"USER INTERFACES FOR ALL"
25-26 October 2000
Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy
Special Theme
"Information Society for All"
Areas of interest
- Adaptable and adaptive interaction, user modelling
- Intelligent user interfaces, guided or cooperative interaction, intelligent agents
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
- Multilinguality, internationalisation / localisation of interactive applications
- Novel interaction techniques, multimedia / multimodal interfaces
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Dialogue design methodologies and approaches
- Interface design assistance tools
- Interface architectures and development tools, interoperability
- Formal methods and languages for interaction specification and verification
- Ergonomics, Human Factors and usability issues
- Evaluation techniques and tools
- Sociological and economical issues
- Novel approaches to information access and retrieval in large information spaces
- Cognitive Factors in Design
- User-Centred Design
- Interface metaphors
- Intuitive, seamless interfaces
- Interfaces to wearable and ubiquitous systems
- Information Visualisation
- Support measures (e.g. standardisation) for user interfaces for all
- Accessibility of information environments
This year's special theme is "Information Society for All", and a special session will be devoted to the issue of "Universal Access in Healthcare Telematics". In this context, areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Organising Healthcare collections for universal access
- Reference models for universally accessible medical records
- Advanced interaction techniques for Healthcare professionals
- Virtual Hospital
- Personalisation and adaptation in Healthcare Telematics
- Social aspects of universal access to medical records
- Security, privacy and IPR
- Universal access principles and the organisation of Regional Healthcare Networks
- Etc
Keynote Speaker
- Prof. Gavriel
Salvendy
Purdue University, USA
Programme Committee
- Prof. Constantine Stephanidis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece (Workshop Chair)
- Dr. Pier Luigi Emiliani, CNR-IROE, Italy (Programme Chair and Local Organiser)
- Prof. Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Dr. Michael Pieper, GMD, Germany
- Dr. Elizabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany
- Prof. David Benyon, Napier University, United Kingdom
- Prof. Noelle Carbonell, CRIN-CNRS & INRIA, France
- Dr. Giorgio Faconti, CNR-CNUCE, Italy
- Mr. Seppo Haataja, NOKIA Mobile Phones, Finland
- Dr. Ilias Iakovidis, European Commission, EU
- Dr. Dominique Scapin, INRIA, France
- Prof. Christian Stary, University of Linz, Austria
- Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Dr. Annika Waern, SICS, Sweden
- Dr. Michael Wilson, RAL, United Kingdom
- Dr. Juergen Ziegler, FhG-IAO, Germany
Contact Details
For more information, please contact:
Programme Chair & Local Arrangements:
Dr. Pier Luigi Emiliani
Director
Institute of Research on Electromagnetic Waves "Nello Carrara" (IROE)
National Research Council
Via Panciatichi, 64
50127 Firenze, Italy
Tel: +39 055 431090 / 4235235
Fax: +39 055 410893
Email: p.l.emiliani@ifac.cnr.it
Workshop Chair:
Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)
N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton
GR – 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Tel: +30 2810 391741
Fax: +30 2810 391799
Email: cs@ics.forth.gr