Emerging Technologies Track

Track Chairs

Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.
University of Hawai'i
2404 Maile Way, A-202
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Email: sprague@hawaii.edu
Tel: 808-956-3251, Fax: 808-956-5759

E-Government

Topics:

• Generic frameworks and architectural models supporting the role of the government as a customer and/or seller as well as the role of the government as an environment of the market.
• Business models supporting the role of the government in the market or business models to introduce NPM technical or legal solutions for global legal problems as taxation, contracting, privacy, patents, copyright etc.
• Solutions for a legal framework for E-Commerce, discussion of existing legal frameworks as, for example, the European Union case studies of successful engagement of the government in modern technology standards and standard development.
• Easy adaptation of the new technologies methods and case studies for easier creation of electronic markets the government can us regulation in electronic markets.

Minitrack Chairs

Prof. Dr. Dieter Spahni Vice Director University for Applied Sciences Ostermundigenstrasse 81 CH-3000 Bern 22 Switzerland Tel: +41 31 336 85 82  dieter.spahni@hsw.bfh.ch

Standardization in Information Technology

Topics:

• The role of standards in information infrastructures
• Corporate standardization policies
• Corporate ëstandardsí vs consortium specifications vs formal standards
• The economic dimension of IT standards
• The role of the individual in standards setting.

Minitrack Chair

Waiting for the Web

In order to evaluate the role of time in WWW interactions, we need to consider HCI aspects of WWW usage and the range of web software technologies. This examination provides a basis for developing WWW performance engineering strategies.

How can system designers ensure that WWW resources are configured and managed to meet users needs? It is the aim of this mini-track to provide a forum for researchers with an interest in HCI and web performance engineering to investigate the role that time plays in the usage and functionality of the WWW. We believe that this will prove an exciting opportunity for software technologists, human factors experts and commercial developers to share their expertise.

Topics: We encourage the submission of papers that focus on temporal issues within areas such as:

• Empirical studies of WWW usage
• usability issues within WWW design
• temporal aspects of human interaction, multimedia and continuous media
• methods and tools for WWW development
• web site design
• case studies of web site development and usage software architectures for WWW applications
• configuration of web servers
• scalability and load balancing issues
• performance evaluation of WWW applications
• role of search engines
• protocols and middleware,
• service provision
• formal temporal models

Minitrack Chair

Non-traditional Computer Support for User Evaluation

Description: The technical area and topics that this minitrack will address is the need for additional and non traditional measures of performance for evaluating the anticipated progress people make as they use interactive computer systems. The potential benefit of such measurement tools and techniques has been recognized in numerous domains including education, information visualization, digital libraries, and computer supported cooperative work.

Topics: We seek papers describing empirical studies, field studies or cases studies of Non Traditional Computer Support for Design and User Evaluation. These may include but are not limited to the following topics:

Design

• Frameworks and methodologies for user interface design and development
• Novel methods for obtaining user requirements
• Use of existing data from other domains (sociological, demographic, market analysis; cognitive and social psychology) in product design and evaluation
• Use of field research methods

• Evaluation of strategies for expert reviews and usability testing
• Utility of preference and performance measures
• Validation of surveys and metrics
• Webbased remote testing

Minitrack Chairs

Dr. Marie K. Iding Department of Educational Psychology 1776 University Ave, Wist 207 University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Tel: 808 956 7507 Fax: 808 956 6615 miding@hawaii.edu