21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication

17th – 20th March 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel

We are pleased to inform you that the Interface Design Department at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia in collaboration with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is organising the 21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT2008). HFT2008 is also supported by the Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

HFT2008 is a 4-day event comprising of workshops, keynote speeches by leading researchers and industrial experts, focused symposiums, technical oral presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions and industrial panels. All accepted papers will be published (with an ISBN) by Prentice Hall-Pearson.

The purpose of this conference is to provide a global forum for designers, academicians, manufacturers, service providers, and all practitioners to exchange experiences and ideas on issues relating to the challenges, innovations, standards and potential solutions for telecommunication, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services, applications, user experience design, new media development, accessibility of ICT and related research and development activities.

More info: www.hft2008.org

June 19-21, 2008 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In 2007, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia series which is the acknowledged venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on linking. The web, the semantic web and Web 2.0 are all manifestations of the success of the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for research that considers links, their semantics, their presentation, the applications they have been put to, the knowledge that can be derived from their analysis and their effect on society. If information is connected, then the connection is called a link: the Hypertext Conference is concerned with all research concerning links.

The 19th International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, hosted by the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, will invite professionals from academia, industry and the media to examine the incredibly diverse range of research areas linking people, places, and information. These research areas will be highlighted through a series of tracks, each focused on leading edge topics and featuring practitioners who are eager to share their knowledge. The tracks are:
- Information Linking and Organization
- Social Linking
- Applications of Hypertext
- Hypertext, Culture, and Communication

More info at: http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/index.html

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERFACES AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Tom Gross, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The
Netherlands

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2008 conference
aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and
Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design,
development and implementation of interfaces and the generational
implications for design of human and technology interaction. This conference
aims to explore and discuss innovative studies of technology and its
application in interfaces and welcomes research in progress, case studies,
practical demonstrations and workshops in addition to the traditional
submission categories.

Web site: http://www.ihci-conf.org/

E-Inclusive Multimedia Systems & Services

Special Session on E-Inclusive Multimedia Systems & Services (EIMSS-2008) (http://ijgj15.infj.ulst.ac.uk/0708/eimss/index.html) at the First International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (IIMSS-2008) (http://iimss-08.kesinternational.org/), to be held at the University of Piraeus, Greece on 9-11 July 2008.

The deadline for submission of papers to EIMSS-2008 is 18 February. Papers should be in LNCS format and be no longer that 10 pages in length. The IIMSS-2008 Symposium proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (subject to confirmation by Springer).