From rba@bellcore.com Mon Dec 16 17:17:53 1996 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by mail.acm.org (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id RAA33688; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:16:38 -0500 Received: from Hecuba.Parc.Xerox.xns by alpha.xerox.com via XNS id <17905(5)>; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:44:36 PST Received: from media.bellcore.com ([192.4.6.46]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <17035(6)>; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:36:15 PST Received: (from rba@localhost) by media.bellcore.com (8.6.9/8.6.10) id PAA03508 for announcements.chi@xerox.com; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:36:08 -0500 X-Ns-Transport-Id: 0800207424C500F6AFCE Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:36:08 PST From: rba@bellcore.com (Bob Allen) Subject: ACM Digital Libraries'97 ** CFP To: announcements.chi@xerox.com Message-Id: <199612162036.PAA03508@media.bellcore.com> Status: RO ........... ACM Digital Libraries '97 .......... REMINDER: The Deadline for Submissions is January 14, 1997!! ............... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ............... 2ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES Philadelphia, Pa July 23 - 26, 1997 ........................... TOPICS .............................. We welcome technical papers, posters, demonstrations, videos, as well as proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials. Research is welcome on any aspect of Digital Libraries including but not limited to the following: .. economic and social implications .. education, learning, and collaboration .. electronic journals, textbooks, and catalogs .. evaluation methods and user testing .. hypertext and hypermedia .. image, graphical, GIS, and multimedia information .. indexing and classification .. information storage and retrieval .. intellectual property rights .. metadata and knowledge representation .. online museums, galleries, and studios .. scanning and digital preservation .. world-wide web .. user interfaces, visualization, browsing, and searching .. user behavior and information needs analysis .................INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS................. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS ARE POSTED ON: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/ OR MAY BE REQUESTED FROM diglib97@sis.pitt.edu IMPORTANT DATES: January 14, 1997: Submissions due to appropriate Chair March 4, 1997: Notification of acceptance April 28, 1997: Revised papers due to Program Chair ........... ACM Digital Libraries '97 ........... .................................... From kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk Wed Dec 18 05:04:14 1996 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by mail.acm.org (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id FAA04334; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 05:02:43 -0500 Received: from Hecuba.Parc.Xerox.xns by alpha.xerox.com via XNS id <23878(3)>; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:40:16 PST Received: from daimi.aau.dk ([130.225.16.1]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <23227(5)>; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:07:58 PST Received: from [130.225.16.106] (lima [130.225.16.106]) by daimi.aau.dk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA21956 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:00:07 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Ns-Transport-Id: 0800207424C500F6CA28 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00:03 PST Sender: kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk From: Gerard Hutchings (by way of kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk (Kaj Gronbak)) Subject: 2nd Call: Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference To: announcements.chi@xerox.com Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Status: RO *********************************************************************** Please feel free to distribute this message as widely as possible. Apologies if you see this message more than once. *********************************************************************** The Eighth International ACM Hypertext Conference Hypertext 97 ------------ Southampton, UK April 6-11 1997 http://ht97.soton.ac.uk/ht97/ !!YOU ARE NOT TOO LATE!! Two important pieces of news regarding the annual ACM Hypertext conferenc= e: - The ACM has now given the final approval of this conference as it has to the previous conferences. - You are not too late to submit your contribution. While the deadline for technical papers is long overdue, you still have the chance to submit either short-papers, posters, or demonstrations, or to participate in a workshop. Deadlines: --------- January 17 1997: Short papers January 17 1997: Posters January 17 1997: Demonstrations See the end of this message to find the detailed submission instructions. The conference home page at http://ht97.soton.ac.uk/ht97/ contains more information than is included in this email. BACKGROUND In 1987 the first Hypertext conference was held. At that time hypertext was in its infancy, with a few but important systems available, e.g. KMS, NoteCards, Storyspace, Intermedia, Augment, HyperCard, and Guide. There was even a working Xanadu prototype. Since then hypertext has found its way into information kiosks, on-line manuals, collaborative authoring systems, and the World Wide Web. The Hypertext 97 conference will make it evident that the popularity of hypertext still inspires new radical ideas within a multitude of disciplines. Hypertext 97 is the eighth in the premier international series of conferences on hypertext and hypermedia theory, systems, and applications. Locations alternate between the United States and Europe, with this year in England. Hypertext 97 will offer a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest results in hypermedia research and development, including WWW technology. We invite your participation. