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Conference Beat

by David Adler

These are abridged announcements. For more information please use the contact information listed with each announcement. If you know of an upcoming conference that would be of interest to members, send the information to me at conf-beat AT bostonchi DOT org.

Many conference announcements are available at the ACM SIGCHI site:
www.acm.org/sigchi/conferences

Additional events, upcoming and past, are listed at:
UsabilityNews.com: Paper Calls

Thanks to BostonCHI member Mariya Genzel for the Perl and SQL programming.

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Complexity in Design and Engineering
March 10, 2005 - March 12, 2005
University of Glasgow, Scotland
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/complexity

Upcoming deadline: March 10, 2005
Important dates:
March 10 - 12, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The intention is to explore the many different challenges that are facing designers in a range of application domains and challenges that complicate innovative design.

Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems, 3rd International Conference (ALOIS*2005)
March 15, 2005 - March 16, 2005
Limerick, Ireland
http://www.alois2005.ul.ie

Upcoming deadline: March 15, 2005
Important dates:
March 15 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in action-theoretic approaches for understanding information systems and their relations to organisations.

3D Web Technology, 10th International Conference
March 29, 2005 - April 1, 2005
Bangor, United Kingdom
http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/

Upcoming deadline: March 29, 2005
Important dates:
March 29 - April 1, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The Web3D 2005 Symposium will focus on every aspect of 3D technologies on the Internet, ranging from languages, tools and high performance 3D graphics to human-computer interaction issues. Particular themes of Web3D 2005 will be the latest mobile applications, and the use of Web3D in medical applications.

CHI 2005
April 2, 2005 - April 7, 2005
Portland, Oregon
http://www.chi2005.org

Upcoming deadline: March 14, 2005
Important dates:
March 14, 2005: Registration deadline
April 2 - 7, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
CHI 2005 is the premier international conference for human-computer interaction. This year's conference theme is Technology, Safety, and Community.

Information Technology, International Conference (ITCC 2005)
April 11, 2005 - April 13, 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada
http://www.itcc.info

Upcoming deadline: April 11, 2005
Important dates:
April 11 - 13, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The rapid growth in information science and technology in general and the complexity and volume of multimedia data in particular have introduced new challenges for the research community. Of particular interest is the need for a concise representation, efficient manipulation, and fast transmission of multimedia data. Applications such as space science, telemedicine, military, and robotics deal with large volumes of data which need to be stored and processed in real time.

Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics (HOIT 2005)
April 13, 2005 - April 15, 2005
University of York, United Kingdom
http://www.hoit2005.org

Upcoming deadline: April 13, 2005
Important dates:
April 13 - 15, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This conference focuses on the interactions between technology, society and the individual/family/home.

Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries, 7th International Workshop (AVIVDiLib '05)
May 4, 2005 - May 6, 2005
Cortona, Italy
http://delos.dis.uniroma1.it/Workshops

Upcoming deadline: March 31, 2005
Important dates:
March 31, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 4 - 6, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This workshop aims at providing a forum to present the latest research results, new technology development and new applications in the areas of multimedia content and information visualization in digital libraries.

Society for Technical Communication, 52nd (STC 2005)
May 8, 2005 - May 11, 2005
Seattle, Washington
http://www.stc.org/conference.asp

Upcoming deadline: May 8, 2005
Important dates:
May 8 - 11, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
STC's annual conference is the world's largest gathering of technical communicators. Among the many highlights of the conference are educational sessions, workshops, vendor exhibits, and displays of the winning entries of the Society's international competitions. Technical communication professionals also benefit from numerous networking opportunities and employment resources.

Pervaisve Computing, 3rd International Conference
May 8, 2005 - May 12, 2005
Munich, Germany
http://www.pervasive.ifi.lmu.de

Upcoming deadline: March 14, 2005
Important dates:
March 14, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 8 - 12, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
PERVASIVE 2005 invites original and significant research contributions in the area of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. This conference seeks to present advances in computing technology toward new modes of operation (ubiquitous, continuous, and self-organized) and toward new usage models (ambient, context-aware, and integral with human activity and environments).

