Advance Program - Workshop

1a. Basic Research Symposium (Day 1 of 2)

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Organizers
Michael Twidale, Univeristy of Illinois, USA
José Juan Cañas, Univeristy of Granada, Spain

The CHI Basic Research Symposium is an opportunity for researchers to exchange new developments and insights from their own fields and expand their vision of human-computer interaction. Participants are selected by a program committee that reviews submitted position papers to bring together a diverse group of researchers with innovative research underway. The symposium includes interactive research presentations, group discussions and small group activities.

The mission is to provide a venue where researchers conducting ground-breaking, controversial, and emerging research can discuss that research with a diverse group of peers.

Our vision for this year's Basic Research Symposium is for each participant to leave with a better understanding of the research methods, goals, and frontiers of a wider range of HCI disciplines. Each participant should contribute to the collective understanding and leave with new ideas for conducting, integrating, and applying research. In keeping with the CHI 2000 theme of vision of HCI in the future, we expect to pick a topic around the issue of tackling real-world problems to be solved by the HCI community. See the Web for details (www.ugr.es/~delagado/BRS2000.htm).

The BRS welcomes two types of submissions:

• Position papers: Up to ten pages introducing your field and your work. Authors of accepted position papers will be given time to present their work in an interactive discussion format.
• Position statements: Up to two pages introducing you and your interests. This can be in the form of a scenario, set of design constraints, or description of observed user activity and why it is problematic. Authors of accepted position statements will be invited to participate in the symposium.

Contact
José Juan Cañas
Facultad de Psicologia
Universidad of Granada
Campus de Cartuja
Granada 18071 SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243767
Fax: +34 958 246239
Email: delagado@goliat.ugr.es