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WHAT'S NEW Call for Papers: hf/Web 2000 Phil Kortum, hfweb@tri.sbc.com 6th Conference on Human Factors and the Web: Doing Business on the Web June 19, 2000 University of Texas Thompson Conference Center LBJ Auditorium Austin, Texas, USA Sponsored by SBC Technology Resources and IBM http://www.tri.sbc.com/hfweb The sixth in a series of Human Factors and the Web conferences will be held on Monday, June 19, 2000 at the University of Texas Thompson Conference Center in Austin, Texas. This year's conference is being hosted by SBC Technology Resources and IBM. The purpose of these conferences is to provide a forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable. The first five conferences were sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories (March 1996), Microsoft Corporation (October 1996), US West Communications (June 1997), AT&T Labs (June 1998), and NIST (1999). INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS These conferences focus on web design and usability. Presentations can take a variety of approaches, including reports on empirical work, discussions of design and evaluation methods, or reflections on what we have learned about designing for the web. The featured topic for this conference is "Doing Business on the Web". In addition to papers on general web design and web usability, we especially encourage presentations focusing on topics such as: Usability studies of e-commerce sites Innovative applications for electronic business Tools for web usability testing and evaluation of customer experience for e-business Usable design strategies and methodologies for e-commerce, intranet or business-to-business sites Web business application design for intranets E-commerce development tools Business-to-business issues Submissions should be for half-hour oral presentations. Submissions for presentations should be papers between 2000 and 4000 words in length. All presentations should be in English. Proceedings will be published on CD and on the conference web site. Publication versions of accepted papers, and presentation materials, will need to be e-mailed four weeks before the conference. To make a submission: Complete the cover sheet included at the end of this message. Send cover sheet and submission via email as plain text or as an attachment in HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word format. Send your submissions to hfweb@tri.sbc.com NO LATER THAN March 27, 2000. REVIEW PROCESS Your submissions will be reviewed by a committee of experts in web design. We will send notifications of acceptance or rejection by April 24, 2000. To volunteer to be a reviewer, send email to hfweb@tri.sbc.com describing your interests, experience in web design, research design, and data analysis, and previous experience reviewing for related conferences or publications. Review of submissions will be based on the originality of the submission, the quality of the description, analysis or position, the support for the conclusions (in either data or argument), and the usefulness of the contribution to other practitioners. IMPORTANT DATES March 27, 2000 Deadline for paper submissions April 24, 2000 Notification of acceptance May 22, 2000 Presentation materials and final paper are due June 19, 2000 6th Human Factors & the Web Conference FOR MORE INFORMATION Web Site: http://www.tri.sbc.com/hfweb Please direct your questions to: Dr. Philip Kortum, Conference Co-Chair SBC Technology Resources Email: hfweb@tri.sbc.com ................................................ cut here ................................................ SUBMISSION COVER SHEET 6TH CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS AND THE WEB Title: { } Author(s): { } Abstract (about 100 words): { } Keywords that will help us choose appropriate reviewers for your submission: { } Contact information for the principal author: Name: { } Affiliation: { } Address (suitable for express delivery service): { } Telephone: { } Fax: { } Email: { } Some way to reach you in an emergency (e.g, home telephone, pager, cellular phone): {optional} PLEASE ATTACH YOUR SUBMISSION (2000-4000 WORDS). ................................................ cut here ................................................ © Internet Technical Group Last update: December 12, 1999 URL: http://www.sandia.gov/itg/newsletter/dec99/call_for_submissions.html hosted by Sandia National Labs Disclaimer: Neither Sandia Corporation, the United States Government, nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately-owned rights. 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