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OzCHI 2012 - Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia
26-30 Nov 2012

http://www.ozchi.org/
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*Important Dates

Friday 15th June 2012: Submission of Long Papers/Tutorial proposals/Workshop proposals

Friday 31st August 2012: Submission of Short papers/Demos/Doctoral consortium applications and Industry Case Studies
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*Introduction

OzCHI is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. It attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference also welcomes perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines.

OZCHI is the annual conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia (HFESA).

OzCHI 2012 is being held In cooperation with the ACM and accepted long and short papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

The conference will be held in the Advanced Technologies Centre at the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn campus. Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th November are devoted to workshops, tutorials and a doctoral consortium. Wednesday 28th November to Friday 30th November will contain the main body of the conference


*Conference Theme

The conference theme, Innovation, Immersion, Integration, Inclusion and Interaction. The theme reflects both the global nature of HCI and the diversity of cultures within which people incorporate interactive use of computers in their daily lives. It also reflects how HCI practitioners and researchers conduct their research and build their applications.


*Conference Topics

Human-Human-Computer interaction is changing rapidly with notable growth and advancing research in the areas of:
* Accessibility
* User Interfaces in Mobile devices
* Social and collaboration technologies
* Mashups and end-user programming
* Embodied interaction and tangible computing
* Ubiquitous computing
* Visualisation, mixed reality and game technologies
* Intelligent User Interfaces
* Consideration of affective, emotional and motivational aspects
* Design and social research methods
* User Interaction Issues with the use of ICT in expanding cultural contexts and in all aspects of home, work, play and life
* eHealth and Welfare
* HCI education
* Benevolence, including HCI research in areas such as aid and development, human rights, community projects etc.


*Submissions

All submissions must use the two column OzCHI proceedings template: OZCHI proceedings template.

OzCHI 2012 will use the EasyChair conference paper management system. Detailed instructions will be found on the conference website www.ozchi.org


*Conference Organizers

-Conference Chair
Viv Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology

-Conference Academic Chair
Graham Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology

-Technical Program Chairs

Caslon Chua, Swinburne University of Technology Weidong (Tony) Huang, CSIRO ICT Centre Clinton Woodward, Swinburne University of Technology

-Short Papers and Posters Chairs

Graham Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology Raj Vasa, Swinburne University of Technology

-Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

Dana McKay, Swinburne University of Technology Karola Von Baggo, Swinburne University of Technology Duncan Stevenson, ANU

-Industry and Sponsorship Chairs

Kon Mouzakis, Swinburne University of Technology

-Panels Chair

Florian Nachreiner, Medibank Private

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sydney Margot Brereton, Queensland University of Technology

-Student Design Challenge Chairs

Martin Tomitsch, University of Sydney
Andrew Cain, Swinburne University of Technology

-Student Volunteer Chairs

Susan Hansen, UTS & Rhodes University
Ruchi Saraf, Swinburne University of Technology Olga Gologshchapova, Swinburne University of Technology Shannon Pace, Swinburne University of Technology

-CHISIG Liaison

Steve Roberts



We look forward to your involvement at this year's OzCHI conference.

Viv Farrell, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology: Conference Chair Graham Farrell, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology: Academic Co-Chair

Please direct any enquiries to Viv Farrell by email:
conf.chair[AT]ozchi.org