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Conferences on Universal Usability

Keith Instone — Sat, 20 May 2006 07:00:46 -0600

There have been 2 "Conferences on Universal Usability":

CUU 2000, November 16-17, 2000, Arlington, VA, USA
CUU 2003, November 10-11, 2003, Vancouver, BC, Canada

CUU 2003 proceedings

Keith Instone — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Links to items from the CUU 2003 proceedings are now available on the CUU 2003 program page.

Links go to the ACM Digital Library. You will have to log in to get to the PDF files. My SIGCHI membership gave me access, but if you have a general membership in the ACM DL, you should probably be able to get to them as well. Also, you can buy 1 item at a time if you wish.

The conference is starting

Keith Instone — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0700

The 2nd Conference on Universal Usability begins tomorrow in Vancouver.

New Participation Categories for CUU 2003: Doctoral consortium and Late breaking research

Shari Trewin — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0600

The 2nd ACM Conference on Universal Usability is seeking Doctoral Consortium applicants, and extended abstracts on late breaking research in Universal Usability. The conference will be held in downtown Vancouver, Canada from November 10 –11, 2003. See http://sigchi.org/cuu2003/ for conference details. Special rates for early conference registration are available until October 13, 2003.

The CUU 2003 Doctoral Consortium provides an ideal opportunity for doctoral students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. The Consortium will be held on Sunday November 9, 2004. Ten (10) students will be invited to attend and discuss each student's work in turn. Student participants will have a poster of their work exhibited at the main conference. Students will receive complimentary conference registration, and reimbursement of travel, accommodation and food. The deadline for submission is Monday September 22, 2003, 5:00 p.m. (1700) Pacific Standard Time.

The Second Conference on Universal Usability is seeking extended abstracts on late breaking research in Universal Usability. We are particularly looking for papers from the social science, economics, communications and sociology community in order to build bridges between researchers in these disciplines and interface designers.

The CUU conference is focused on understanding and guiding those elements of human-computer interface design that affect the ability of a universal collection of people to effectively use and gain benefit from computer applications. Thus, the conference accepts papers in universal accessibility such as interface designs that support screen readers for the blind, but it is also keenly interested in the social nature of accessibility. For example, CUU would like to attract research from those individuals working on the digital divide, in particular, details on the ways in which different socio-economic groups find it difficult to have access to computers and to the Internet. Computers are currently designed for the western knowledge worker with an assumption of infrastructures that support complex exchanges and a robust power supply. A cultural and cost-based redesign has the potential of bridging the digital divide. Thus, research on the nature, extent and characteristics of this gap are solicited. The conference is also interested in research on how different groups respond affectively to various interfaces and how specific applications leave users disturbed about potential invasions of privacy or control – enough so that usage is avoided or limited. A key belief in hosting this conference is that software and computers are cultural objects that have embodied in their design a set of features that clearly state “who” the software and computers are designed for. The focus of the conference is thus, to develop an understanding of how to create these cultural objects so that they speak to a universal audience.

Suggested topics for universal usability abstracts include the following:

Digital divide issues in Africa, Indonesia, Poor America, etc.
Affective or Emotional Computing
Designing interfaces for multiple languages and cultures
Trust issues in networked applications
Computer training for the computer illiterate
Gender differences in responses to computerization, e.g., the automobile

Prepare a two-page extended abstract of your research in the ACM Conference Publications Format, including: title, author information, abstract, keywords, research summary, and references. E-mail this abstract in PDF format to cuu2003-lbr@universalusability.org by the deadline of Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:00 pm (1700) Pacific Standard Time (PST). Accepted abstracts will be available as part of the Proceedings on the conference website. They will not be published in the print Proceedings. At least one author from each accepted abstracts will be required to present the paper at the conference in November. Presenting authors must register for the conference.

See the call for extended abstracts for more information.

Shari Trewin
CUU2003 Publicity Chair

CUU 2003 Program

Vicki Hanson — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0600

The CUU 2003 Program lists the papers accepted for presentation. Some of them are:

Applying heuristics to perform a rigorous accessibility inspection in a commercial context
Community Portals through Communitization
Design Studies for a Financial Management System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural India
Involving Young Girls in Product Concept Design
Toward Achieving Universal Usability For Older Adults Through Multimodal Feedback
Countering Design Exclusion Through Inclusive Design

Registration information for CUU 2003

Vicki Hanson — Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:00 -0600

Conference registration details for CUU 2003 are now online. Save $100 and register before October 13th.

Be a sponsor for CUU 2003

Vicki Hanson — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0600

Corporate sponsors are being solicited for CUU 2003.

CUU 2003 Call for Participation

Vicki Hanson — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0700

The 2nd Conference on Universal Usability will be in November in Vancouver, Canada. The Call for participation lists May 12 as the deadline for submissions.

CUU 2000 Proceedings

Keith Instone — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:50:42 -0700

Many parts of the CUU 2000 proceedings are online. You can get PDFs of papers (from the ACM Digital Library) and some PowerPoint files. You can also buy a paper copy of the proceedings.

CUU 2000 Conference Report

Keith Instone — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:22:41 -0700

The first Conference on Universal Usability was a great success! The students compiled a report on the conference.