Hi, This workshop can be of interest for the AOIR community (see below). Best, Anxo ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás, SCMIS Faculty of Management & Information Sciences University of Brighton Watts Building, Moulsecoomb Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK m +44(0)7814 491790; t +44(0)1273 64 2458; f +44(0)1273 64 2405 http://cmis.mis.brighton.ac.uk/staff/anxo/ “Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities: enabling older users to create and share self authored multimedia content” workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP 2006 – www.sintef.no/ubicomp This workshop is a discussion platform to unfold the design of future scenarios of pervasive interactive multimedia for elderly people. These systems should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this workshop addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked applications. The aim is to generate debate about the design and development of new pervasive applications which will make it possible for elderly citizens to be content creators and consumers of self-authored content facilitating in this way leisure and social activities and, at the same time, encouraging mobility. The workshop will focus on a discussion on new methods such as living labs, on-the-field enactments, 'Cultural Probes', Participatory Design approaches and advanced in-situ evaluation techniques.. Moreover, workshop organizers will open up a debate around how too identify suitable novel interaction models more appropriate for these scenarios. PARTICIPATION Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper (no longer than 4 A4 pages) about a research or study (to be included in one of the sessions described above) they have been involved with before the 16 June to a.c.roibas@brighton.ac.uk. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and participants will be selected on the basis of their interests, quality of the position papers and familiarity with the topic. The best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a prestigious HCI journal. DEADLINES • July 5, 2006: Submission Deadline (workshop position papers) • July 24, 2006: Acceptance Notification (workshop position papers) • September 17-18, 2006: Workshops • September 19-21, 2006: UbiComp Main Conference ORGANIZERS Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás University of Brighton Petter Bae Brandtzæg SINTEF ICT Prof. Dr. Veerle Van Rompaey University of Leuven Urpo Tuomela, City of Oulu