Graphics Interface 2005
May 9, 2005 - May 11, 2005
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/GI2005

Upcoming deadline: May 9, 2005
Important dates:
May 9 - 11, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
GI2005 will be the 31st Graphics Interface conference and it is the oldest continuously scheduled conference in the field. This event consistently attracts high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics from around the world. Held in conjunction with the Computer and Robot Vision 2005 (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence 2005 (AI) conferences.

World Wide Web Conference, 14th International (WWW2005)
May 10, 2005 - May 14, 2005
Chiba, Japan
http://www.www2005.org

Upcoming deadline: March 31, 2005
Important dates:
March 31, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 10 - 14, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The WWW conference series has been the oppotunity for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest ideas and developments about Web.

Software Visualization, ACM Symposium
May 14, 2005 - May 15, 2005
Saint Louis, Missouri
http://www.softvis.org/softvis05

Upcoming deadline: May 14, 2005
Important dates:
May 14 - 15, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to discuss and present original research on software visualization.

Information Resources Management Association, 16th International (IRMA 2005)
May 15, 2005 - May 18, 2005
San Diego, California
http://www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/index.asp

Upcoming deadline: May 15, 2005
Important dates:
May 15 - 18, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) is an international professional organization dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information resources management in modern organizations. Conference Theme: Managing Modern Organizations With Information Technology.

Active Media Technology, 3rd International Conference (AMT2005)
May 19, 2005 - May 21, 2005
Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
http://www.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/AMT2005

Upcoming deadline: April 15, 2005
Important dates:
April 15, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 19 - 21, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and technological developments in human-centered, seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life.

Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, 2nd (DIAC-2005)
May 20, 2005 - May 22, 2005
Stanford, California
http://www.online-deliberation.net

Upcoming deadline: March 15, 2005
Important dates:
March 15, 2005: Abstract deadline
April 17, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 1, 2005: Paper deadline
May 18, 2005: Pre-registration deadline
May 20 - 22, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The focus of the conference is not the Internet, society, and politics generally, but rather work that is especially related to online deliberation tools and their use. We are primarily interested in online communication that is reasoned, purposeful, and interactive, but the power and predominance of other influences on political decisions (e.g. mass media, appeals to emotion and authority, and snap judgments) obviously make them relevant to the prospects for deliberative e-democracy. Topics such as technology policy and social networks are of interest, but proposals around such topics for this conference should relate them to online deliberation.

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 5th International Conference (NIME05)
May 26, 2005 - May 28, 2005
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005

Upcoming deadline: March 31, 2005
Important dates:
March 31, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 26 - 28, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The conference consists of a three full-day event where research papers, demos and performances will be presented on the state-of-the-art concerning new interfaces for musical expression.

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2005)
May 30, 2005 - June 4, 2005
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.cscl2005.org/welcome.htm

Upcoming deadline: April 10, 2005
Important dates:
April 10, 2005: Early registration deadline
May 30 - June 4, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference has become an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology.

Communities and Technology, 2nd International Conference (C&T 2005)
June 13, 2005 - June 16, 2005
Milano, Italy
http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it

Upcoming deadline: April 1, 2005
Important dates:
Early April, 2005: Submissions due for Workshop position papers
May 13, 2005: Early registration
June 13 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The relationship between communities and technology is an increasingly important research topic as the number of communities turning to technology for online and face-to-face support grows. The C&T 2005 conference provides a forum for stimulating and disseminating research about all facets of community and technology support for communities.

Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2005)
June 13, 2005 - June 14, 2005
Porto, Portugal
http://www.globis.ethz.ch/umics2005

Upcoming deadline: March 7, 2005
Important dates:
March 7, 2005: Paper submissions due
April 4, 2005: Notification of acceptance
April 14, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
June 13 - 14, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Over the last years most business processes changed on various dimensions (e.g. flexibility, interconnectivity, coordination style, autonomy) due to market conditions, organisational models, and usage scenarios of information systems. Frequently, information is relocated within this geographically distributed system according to rules that are only seldom defined as a well-codified business process. This creates a need for a software infrastructure that enables ubiquitous mobile information and collaboration systems (UMICS).

Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2005
June 15, 2005 - June 17, 2005
Canterbury, United Kingdom
http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG05

Upcoming deadline: April 21, 2005
Important dates:
April 21, 2005: Early registration deadline
June 15 - 17, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The aim of this conference is to focus on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and to bring together top practicioners, users and researchers, which will hopefully inspire further collaboration between participants particularly between academia and industry.

e-Social Science, 1st International Conference
June 22, 2005 - June 24, 2005
Manchester, United Kingdom
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference_05.htm

Upcoming deadline: June 22, 2005
Important dates:
June 22 - 24, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The conference will bring together social scientists, computer scientists, Grid developers and data service providers and will aim to meet the challenge of realising the full potential for e-social science.

UPA 2005
June 27, 2005 - July 1, 2005
Montreal, Quebec
http://www.upassoc.org/conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2005

Upcoming deadline: April 22, 2005
Important dates:
April 22, 2005: Early registration deadline
June 3, 2005: Standard registration deadline
June 27 - July 1, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
UPA 2005 invites lessons or insights related to the conference theme, Bridging Cultures. It is about understanding your own values and how values differ in other cultures or even just in other people within your culture. Once you are able to honor and recognize your differences, you can begin to act upon the similarities and embrace the diversity that multi-cultural companies, teams and projects provide. Build a cultural bridge for your team by recognizing the strength that diversity provides.

Non-visual & Multimodal Visualization, 2nd International Conference (M2Vis05)
July 4, 2005 - July 4, 2005
London, England
http://www.m2vis.org

Upcoming deadline: March 21, 2005
Important dates:
March 21, 2005: Paper submissions due
April 30, 2005: Camera-ready copy due; Early registration deadline
July 4, 2005: Conference date
Description:
The aim of this symposium is to bring together top practitioners, researchers, developers and users of non-visual and multimodal visualization, and multisensory perception issues of visualization.

Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, 3rd Internation Conference (CMV2005)
July 5, 2005 - July 5, 2005
London, England
http://www.cvev.org/cmv2005

Upcoming deadline: March 21, 2005
Important dates:
March 21, 2005: Paper submissions due
April 30, 2005: Camera-ready copy due; Early registration deadline
June 7, 2005: Last day for Tutorial registration cancellation & refund
July 25, 2005: Pre-registration deadline
July 5, 2005: Conference date
Description:
The goal of this conference is to bring together top practitioners who are researching in the area of coordinated and exploratory visualization and to analyze and discuss state-of-the art concepts and future opportunities in this area.

International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 5th IEEE (ICALT 2005)
July 5, 2005 - July 8, 2005
Kaohsiung, Taiwain
http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2005

Upcoming deadline: July 5, 2005
Important dates:
July 5 - 8, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The conference will bring together people who are working on the design, development, use and evaluation of technologies that will be the foundation of the next generation of e-learning systems and technology-enhanced learning environments.

Information Visualization, 9th International Conference (IV05)
July 6, 2005 - July 8, 2005
London, England
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05

Upcoming deadline: March 16, 2005
Important dates:
March 16, 2005: Submissions due for MediViz papers
March 21, 2005: Submissions due for papers, tutorials, and online digital art gallery
April 27, 2005: Submissions due for Computer Animation; Camera-ready Copy due; Early registration deadline
June 7, 2005: Last day for Tutorial registration cancellation & refund
June 25, 2005: Pre-registrationd deadline
July 4 - 5, 2005: Tutorial dates
July 6 - 8, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
IV05 conference aims to focus on the interdisciplinary methods and affiliated research done among various science disciplines, medicine, engineering, media and commerce. This three day event will focus on the research and developments conjured to meet the roaring demand of today’s "Information Transfer" through the medium of computing, accentuating on the linkage that shapes academia and industry with the goal of stimulating views and providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss the latest developments linked to Information Visualisation.

Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2005)
July 6, 2005 - July 8, 2005
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups

Upcoming deadline: April 29, 2005
Important dates:
April 29, 2005: Poster and discussion session submission deadline
May 20, 2005: Notification of poster and discussion session acceptance
May 27, 2005: Early registration deadline
July 6 - 8, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program will feature refereed papers, tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions.

CHI New Zealand, 6th International Conference (CHINZ 2005)
July 7, 2005 - July 8, 2005
Auckland, New Zealand
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/chinz05

Upcoming deadline: March 14, 2005
Important dates:
March 14, 2005: Paper submissions due
April 15, 2005: Reviews returned
May 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
July 7 - 8, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The CHINZ conferences provide a general forum for all those involved with CHI (or HCI) to address the human use of technology. We welcome full length research papers in all areas of this diverse field and especially encourage graduate students to present at the conference. There will be workshops on 6 July and poster sessions during the conference, at which we would encourage industry practitioners to present. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: natural interactions; social implications of technology (e.g., for disabled or elderly); mobile technologies; games; robotics; tools and tool support; cyber psychology; usability; guidelines and heuristics; implications of technology for cognition; education aspects; and case studies from practice.

International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems, 7th (IWIPS'05)
July 7, 2005 - July 9, 2005
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://iwips.org/confsites/2005

Upcoming deadline: April 1, 2005
Important dates:
April 1, 2005: Early registration deadline (Conference)
June 1, 2005: Tutorial early registration deadline
July 7 - 9, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This forum promotes an enhanced awareness of globalisation and localisation issues. This year the conference theme is Bridging Cultural Differences. This theme signals attention to the important role that technology can play in transcending cultural boundaries. The emphasis of the conference is on practical issues and solutions, as well as on knowledge sharing about leading edge research.

European Conference on Mobile Government, 1st (Euro mGov 2005)
July 10, 2005 - July 12, 2005
Brighton, United Kingdom
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euro.html

Upcoming deadline: April 22, 2005
Important dates:
April 22, 2005: Early registration deadline
July 10 - 12, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The EURO mGOV 2005 is the first in the series of international conferences on mobile government. It aims to be the largest platform bringing together researchers, government officials, and practitioners from the mobility and e-government fields: technology and its impacts on the government organizations and the society.

Collaboration Technologies, International Conference (CollabTech 2005)
July 15, 2005 - July 16, 2005
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.collabtech.org

Upcoming deadline: May 16, 2005
Important dates:
May 16, 2005: Early registration deadline
July 15 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This conference is organized by the Special Interest Group of Groupware and Network Services, Information Processing Society of Japan. CollabTech is a single-track conference focusing on collaboration technologies.

Cognitive Science Society, 27th Annual Meeting (CogSci2005)
July 21, 2005 - July 23, 2005
Stresa, Italy
http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/default.html

Upcoming deadline: May 6, 2005
Important dates:
May 6, 2005: Poster submissions due
July 21 - 23, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
CogSci 2005 will be the annual meeting of the premier society for basic and applied cognitive science research. Researchers from across the world are encouraged to submit their best work and to attend CogSci 2005 to hear the latest theories and data from the world's best cognitive science researchers.

Human-Computer Interaction, 11th International Conference (HCI 2005)
July 22, 2005 - July 27, 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada
http://www.hci-international.org

Upcoming deadline: May 15, 2005
Important dates:
May 15, 2005: Poster/Demonstration submissions due
May 20, 2005: Early registration deadline
July 22 - 27, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI, usability, internationalization, virtual reality, universal access and cognitive ergonomics.

User Modeling, 10th International Conference (UM'05)
July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005

Upcoming deadline: March 7, 2005
Important dates:
March 7, 2005: Workshop paper submission deadline
April 7, 2005: Early registration deadline
June 21, 2005: Pre-registration deadline
July 23 - 29, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The User Modeling conference series is the major forum for presentation and discussion of latest developments in academic research on user modeling and adaptive systems as well as industrial experience in deploying adaptive and personalized systems in "real-world" applications.

