Call for Papers
Keynote speakers
John Bacus (Google SketchUp) and Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy)
Important dates
Paper (long and short)Complete paper submission: January 5, 2011
Decision notification: February 28, 2011
Camera-ready due: March 14, 2011
Doctoral consortium
Submissions: January 15, 2011 - extended -
Decision notification: February 28, 2011
Camera-ready due: March 14, 2011
Workshops
Proposals: January 26, 2011
Decision notification: February 9, 2011
Theme
End-User Development (EUD) offers lightweight, use-time support which allows end users to configure, adapt and evolve software themselves. As organizations and work practices vary widely and evolve rapidly, the technological infrastructure has to permit and even support these changes. Traditional Software Engineering approaches reach their limits whenever the full spectrum of user requirements cannot be anticipated or the frequency of changes cannot be accommodated by traditional processes. EUD refers to a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users acting as non-professional software developers to create, modify or extend a software artifact.
The deployment of Web 2.0 technologies resulted in the exponential growth of the number of end-user developers compared to the number of software professionals. The increasing importance of ‘infrastructural’ aspects of software, particularly the mutual dependencies between technologies, usages, and domain competencies, calls for a differentiation of roles beyond the classical user-designer dichotomy.
The International Symposium on EUD brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of EUD. While programming activities by non-professional actors are an essential focus, EUD also investigates into related activities within the process of developing a software infrastructure, e.g. the collective understanding and sense-making of use problems and solution alternatives, the interactions among end users around new configurations, and delegation patterns that may also partly involve professional designers. To this end, EUD brings together threads of discussion from disciplines like Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Artificial Intelligence. Concepts such as configurability, tailorability, end-user programming, visual programming, natural programming, and programming by example already form a fruitful base, but need to be better integrated to exploit the synergy among them.
Scope and Topics
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished
work in all areas related to EUD. Long papers may address work on
cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal methods,
taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and empirical studies.
Short papers that present work in progress or demonstrations of tools
are also solicited.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Requirements for EUD
- User Interfaces for EUD
- EUD for specific types of devices
- EUD in specific fields of application
- EUD for user groups with specific needs
- Architectures for EUD
- Metaphors and patterns for software modularization supporting EUD
- Deployment of Web 2.0 technologies, Mash-ups
- Empirical studies of EUD practices
- EUD as part of software infrastructure development and evolution
- Support for collaboration among non-professional programmers
- Cooperation between EUD and professional software developers
- EUD and Open Source
- Educational concepts to foster EUD
- Micro-economical effects of EUD
- Macro-economical impact of EUD
- Business models for EUD solutions
- Political implications of EUD
- Cultures of Participation and Meta-design
Paper submission
Two different types of paper submissions are invited:
- long papers, up to sixteen pages, reporting on research or experience;
- short papers, up to six pages, describing work in progress or tool demonstrations.
Paper submission deadline is January 5, 2011. Paper title, abstract and keywords, as well as addressed conference topics, are required to aid in reviewer assignments. Authors may submit and update them through the EasyChair system until paper submission deadline. Papers must be carefully formatted in Springer LNCS format. Both abstracts and papers must be submitted online through the EasyChair system. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the international Program Committee. Accepted papers (both long and short) will appear in the proceedings of IS-EUD 2011, published by Springer as Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). Short papers will be presented at the conference as poster or live demo in a specific session.
Workshops
Workshops complement the scientific program. They provide an informal setting
where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an
atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas in the area of EUD.
Workshops will be held on June 7, 2011.
Workshop proposals should be sent to the Workshop Co-Chairs
Anne Marie Kanstrup
and Anders Mørch by January 26, 2011. The acceptance notification will be sent by February 9, 2011.
Doctoral Consortium
The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students
working on theory and application of EUD. To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D.
students on their research thesis. We particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of their
research to submit to this workshop.
Applications to the Doctoral Consortium (up to 4 pages) should
be sent to the Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Daniela Fogli and
Elisa Giaccardi by January 5, 2011. The acceptance
notification will be sent by February 28, 2011.
Venue
The Symposium will take place at the Hotel del Levante, Torre Canne (Brindisi),
a seaside resort located on the lovely Adriatic Coast of the Apulia region, in
South-East Italy.
Hotel del Levante, via Appia, 22, Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy
Tel. +39 080 4820 160 - Fax +39 080 4820 096
Torre Canne is at about 40 Km from Brindisi airport and about 75 Km from Bari airport. Both airports have several daily connections with Rome and Milan, and with many other cities in Italy and Europe.
Symposium Organizers
Conference Chairs
Maria Francesca Costabile
University of Bari, Italy
Gerhard Fischer
University of Colorado, USA
Program Chairs
Yvonne Dittrich
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Antonio Piccinno
University of Bari, Italy
Workshop Chairs
Anne-Marie Kanstrup
University of Aalborg, Denmark
Anders Mørch
University of Oslo, Norway
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Daniela Fogli
University of Brescia, Italy
Elisa Giaccardi
Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Publicity Chairs
Paolo Buono
University of Bari, Italy
Rosa Lanzilotti
University of Bari, Italy
Local arrangement Chair
Carmelo Ardito
University of Bari, Italy
Steering Committee
Boris de Ruyter
Philips Research, The Netherlands
Volkmar Pipek
University of Siegen, Germany
Mary Beth Rosson
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Volker Wulf
University of Siegen, Germany
Program Committee
Michael Atwood, Drexel University, USA
John Bacus, Google Inc., USA
Jörg Beringer, SAP Research, Germany
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Danilo Caivano, University of Bari, Italy
John Carroll, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ellen Christiansen, Ålborg University, Denmark
Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Clarisse de Souza, PUC-Rio, Brasil
Cleidson de Souza, IBM Brazil, Brasil
Paloma Diaz Perez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Jeanette Eriksson, BTH, Sweden
Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Thomas Andreas Herrmann, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
Heinrich Hussmann, University of Munich, Germany
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
Catherine Letondal, ENAC/LII, France
Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
Gary Mardsen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Agostino Marengo, University of Bari, Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Sebastian S. Ortiz-Chamorro, National University of La Plata, Argentina
Sharon Oviatt, Incaa Designs, USA
Philippe Palanque, Paul Sabatier University, France
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Nandish Patel, Brunel, UK
Fabio Paternò, CNR, Italy
Samuli Pekkola, Tampere Technical University, Finland
David Redmiles, University of California, USA
Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado, USA
Michael Resnick, MIT, USA
Stefan Sauer, University of Paderborn, Germany
Judith Segal, The Open University, UK
Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
John C. Thomas, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Genoveffa Tortora, University of Salerno, Italy
Mike Twidale, University of Illinois, USA
Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy
Jacob Winther, Microsoft Dynamics, Denmark
Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates Inc., Japan