Call for participation

Call for participation for a Workshop on End User Programming for the Web at CHI 2009 (Boston, MA, USA, April 2009)

** Deadline was October 31st, 2008 **

In the past several years, there has been a resurgence in research activity in end user programming, all focused on the web. As the web has evolved from a set of documents to a platform for new applications, many researchers have created tools that allow end users, or non-programmers, to customize their web experiences. Users can now more easily aggregate information from different websites, create mobile versions of web pages, and automate repetitive tasks. Despite this recent growth, researchers in this area have yet to come together as a coherent community. This one-day workshop will help us assemble as a community, share lessons, and learn from each other.

The workshop will include group discussions about 1) visionary scenarios 2) common research problems, 3) creating a shared corpus of evaluation tasks for comparing systems, 4) creating an environment for sharing code, and 5) planning the production of an edited book, to be published before CHI 2010.

Participants will be selected based on their position paper, prior published work in this area, and interest in writing a chapter for the edited book that will result from this workshop. Four-page position papers describing prior work, current interests, and chapter suggestions may be e-mailed to Allen Cypher at acypher@us.ibm.com. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference itself.

** Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008 **

Workshop Organizers:

Allen Cypher, IBM Almaden Research Center

Tessa Lau, IBM Almaden Research Center

Jeffrey Nichols, IBM Almaden Research Center

Mira Dontcheva, Adobe Systems