We invite you to participate in The University of Queensland postgraduate Interaction Design Conference (QUIDconf). The conference will be held at the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland, Australia on the 17th and 18th of February 2005.

The aim of the conference is to provide guidance and feedback to postgraduate students within the HCI community. Participants will have the opportunity to give a presentation on their research topic in front of a panel of academics and fellow PhD students. Postgraduate students with a research focus on emerging interaction modalities or design methods are encouraged to submit a 1-2 page extended abstract describing their research, clearly indicating relevant research questions and progress to date.

News

• Proceedings and Programme available.
• Venue Change, the conference will now be held at the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland in building 78, room 343.
• Venue and transport information added.
• Academic panel confirmed.
• Conference format added.
• Conference dates confirmed, 17th & 18th of February 2005.
• Conference mailing list created
  

Topics

Submissions could cover research related to:

• Tangible computing
• Social computing
• Mobile and wearable computing
• Augmented reality
• User centred and participatory design
• Context-aware computing
• Design methods
  

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submissions

Please email your submission to quid2005-submissions@itee.uq.edu.au in Word format by the 3rd of December.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: 3rd December 2004
Notification of acceptance: 20th December 2004
Conference dates: 17th & 18th February 2005

Sponsored by

• Information Environments Program (InfEnv, UQ)
• The University of Queensland Graduate School (UQGS)
• The University of Queensland Student Union (UQ Union)

Venue

We will now be holding the conference at The University of Queensland St
Lucia campus. The conference will be held in room 343 in building 78 (General Purpose South), 78-343.

There is a good map of the campus at the following link (building 78 is beside the lake):
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1 

Transport Information

The St Lucia Campus is located seven kilometres from the central-business district of Brisbane city. Transport options to the campus include bus and ferry. Further details on transport to the campus are available at the following link:

http://www.uq.edu.au/about/?page=1068

Accommodation Information

The venue change to the St Lucia campus should make accommodation considerably easier to find. A good starting point might be:
http://www.accommodation.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=340

Academic Panel

The following academic panellists are confirmed for the conference.

Dr. Margot Brereton, Information Environments Program, The University of Queensland

Dr. Tim Mansfield, Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology

A/Prof. Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sydney

Prof. Penny Sanderson, Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology, The University of Queensland

Dr. Stephen Viller, Information Environments Program, The University of Queensland

Conference Format

Delegates will be asked to give a short presentation of their research, which will be followed by a discussion. Delegates will also encouraged to bring a paper that they have had previously published (or are currently working on) to distribute before their talk in order to provide some more background information to the research (this is conditional on co-authors permission).

A detailed conference timetable will be made available closer to the event.

Mailing List

To receive announcements about the conference, subscribe to the mailing-list by sending an email to majordomo@itee.uq.edu.au with the words 'subscribe quid2005-announce' in the body of the message.

Conference Committee

Jared Donovan, jared@itee.uq.edu.au
Brett Campbell, brettc@itee.uq.edu.au
Clint Heyer, clint@itee.uq.edu.au