[Sigiii-l] Call for Participation - Joint Conference on Digital Lib

[Nadia Caidi]

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2003  
May 27-31, 2003 
Rice University, Houston (TX) 

Workshop Theme:  
Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries 
(http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/faculty/caidi/JCDL03.html) 


OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES 

The scope and reach of digital libraries (DL) is truly global, spanning  
geographical and cultural boundaries, yet few scholars have investigated the  
influence of culture as it pertains to the design and use of digital libraries.  
This workshop will examine cross-cultural issues around the use and  
development of DLs, especially as they relate to supporting cross-cultural  
usability of DLs. This workshop brings together researchers from a variety of  
disciplines to present current projects and contribute to a collaborative  
research agenda. The goals of the workshop are:  

1) to increase awareness about the area of cross-cultural usability in the 
digital library community

2) to identify new tools, techniques and methodologies for cross-cultural  
study of user behavior in DLs and international user interface design

3) to provide a forum for generating new research directions and cross- 
disciplinary collaboration.  


FORMAT OF WORKSHOP 

The format will be highly interactive. In addition to reviews of actual projects  
being undertaken, attendees will be asked to contribute real examples of  
successful (and/or poor) interfaces and website designs. The outcome of the  
workshop will be the establishment of a road map for this type of research,  
which includes the identification of key issues/questions around cross-cultural  
usability (e.g., international user interface design guidelines, methodological  
considerations, etc.). 

SUBMISSION AND DEADLINE 

You are invited to submit a position paper by May 10, 2003.  
Papers should be 2-4 pages long.  
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the review committee below.  
Please use the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates for formatting submissions:  
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html 

Send submissions in MS Word or PDF format to: Nadia Caidi  
(caidi at fis.utoronto.ca) and Anita Komlodi (komlodi at umbc.edu). 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 
Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada 
Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 


REVIEW COMMITEE: 
Christine L. Borgman, UCLA, USA 
Andrew Dillon, University of Texas, Austin, USA 
Elke Duncker, Middlesex University, UK 
Preben Hansen, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden 
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan 
Elaine Toms, University of Toronto (Canada) 


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Nadia Caidi
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
140 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6
Canada
Tel: (416) 978 4664
Fax: (416) 971 1399
Email: caidi at fis.utoronto.ca