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME Hypertext 97 will provide a common setting for researchers, practicing professionals and students to share experiences and to present results about hypermedia authoring, publishing, system construction, human-computer interaction, digital libraries, and electronic literature. The conference attracts distinguished attendees from a diverse range of fields: computing, psychology, literature, sociology, engineering, law, medicine--many different fields. Hypertext 97 will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of exciting and original developments in hypertext and hypermedia through several different technical formats: papers panels and perspectives technical briefings demonstrations posters courses technical workshops In addition, there will be joint sessions with the Sixth World Wide Web Conference which will be running concurrently in California. Topics include but are not limited to: * Large-scale distributed hypermedia (including WWW applications) * Collaborative hypermedia systems * WYSIWYG hypermedia authoring * Integration and open hypermedia architectures * Techniques for generating, recognizing, navigating and visualizing structure * Theories, models, and frameworks * Hypertext rhetoric and criticism * Empirical studies and hypermedia evaluation * Workplace deployment * Hypermedia interfaces to data bases * Structuring hypertext documents for reading and retrieval * Information design * Hypertext writing -- fiction, scholarly, and technical * Innovative hypertexts and novel uses of hypertext and hypermedia * Underlying technologies (persistent object stores, link services, databases, information retrieval, versioning, access control) * Hypermedia in education and training *********************************************************************** Submission of Short-Papers Short papers represent late breaking research or interesting results that does not justify a full paper. Short papers are invited on, but not restricted to, the above topics. They will appear in the proceedings, and will be given a presentation time (10 minutes) at the conference. Because of their length, care must be given to presenting a single clear idea, and to stress its importance. Submissions: Short papers must be written in English, contain a maximum of 1100 words (excluding figures), and in no case should exceed 2 single-spaced pages. The paper must include title, author names, affiliation, and email address of one contact person. Submission is electronic only, either plain text or HTML. Send email submissions no later than January 17, 1997 to Kasper Osterbye at address: kasper@cs.auc.dk *********************************************************************** Submission of Demonstrations Demonstrations allow attendees to get first-hand views of innovative hypertext technology and applications and talk informally with system developers and authors. Presenters should be individuals who have been directly involved with the development of the system, and who are aware of the novel ideas embodied by their system. Submissions: Submit a proposal of at most three pages describing the planned demonstration. The proposal should include a description of noteworthy and distinguishing ideas or approaches your demo will illustrate; an explanation of how your demo will illustrate these ideas or approaches; information about the person(s) who will present the demo; a 100-word summary for inclusion in a program description; and hardware and software requirements, including electrical requirements. Please provide the following cover information: the title, the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete address (including telephone, fax, email) for the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. The proposal may be submitted by e-mail or anonymous FTP to the addresses indicated below. Electronic submissions are encouraged in either postscript or ASCII format. Submissions which should arrive no later than January 17, 1997 should be sent to: Kaj Gr=F8nb=E6k Computer Science Department Aarhus University Ny Munkegade 116, Bldg. 540 DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk Tel: +45 8942 3237 Fax: +45 8942 3255 *********************************************************************** Submission of Posters Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated through conversation. Poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the same topic. Submissions: Submit an extended abstract of at most two pages emphasizing the problem, what was done, and why the work is important. Please provide cover information: the title, the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete address (including telephone, fax, email) for the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Proposals may be submitted by e-mail or anonymous FTP to the addresses indicated below. Electronic submissions are encouraged in either postscript or ASCII format. Submission, which should arrive no later than January 17, 1997 should be sent to: Lynda Hardman CWI, Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl Tel: +31 20 592 4127 Fax: +31 20 592 4199 or John F. Buford Dept. of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Ave. Lowell, MA 01854, USA buford@cs.uml.edu *********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS: A number of workshops will be held in connection with the conference. Check the conference home page for more information. *********************************************************************** The conference home page at http://www.pac.soton.ac.uk/ht97/ contains more information than is included in this email. *********************************************************************** From utest@hubcap.clemson.edu Mon Jan 27 18:47:40 1997 Received: from hubcap (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hubcap.clemson.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA24047; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:40:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:40:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <32ED3E17.CAB@netmail.mnet.uswest.com> Errors-To: tharon@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: pvora@uswest.com Originator: utest@hubcap.clemson.edu Sender: utest@hubcap.clemson.edu Precedence: bulk From: pvora@uswest.com (Pawan Vora) To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: 3rd Web Conference: Call for Participation X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: RO *********************************************************** C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N 3rd Web Conference on Human Factors and the Web Designing for the Web: Practices & Reflections June 12, 1997 Denver, Colorado, USA *********************************************************** The World Wide Web continues its astonishing growth, becoming an ever-greater component of our work, our culture, our politics, our arts, and other aspects of our lives. These new ways of communicating, acting, participating, and recreating present designers with new challenges. We invite you to join us in discussions of our opportunities, challenges, accomplishments, and problems. This is the third in a series of Human Factors and the Web conferences and will be held on Thursday, June 12, 1996 at Denver, Colorado, sponsored by U S WEST Communications. The first two conferences were held in 1996 and were sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories (March 1996) and Microsoft Corporation (October 1996). The purpose of these conferences is to provide a forum for sharing and exchanging information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are working toward a set of principles and guidelines for more useful and usable Web-based designs. THEME. Designing for the Web: Practices & Reflections ------------------------------------------------------- The themes of previous conferences were: 7 Human Factors and the Web/HTML 7 Designing for the Web: Empirical Studies. The theme for this conference is "Designing for the Web: Practices and Reflections." The "Practices" part of the theme focuses not only on empirical work, but also includes work on methods (analysis methods, design methods, evaluation methods, usability testing, etc). Whereas, the "Reflections" theme steps back from empirical work and considers what we have learned about designing for the Web. INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS -------------------------- We invite submissions on practices and reflections on several areas related to Web-based designs: methodology, design & development, usability testing, tools & technology, impact of technological advances, and so forth, in the following categories: - Oral presentations (similar to conventional papers) - Panel discussions - Posters We offer the following questions as starting points and encourage you to think of other interesting issues related to the Human Factors and the Web. 7 Which usability practices work well with Web-based designs? Which do not? 7 How have you adapted existing usability practices for use with Web-based designs? What new practices have you created for use with Web-based designs? 7 Is there a "Web development life-cycle" that is distinct from conventional software development life-cycles? 7 Are there different Web development life-cycles for different Web-based designs? 7 How do usability activities fit into Web development life-cycle? 7 How do the stages of a Web usability life-cycle relate to the stages of a software or Web development life-cycle? 7 Are there important distinctions to be made between categories of Web-based systems based on their use environment? What are they? What different usability practices are (or should be) associated with each category? 7 Traditional work in HCI has emphasized efficiency and productivity. How relevant are these attributes for Web-based designs? What attributes become important for Web-based work? How are we transforming these new attributes into (a) analytic categories, (b) design characteristics, and (c) evaluation criteria? