Proceedings of CHI 2006 Workshop “The Many Faces of Consistency in Cross-Platform Design”




0          Preface
This proceedings is a collection of the position papers submitted to the CHI 2006 workshop on the
„Many Faces of Consistency in Cross-Platform Design“, which has taken place on April 22-23, 2006
in the Hyatt Hotel, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada, during the pre-conference program of the ACM
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Workshop schedule and details on the venue, program and participants can be found on
http://www.multipleui.org.
The first chapter contains the initial workshop description as submitted to the CHI conference
committee, which has been published in the Extended Abstracts of the conference proceedings.
The second chapter is a summary of the position papers that has been issued just before the
workshop to serve as white paper and initial mind set for the further discussion. This chapter may
serve as overview of the different perspectives on the topic of multi-device consistency.
Chapters three through fifteen are the single workshop position papers as submitted and revised by
the participants of the workshop. Detailed and original content should be referenced out of these
contributions.




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Organizers:
Kai Richter Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV), Darmstadt, Germany
Jeffrey Nichols Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA
Krzysztof Gajos University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ahmed Seffah Concordia University, Montreal, Canada


Program Committee:
Patrick Baudisch, Microsoft Research, USA
Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
Murielle Florins, University Catholique Louvrain, Belgium)
Laurent Karsenty, Intuilab, Fance
Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Roxane Neal, University of Washington, USA


Attendees:




Mir Farooq Ali, Motorola Labs, USA; Laurant Karsenty, Intuilab, France; Gaelle Calvary,
University Grenoble, France; Claus Knapheide, Siemens, USA; Kai Richter, Computer Graphics
Center, Germany; Joelle Coutaz, University Grenoble, France; Charlie Wiecha, IBM, USA; Martina
Ziefle, RWTH, Germany; Peter Forbrig, University Rostock, Germany; Kris Luyten, Hasselt
University, Belgium; Jeffrey Nichols, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Roxane Neal, University
Washington, USA; Anke Dittmar, University Rostock, Germany; Fabio Paterno, CNR ISTI, Italy;
Rich Goldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA; Manas Tungare, VirginiaTech,
USA; Chip Alexander Sun Microsystems, USA; Marcus Trapp, University Kaiserslautern, Germany;
Jean-Sebastien Sottet, University Grenoble, France; Krzysztof Gajos, University Washington,
USA; Alexandre Demeure, University Grenoble, France.




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