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GENERAL INFORMATION Human-Centered Computing
(HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines and research areas that
are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of
computational methods. Researchers and designers of HCC methods and systems
include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and
graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC deals with understanding
humans, both as individuals and in social groups, by focusing on the ways
that human beings adopt, adapt, and organize their lives around computational
technologies, and on how the development of computational technologies can be
informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human abilities, etc.). Human-Centered
Computing addresses problems that the field of Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) does not generally address. In HCC the focus is not only on
interaction, but also on the design of algorithms and systems with a human
focus from start to finish. Following the success
of the previous HCM workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2006
Conference, this year's workshop we will have an entirely different format
consisting of very short oral presentations and posters, so the focus will be
on group discussions centered around the accepted works and the foundational
issues of human-centered multimedia. Workshop attendees will be divided into
discussion-focused groups and asked to define frameworks, tasks, or
definitions that are relevant to the theme of the workshop. Specific details
will be posted in due course, but we expect the new format to allow the
presentation of novel technical works as well as the exchange and generation
of ideas related to human-centered computing. Below
is a (incomplete) list of questions we would like authors to address in their
contributions (please see the Call for Papers for list of topics and more
details): 1.
What is Human-Centered Computing (HCC) and why is
it important? (give examples of what is and what is not) 2.
What are the main characteristics that make an
<interaction, analysis, or production> system human-centered and how
does it differ from a non-HC system? 3.
What role does <interaction, analysis, or
production> play in HCC? 4.
What is your general assessment of the state of the
art of <interaction, analysis, or production> with respect to HCC? 5.
What is different in HCC compared to existing
fields: HCI, ubiquitous computing, computer vision? 6.
What is missing in HCC <interaction, analysis,
or production> and what are the most important challenges to advance the
state of the art (are these technical, theoretical, or other)? 7.
What is the role that multimedia plays in HCC? Is
all multimedia Human-Centered? WORKSHOP CHAIRS Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP, Switzerland (ajaimes_at_idiap.ch) |
