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Important dates
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Extended deadline for all papers categories submissions: June 14th, 2009
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All papers categories submissions: May 30th, 2009
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Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2009
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Camera-ready manuscripts for CPS due: August 14th, 2009
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Camera-ready manuscripts for ISBN due: October 1st, 2009
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Conference dates: November 9-11, 2009
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Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary, Canada
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Saul Greenberg is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. While he is a computer scientist by training, the work by Saul and his talented students typifies the cross-discipline aspects of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing. He and his crew are well known for their development of:
* toolkits enabling rapid prototyping of groupware and ubiquitous appliances;
* innovative and seminal system designs based on observations of social phenomenon;
* articulation of design-oriented social science theories, and
* refinement of evaluation methods.
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His research is well-recognized. He holds the iCORE/NSERC/Smart Technologies Industrial Chair in Interactive Technologies. He also holds a University Professorship, which is a distinguished University of Calgary award recognizing research excellence. He received the CHCCS Achievement award in May 2007 and was also elected to the ACM CHI Academy in April 2005 for his overall contributions to the field of Human Computer Interaction.
Saul is a prolific author who has authored and edited several books and published many refereed articles, as listed at http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/papers/. He is also known for his strong commitment in making his tools, systems, and educational material readily available to other researchers and educators.
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Keynote: “Promoting Creative Design through Toolkits”
Computer science academics and professionals
typically consider their contributions in terms of the
algorithms, applications, and techniques that they develop. Yet
equally important are the tools computer scientists provide to
others, including toolkits, libraries, APIs, SDKs and
frameworks. Such tools radically shape how most developers
think about possible solutions within an unfamiliar problem
space. In this keynote, I describe how interface toolkits for
novel application areas enhance the creativity of ‘average’
developers. By removing low-level implementation burdens
and supplying appropriate building blocks, toolkits give people
a language to think about new interface genres, which in turn
allows them to concentrate on creative designs. As a
consequence, programmers can rapidly generate and test new
ideas, replicate and refine ideas presented by others, and
create demonstrations for others to try. To illustrate, I describe
example toolkits we have built and how people have leveraged
them to create innovative interfaces.
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, and also supervising the lab in Haifa, Israel. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor and founder of the Web Research Group at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains ties with both mentioned universities as a part-time professor for the Ph.D. program.
His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database visualization, and user interfaces.
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Keynote: “Mining the Web 2.0 to Improve Search”
There are several semantic sources that can be found in the Web that are either explicit, e.g. Wikipedia, or implicit, e.g. derived from Web usage data. Most of them are related to user generated content (UGC) or what is called today the Web 2.0. In this talk we show several applications of mining the wisdom of crowds behind UGC to improve search. These results not only impact the search performance but also the user interface, suggesting new ways of interaction. We will show live demos that find relations in the Wikipedia or improve image search, already available at sandbox.yahoo.com, the demo site of Yahoo! Research. Our final goal is to produce a virtuous data feedback circuit to leverage the Web itself.
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