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MODIE 06 - Modelling and Designing User Assistance in Intelligent Environments

In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Workshop Overview

Ubicomp research continually develops novel interaction techniques, sensing technologies, and new ways of presenting personalized information to the user. Gradually, companies operating in environments such as airports, museums or even shopping malls are becoming aware of the potential benefits in letting such technologies assist their users and customers. Intelligent environments are predicted to aid their users in pursuing their activities, such as wayfinding or shopping, through the situated presentation of personalized information. However, due to the large design space that ranges from wearable computing to public displays, the conceptual and technological choices pose new challenges to the designer of such user-assistance systems.

Themes & Topics

We are interested in models, principles and methodologies, which guide the designer of an intelligent environment in the early stages of the development process, such as task and requirements analysis and conceptual design. We are looking for contributions, which will help the designer of user assistance systems to address the following questions:

• Which user activities and tasks require assistance?
• How to map an activity model into interactions with computing artifacts?
• How should the designer choose the best sensing and interaction technologies for a scenario?
• Which mobile or wearable personal devices can be employed?
• How should multiple users with concurrent activities be supported?
• How should the current state of the user assistance system be represented, especially when dealing with multiple tasks?

The intention of the workshop is to share experiences and perspectives on user assistance in intelligent environments from the different viewpoints of developers, designers, ethnographers and cognitive scientists. Each participant will give a short presentation about their contribution. The second half of the workshop will be focused on the discussion of key topics:

• How to unify the complementary concepts of public and personal devices in IEs
• How to model user activity (terminology, structure, notation) for the design of IEs
• Suggest a terminology for intelligent environments (IEs)
• How tools can support the modelling and designing of user assistance in IEs
• What the problems of applying traditional software engineering methodologies are
• Are there principles that can be generalized for the design of all IEs?

Intended Participants

We encourage researchers from the following disciplines to contribute position papers and knowledge to the discussion:

Computer Scientists (in the fields of Mobile HCI and Intelligent Environments): contribute experiences with working prototypes, discuss technical issues.

Designers: contribute new paradigms and concepts, discuss existing environments and current solutions to present information to the user, how might the future look like?

Ethnographers: contribute an analysis of user activities and problems in current environments, discuss application areas for Intelligent Environments.

Cognitive Scientists: contribute design principles for Intelligent Environments based on their knowledge about the limited resources of the human processor, discussion of pros and cons of interaction paradigms, concepts and technologies.

Submissions

Submissions should describe relevant experience or ongoing research in this field and include a short biography of the authors. The submitted files must adhere to the 2-column ACM format, should not exceed 6 pages and must be sent to Christoph Stahl until July 10.

Workshop Format

MODIE will be a full day workshop. Each participant will give a short presentation on their position and experience in dealing with one or several of the workshop topics. It is assumed that the participants are already familiar with the position papers, which will be available as online proceedings prior to the workshop. In the afternoon, the participants will split into small groups and discuss interesting research topics. Afterwards we will present and discuss their results.

*NEW* The preliminary programme can be downloaded here

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	June 23, 2006 - extended: July 10, 2006
Acceptance Notification	July 17, 2006
Camera-Ready-Version	August 31, 2006
Workshop Date	September 12, 2006

*NEW* The proceedings will be published as SFB 378 - Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes, Memo Nr. 86: Thomas Pederson, Helder Pinto, Michael Schmitz, Christoph Stahl, Lucia Terrenghi (Eds.), Modelling and Designing User Assistance in Intelligent Environments (MODIE 2006) in Conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2006), ISSN 0944-7822, Saarland University

*NEW* Workshop Location:
Room Saarikoski
Innopoli 2, SoberIT premises
Innopoli 2, Tekniikantie 14, Espoo
See building 33 in this map

Organizing Committee

Thomas Pederson (Umea University, Sweden)
Helder Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal)
Michael Schmitz (DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Christoph Stahl (Saarland University, Germany)
Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich, Germany)

Primary Contact:
Dipl.-Inform. Christoph Stahl
FR 6.2 Informatik
Universitaet des Saarlandes
P.O. Box 151150
66041 Saarbruecken
Germany

Fon +49-681-302-3191
Fax +49-681-302-4136
stahl@cs.uni-sb.de
http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/staff/show/stahl