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- Please send your submission to Pawan Vora at the following address NO LATER THAN March 30, 1997: Pawan R. Vora, 3rd Web Conference U S WEST Communications 1801 California St., Suite 1640 Denver, CO 80202 USA Fax: 1+303-965-2755 e-mail: pvora@uswest.com (please include Web Conference Submission in the subject of your e-mail) You may use either a physical hard-copy or an electronic submission. We would prefer electronic submissions in HTML (or PDF) so that upon acceptance we can easily put it at the conference Web site. Electronic submissions must be the ENTIRE contents of the submission, not just a URL. Please use the following guidelines for preparing your submissions: 7 Oral presentations and panel proposals should be limited to no more than 4000 words. 7 Please complete the cover sheet for each of your submissions (a cover sheer is included at the end of this message). REVIEW PROCESS -------------- Your submissions will be reviewed by an international committee of experts in Web design. We will send notifications of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 1997. Review of practice-related submissions will be based on the originality of the submission, the quality of description of the practice (or the practice-related issues), the empirical support for your conclusions, and the usefulness of your contribution to other practitioners. Review of reflection-related submissions will be based on the originality of the submission, the quality of the analysis or argument, the basis for the argument (in either data or theory), and the usefulness of your contribution to other practitioners. Authors may wish to read the "Suggestions for Successful Submissions" document, which will be made available at the 3rd Web Conference Web site on February 4, 1997 (http://www.uswest.com/web-conference). IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- March 30, 1997 Deadline for paper submissions April 30, 1997 Notification of acceptance May 1, 1997 Registration begins (This is a free conference. However, we would like you to register to help us with conference planning.) June 1, 1997 Presentation materials are due - Conference handouts for oral presentations and panels - Poster abstracts June 5, 1997 Final program issued at the conference Web site June 7, 1997 Registration closes June 12, 1997 3rd Web Conference FOR MORE INFORMATION -------------------- Please direct your questions to: Pawan Vora 1801 California St., Suite 1640 Denver, CO 80202 USA Telephone: 1+303-896-3516 Fax: 1+303-965-2755 e-mail: pvora@uswest.com WEB SITE -------- http://www.uswest.com/web-conference (Web site will be up and running at the end of the day January 28, 1997) ================================================================ Cover Sheet ================================================================ DESIGNING FOR THE WEB: PRACTICES AND REFLECTIONS Submission Cover Sheet Title: { } Author(s): { } Abstract (about 100 words): { } Please enter keywords that will help us choose appropriate reviewers for your submission: { } What is the theme of your submission? { } Practices { } Reflections What is the structure of your submission? { } Oral presentation (conventional paper) { } Panel discussion { } Poster Contact information for the principal author: Name: { } Affiliation: { } Address (not a post box -- suitable for express delivery service): { } Telephone: { } Fax: { } Email: { } Some way to reach you in an emergency (e.g, home telephone, pager, cellular phone): { } ============================================================================== ---------------------- ... Pawan R. Vora ... U S WEST Communications ... pvora@uswest.com ... 303-896-3516 From owner-chi-announcements@ACM.ORG Mon Jan 27 16:21:29 1997 Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id QAA43386; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:17:17 -0500 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 118679 for CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@ACM.ORG; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:17:10 -0500 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by mail.acm.org (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id QAA53026 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:06:02 -0500 Received: from Hecuba.Parc.Xerox.xns by alpha.xerox.com via XNS id <16831(4)>; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:53:25 PST Received: from narech ([193.52.99.2]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16831(3)>; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:52:49 PST Received: from [193.52.99.207] (mac-110) by narech (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12531; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:41:52 +0100 X-Sender: saoudi@narech.irin.sciences.univ-nantes.