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<div align="center"><b>Call for Participation</b><b><br>
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<div align="center">Workshop on<b><i><br>
Low Cost User Experience (UX) Design </i></b><br>
at the <br>
European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics <br>
(<a href="http://ecce2014.eace.net/">http://ecce2014.eace.net/</a>)<br>
September 1-3, 2014, Vienna, Austria<br>
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<b><u>Workshop Organizer:</u></b> <br>
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Eliezer Kantorowitz (<a href="kantor@cs.technion.ac.il">kantor@cs.technion.ac.il</a>)<br>
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<u><b>Workshop Topics:</b></u><br>
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Designing a computer application to provide a satisfactory user
experience (UX) is often labor intensive. This workshop focuses on
reducing these labor costs. With possible low cost design methods,
it may be affordable to compare a reasonable number of different
design alternatives and select the best one. Possible low cost
design methods may thus facilitate the design of quality UX.
Possible low costs methods may also facilitate empirical cognitive
ergonomic research involving a considerable number of cases.<br>
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In order to achieve its goals, the workshop will consider the labor
costs of different UX design methods. The participants of the
workshop have therefore to submit position papers on UX design costs
issues. After the presentation of the position papers, the workshop
will discuss the findings and summarize its observations and
possible recommendations.<br>
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Examples of topics of possible position paper:<br>
<ul>
<li>UX oriented requirements elicitation and task analysis. By UX,
orientation is meant for example avoiding features that the end
users may misunderstand, developing a cognitive coherent model
of the application and validating the UX of this model on
prototypes.</li>
<li>Labor efficient UX evaluation methods, e.g. economic think
aloud techniques, automatic logging and analysis of user actions
and fast prototyping techniques facilitating comparison of the
UX of different solutions.</li>
<li>Software architectures where it is quite easy to modify the
user interface. This may facilitate a gradual UX improvement
process.</li>
<li>Critical review of published recommendation for user interface
design, e.g. user interface design patterns (interaction design
patterns).</li>
<li>Experience reports from industry and education. What were the
labor costs lessons learned?</li>
<li>Comparison of different methods for doing the same thing from
a labor costs point of view.</li>
<li>Efficient stakeholder participation methods.</li>
<li>Agile development issues.</li>
<li>The psychology and sociology of the UX design team. What team
member qualifications and work methods are most appropriate?</li>
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<u><b>Participation:</b></u><br>
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Participation in the workshop requires the acceptance of a position
paper of 1-2 pages. The workshop is limited to 20 participants.<br>
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<u><b>Important Dates</b></u><u><b>:</b></u><br>
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<li>Submission<b> July 7</b>, 2014</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance July 13, 2014</li>
<li>Camera ready July 28, 2014</li>
<li>Workshop Sept. 1, 2014</li>
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<u><b>Submission guidelines:</b></u><br>
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Submission language is English.<br>
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1-2 pages including names, affiliations and emails. Please specify
in the position paper cover email, the name of the author that will
present the paper at the workshop in the workshop. The participation
of this author in the workshop is a requirement for the acceptance
of the paper.<br>
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Submissions will be handled exclusively through a Conference
Management System at <a href="http://ecce14.ce.jku.at/conftool/">http://ecce14.ce.jku.at/conftool/</a><br>
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In order to assist in planning the workshop, potential authors are
encouraged to inform us as early as possible on their intention to
submit. This may be done through the above-mentioned submission site
or by email to the organizer.<br>
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<b><u>Submission format:</u></b><br>
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Submitted papers should follow the formatting guidelines of the ACM
proceedings contributions, available at <a
href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-word-template/view">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-word-template/view<br>
</a><br>
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We look forward to meeting you there!<br>
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With best regards,<br>
Your ECCE 2014 organizers<br>
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