[ecoop-info] CFP: IUI4DR 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions with IUI 2011

[Nitendra Rajput]

Call For Papers:

         2nd International Workshop on IUI4DR - Intelligent User Interfaces
for Developing Regions
                                                       (in conjunction with
IUI '11)
                                               Stanford University, Palo
Alto, California
                                                 	  February 13, 2011
               			  http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr


Organisers:

  * Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM Research, India
  * Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
  * Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
  * Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, India


Program Committee:

   Ed Cuttrell, Microsoft Research,  India
   Krzysztof Gajos, Harvard University
   Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Research, USA
   Beth Kolko, University of Washington, USA
   Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK
   Matthew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University
   Wendy Kellogg, IBM T.J Watson, USA
   Oscar Murrilo, Microsoft Research, USA
   William Wong, Middlesex University, UK


Theme
Considering the social, cultural, educational and economic diversity of
developing regions, the challenge is to develop appropriate and effective
interfaces/interaction techniques that will enable these users to access
services that currently remain elusive to them. The focus areas of the
workshop include, but are not limited to:

Interfaces for interaction with multimedia content:  Audio, images and
video content is easy to understand for low-literacy users. From an
interaction perspective, therefore, we need to specifically look at
interfaces that can enable easy creation and navigation of such content.

Intuitive Interfaces: Any interface that has a high learning curve is
always difficult to proliferate in developing regions. Most prominent
interfaces are either intuitive to use or are easy enough to spread by word
of mouth. Intuitiveness of an interface is the key to its proliferation.

Collaborative learning interfaces: Proxy usage of IT services is very
common in developing regions. It is important to develop interfaces that
enable users to directly use the services irrespective of their literacy
levels or exposure to IT. Interfaces that enable users to facilitate other
users to navigate content or access services through collaborative usage
will help proliferation of services.

   Language independent interfaces: There are around 2000 languages in
      Africa and more than 20 in India. So interfaces that are not too
      language processing dependent would be more scalable and have wider
      applicability.

Case studies and evaluations: of applications/interfaces successfully
deployed or tested in the areas of healthcare, education, e-governance,
agriculture etc.

We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories: (a)
Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to interesting
research directions, (b) Early results or work-in-progress that has
significant promise, or, (c) Full papers. Papers should be of 4-6 pages in
length in the IUI publication format. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word
templates are available at the workshop website. All submissions should be
in the PDF format and should be submitted electronically through the IUI4DR
Easychair Conference site (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iui4dr11). Since the submission
deadlines are dependent on the IUI conference, we will not be able to grant
any extensions in any circumstances.
Since the workshop also aims to be a meeting point for researchers working
in this area, at least one author of accepted papers should attend the
workshop to present their work.


Key Dates
Paper Submission:    Oct 29, 2011
Paper Notification:     Nov 21, 2011
Camera-ready:          Dec 10, 2011
Demo Submission:    Dec 10, 2011
Demo Notification:     Dec 17, 2011


Websites

* IUI4DR Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr
* IUI '11 Conference : http://www.iuiconf.org/