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 4th International Joint Conference (AAMAS 2005)
July 25, 2005 - July 29, 2005
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.aamas2005.nl

Upcoming deadline: March 14, 2005
Important dates:
March 14, 2005: Submissions due for Workshop contributions
May 15, 2005: Early registration deadline
July 25 - 29, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Agents are one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in computer science at the beginning of the new milennium. The technologies, methods, and theories of agents and multiagent systems are currently contributing to many diverse domains. They not only are a very promising technology, but are also emerging as a new way of thinking, a conceptual paradigm for analyzing problems and for designing systems, for dealing with complexity, distribution, and interactivity, while providing a new perspective on computing and intelligence. The AAMAS conferences aim to bring together the world's researchers active in this important, vibrant, and rapidly growing field.

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005)
August 11, 2005 - August 14, 2005
Omaha, Nebraska
http://amcis2005.isqa.unomaha.edu

Upcoming deadline: August 11, 2005
Important dates:
August 11 - 14, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The conference covers important and recent issues in Information Systems (IS) and serves the research and teaching interests of the IS community.

Aarhus Conference, 4th Decennial
August 21, 2005 - August 25, 2005
Aarhus, Denmark
http://www.aarhus2005.org

Upcoming deadline: April 15, 2005
Important dates:
April 15, 2005: Submissions due for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops
June 12, 2005: Submissions due for Posters/Short Papers, Interactive Papers/Demos, Practice Papers, and Doctoral Colloquium
August 21 - 25, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
It is the aim of the fourth Aarhus conference to provide a forum for the exploration and development of new perspectives for critical computing. Critical Computing is a multi-disciplinary conference in participatory design, interaction design, CSCW, social computing, digital art and entertainment addressed from a variety of disciplines like computer science, sociology, psychology, ethnography, architecture, and aesthetics.

Smart Graphics, 5th International Symposium
August 22, 2005 - August 24, 2005
Frauenwoerth Cloister, Frauenchiemsee, Germany
http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg05

Upcoming deadline: April 24, 2005
Important dates:
April 24, 2005: Submission deadline
May 23, 2005: Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
August 22 - 24, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Smart Graphics is grounded in a deep understanding of human abilities, activities, and desires. This understanding arises through the integration of fields such as art, design, and the social, cognitive, and perceptual sciences. Insights are realized in the form of novel methods for producing and interacting with rich graphical displays often utilizing established techniques from Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science in general.

Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement, 6th International Workshop (TAKMA 2005)
August 22, 2005 - August 26, 2005
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~stumpf/TAKMA.html

Upcoming deadline: August 22, 2005
Important dates:
August 22 - 26, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Knowledge management is as much about questioning individual and organisational assumptions as it is about sharing what is already known. This makes knowledge within an organisation one of the most important assets. Knowledge Management is a field which must be investigated by academic researchers together with developers and users from the industry and public administration. Therefore researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers to the TAKMA 2004 workshop addressing aspects of the TAKMA theme.

Measuring Behavior, 5th International Conference
August 30, 2005 - September 2, 2005
Wageningen, The Netherlands
http://www.noldus.com/mb2005

Upcoming deadline: May 15, 2005
Important dates:
May 15, 2005: Early registration deadline
June 1, 2005: Submissions due for Short Papers
August 30 - September 2, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Measuring Behavior is the premier interdisciplinary event for scientists and practitioners concerned with human or animal behavior. At this conference, all presentations deal with methods and techniques in behavioral research, with special emphasis on the methodological aspects. Newly developed methods and techniques, as well as innovative applications of existing techniques are acceptable subjects for presentations.

