The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI
Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus, Como, Italy
June 3-5, 2009
**** FULL PAPERS due: January 19, 2009 *****
<a href="http://www.idc09.polimi.it">www.idc09.polimi.it</a>
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
For young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life. From childhood onwards, they learn and play using computers and other technological devices; as they grow, they build and maintain friendships using computers and mobile phones; they interact with one another virtually; and even find critical interpersonal support and therapy using computers, the web, and other technology-enhanced artifacts.
The IDC 2009 conference will continue IDC’s tradition of better understanding children’s and youngsters’ needs in relationship to technology, exploring how to create interactive products for and with them, and investigating how technology-mediated experiences affect their life. ICD 2009 will present and discuss the most innovative contributions to research, development, and practice in these areas, gathering the leading minds in the field. As in previous years, IDC 2009 would like to invite researchers to address the wide diversification of technology for young people, from computers to mobile phones to any form of “smart” interactive device, and to consider the requirements of different profiles, in terms of age (from very young children to adolescents) and of psychological, social, or physical needs. In addition, IDC 2009 would like to foster an investigation of technological and methodological issues related not only to learning and play, but also to social awareness of young people in relationship to environment, cultural heritage, cultural roots of minorities, local identity vs. wider community identity. Finally, IDC 2009 would like to explore interaction design for young people in the family context and from an adult’s perspective, e.g., how to help parents understand and master the complexity of a scenario in which technology is more and more part of their children’s life. This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2008 in Chicago, US, IDC 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark, IDC 2006 in Tampere, Finland, IDC 2005 in Boulder, USA, IDC 2004 in Maryland, USA, IDC 2003 in Preston, UK and IDC 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands).
For detailed and up-to-date information about IDC 2009, please visit <a href="http://www.idc09.polimi.it">www.idc09.polimi.it</a> or contact <a href="mailto:idc09.info@polimi.it">idc09.info@polimi.it</a>
PROGRAM
The program will include full-day and half day workshops, invited talks, panels, papers sessions, posters and demos sessions.
This year the keynotes will be Sasha A. Barab, Indiana University, and Allison Druin, University of Maryland.
Social events will complement the scientific program and will be a chance for participants to meet and discuss in the context of a gorgeous informal setting, and to build future collaborations.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions of workshops, full papers, short papers, and demos, are invited on all topics from the domain of interaction design for children, including, but not limited to:
• Methods, techniques, and guidelines for requirements analysis, design, and evaluation of interactive systems for “children as a diverse group” (young people of different gender and age, with special needs, from different cultures or ethnical groups).
• Emerging or new technologies for children (e.g., innovative educational simulations, interactive games, mobile communications devices, wireless embedded technologies, robots, accessible fabrication devices, “smart” materials, authoring/programming tools).
• The impact that such technologies can have on children’s lives and personalities.
• Ethnographic and case studies of children’s use of interactive systems in schools, at home, in hospitals, in public spaces.
• Usability, enjoyability, accessibility, and safety issues, with particular reference to children
• Novel theoretical models of interaction with special relevance to children.
• Design for children’s civic involvement, democracy, physical and emotional well-being, and social awareness of environmental, ethical, ethnographical, or cultural issues.
• Interactive technology for children from an adult’s perspective.
All accepted full papers, short papers, and demos, will be presented at the IDC 2009 conference, and will appear in the IDC 2009 proceedings. The extended abstracts of accepted workshops, and a selection of the best position papers submitted for workshops, will be also included in the conference proceedings.
Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
For submission instructions please visit <a href="http://www.idc09.polimi.it">www.idc09.polimi.it</a>
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposals
• Submission deadline: January 12 2009
• Acceptance notification: January 26 2009
• Final version deadline: February 6 2009
Full papers
• Submission deadline: January 19 2009
• Acceptance notification: February 20 2009
• Final version deadline: March 16 2009
Short papers and demos
• Submission deadline: March 6 2009
• Acceptance notification: March 31 2009
• Final version deadline: April 17 2009
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Paolo Paolini, HOC Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
PROGRAM CHAIR
Franca Garzotto, HOC Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
ASSOCIATE PAPERS CHAIRS
Edith Ackermann, MIT, USA
Paulo Blikstein, Stanford University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Mark D. Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ole Iversen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Narcis Pares, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Chris Quintana, University of Michigan, USA
Janet Read, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
SHORT PAPERS CHAIRS
Nicoletta Di Blas, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Teresa Roselli, University of Bari, Italy
WORKSHOPS CHAIRS:
Luciano Gamberini, University of Padova, Italy
Mikael B. Skov, Aalborg University, Denmark
DEMO CHAIRS
Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari, Italy
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alissa Antle, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Nikos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Sebastiano Bagnara, Unversity of Sassari-Alghero, Italy
Tilde Bekker, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Davide Bolchini, Indiana University, USA
Andrea Bonarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tony Brooks, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab, USA
Lorenzo Cantoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Augusto Celentano, University of Venice, Italy
Stefano Cerri, University of Montpellier, France
Daniel Churchill, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Thomas Connolly, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Costas Constantinou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Antonella De Angeli, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Maria De Marsico, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Françoise Decortis, University of Liège, Belgium
