Workshop on Social Adaptive User Interfaces (SoAUI'07)
September 11, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
jointly with INTERACT 2007

Goals and Topics
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Important Dates

July 15th, 07: Papers submission (Extended )
July 29th, 07: Notification of acceptance.
August 12th, 07: Camera-ready of accepted papers.
Sep. 11th, 07: Workshop
Adaptive User Interfaces (AUI) should automatically and dynamically customize themselves to the needs of individual human users and the application environment. An AUI adjusts dynamically to fit the user profile and usage context. Considering current technological advancements, direct physical contact is no longer necessary for the interaction and communication among users. It is being increasingly replaced by applications like voice mail, instant messaging, email etc. All these interactions take place through the user interface. The UI is therefore a virtual dialog partner in a global village.
AUIs play an important role in this scenario, for instance, in applications like Assisted Living where old people have to interact with multiple UIs in their homes, making UI their sole communication partner! Therefore, there are very important social and cultural challenges in the design of AUIs. Questions arise like: To what extent should the UI be adaptive? Which social issues should be considered? How does adaptation affect society? It is therefore necessary to include cultural, social and even cognitive aspects into the adaptation facilities provided to the users.
This workshop focuses on discussing the effective inclusion of these aspects along with their impact and benefits.

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the domains of user interface design, cognitive science and practitioners from public information services and international companies to discus social issues related to adaptive UI. By having this narrow focus, this workshop provides a special discussion room for this sensitive issue. This workshop is organized jointly with INTERACT 2007 which the main focus on Socially-Responsible Interaction.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Social issues and impact of UI Adaptivity
  • Usability assessment in adaptive systems
  • Anthropology and ethnography methods and techniques to social interface design and evaluation
  • Social related experiences with UI Adaptivity
  • Adaptivity based on social networks
  • Controlling roles and responsibilities in social user interfaces
  • UI Adaptivity: social related patterns
  • Adaptivity in collaborative user interfaces
  • Expressing emotions through the user interface in collaborative systems
  • Social related Adaptivity limit in adaptive user interfaces
  • Cognitive or Mental Models in UI Adaptation
  • Online communities: social aspects and impacts
  • UI Adaptivity vs. Standards in a global village
  • Adaptive socially-responsible applications
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