporting material to be understood. It is very
important that you have the rights to use all the material that is contained
in your submission. Successful submissions will be required to submit a
short 2 page paper which should also be possible to understand without
having seen the video.
 
Exhibits
Installations or exhibits should be of a relatively small to medium scale
and may include documentation in the form of videos and posters to accompany
them. We are particularly interested in exhibiting: interactive products,
interactive service design solutions, small-scale interactive artworks,
networked objects, screen based interactive media and interactive
installation pieces.
 
 
Key dates
 
20 April 2009 - Closing date for abstracts and proposals
4 - 8 May 2009 - Author notification
25 May - Closing date for full papers and video papers
 
For more information and submission details go to
 
http://www.create-conference.org
 
CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction Specialist
Group of the Ergonomics Society, and British Computing Society's Interaction
Specialist Group, and will be held at the British Computer Society
conference venue in Covent Garden, London, on 1 - 2 July, 2009.


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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/