Institut für Pervasive Computing

TICE 2006: Tangible Interaction in Collaborative Environments

Workshop on "Tangible Interaction in Collaborative Environments" (TICE), at the 15th International IEEE Workshops on Enabling Technologies (WETICE 2006).
Manchester, U.K., June 26-28, 2006.

News

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News

06-12-2006: The TICE 2007 webpage is online.
09-06-2006: The preliminary program of TICE 2006 is online.
12-05-2006: The deadlines for the camery-ready version of accepted papers (May 26, 2006) and for the advance registration (June 2, 2006) have been changed.
11-02-2006: The submission deadline has been extended to February 24, 2006.
04-01-2006: The Call for Papers is online, and paper submission is possible from now on.
13-12-2005: The TICE 2006 webpage is online.

Overview

Due to recent technological advances, it has become possible to integrate sensor and actuator technologies as well as wireless communication in everyday objects and environments. These developments open up a huge amount of innovative interaction scenarios, involving new forms of user interfaces. One kind that enables intuitive and natural interaction is tangible user interfaces, referring to interfaces in which persons interact with digital information through the physical environment. Tangible user interfaces are not limited to the interactions of a single person, but can be used to support interaction within - even dislocated - groups and smart artefacts.

Motivated by these developments, we see this workshop as an opportunity for exploring the potentials and perspectives of tangible interaction for supporting collaborative work. Because of its interdisciplinary topic, TICE 2006 aims at bringing together researchers of various fields, including Human Computer Interaction, Tangible User Interfaces, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Sociology, Communication Technologies, Embedded Systems and Ubiquitous Computing, to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends of tangible interaction in collaborative environments.

Workshop Topics

We welcome participants from all disciplines related to the topic of this workshop, including but not limited to Tangible User Interfaces, CSCW and Ubiquitous Computing environments. We invite original research papers and experience reports in all areas of collaborative methods and systems development. Additionally, position papers outlining novel research domains and approaches are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Interaction design of collaborative tangible environments

Design process for embodied/tangible interaction
Guidelines, methods and methodologies for collaborative interaction design
Concepts and patterns for physical and tangible interaction
Programming paradigms for building tangible environments
New paradigms for collaborative environments

Technological aspects of tangible user interfaces

Middleware, platforms and tools
Architectural concepts for enhancing tangible interaction in groups
Enabling technologies for instrumenting tangible artefacts
Innovative technological solutions

Case studies and application scenarios

Usability studies and evaluations of collaborative tangible environments
Visions and application scenarios
Security, privacy and trust in collaborative tangible environments
Collaborative tangible interaction for mobile users

Call for Papers (txt, pdf)

Format and Submission

Papers must be written in English, and they should not exceed 6 pages double column, including references, figures and tables. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions (8.5"x11", two-column). The papers have to contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords.

Each paper will receive at least three anonymous peer reviews by program committee members or additional expert reviewers. The accepted papers and a summary report of this workshop will be published in the post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered authors by the IEEE Computer Society Press after the conference. In order to get an accepted paper published in the proceedings, at least one author has to register and present the paper at WETICE 2006. If enough high-quality papers are submitted, we will contact a journal to explore the possibility of a special issue.

Please submit anonymized papers in either PDF or PS format via the TICE 2006 submission website. If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers.

Paper submission website:
http://www.pervasive.jku.at/Research/Conferences/TICE_2006/_submission

Proceedings

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the post-conference proceedings, published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important Dates

Extended deadline for paper submission: February 24, 2006
Decision to paper authors: April 7, 2006
Camera-ready papers to IEEE: May 26, 2006
Advance registration with discount: June 2, 2006
WETICE 2006 workshops and on-site registration: June 26-28, 2006
Workshop chairs' final reports due to IEEE: July 12, 2006

Co-Chairs

Alois Ferscha
Department of Pervasive Computing
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Austria
Web: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/Ferscha
E-Mail: ferscha@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
Phone: +43 732 2468 8555
Fax: +43 732 2468 8426

Clemens Holzmann
Department of Pervasive Computing
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Austria
Web: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/Holzmann
E-Mail: clemens.holzmann@jku.at
Phone: +43 732 2468 1226
Fax: +43 732 2468 8426

Michael H. Leitner
Department of Pervasive Computing
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Austria
Web: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/Leitner
E-Mail: michael.leitner@jku.at
Phone: +43 732 2468 8518
Fax: +43 732 2468 8426

Program Committee

Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Ken Fishkin, Google Research, USA
Elgar Fleisch, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Clemens Holzmann, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex, UK
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Antonio Krüger, University of Münster, Germany
Michael H. Leitner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Max Mühlhäuser, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Albrecht Schmidt, Lancaster University, UK
Norbert Streitz, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Brygg Ullmer, Louisiana State University, USA
Andreas Zeidler, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany

Program committee website:
http://www.pervasive.jku.at/Research/Conferences/TICE_2006/_submission

Program

TICE 2006 will take place on Tuesday, June 27, 2006.

14:00 - 15:30	Presentation Session (25 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion) Towards Intuitive Work Modeling with a Tangible Collaboration Interface Approach Stefan Oppl, University of Linz, Austria The reacTable: A Collaborative Musical Instrument Martin Kaltenbrunner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain* Sergi Jordà, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Marcos Alonso, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Günter Geiger, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Curball – a prototype tangible game for inter-generational play Dagmar Kern, University of Munich, Germany Mark Stringer, University of Sussex, UK Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex, UK Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00	Keynote Speech Towards Dynamic Interorganizational Business Process Management Professor Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
17:00 - 18:30	Discussion Session

(Preliminary program, might be subject to changes)

Contact

Web: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/Research/Conferences/TICE_2006
E-Mail: tice2006@pervasive.jku.at
Phone: +43 732 2468 1226
Fax: +43 732 2468 8426