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.5.3 X-Ns-Transport-Id: 0800207424C500F8D1DB Message-Id: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:56:50 PST Reply-To: Abdellatif Saoudi Sender: "ACM SIGCHI General Interest Announcements (Mailing List)" From: Abdellatif Saoudi Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION (RIAO97) X-To: Abdellatif.Saoudi@ACM.ORG To: Multiple recipients of list CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS Status: RO =========================================================================== ! DEADLINE EXTENSION: ! ! The deadline for submissions for RIAO'97 (McGill University, Montreal, ! Canada,June 25-27, 1997) has been extended to February 8, 1997. ! ! http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] ! =========================================================================== (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: Every third year the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes the RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO97 in New York City (Rockefeller University). RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, we seek to bring together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of a proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. Toward these ends the following topics are among those sought for inclusion in conference papers and demonstrations: A: Rapid indexing and retrieval engines; automatic abstracting B: Linguistic tools in information retrieval C: Information retrieval from heterogeneous formats - Identifcation of the same document in different contexts (different languages, structures, versions, etc.) - Unification of documents from heterogeneous formats; data-wharehousing - Data-mining and knowledge discovery in large databases - Search strategies in heterogenous contexts D: Strategies for technology watch on the Web; content addressable electronic mail, newsgroups, and other WWW systems E: Architecture - How to exploit large bandwidth for information retrieval - Distributed multi-agent architectures F: Imaging - Content characterization; manual and automatic description methods - Search strategies G: Sound - Sound content characterization - Automatic indentification of sound type: speech, music, ... - Spoken language recognition; word (boundary) identification H: Multimedia Web interfaces: Iconic, navigational, and speech interfaces I: Content-based compression techniques J: Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K: Web-related international conventions and policies ---------------------------- RIAO97 SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACTS: ---------------------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically as attached Postscript or ASCII (maximum 20 pages) files to: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or in manuscript form to: RIAO97 C.I.D. 36 bis, rue Ballu F-75009 Paris, France or to: RIAO97 C.A.S.I.S C/O Leon Constantin 25th floor 575 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022 USA Questions, comments, and intents to attend conference or submit paper or demonstration proposals may also be sent to above addresses. Additional information will be found at conference web page at URL: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] From orion1@interserf.net Wed Jan 29 11:45:22 1997 Received: from ns.interserf.net (ns.interserf.net [205.244.8.2]) by mail.acm.org (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id LAA14134 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:45:21 -0500 Received: from orion1.interserf.net (orion1.interserf.net [205.244.8.119]) by ns.interserf.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10074; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:43:54 -0500 Message-Id: <32EF7EDA.22B1@interserf.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:46:18 -0500 From: "A.J. Ramsbotham" Organization: Orion Enterprises Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: perlman@acm.org Cc: orion1@interserf.net Subject: On-line conference X-Url: http://www.acm.org/~perlman/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO We recently posted an announcement for an on-line multi-disciplined conference to gather and document expert opinion on the current state and rate of advance in Human Systems Interface technologies, specifically those for information systems. Participation in the conference will be limited to invited experts and to selected respondents with expertise in cognitive sciences, data representation and digital scene generation, display technology, dynamic training and simulation, ergonomics and human factors, haptic devices, human behavior and learning, intelligent systems, linguistics, software, speech processing, virtual reality, and visually-coupled systems. We have had a strong response in selected areas. However your work has come to our attention, and we believe that your participation would be mutually beneficial to the conference and to you. Additional information on the conference is available on http://members.aol.com/OrionEntrp/hsiann.htm WE STILL INTEND TO CONVENE THE CONFERENCE ON 1 FEBRUARY. HOWEVER, IF YOU OR OTHER QUALIFIED MEMBERS OF YOUR ORGANIZATION ARE INTERESTED THE REGISTRATION PERIOD IS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7. Thanks for your time and interest, Sincerely, Alan J. Ramsbotham, Jr. -- ******************************************************************** * Orion Enterprises Inc. "Better information by design."* ******************************************************************** * Orion Enterprises Inc. * Mail: * Shipping: * * Fax:540-899-5471 * P.O. Box 62 * 3330 Bourbon St. * * Voice:540-373-6025 * Fredericksburg, * Suite 117 * * E-Mail: * VA 22404 * Fredericksburg * * orion1@interserf.net * VA 22408 * ********************************************************************