For further details see: http://www.nordichi2008.org We are pleased to invite you once again to participate at NordiCHI 2008. NordiCHI is the meeting place for researchers from academia and industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others from a broad range of traditions and communities. NordiCHI is a biannual conference which has earlier been held in Stockholm (2000), Århus (2002), Tampere (2004) and Oslo (2006), and now in Lund (2008). Some details of the key highlights are provided below. Keynote speakers: Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA, Sweden Jonas Birgersson, Board member and CEO at Labs², Sweden Gerhard Fischer, Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Kirsten Dehlholm, Hotel Pro Forma, Denmark Marianne Graves Petersen, Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark. 42 selected full papers will be presented at the main conference, covering themes such as: Usability evaluation Participatory design Mobile interaction Novel user interfaces Cultural issues Theory and foundation of HCI Design methods Ubiquitous and pervasive computing Group and organisation issues Design methods Universal acccess Health care applications Public IT E-learning and games In addition, 25 further papers will be presented as short papers and or as posters/demos. Also, the NordiCHI Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. The following tutorials will take place in Sunday the 19th of October: Tutorial 1 – GUI Bloopers: Recognizing and Avoiding Common GUI Design Errors Full-day tutorial by Jeff Johnson, UI Wizards, Inc. Tutorial 2 – HCI Themes for the Future: Collaborative Design, Social Creativity, and Meta-Design Full-day tutorial by Gerhard Fischer, Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D) Tutorial 3 – Designing Mobile Experiences Didier Chincholle & Edith Sánchez Svensson, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Full-day Tutorial 4 – Towards Engineering Joy-of-Use for Business Applications Kirstin Kohler, Fraunhofer IESE, Half-day Tutorial 5 – Design patterns for user interfaces on mobile equipment Full-day tutorial by Erik G Nilsson, SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway Tutorial 6 – Empirical Research Methods for Human-Computer Interaction Full-day tutorial by Scott MacKenzie, York Univerity, Toronto, Canada Tutorial 7 – Introduction to Social Network Analysis Half-day tutorial by Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design, City University London Tutorial 8 – Eye Tracking in Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Research Full-day tutorial by Tommy Strandvall, Anne Jansen, Tobii Technology Looking forward to seeing you in Lund. Konrad Tollmar & Bodil Jönsson, Conference chairs Agneta Gulz, Lund University & Lone Malmborg, ITU, Programme chairs

De trevliga MDI:arna på City University London har en position ledig. Notera att sista ansökningsdag är 1 september. City University is looking for career academics to join the highly successful Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design and to contribute to its human-computer interaction design research and teaching mission. This research encompasses evaluation of systems, interaction design, accessibility, user diversity, social computing, creativity and socio-technical systems design. It has been applied to applications ranging from health-care to on-line gaming environments and Second Life, and is supported by its state-of-the-art Interaction Lab sponsored by the Vodafone UK Foundation. Läs mer i platsannonen.