Call for Papers
Position papers are invited on different aspects of sharing content and experiences with social television.
The workshop will include group discussions around several specific topics, demos of participants' work and a creative exercise to respond to design challenges.
Submissions are invited on the following topics (not limitative):
- considering different types of sharing content and experiences in social television systems
- exploring new methodologies and techniques to design social interfaces for content sharing
- understanding, supporting and evaluating sociability when sharing content and experiences
- exploring the context in which sharing with social interactive television is done
This workshop seeks to address these issues by bringing together researchers and practitioners from different domains, but with the same interest in social interactive television. We will select participants with diverse backgrounds based upon the relevance, insightfulness, and originality of their submissions.
Expected participants
The workshop is intended for practitioners as well as researchers who have done work related to social television.
This includes:
- Project managers working in the iTV industry (telecom companies, device manufacturers, broadcasters, service and content providers, etc.)
- Industrial designers
- HCI practitioners
- Interface evaluators and testers
- HCI academics, researchers and students with interests in interactive television
- Social scientists with interests in new technologies
- Designers in general and new trends consultants
No particular skills are required.
Participation
Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper (2 A4 pages) before 07/03/2008 (extended!) about a research or study (relevant to the workshop topic) they have been involved with, to david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be. Authors should follow the adjunct proceedings templates (word .dot template).
Candidates are encouraged to argue a clear position on a question relevant to the subject of the workshop. Participants will be selected on the basis of the relevance of their work and interests and familiarity with the topic.
General enquiries about the workshop can be sent to any of the workshop organizers i.e. David Geerts (david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be), Gunnar Harboe (gunnar.harboe@motorola.com) or Joe Tullio (joe.tullio@motorola.com).
Deadlines
- March 7th, 2008: Workshop submission deadline
- March 28th, 2008: Feedback to authors
- April 25th, 2008: Submission of camera-ready papers
- July 2nd, 2008: Workshop at EuroITV2008, Salzburg, Austria