HCI 2005, 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference
September 5, 2005 - September 9, 2005
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.hci2005.org

Upcoming deadline: May 10, 2005
Important dates:
May 10, 2005: Submissions due for Short Papers, Posters, Industry Day, Panels, Doctoral Consortium, Laboratory & Organizational Overviews, and Interactive Experiences
June 17, 2005: Notification of acceptance for May 10 submissions
June 24, 2005: Camera-ready copy due for submissions other than Full Papers
July 18, 2005: Early registration deadline
August 26, 2005: Pre-registration deadline
September 5 - 9, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
HCI2005 will bring together the many 'flavours' of HCI and allow people to see what is important in areas such as mobile computing, pervasive computing, user experience and the design of interactive systems. By focusing on 'the bigger picture' HCI2005 will provide a rich and varied perspective on the issues affecting people and their interactions with digital technologies.

Distributed Multimedia Systems, 11th International Conference (DMS'2005)
September 5, 2005 - September 7, 2005
Banff, Canada
http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms05.html

Upcoming deadline: March 31, 2005
Important dates:
March 31, 2005: Paper submissions due
June 1, 2005: Notification of acceptance
July 1, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due; Early registration deadline
September 5 - 7, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
DMS'2005 focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theories in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings.

Interact 2005
September 12, 2005 - September 16, 2005
Rome, Italy
http://www.interact2005.org

Upcoming deadline: March 30, 2005
Important dates:
March 30, 2005: Submissions due for Short Papers, Special Interest Groups, Panels, Posters, and Demos
May 10, 2005: Notification of acceptance for March 30 submissions
May 30, 2005: Final versions due for March 30 submissions
September 12 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The Interact '05 conference will highlight to both the academic and industrial world the importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications.

Intelligent Virtual Agents, 5th International Working Conference (IVA'05)
September 12, 2005 - September 14, 2005
Kos, Greece
http://iva05.unipi.gr

Upcoming deadline: May 2, 2005
Important dates:
May 2, 2005: Submission deadline
June 6, 2005: Notification of acceptance
July 1, 2005: Camera-ready copy due
September 12 - 14, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are autonomous, graphically embodied agents in an interactive, 2D or 3D virtual environment. They are able to interact intelligently with the environment, other IVAs, and especially with human users. Previous IVA workshops brought together people studying computer graphics, animation and virtual environments on the one hand, and on the other hand people working in AI, NLP, cognitive modelling and A-life.

AIGA Design Conference 2005
September 15, 2005 - September 17, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/design_conference_2005

Upcoming deadline: May 15, 2005
Important dates:
May 15, 2005: Early registration deadline
September 15 - 17, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The AIGA Design Conference is a biennial gathering of the design community to celebrate design excellence, reinforce friendships and connections and stimulate thinking about the critical issues that surround design practice.

Workplace Accommodations: State of the Science
September 15, 2005 - September 16, 2005
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.workrerc.org/sos

Upcoming deadline: April 1, 2005
Important dates:
April 1, 2005: Submissions due
September 15 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This conference will establish a national dialogue on the current state and future directions of workplace accommodations. A goal of the conference will be to develop an agenda for future directions in research, service delivery, and product development based on user needs for workplace accommodations.

European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 9th (ECSCW'05)
September 18, 2005 - September 22, 2005
Paris, France
http://ecscw.org

Upcoming deadline: March 16, 2005
Important dates:
March 16, 2005: Submissions due for Tutorials, Workshops, Demos, and Videos
April 22, 2005: Notification of acceptance
May 9, 2005: Submissions due for Posters and Doctoral Consortium
September 18 - 22, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
CSCW is a multidisciplinary area of research devoted to the use of computers to support cooperative work. The community encompasses interests in systems development and design, the theory and practice of CSCW, the installation and use of CSCW systems, the application of novel technologies, and the relation between the social and the technical.

Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 7th International Conference (MobileHCI 05)
September 19, 2005 - September 22, 2005
Salzburg, Austria
http://www.mobilehci.org

Upcoming deadline: March 25, 2005
Important dates:
March 25, 2005: Submissions due for Full Papers and Workshops
May 6, 2005: Submissions due for Short Papers, Posters, Demos, Panels, and Tutorials
July 1, 2005: Submissions due for Industrial Case Studies
September 19 - 22, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
MobileHCI provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices and services.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, International Conference (RANLP 2005)
September 21, 2005 - September 23, 2005
Borovets, Bulgaria
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005

Upcoming deadline: May 18, 2005
Important dates:
May 18, 2005: Notification of intention to submit
May 23, 2005: Paper submissions due
July 18, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
September 18 - 20, 2005: Pre-conference Tutorials
September 21 - 23, 2005: Conference dates
September 24, 2005: Post-conference Workshops
Description:
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) is one of the best-established and competitive European NLP conferences. It is held biennially in Bulgaria and grew out from the international summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" organised for many years in Bulgaria as international training events.

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE Symposium (VL/HCC'05)
September 21, 2005 - September 24, 2005
Dallas, Texas
http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/vlhcc05

Upcoming deadline: March 20, 2005
Important dates:
March 20, 2005: Paper submissions due
May 22, 2005: Notification of acceptance
June 19, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
August 20, 2005: Early registration deadline
September 21 - 24, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual languages and their applications.

Groupware, 11th International Conference (CRIWG 2005)
September 25, 2005 - September 29, 2005
Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
http://www.criwg.org

Upcoming deadline: April 25, 2005
Important dates:
April 25, 2005: Submissions due
June 14, 2005: Notification of acceptance
July 12, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
September 25 - 29, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This workshop aims at providing a forum for academic researchers and professionals to exchange their experiences and their ideas about problems and solutions related to the design, development and use of groupware applications. Researchers can report their ideas, models, designs and experiences to CRIWG submitting full paper contributions to present achieved or mature works, and shorter papers to report work in progress.

International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 9th Annual IEEE (ISWC2005)
October 18, 2005 - October 21, 2005
Osaka, Japan
http://iswc.net

Upcoming deadline: May 8, 2005
Important dates:
May 8, 2005: Submissions due
October 18 - 21, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
ISWC 2005 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing.

UIST 2005
October 23, 2005 - October 26, 2005
Seattle, Washington
http://www.acm.org/uist

Upcoming deadline: April 1, 2005
Important dates:
April 1, 2005: Submissions due for Papers and Technotes
June 15, 2005: Registration deadline for Interaction Contest
June 27, 2005: Submissions due for Poster, Demonstration, and Doctoral Symposium
October 23 - 26, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW.

American Society for Information Science & Technology 2005 Annual Meeting (ASIST '05)
October 28, 2005 - November 2, 2005
Charlotte, North Carolina
http://www.asis.org/am05call.htm

Upcoming deadline: October 28, 2005
Important dates:
October 28 - November 2, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
ASIST 2005 will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings.

On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM'05)
October 31, 2005 - November 4, 2005
Ayia Napa, Cyprus
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

Upcoming deadline: May 24, 2005
Important dates:
May 24, 2005: Abstracts due
May 31, 2005: Papers due
June 24, 2005: Workshop Papers due
July 29, 2005: Workshop notification of acceptance
August 10, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 20, 2005: Workshop Camera-ready Copy due
August 25, 2005: Camera-ready Copy due
October 31 - November 4, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The current and future software needs are towards the development of large and complex Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering a wide range of issues as required for the deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. This federated event is unique at providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to understand the recent developments in ubiquitous computing.

Human-Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2005)
November 14, 2005 - November 16, 2005
Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2005/phoenix/hci.htm

Upcoming deadline: May 15, 2005
Important dates:
May 15, 2005: Submissions due
July 1, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 1, 2005: Camera-ready copy due
August 15, 2005: Registration deadline
November 14 - 16, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
This conference aims to create an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experience in all areas of human-computer interaction.

Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2nd (IICAI-05)
December 20, 2005 - December 22, 2005
Pune, India
http://www.iiconference.org

Upcoming deadline: June 1, 2005
Important dates:
June 1, 2005: Draft papers due
July 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2005: Camera-ready papers due
August 15, 2005: Pre-registration deadline
December 20 - 22, 2005: Conference dates
Description:
The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Artificial Intelligence and related fields in India and the rest of the world. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between AI researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in India and abroad.