- From: Lloyd Rutledge <Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:14:33 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Call for Papers -- SWUI 2006 The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- November 6, 2006 Athens, Georgia, USA collocated with ISWC 2006 http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-ui/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dates: July 10, 2006 Abstract submissions due July 17, 2006 Paper submissions due August 31, 2006 Acceptance notification September 18, 2006 Camera-ready papers due November 6, 2006 Workshop at the ISWC2006 The structure and features of the Semantic Web enable new ways of thinking about exploring information spaces beyond what HTML has made possible. This workshop investigates similarly innovative ways to exploit those opportunities in terms of user interface design. A key challenge of this workshop will be to present work that demonstrates interaction and visualization opportunities that are only now made possible through the Semantic Web. We will address how users can interact with information represented with Semantic Web technologies. Issues include defining paradigms for interaction, their corresponding technical interfaces and the mapping of Semantic Web constructs to them. In the end, we aim to map the "problem space" that binds these issues together and to identify the core unsolved yet promising challenged within it. Writing Papers The criteria for general assessment of submissions will be novelty, innovation, demonstrated awareness of related work, contribution to the field. We seek papers that help answer the following questions: * What does a generic Semantic Web browser 'look' like? * How does it support general exploration of the semantic web? * What are test cases to evaluate such a browser? In particular, reviewers will consider: * how the interaction design or visualization specifically exploits the affordances of the Semantic Web * how users were involved throughout the process of design/development * how the work has been evaluated with participants We seek papers for this workshop that, independently or collectively, set agendas and possible priorities that frame follow-on discussions and also research pursuits. While applying existing interaction approaches and metaphors to the new Semantic Web sometimes helps, we also seek new ideas that apply uniquely to the Semantic Web, enabling forms of interaction not otherwise possible. We welcome papers demonstrating new features and behaviors the Semantic Web enables in its interfaces. Especially valued are papers applying user-centered methodologies to ensure the interface components are beneficial. Finally, we encourage research on how the Semantic Web changes use itself, including changed user tasks and goals, contexts of use, user types and groups, and requirements that the newly enabled user community has. Topics Part of this workshop's goal is to map the terrain that SWUI topics, issues and challenges lie in. We invite those interested in participating in this workshop goal to start now by reading and posting on the SWUI mailing list at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-ui/. Below are some sample topics and their groups, subject to much change as the workshop approaches and culminates. * requirements on data o measuring and determining how data can enhance good interaction o annotations on media o a seamless interface from merged: data, vocabularies, formalisms * browsing o local view browsing o style and layout o selection of media for presentation o assisted navigation * search o assisted querying o facet browsers o relevance measures * large-scale structural visualization o graphic-based o geographic-based o dimensional views * presentation generation o document structure o hypermedia o narrative and rhetorical structure * adaptation and personalization o user models: formation, representation and processing o recommendation o parameters of adustment in SWUI * user as author o publishing and sharing o indentity o approachable interfaces * personal and social challenges o community dymanics o trust o privacy o adoption * the changed user experience o new personas, tasks and goals o new sitations, contexts and scenarios o user-centered design and other methodologies for designing SWUIs Submitting Papers Submit your papers as PDF in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions. Email the submissions before July 10th to ISWC06sub(AT)cwi(DOT)nl. Full papers will have a maximum of 14 pages. Short papers will have a maximum of 8 pages. We will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Organizating Committee * Lloyd Rutledge (co-chair), CWI, Amsterdam * m.c. schraefel (co-chair), University of Southampton * Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich * Duane Degler, IPGems Program Committee * Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business * Lora Aroyo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven * Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin * Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland * Lynda Hardman, CWI, Amsterdam * Nicola Henze, University of Hannover * Scott Henninger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln * Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology * David R. Karger, MIT - CSAIL * Ora Lassila, Nokia Research * Paul Mulholland, The Open University * Cynthia Sims Parr, University of Maryland and UMBC * Patrick Schmitz, UC Berkeley * Paul Shabajee, University of Bristol
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