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From: [e-mail] (Hiroshi Ishii)
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Subject: INTERCHI '93 Research Symposium
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INTERCHI '93 International Relations Co-Chair
NTT Human Interface Laboratories


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INTERCHI '93 Research Symposium


INTERCHI '93 will have a two-day research symposium
preceding the regular conference, April 23-24.  The purpose of
the symposium is to provide researchers with an opportunity to
explore developing research issues in greater depth and more
interactively than is possible during the regular conference.
We invite researchers in the INTERCHI community to
participate.

Each interested researcher should submit a three-page
research summary describing your recent activities and
current interests, including a list of recent research
publications.  These research summaries will be reviewed by
the organizing committee.  The goal of this review will be to
gauge the breadth of interests of the prospective participants
and to identify clusters of participants whose contributions
might usefully be organized into mini-sessions, described
further below.  Applicants are free to suggest such clusters
themselves, by proposing interesting topics or specific activities
and people.

Since the goal of the symposium is to explore research issues
interactively and in depth, we plan to put together mini-
sessions with differing formats that will facilitate achieving
these goals.  In all cases we plan to offer considerable time for
discussion.  Here are some examples:  panels on either specific
substantive topics or on general research issues (methodology,
theory, professional matters affecting research); a tutorial to
bring attendees up-to-date on the status of some specific
subfield, followed by several technical presentations presenting
recent findings on this topic; an explicit comparison of
methods or systems as applied to a common set of benchmark
problems; an opening overview presentation covering a topic
for the symposium as a whole, a break-out discussion of issues,
approaches, and results among attendees, followed by a
summary presentation to the symposium as a whole. We
encourage applicants to propose other ideas for formats.

As these examples suggest, we plan to avoid having attendees
simply describe their own work.  Attendee's position papers
will be distributed beforehand so that time at the meeting need
not be taken to give a sense of attendee's interests.

Many of these example formats require that some attendees
prepare brief presentations (for example, tutorial summaries)
or do advance work of other kinds (for example, developing
benchmark problems for comparison mini-sessions).  After
deciding on the mini-session topics and formats the committee
will ask particular attendees to do these jobs.  Anyone applying
to participate will be expected to be willing to contribute in
these ways.  The committee will not require invitees to
contribute more than a half-day's work of advance preparation,
though some invitees may choose to do more.  The committee
expects all attendees to participate actively in the discussion
and work of the symposium, whether or not they are asked to
prepare any formal presentation or to do other advance work.

To make discussion and informality possible, the Research
Symposium will be limited to no more than 70 participants.
Should it be necessary to invite fewer participants than
applicants, the committee will take into account the goals of
broad coverage of the field of Human-Computer Interaction
along with in-depth discussion of specific topics.  Only
applicants with a clear record of research activity will be
invited, but researchers at all career stages (except students)
are encouraged to apply.  We encourage electronic mail
submissions.

Summary of application procedure

Application format:

Summary of current research and interests, including selected
recent research publications. camera-ready, not to exceed three
pages.  Suggestions for mini-session topics and formats
encouraged(optional).

Apply to (e-mail submissions preferred):

[e-mail]

Gary M. Olson
Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory
University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-1234
U.S.A.

Application deadline:  Application must be received by
February 1, 1993.
The committee will respond to all applicants, and issue work
assignments to designated invitees, by February 26.

Organizing Committee

Gary Olson, University of Michigan, Chair
Gregory Abowd, Carnegie Mellon University
Hans Brunner, US West
Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado
Andrew Monk, University of York
Janni Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
Judy Olson, University of Michigan

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