[node-l] Call for Papers, Videos and Exhibits : creating digital technologies in turbulent times

[Ingi Helgason]

CALL FOR PAPERS, VIDEOS AND EXHIBITS

CREATE 2009
1-2 July 2009
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London

Boom or Bust: creating digital technologies in turbulent times

Create 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative  
interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services  
or interaction paradigms. This is the third year of hosting the  
'Create' conference.

This year, we are particularly interested in submissions from  
practitioners and academics willing to share frank and open accounts  
of research and design practice beginning to be shaped or influenced  
by the global economy and climate considerations. However, we also  
welcome submissions related to the more traditional themes of this  
conference. How do we work together as designers and HCI specialists  
to come up with people-centred design, and how do we work with others  
to make our designs a reality?

We are looking for three different types of submission all of which  
will be peer reviewed

Short and extended papers
We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial,  
public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from any  
paradigm - the web, mobile and hand held, or consumer electronics.  
Please outline the problems, capabilities, or new functions that were  
being addressed, and describe the solutions you or your team created  
to resolve it. We are particularly interested in receiving papers  
discussing issues related to recent global events.  We also welcome  
theoretical and research perspectives on the process of design  
innovation and approaches to creativity in HCI; how human factors can  
be integrated within a creative design process, methods that encourage  
creativity in interaction design, and the challenges of working in  
multi-disciplinary teams.

Initial submissions should be no more than 3000 characters (approx.  
500 words). Accepted papers can be either short papers 2 pages long,  
or be extended to long papers of up to 8 pages.

Video papers
We welcome submissions which follow the themes for paper or showcase  
submissions but would benefit from a more visual presentation style.  
For example, this could be videos illustrating or describing large  
scale installations that would not be technically or physically  
possible to exhibit during the conference. We also welcome videos  
demonstrating novel interactive artefacts that may be in the early  
stages of development, project descriptions or creative visions of  
future interactive technologies.

Videos should be no longer than 7 minutes in length (including titles  
and credits) and should not require any supporting material to be  
understood. It is very important that you have the rights to use all  
the material that is contained in your submission. Successful  
submissions will be required to submit a short 2 page paper which  
should also be possible to understand without having seen the video.

Exhibits
Installations or exhibits should be of a relatively small to medium  
scale and may include documentation in the form of videos and posters  
to accompany them. We are particularly interested in exhibiting:  
interactive products, interactive service design solutions, small- 
scale interactive artworks, networked objects, screen based  
interactive media and interactive installation pieces.


Key dates

20 April 2009 - Closing date for abstracts and proposals
4 - 8 May 2009 - Author notification
25 May - Closing date for full papers and video papers

For more information and submission details go to           www.create-conference.org

CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction  
Specialist Group of the Ergonomics Society, and British Computing  
Society's Interaction Specialist Group, and will be held at the  
British Computer Society conference venue in Covent Garden, London, on  
1 - 2 July, 2009.







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