Human Factors Conference Report
At the Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference, the Internet Technical Group Business Meeting was held and we discussed a bunch of issues related to the TG. Here is a brief summary of what was discussed. I hope that we can generate some strong interest in submitting content for next year's conference. It is a great venue (see below).
1. We had a small, but high quality program this year. The papers were all excellent. I recommend to anyone practicing in the area of Internet HF to read the papers in the Proceedings.
2. For next year, we are currently soliciting submission proposals. The conference is in San Francisco, so it is convenient for you west-coasters and a great place to visit for us in the East or Central. There are a wide variety of submission types (lectures, panels, demonstrations, etc). One of my jobs for the conference overall is to re-engineer the submission types to be clearer and to make them better fit what people want to submit. I will keep our discussion at the TG meeting in mind as I do this.
2a) Lectures - these can be research studies, case studies, new tool descriptions, field studies, or really anything else you can talk about in 15-20 minutes.
2b) Full session (90 minutes) submissions. These can be panel discussions on a general theme, invited addresses of very prestigious people, demonstrations of new technologies, poster presentations where you can interact with other attendees, or special meeting requests where you want to create a real work product like a book outline or a grant proposal. Since next year is the 50th Anniversary of the Conference, the powers that be are hoping to get more of these. So feel free to be creative and submit something innovative.
2c) Workshops or Tutorials. These are half- or full-day sessions that you get paid for. They are supposed to teach a valuable skill to attendees.
As part of our discussion, we talked about co-sponsoring with other groups on content that is in another domain but using the Internet channel. For example, Internet-based health information systems or web-based education. If you want to participate in this, let me know.
Another specific request was a session on email types (mobile, web, corporate). If you or someone you know can talk about the human factors of these, let me know.
Another final specific request was for usability of document types (PDF, MS office, etc) for sharing information. Again, let me know if you want to participate or know someone else who may.
One last thing we talked about was strengthening our mailing list. Please send Pawan Vora (pawanvora@msn.com) to get your email added. This is a great resource for us and we should use it more.
If you have any questions about anything else related to the ITG, please let me know. You can reach me at resnickm@fiu.edu or (305) 348-3537.
Marc
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copyright 2004 ITG membership. all product names, websites, brands and articles referenced are the copyright or trademark of their respective owners.
1. We had a small, but high quality program this year. The papers were all excellent. I recommend to anyone practicing in the area of Internet HF to read the papers in the Proceedings.
2. For next year, we are currently soliciting submission proposals. The conference is in San Francisco, so it is convenient for you west-coasters and a great place to visit for us in the East or Central. There are a wide variety of submission types (lectures, panels, demonstrations, etc). One of my jobs for the conference overall is to re-engineer the submission types to be clearer and to make them better fit what people want to submit. I will keep our discussion at the TG meeting in mind as I do this.
2a) Lectures - these can be research studies, case studies, new tool descriptions, field studies, or really anything else you can talk about in 15-20 minutes.
2b) Full session (90 minutes) submissions. These can be panel discussions on a general theme, invited addresses of very prestigious people, demonstrations of new technologies, poster presentations where you can interact with other attendees, or special meeting requests where you want to create a real work product like a book outline or a grant proposal. Since next year is the 50th Anniversary of the Conference, the powers that be are hoping to get more of these. So feel free to be creative and submit something innovative.
2c) Workshops or Tutorials. These are half- or full-day sessions that you get paid for. They are supposed to teach a valuable skill to attendees.
As part of our discussion, we talked about co-sponsoring with other groups on content that is in another domain but using the Internet channel. For example, Internet-based health information systems or web-based education. If you want to participate in this, let me know.
Another specific request was a session on email types (mobile, web, corporate). If you or someone you know can talk about the human factors of these, let me know.
Another final specific request was for usability of document types (PDF, MS office, etc) for sharing information. Again, let me know if you want to participate or know someone else who may.
One last thing we talked about was strengthening our mailing list. Please send Pawan Vora (pawanvora@msn.com) to get your email added. This is a great resource for us and we should use it more.
If you have any questions about anything else related to the ITG, please let me know. You can reach me at resnickm@fiu.edu or (305) 348-3537.
Marc
____________________________
copyright 2004 ITG membership. all product names, websites, brands and articles referenced are the copyright or trademark of their respective owners.
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