[agents] Call for Participation: First International School on Human Technology Interaction 2009

[Birna van Riemsdijk]

====== Last Call for Participation HTI2009 ======

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* Early registration closes on December 19 *

* Registration closes on Monday 19 January 2009 at noon

* For members of SIKS research school: the event is part of SIKS  
educational program. Therefore Phd-students working on the school  
topics are strongly encouraged to participate.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

First International School on Human Technology Interaction
January 26-30 2009
Website of the School: http://www.mmi.tudelft.nl/HTIcourses
Location: Best Western Hotel Landgoed Ehzerworld te Almen (near  
Zutphen).
Website http://www.ehzerwold.nl/ontspanning-en-omgeving.html

The First International School on Human Technology Interaction  
(HTI2009) will be held in Almen, The Netherlands, during January 26-30  
2009.

Our environments and the products inhabiting these spaces become  
increasingly dynamic and interactive. A growing variety of consumer  
and professional products is being equipped with sensors, data storage  
capacity, information processing technology, actuators and new display  
technologies. Advancements in network and wireless communication  
technology begin to make it feasible to connect such products into  
smart environments that can sense and reason about user intentions,  
experiences and emotions in a natural setting and react and anticipate  
accordingly. In these smart environments humans will be continuously  
connected to each other and information will be available anytime  
everywhere. In order to investigate how these new technologies can be  
geared to the needs and wishes of humans, one should focus on the  
technological development, the human-product interaction and the  
changing role of humans as individuals and as community members.

This will be the first school in a row in which we will explore these  
issues. This first school will present a broad multidisciplinary view  
of how fundamental insights into human physical and cognitive  
capabilities can be used to design human-centered technologies that  
can collaborate symbiotically with humans to enhance human  
capabilities well outside the range of normal biological variation.


===== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS =====
* Dr. Bernice Rogowitz (IBM)
- Interfaces and human perception
* Prof. Dr. John Flach (Wright State Univ.)
- User Modelling
* Prof. Dr. Gilbert Cockton (Univ. of Sunderland)
- User experience sampling

===== TARGET AUDIENCE =====
Master/graduate students, (postdoctoral) researchers in human computer  
interaction,
artificial intelligence, computer science, and related fields.

===== SETUP =====
The format of the school is as follows. Participants of the school will
be in-house for a week. During 5 days,
there will be lectures and some pratical sessions, where the  
participants
will work in groups. Each day (except Friday) will be concluded by  
some drinks and a dinner.

===== PARTICIPATION =====
Note that participation is limited. When you are interested in
attending the school, you have to register (see below). After the
registration deadline, we notify you within a week about your
participation. We aim for as many participants as possible to attend
for whom the school is directly relevant to their area of research
and/or practice.

===== IMPORTANT DATES =====
* 19 December: Early registration deadline
* 26-30 January: HTI2009 school

===== REGISTRATION FEE =====
Early registration fee:
3TU-student or employee € 600
Member of SIKS € 600
Others € 700
Late registration: early fee + € 150.

===== REGISTRATION =====
You can register by following the instructions on the school website:
http://www.mmi.tudelft.nl/HTIcourses

===== VENUE =====
HTI2009 will take place at Best Western Hotel Landgoed Ehzerworld te  
Almen near Zutphen).
Website http://www.ehzerwold.nl/ontspanning-en-omgeving.html

===== ACCOMMODATION =====
A number of rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Hotel.  
Please, indicate if you don't need a room.

===== ORGANISING COMMITTEE =====
Coordinators:
• Anton Nijholt (UT)
• Catholijn Jonker (TUD, penvoerder)
• Huib de Ridder (TUD)
• Armin Kohlrausch (TUe)

Organisation support:
• Matthijs Noordzij (UT)
• Raymond Cuijpers, Wijnand IJsselsteijn (TUe)
• Sylvia Pont, Ted Barendse (TUD)


For more information on organisational matters please contact Ted  
Barendse (t.j.m.barendse at tudelft.nl).
For more information on content matters please contact Catholijn  
Jonker (c.m.jonker at tudelft.nl).