Paloma Díaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Mike Eisenberg, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Anthony Faiola, Indiana University, USA
Paolo Ferri, Universita’ di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Shuli Gilutz, Columbia University, USA
Enrica Giordano, Universita’ di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Peter Goodyear, University of Sydney, Australia
Halina Gottlieb, Interactive Institute, Sweden
Kaj Grønbæk, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Jan Herrington, University of Wollogong, Australia
Juan Pablo Hourcade, University of Iowa, USA Kori
Inkpen, Microsoft Research, USA
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Joel Josephson, Kindersite Project, United Kingdom
Andy Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Matthew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University. USA
Yasmin Kafai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nancy Kaplan, University of Baltimore, USA
Caitlin Kelleher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Gerhard Kraetzschmar, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
Tommaso Leo, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Marco Maiocchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paul Marshall, The Open University, United Kingdom
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Slavko Milekic, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, USA
Tom Moher, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Yishay Mor, London Knowledge Lab, United Kingdom
Kathleen Mulcahy, Microsoft, USA
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Sofia Pardo, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fabio Paterno’, CNR, Italy
Kari-Jouko Räihä, University of Tampere, Finland
Roope Raisamo, University of Tampere, Finland
Yvonne Rogers, Open University, United Kingdom
Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado, USA
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Antonio Rizzo, Universita’ di Siena, Italy
Judy Robertson, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Francesca Rosella, CuteCircuit, United Kingdom
Maria Roussou, Makebelieve Design and Consulting, Greece
Elisa Rubegni, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Corina Sas, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Heidi Schelhowe, University of Bremen, Germany
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza Pontificia
Universitade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Robert Sheehan, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Normahdiah Seik Said, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Bill Shribman, WGBH Educational Foundation, USA
Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy
Masanori Sugimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vero Vanden Abeele, GroepT Leuven CUO, Belgium
Charalambos Vrasidas, CARDET, Cyprus
Thomas Winkler, University of Luebeck, Germany
Karsten Wolf, University of Bremen, Germany
Bieke Zaman, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Oren Zuckerman, MIT Media Lab, USA
SUBMISSIONS
IDC 2009 conference will continue to present significant contributions to research, development, and practice in the field of interaction design and children.
Submissions of workshops, full papers, short papers, and demos are invited on all topics from the domain of interaction design for young people, including, but not limited to:
- Methods, techniques, and guidelines for requirements analysis, design, and evaluation of interactive systems for “children as a diverse group” (young people of different gender and age, with special needs, from different cultures or ethnical groups).
- Emerging or new technologies for children (e.g., innovative educational simulations, interactive games, mobile communications devices, wireless embedded technologies, robots, accessible fabrication devices, “smart” materials, authoring/programming tools).
- The impact that such technologies can have on children’s lives and personalities.
- Ethnographic and case studies of children’s use of interactive systems in schools, at home, in hospitals, in public spaces.
- Usability, enjoyability, accessibility, and safety issues, with particular reference to children.
- Novel theoretical models of interaction with special relevance to children.
- Design for children’s civic involvement, democracy, physical and emotional well-being, and social awareness of environmental, ethical, ethnographical, or cultural issues.
- Interactive technology for children from an adult’s perspective.
All accepted full papers, short papers, and demos, will be presented at the IDC 2009 conference, and will appear in the IDC 2009 proceedings. The extended abstracts of accepted workshops, and a selection of the best position papers submitted for workshops, will be also included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
For detailed and up-to-date submission information, please visit <a href="http://www.idc09.polimi.it/>http://www.idc09.polimi.it">http://www.idc09.polimi.it/>http://www.idc09.polimi.it</a>
VENUE
The conference will be held at the Como campus of Politecnico di Milano. Como and the surrounding area are renowned for their natural and cultural heritage that amazed generations of travellers, writers, and painters, and for the great number of cultural events that are organized here. The nearby valleys are full of opportunities for mountain lovers, who through wild environments and unspoilt valleys can try out every kind of experience that this natural setting can offer. The wonderful lake, where visitors can enjoy a variety of trips and activities, is famous for its villas, its florid parks and secular trees, and its VIP guests. Como and its surroundings are rich in art and history, including museums, archaeological sites, architectural venues from old Romanesque churches to Rationalist buildings.
Music and theatre as well play an important role in the cultural heritage of the area, where international events are organized. For shopping, visitors can find every kind of silk product, visit silk factories and shop at concept stores.
The conference sessions will be hosted in the main building of the Politecnico di Milano Como campus, a modern academic complex which is located approximately 500 meters from the historical town center and 700 meters from the lakefront, at a walking distance to hotels, nearby shops, and restaurants.
For further information about Como: <a href="http://www.comune.como.it/como/eng/">www.comune.como.it/como/eng/</a>
TRAVEL
Como is located approximately 45 km (50 minutes) North of downtown Milano and few kilometers South
of from the Swiss border. The nearest airports are Milano Malpensa (in Italy) and Lugano Agno (in Switzerland). Both of them can be reached in about 1 hour either by bus or by train.
Other airports in the area include Milano Linate and Bergamo Orio al Serio, which can be reached with shuttle buses from the Main Railway Station in Milan. The Regional Railway Service connects Como by train to other major cities in Lombardy. The National Railway Service connects Como to Milan, from which all major Italian cities can be reached.