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Call For Proposals
Toronto Usability Summit 2003


Conference Description
The Toronto Usability Summit (TUS) is a multi-disciplinary gathering of usability professionals dedicated to advancing the skills and qualifications of practitioners in a wide range of fields.

Conference participants include user interface designers and users, software developers, managers of human-computer interface projects, human factors practitioners, interface evaluators and testers, industrial designers, teachers of HCI, information architects, researchers in human-computer interaction, and professionals in other areas seeking to gain an understanding of how HCI relates to their specialties.


Submission Types

Presentations
Presentation sessions focus on a practitioner’s ideas and experience with usability methods, skills, philosophy, design, business case studies, or other relevant topics. No commercially available or vendor products will be accepted for demonstrations. Presenters should refrain from any product endorsements.

Workshops
Workshops provide participants with the opportunity to develop new methodologies, techniques, and skills. Workshop topics range from practical guidelines and standards to methods and techniques.   

Topics
 - Tutorials cover a wide range of HCI-related topics. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Usability & aesthetics
 - Requirements capture and analysis techniques
 - User interface development software (Visio, Tinderbox, Gene)
 - Practices and/or methodologies for design, cognitive engineering, usability engineering, etc.
 - Usability techniques (guerrilla, low fidelity prototyping, etc.)
 - Information visualization and retrieval
 - Multimedia, multimodal interfaces
 - Design for non-traditional systems, e.g., games
 - Web design and applications
 - Interfaces for home, wearable computing, etc.
 - HCI in corporate settings

Submissions on emerging topics such as new techniques for usability or for capturing and reusing HCI knowledge, as well as new interfaces for the home or biomedical devices are encouraged.


Target Audiences

Beginner/Generalist
Sessions designed for people who are new to usability should assume little or no prior knowledge or experience with usability concepts and techniques. These sessions should focus on bringing new people up to a minimum competency in a subject area as quickly as possible, so that they may take advantage of a broader range of sessions at this same conference. UPA will attempt to schedule these sessions early in the conference week.

Advanced/Specialised
These topics teach new skills to current practitioners, enhance existing skills, share knowledge and experience to broaden one’s knowledge of both craft and business, and build the usability community. Experienced practitioners are the people most likely to encounter new problems and issues (beyond basic skills), and need to have knowledge of both techniques and resources that will help them cope with any challenge.

Duration       
Presentations last approximately 50 min.
Workshops are three hours long.


Proposal Requirements

Prepare a PDF format of the proposal, no longer than two pages, for review purposes. It must:

 - indicate the type (Presentation, Workshop)
 - identify the target audience (Beginner/Generalist, Advanced/Specialist)
 - describe the learning objectives
- describe the material that will be covered
- briefly outline how the tutorial will be conducted
 - in cases of multiple instructors, indicate role and percentage involvement of each instructor

If the proposed workshop or presentation has been delivered previously, the proposal should include where the tutorial has been given and how it will be modified for TUS 2003.

For the attendee background, include any prerequisites such as knowledge of HCI content, processes, and procedures. State any skills that are needed to understand tutorial content or to complete the exercises. Specify whether the session is intended to introduce participants to an area or further develop the expertise of knowledgeable participants.


Submitting Your Proposal


Persons interested in presenting or leading a workshop should send their proposal, in .pdf format, as well as contact information (name, affiliation, postal address, telephone/fax, email address) to: submissions@tus.ca by January 31, 2003.


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Daniel Ponech, M.A.
Founding Co-Chair
Toronto Usability Summit
www.tus.ca