From: ishii@ntthif.NTT.JP (Hiroshi Ishii)
Newsgroups: fj.meetings
Subject: INTERCHI '93 Research Symposium
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:34:14 GMT
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Organization: NTT Human Interface Laboratories

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INTERCHI '93 International Relations Co-Chair
NTT Human Interface Laboratories


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INTERCHI '93 Research Symposium


INTERCHI '93 will have a two-day research symposium 
preceding the regular conference, April 23-24.  The purpose of 
the symposium is to provide researchers with an opportunity to 
explore developing research issues in greater depth and more 
interactively than is possible during the regular conference.  
We invite researchers in the INTERCHI community to 
participate.

Each interested researcher should submit a three-page 
research summary describing your recent activities and 
current interests, including a list of recent research 
publications.  These research summaries will be reviewed by 
the organizing committee.  The goal of this review will be to 
gauge the breadth of interests of the prospective participants 
and to identify clusters of participants whose contributions 
might usefully be organized into mini-sessions, described 
further below.  Applicants are free to suggest such clusters 
themselves, by proposing interesting topics or specific activities 
and people.

Since the goal of the symposium is to explore research issues 
interactively and in depth, we plan to put together mini-
sessions with differing formats that will facilitate achieving 
these goals.  In all cases we plan to offer considerable time for 
discussion.  Here are some examples:  panels on either specific 
substantive topics or on general research issues (methodology, 
theory, professional matters affecting research); a tutorial to 
bring attendees up-to-date on the status of some specific 
subfield, followed by several technical presentations presenting 
recent findings on this topic; an explicit comparison of 
methods or systems as applied to a common set of benchmark 
problems; an opening overview presentation covering a topic 
for the symposium as a whole, a break-out discussion of issues, 
approaches, and results among attendees, followed by a 
summary presentation to the symposium as a whole. We 
encourage applicants to propose other ideas for formats.

As these examples suggest, we plan to avoid having attendees 
simply describe their own work.  Attendee's position papers 
will be distributed beforehand so that time at the meeting need 
not be taken to give a sense of attendee's interests. 

Many of these example formats require that some attendees 
prepare brief presentations (for example, tutorial summaries) 
or do advance work of other kinds (for example, developing 
benchmark problems for comparison mini-sessions).  After 
deciding on the mini-session topics and formats the committee 
will ask particular attendees to do these jobs.  Anyone applying 
to participate will be expected to be willing to contribute in 
these ways.  The committee will not require invitees to 
contribute more than a half-day's work of advance preparation, 
though some invitees may choose to do more.  The committee 
expects all attendees to participate actively in the discussion 
and work of the symposium, whether or not they are asked to 
prepare any formal presentation or to do other advance work.

To make discussion and informality possible, the Research 
Symposium will be limited to no more than 70 participants.  
Should it be necessary to invite fewer participants than 
applicants, the committee will take into account the goals of 
broad coverage of the field of Human-Computer Interaction 
along with in-depth discussion of specific topics.  Only 
applicants with a clear record of research activity will be 
invited, but researchers at all career stages (except students) 
are encouraged to apply.  We encourage electronic mail 
submissions.

Summary of application procedure

Application format:

Summary of current research and interests, including selected 
recent research publications. camera-ready, not to exceed three 
pages.  Suggestions for mini-session topics and formats 
encouraged(optional).

Apply to (e-mail submissions preferred):

gmo@csmil.umich.edu

Gary M. Olson
Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory
University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-1234
U.S.A.

Application deadline:  Application must be received by 
February 1, 1993.
The committee will respond to all applicants, and issue work 
assignments to designated invitees, by February 26.

Organizing Committee

Gary Olson, University of Michigan, Chair
Gregory Abowd, Carnegie Mellon University
Hans Brunner, US West
Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado
Andrew Monk, University of York
Janni Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
Judy Olson, University of Michigan

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