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June 2008 Journal Special Issue Call

Along with colleagues in Microsoft and Bristol we are editing a special issue of a journal to follow on from our PPD workshop last month in Italy.

Call for Papers for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue:
Designing Multi-touch Interaction Techniques for Coupled Public and Personal Displays
Editors: Shahram Izadi, Aaron Quigley, and Sriram Subramanian

Synopsis:
This call for papers for a special issue follows on the successful workshop held at Advanced Visual Interfaces 2008 on the same topic (see http://ppd08.ucd.ie/ for workshop details). The special issue will focus on the research challenges and opportunities afforded by the combination of touch sensitive small personal input displays coupled with large touch sensitive public displays. Different touch-enabled devices rely on different types of touches (passive stylus, active stylus, fingers and tangible objects), the motivating question for this call is how do users switch between these devices and how to facilitate fluid transition from a collection of multiple displays to a single integrated multi-display environment.
Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large shared- and small personal- interactive surfaces. Large interactive surfaces offer great potential for face-to-face work and social interaction and provide natural ways to directly manipulate virtual objects whereas small devices afford the individual a personal workspace or “scratch space” to formulate ideas before bringing them to a wider audience. Advanced visual interfaces can be built around a combination of both personal and public touch driven displays. Such computer mediated multi-device interaction between local touch-driven displays and shared public ones present a number of novel and challenging research problems.

Topics of interest to this special issue include (but are not limited to)

* Understanding the design space and identifying factors that influence Multi-touch interactions in Coupled Public and Personal Displays
* The impact of social conventions on the design of suitable interaction techniques for shared and personal displays
* Exploring interaction techniques that facilitate multi-display interfaces
* Personal displays as physical objects for the development of interaction techniques with shared multi-touch displays
* Novel interaction techniques for both personal and public multi-touch devices as part of multi-display environments
* Techniques for supporting input re-direction and distributing information between displays
* Developing evaluation strategies to cope with the complex nature of multi-display environments
* Ethnography and user studies on the use of coupled public and personal display environments
* Comprehensive surveys of the state-of-the-art that extend our understanding of the design space.

Submission details
Submissions should be between 6000 and 8000 words and authors are encouraged to use the Springer guidelines for authors, available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/Word/journals
Submission in pdf electronic format should be emailed to Luke Conroy (luke.conroy@ucd.ie).

Dates
4th August 2008: 300 word abstract and expression of interest (optional)
15th August 2008: Feedback on abstract
29th August 2008: Full submission due
3rd October 2008: First Notification
5th December 2008: Revisions due
9th January 2009: Final Notification
June – Dec 2009: Planned publication

May 2008 Co-Chair PPD’08 – Naples Italy

PPD LogoAVI is going well but this Saturday I am co-chairing an international workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public and private displays along with Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research UK and Sriram Subramanian from Bristol University UK. The program for this workshop is now online and if you take a look you will see the range of very interesting workshop papers and participants. The objective of this workshop is to focus on the opportunities afforded by the combination of touch sensitive small private input displays coupled with large touch sensitive public displays. The main goals are to identify research challenges in the technology, application and evaluation of devices in such settings.

Workshop attendees will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of Springer’s Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. The goal is to have the authors submit extended versions of their papers by Sept 2008 (we realize CHI is around the corner, but we have a tight deadline from Springer). More details on this will be available at the Workshop and linked from the website.

Jan 2008 Co-Chair PPD’08 (public/private multi-touch displays)

Along with some colleagues I had a workshop proposal for AVI 2008 the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces accepted recently.

PPD logo

PPD’08 Call for Papers
Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled
public and private displays
(AVI 2008 the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces)

Workshop Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2008, 11:59 pm PST

Workshop: May 31, 2008 Napoli, Italy

Organizers:
Shahram Izadi – Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Aaron Quigley – University College Dublin, Ireland
Sriram Subramanian – University of Bristol, UK

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Overview
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The PPD 08 workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled
public and private displays focuses on the research challenges and opportunities
afforded by the combination of touch sensitive small private input displays
coupled with large touch sensitive public displays. Different touch-enabled
devices rely on different types of touches (passive stylus, active stylus,
fingers and tangible objects), the motivating question for this workshop is
how do users switch between these devices and how to facilitate fluid transition
from a collection of multiple displays to a single integrated multi-display
environment.

Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large shared
displays and small display technologies. In parallel we have seen the emergence
of new classes of device which support both touch or multi touch interaction.
Examples of small touch driven devices include PDAs, Tablets and iPhones and
examples of large interactive surfaces (mutli-touch driven displays) include
the Diamondtouch and Surface Computing. Interactive surfaces offer great
potential for face-to-face work and social interaction and provide natural
ways to directly manipulate virtual objects whereas small devices afford the
individual a personal workspace or “scratch space” to formulate ideas before
bringing them to a wider audience. Advanced visual interfaces can be built
around a combination of both private and public touch driven displays. Such
computer mediated multi-device interaction between local touch-driven displays
and shared public ones presents a number of novel and challenging research
problems.

This workshop will specifically focus on the research challenges in designing
touch interaction techniques for the combination of small touch driven private
input displays such as iPhones coupled with large touch driven public displays
such as the Diamondtouch or Microsoft Surface.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

* Understanding the design space and identifying factors that influence
user interactions in this space
* The impact of social conventions on the design of suitable interaction
techniques for shared and private displays
* Exploring interaction techniques that facilitate multi-display interfaces
* Personal displays as physical ob jects for the development of interaction
techniques with shared multi-touch displays
* Novel interaction techniques for both private and public multi-touch
devices as part of multi-display environments
* Techniques for supporting input re-direction and distributing information
between displays
* Developing evaluation strategies to cope with the complex nature of
multi-display environments
* Ethnography and user studies on the use of coupled public and private
display environments

We invite contributions from researchers and practioners working in the area of
multi-display environments and horizontal interactive surfaces coupled with
private displays. Interested attendees should submit a short position paper of
less than 4 pages. Based on a peer review of the position papers about 10 to 15
participants will be invited to attend the workshop.

Please visit our website (http://ppd08.ucd.ie/) for further details and
submission procedures.