call for papers at iEMSs 2010 in Ottawa, July 5-8 (Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems)
Daryl Hepting
Please consider submitting a paper for the International Congress on
Environmental
Modelling and Software, July 5 - 8 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"Modelling for Environment's Sake"
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/
The aim of the congress is to enhance environmental processes and
decision making by fostering the discussion and interchange of
challenges, solutions, ideas, new methods and techniques, and future
research lines in environmental modelling and software.
The 2010 theme for iEMSs is "Modelling for Environment's Sake".
Potential topics include:
• agricultural sustainability and food safety
• adapting to a shifting climate
• water resources management
• ecosystem service issues
• sensor networks
• integrated modelling approaches
• modelling and software frameworks
• decision support systems issues
• capacity-building in less-developed countries and regions
I am co-organizing a session that may be of interest to group members
(see below).
Please pass this along to any potentially-interested parties.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
> S22. Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems
> Organisers: Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Canada (d...@cs.uregina.ca
> )
> Steven Frysinger, James Madison University, USA (frys...@jmu.edu)
> Markus Wrobel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
> Germany (wro...@pik-potsdam.de)
>
> Environmental informatics (or enviromatics) is a maturing subject
> with interdisciplinary roots. The application of information and
> communication technology (ICT) to the environment is emerging as one
> of great importance as the health of our planet gains priority on
> research agendas. Ultimately, environmental information must be put
> into people's hands so that they can make decisions. How best to
> involve stakeholders, so that they can access the information they
> need and put it to use in a satisfying manner, remains a topic of
> inquiry. Underlying the larger benefits of enviromatics as a tool
> for policy decisions is the architecture that enables those decision
> making processes. To maximize the value of the infrastructure,
> interaction design must be an integral part of the architectural
> plan. How do we best employ metaphor in educating users and
> influencing their mental models? What are the ethical concerns
> involved and how can they be addressed? This design helps the user
> to improve the quality of the information that is produced,
> presented, and used. Contributions are sought for a special session
> on human factors in enviromatics. We will seek to put work on
> interaction design and human computer interaction into the specific
> context of environmental modelling and software, with the goal of
> understanding how to draw on and apply existing knowledge to
> environmental informatics so that efforts are focused on refinement
> and adaptation instead of reinvention. Topics include, but are not
> limited to:
> • Usability analyses
> • Decision psychology
> • Task analyses (including, for example, decision support)
> • Validation of ICT tools
> • Human-computer interface design
> • Human performance evaluation
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/page04.html
Best regards,
Daryl
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
d...@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312