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             Interaction'09 | South America
         http://www.interaction-southamerica.org/

                   14-15 August 2009
                   São Paulo - Brazil

                  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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First Annual South-American Conference on Interaction Design
Interaction'09 | South America

THE EVENT

The Interaction'09, which is in its fourth international edition
(http://interaction09.ixda.org), will take place in this first edition
for the South America, in São Paulo (Brazil), on 14-15 August 2009.

Interaction'09 | South America welcomes papers describing original
work, submitted only for this event, with conclusive results related
to the Interaction Design.

GOALS

The Interaction'09 | South America has as its main goals:

- To disseminate the scientific production of research groups from
academic institutions which are working with Interaction Design;
- To provide an opportunity for reflection about everyday questions
related to the
practice of Interaction Design;
- To increase the knowledge on issues related to the research fields of
post-graduate programs connected to the area of Interaction Design;
- To stimulate the scientific production on undergraduate and graduate
levels;
- To disseminate products developed following the interaction approach.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers can be written in English or Portuguese and cannot exceed
15 pages. Paper formatting must follow the guidelines presented in
http://www.interaction-southamerica.org/?page_id=20 . Submissions will
be accepted
in PDF format only through the site http://openconf.latitude14.com.br.

As papers will be blind-reviewed, they should not display any information
regarding their authorship in the header or body of the text. All
submissions will be evaluated by at least 3 members of the scientific
committee.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
(on CD) and in a printed collection of selected papers to be
distributed commercially.

Further details on the submission process can be found at
http://openconf.latitude14.com.br

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The event aims to present to the companies and the general public the
most relevant
studies developed in academia related (but not restricted) to the following
topics:
  - DESIGN OF INTERACTION
  - PERVASIVE COMPUTING
  - STRATEGIC DESIGN
  - GAMES
  - VIRTUAL REALITY
  - DIGITAL AND NON-DIGITAL PRODUCTS
  - IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
  - DESIGN METHODOLOGY
  - RESEARCH ON FINAL USER OF INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS
  - URBAN
  - WEB 2.0
  - HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI)
  - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)

IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submission: 30 May 2009
    Notification to authors: 13 July 2009
    Camera ready copy: 20 July 2009
    The event: 14-15 August 2009

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Adenilso da Silva Simão (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)
Ana Lúcia G. Ribeiro Lupinacci (ESPM, Brazil)
António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Antonio Ceroni (IIST/ United Nations University)
César Augusto Camillo Teixeira (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Cesar Augusto Cavalheiro Marcondes (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Cristiano Maciel (IC/UFMT, Brazil)
Eduardo Ariel (SENAC Rio, Brazil)
Elizabeth Furtado (UNIFOR, Brazil)
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)
Hugo de Paula (PUC/MG, Brazil)
Irene Karaguilla Ficheman (LSI/POLI/USP, Brazil)
Ivan Luiz Marques Ricarte (FEEC/UNICAMP, Brazil)
João Luis Garcia Rosa (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Laura Sánches (Inf/UFPR, Brazil)
Lucia Filgueiras (POLI/USP, Brazil)
Lucia Helena Machado Rino (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Luiz Agner (Univercidade, Brazil)
Luiz Ernesto Merkle (UTFPR, Brazil)
Marcelo Pimenta (Inf/UFRGS, Brazil)
Marco Winkler (IRIT/University of Toulouse, France)
Philippe Palanque (IRIT/University of Toulouse, France)
Raquel de Oliveira Prates (DCC/UFMG, Brazil)
Regina Bernhaupt (ICT&S Center Salzburg, Austria)
Robson Santos (Nokia Brazil, Brazil)
Roseli de Deus Lopes (LSI/POLI/USP, Brazil)
Rudinei Goularte (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Sandra Camargo Pinto Ferraz Fabbri (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Sérgio Donizetti Zorzo (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Sergio Roberto da Silva (DIn/UEM, Brazil)
Sidney Fels (MAGIC/University of British Columbia, Canada)
Simone Barbosa (DI/PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Wanderley Lopes de Souza (DC/UFSCar, Brazil)
Milene Selbach Silveira (FACIN/PUCRS, Brasil)

CONTACT

For futher information about the event or to contact us,
send an email to comite at interaction-southamerica.org

General Conference Chairs:

Amyris Fernandez
Fabio Palamedi
Ricardo Seiji

Program Committee Chairs:

Junia Anacleto (LIA/DC/UFSCar)
Helena Caseli (LaLiC/DC/UFSCar)
Fernando Osório (ICMC/USP)

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Susan Gold
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