[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Usability Aspects of Hypermedia Systems

[Hans-Christian Schmitz]

Call for Papers
?Usability Aspects of Hypermedia Systems?
Workshop of the GSCL Working Group on Hypermedia

Date: October 1st, 2009, 13:30-17:00h
Location: University of Potsdam/Germany
Registration: Attendees of the workshop must only register for the  
main conference.
Keynote speaker: tba.

The workshop is organized as part of this year?s Conference of the  
German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology  
(GSCL), hosted by the Applied Computational Linguistics group in the  
Department of Linguistics at Potsdam University. The GLDV Working  
Group on Hypermedia is offering a one-day workshop dedicated to  
usability aspects for hypermedia systems and applications in the  
E-Humanities (corpus retrieval frontends, web information systems,  
community grids etc.).

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
-	Web design and usability in the E-Humanities: Context,  
productivity/performance, and acceptance
-	(Multimodal) reception research: Methods and test procedures
-	Visualization, navigation, and orientation in complex information systems
-	Interactive and collaborative aspects of hypermedia systems
-	Standards and guidelines on software ergonomics, user-oriented  
design, and accessibility

Since Jakob Nielsen pointed out the main criteria for user-friendly  
hypermedia systems - Easy to learn, efficient to use, easy to  
remember, few errors, pleasant to use ? in the mid-nineties, usability  
research is engaged in the statistical investigation and empiric  
validation of ranking methods. One goal is the improvement of  
usability on the internet, currently focusing on up-to-date topics  
like Web 2.0 and multimodal interfaces.

The goal of this workshop is to create a forum for researchers and  
practitioners interested in hypermedia systems in the context of  
natural language processing. By offering paper presentations (30 min.)  
and discussion panels, we hope to stimulate and facilitate an active  
exchange on unique and interdisciplinary ideas, practices, and methods.

The workshop features English or German paper presentations and  
extended demos. Authors are invited to send abstracts which may not  
exceed two pages of text. All submissions will be  peer-reviewed  
(please place author?s name and affiliation on a separate page for  
anonymous review). The final papers are limited to 12 pages, including  
figures and literature. They will appear in a special issue of ?SDV ?  
Sprache und Datenverarbeitung/International Journal for Language Data  
Processing?.

Important dates:
-	Submission of abstracts: June 30th, 2009
-	Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2009
-	Final paper submission: September 4th, 2009

Websites:
-	GSCL Working Group on Hypermedia: :  
http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/gscl-ak/
-	Main Conference Homepage: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/

Program Committee:
-	Dorothea Kugelmeier, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON Usability Lab
-	Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON
-	Dr. Roman Schneider, IDS Mannheim
-	Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder, Universität Duisburg-Essen
-	Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer, Universität Dortmund
-	Dr. Heinz J. Weber, Universität Trier

Organization Committee:
-	Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON Usability Lab  
E-Mail: hans-christian.schmitz at fit.fraunhofer.de
-	Dr. Roman Schneider, Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim  
E-Mail: schneider at ids-mannheim.de
-	Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder, Universität Duisburg-Essen E-Mail:  
bernhard.schroeder at uni-due.de


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