[Corpora-List] Second CfP: 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

Location: University of Potsdam/Germany

Registration: Please register for the main conference.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. phil. Eva-Maria Jakobs, RWTH Aachen

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 of 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: July 10th, 2009 (Extended deadline!)
- Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2009
- Final paper submission: September 4th, 2009

Websites:
- Workshop Homepage: 
http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/gscl-ak/workshop09en.html
- Main Conference Homepage: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/
- GSCL Working Group on Hypermedia: 
http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/gscl-ak/

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
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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