European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2009

DESIGNING BEYOND THE PRODUCT –
UNDERSTANDING ACTIVITY AND USER EXPERIENCE IN UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENTS

ECCE 2009 will be held in 30 September - 2 October 2009 in Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland. The conference site Dipoli Conference Center is located in the campus of Aalto University in Otaniemi. The event is organised by the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics and hosted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The conference will deal with the challenges of designing intelligent human-system interaction in work and everyday environments. ECCE 2009 focuses on the topic "Designing beyond the product – Understanding activity and user experience in ubiquitous environments". The conference aims to provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and designers to exchange new ideas and practical experience e.g. on the following topical areas:

• Challenges in work and everyday activities: Does the invisible computer change our ways of acting?
• Means for coping: How to support sense making in ubiquitous environments?
• Research and design approaches: What is happening to cognitive systems engineering?

IMPORTANT DATES

• 20th January 2009: First call for papers
• 23rd February 2009: Second call for papers
• 30th March 2009: Submission of abstracts for short and long papers and posters. Notification of acceptance on week 19
• 16th April 2009: Submission of doctoral consortium papers. Notification of acceptance on 25th May
• May 2009: Conference programme released on the web pages
• 31st July 2009: Submission of camera-ready papers
• 26th August 2009: Early registration ends
• 14th September 2009: Late registration ends