IN CONJUNCTION WITH ASWC, THAILAND 2008, 8-11 December // POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 2ND 2009 DUE TO FORCE MAJEUR// WORKSHOP PLAN PRESENTATIONS, PHOTOS AND VIDEOS GOALS To identify and bring to the attention of the research community the human factors in semantic web technology at large, and some of the challenges faced by general users to come to terms with the semantic web To identify differences in behaviour and perception of semantic web technologies arising from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds NOTE: by semantic technologies we refer to any technology capable of supporting relationship associations on the open web, including technologies that are labelled as ' web 2.0' and not only RDF/OWL standards
New semantic web tools are
being released (primarily RDF based but Ontology editors and other semantic
technologies too) that look promising and useful but
little or no 'usability good practices' are in place to make such applications
useful to those who have never seen one before (ie the majority of the
intended users) TENTATIVE WORKSHOP AGENDA ======================= Introduction and overview (workshop organizers) Presentations Break Presentations OPEN FLOOR DISCUSSION ON WORKSHOP ISSUES, FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA AND DEBATE (all) Conclusion NOTE: EACH PRESENTATION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY QUESTION
Date and Duration Half day during conference dates, to be announced SUBMISSIONS ARE INVITED We welcome scientific, academic and practitioners contributions from qualified authors and researchers as follows: position papers (up to 2 pages) short papers (up to 4 pages) and full papers (up to 14 pages), as well as posters and virtual contributions, although only papers conforming to conference proceeding guidelines will be included in the proceedings Note: Scientific
and academic contributions should adhere to the formalisms and
requirements of international research standards, practitioners
contributions may be the result of less FORMAT If conformant to paper submission guidelines, workshop papers will be included in the SUBMISSIONS URL FOR REGISTERED AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS NOTE: must log in EASYCHAIR.ORG before can view the pages below
REVIEW PROCESS: Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least 2 qualified committee members Contributions will be evaluated as follows: - Originality and novelty of the research topic - Contribution to Knowledge in the field (considerng it is an emerging area of research) - Clarity of exposition - Inclusion and appropriate citation to sources of knowledge and theories in the discipline, and related disciplines- Conformance to guidelines SUGGESTED SUBMISSION TOPICS (not limited to) Usability of semantic web applications - Issues, factors, metrics Human and Semantic Web Interaction (HSWI) Methodologies for developers (how to make geeks speak natural language) Methodologies and Metrics for assessing SW usability Human Factors in SW Applications Development Case studies, findings, Exploring Global Perspectives: Cultural and linguistic factors in SW Applications Semantic Web functionality and acceptance, and regional human development issues IMPORTANT DEADLINES X T E N D E D Submission: 15 September Acceptance Notification: 15 OCTOBER Camera Ready Copy: 30 OCTOBER (at the latest) - (sorry the planned extension to 15.11 was incorrect) COMPLETE, CORRECTED, FORMATTED AND PROOFREAD PAPERS SHOULD REACH THE W/ORGANISERS NO LATER THAN 30 OCTOBER FOR INCLUSION IN THE PROCEEDINGS, LATER PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED BUT MAY NOT MAKE IT IN THE SPRINGER VOLUME AND CD! Workshop Organisers
Committee Members Lloyd Rutledge Open University, Netherlands DoWan Kim, Paichai Univ Korea Kyung koo Min, SK Telecom Kyunsun Kim, Diquest Christine Chan U OF REGINA, CANADA Paul Janecek, AIT Thailand Ernesto Damiani UNIMI, ITALY |
1st Workshop, Human Factors and the Semantic Web |
