PUBLIC AND SITUATED DISPLAYS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES Workshop in conjunction with OZCHI 2008: http://www.ozchi.org/ Tuesday 9th December 2008 James Cook University, Cairns, Australia http://wraydisplay.lancs.ac.uk/ozchi08 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42033775024 KEY DATES Submission deadline extended to October 10th. Please note that workshop participants are eligible for early bird registration after the normal deadline. October 10th 2008: Submission deadline October 24th 2008: Notification of acceptance October 31st 2008: Camera-ready submission December 9th 2008: Workshop AIMS AND SCOPE This OZCHI 2008 workshop will discuss the ways that public, situated displays can support communities. Our primary aim is to explore the potential for situated displays to support communities of all kinds by bringing together many individual community display projects, with the added benefit of increasing awareness and communication between researchers involved in this field. We hope to share experiences of working with communities and the challenges this can involve and explore the different approaches, techniques and technologies used by the workshop participants. In doing this, we aim to learn which of those have proved successful, which have not been so successful, and facilitate comparison of the various approaches and the contrasting communities in which they were based. It is our hope that the workshop will encourage collaboration between disparate research groups, and if suitable the outcomes of the event may be considered for publication in an appropriate venue. The day will comprise conference-style paper presentations, discussion of emerging themes and issues from the presentations, and a group design exercise based around a scenario for a new community display. We welcome all contributions related to the use of public situated displays in supporting communities. Relevant areas for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following: - Exploration of different settings and deployment environments - Techniques for gathering requirements and information for design - Display designs and design techniques - Discussion of key deployment challenges - Issues arising from working with communities - Evaluation of community displays and different interaction techniques - Issues arising from display content and repurposing of content - Access control and possible solutions and approaches - Persuasiveness and community-building effects - Sustainability and evolution of solutions - Managing multiple displays - Enticing and encouraging users, incentives to contribute - Role of gatekeepers and local champions - Spaces and places SUBMISSION We invite submissions of up to three pages in OZCHI submission format (see http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/Submitting) Submissions should be made via the workshop site: http://wraydisplay.lancs.ac.uk/ozchi08 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Arnold (University of Melbourne, Australia) Margot Brereton (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) Matt Jones (Swansea University, UK) Christian Kray (Newcastle University, UK) Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Ann Morrison (University of Queensland, Australia) Kenton O'Hara (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK) Mark Perry (Brunel University, UK) Fiona Redhead (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch University, Australia) Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University, UK) ORGANISERS Nick Taylor (Lancaster University, UK) Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University, UK) Christine Satchell (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Ian MacColl (Australasian CRC for Interaction Design) -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/