Workshops are a chance for members of a community with common interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in HCI, consider organizing a workshop. They are an opportunity to move the field forward and build community. CHI workshops might address basic research, applied research, HCI practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organizational issues, or HCI education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the HCI community a new, organized way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the design of your workshop.

Philippe Palanque, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier
Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR
Contact us: chi2008-workshops@acm.org

Workshops will be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April 2008. A workshop may be one or two days in length. Workshops should be scheduled to use 6 working hours per day, with a mid-morning break, a lunch break, and a mid-afternoon break. Workshops typically have 15 to 20 participants. Focused interaction among participants is important, so participants must have informed positions based on prior experience.

There are two types of people involved in workshops: workshop organizers and workshop participants. Workshop organizers submit a workshop proposal to CHI. The proposals are reviewed using CHI processes and procedures and are either accepted or rejected. If a workshop is accepted, the workshop is publicized by both CHI and the workshop organizers.

Workshop participants attend the workshop. If a person is interested in being a workshop participant, they must submit a position paper to the workshop organizers. Position papers are reviewed by the workshop organizers using their own criteria, and workshop organizers decide on the final list of workshop participants. Workshops are only open to people who have had their position paper accepted by the workshop organizers, and who have registered for both the workshop and the CHI conference.

CHI 2008 workshops are listed below. To participate in a workshop, please look at the workshop's webpage to learn about submitting a position paper to the workshop

Accepted workshop participants will be required to register for the workshop (estimated to be US$150 for a one day workshop and US$225 for a two day workshop) and for at least one day of the CHI conference.

Only those who have had position papers accepted can attend workshops. If you are an accepted workshop participant, you will be provided a registration code.

All workshops start at 09:00 on the specified day(s), and will end approximately at 18:00 (6:00PM).

Workshop Name	April Date(s)	Organizers
Optimizing Agile User-Centred Design	5	Desirée Sy Lynn Miller
Measuring Affect in HCI: Going Beyond the Individual	5	N. Sadat Shami Michael Muller Jeffrey T. Hancock Yanghee Kim Christian Peter Regan Mandryk
Evaluating User Experiences in Games	5	Regina Bernhaupt Dennis Wixon Wijnand Ijsselsteijn Florian "Floyd" Mueller Manfred Tscheligi
HCI for Community and International Development	5-6	John Thomas Andy Dearden Michael Best Ann Light Susan Dray
BELIV´08: BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization	5	Giuseppe Santucci Enrico Bertini Adam Perer Catherine Plaisant
The Disappearing Desktop: Personal Information Management 2008	5-6	Jaime Teevan William Jones
Collocated social practices surrounding photos	5	Siân Lindley Abigail Durrant Dave Kirk Alex Taylor
Brain-Computer Interfaces for HCI and Games	5	Anton Nijholt Brendan Allison Desney Tan José del R. Millán Bernhard Graimann
Semantic Web User Interactions: Exploring HCI Challenges	5	m.c. schraefel Abraham Bernstein Jennifer Golbeck Lloyd Rutledge Duane Degler
Values, Value and Worth: Their Relationship to HCI?	5	David Gilmore Elizabeth Churchill Gilbert Cockton Sari Kujala Monty Hammontree
Usable Artificial Intelligence	5	Aaron Spaulding Jonathan Grudin Anthony Jameson Jack Zaientz Neil Yorke-Smith
Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone-Based Interaction with Public Displays	5	Corina Sas Alan Dix
HCI for Emergencies	5	Markus Klann Alessio Malizia Luca Chittaro Ignacio Aedo Cuevas Stefano Levialdi
SigCHI Local Chapters Workshop	6	Elizabeth F. Churchill Lauren Ryan
User Interface Description Languages for Next Generation User Interfaces	6	Orit Shaer Robert J.K. Jacob Mark Green Kris Luyten
Distributed Participatory Design	6	Amir Naghsh Karin Danielsson Dorina Gumm Andrew Warr
Exertion Interfaces	6	Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller Stefan Agamanolis
Now Let’s Do It in Practice: User Experience Evaluation Methods in Product Development	6	Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila Virpi Roto Marc Hassenzahl
Technology in Mental Health	6	Gavin Doherty Mariano Alcañiz John Sharry Rosa Baños Magnus Bang
Sonic Interaction Design: Sound, Information and Experience	6	Davide Rochesso Karmen Franinovic Thomas Hermann Frauke Behrendt Sandra Pauletto Nicola Bernardini Patrick Susini Roberto Bresin Yon Visell Gerhard Eckel
Urban Mixed Realities: Technologies, Theories and Frontiers	6	Kari Kuutti Ina Wagner Rod McCall Guilio Jacucci Wolfgang Broll
Social Data Analysis	6	Fernanda B. Viégas Martin Wattenberg Jeffrey Heer Maneesh Agrawala
Sensemaking Workshop	6	Daniel M. Russell Stuart Card George Furnas Peter Pirolli Mark Stefik
Night and darkness: Interaction after dark	6	Wendy March Dawn Nafus Laurel Swan Alex S. Taylor
Surrounded by Ambient Persuasion	6	Wolfgang Reitberger Manfred Tscheligi Boris de Ruyter Panos Markopoulos
Secrets and Lies in Computer-Mediated Interaction: Theory, Methods and Design	6	Adam Joinson Pam Briggs Jeffrey Hancock