Background and Motivation

Workshops provide members of a community a forum to discuss common interests in a focused way. If you are working in an emerging area in Intelligent User Interfaces, consider organizing a workshop. They are a chance to meet mind-alike researchers and discover what others are doing. A workshop offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Successful workshops may result in edited books or special issues in international journals.

IUI09 is looking for exciting proposals for half-day or full-day workshops to be held on February 8th, 2009, the first day of the conference. Each workshop should generate discussions that give the IUI community a new, organized way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. A successful workshop can move the field forward and help in building community. Researchers and practitioners in the intelligent user interfaces community at large are invited to submit proposals for review.

Submission Requirements

Each workshop should have one or more organizers and an international program committee. Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of 1000 words, and should contain the following information to judge the importance, quality, and benefits for the research community:

A cover page including:

• Workshop title
• Name, affiliation, full postal address, homepage and e-mail address for each organizer
• Identification of the primary contact person(s)
• One-paragraph biography for each workshop organizer

Motivation and Objectives: A brief description of the workshop topic and goals, its relevance to IUI09 and significance for the research field.

• Motivation: What is the overall topic of the workshop? Why is this topic of particular interest at this time? If the workshop has been organized in the past at an IUI or other conference, please give details (audience, URL) and describe why it should be held again and how improvements will be made.
  
  
• Objectives: What are the objectives that the workshop aims to achieve? Objectives may include (a) targeting a predefined set of focus questions, (b) presenting alternate views on a particular issue that is of concern to the IUI community and attempting to resolve the issue, (c) identifying priorities for new directions of research, and/or (d) initiating the appropriate collaborations.

Potential Participants and Workshop Attraction: A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. (Target audience, areas from which the participants are expected to come, strategy for publicizing the workshop, number of expected participants, names of potential attendees).

• Potential Participants: Indicate how you plan to select participants and contributions to the workshop. State your estimate of the number of participants. If possible, give a list of tentatively confirmed participants.
  
  
• Workshop Attraction: Indicate how you plan to attract submissions and/or participants. If you have a plan to edit a book or a journal special issue as a result of your workshop, please indicate it.

Format: Give a description of the proposed workshop format, including the planned activities (such as position statements, invited talks, panels, demos, and general discussion), as well as how these activities address the workshop objectives. Preference will be given to proposals for activities designed to fuel discussion and interaction among participants; workshops consisting solely of paper presentations are discouraged. Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times. Design your schedule for a length of 3 hours (half-day workshop) or 6 hours (full-day workshop) with a lunch break and one or two coffee breaks, respectively.

Organization: Give short descriptions of each of the organizers' qualifications related to the workshop topics. Give names and contact information of PC members, if available. The list of PC/Organisers should preferably include people from at least three different sites.

Potential workshop organizers are encouraged to send their draft proposals to potential participants for comments before submission.

Submission Dates and Details

Timeline for workshop proposal submissions:
Friday, July 18th, 2008	Informal "intention to submit" email with general details
Friday, August 1st, 2008	Submission of proposal by email to workshop chairs
Friday, September 5th, 2008	Notification about acceptance or rejection
Sunday, February 8th, 2009	IUI workshop date

Workshop intentions and proposals should be submitted via email in PDF format to the IUI09 workshop chairs:

workshops2009 at iuiconf.org with a subject line of: IUI09 Workshop Proposal

Organizer's Responsibilities

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:

1. Define, produce and distribute the workshop's call for participation.
2. Gather and review submissions, and decide upon final program content.
3. Assure workshop participants are informed they have to register for the workshop.
4. Set up and maintain a website linked to the official IUI website that contains information about the workshop, the materials from the workshop (presentations, if any) and a summary of the workshop outcome.
5. Producing a single printable PDF with workshop material to allow printing of workshop proceedings and make it available to workshop participants. Workshop proceedings will not be published/printed as part of IUI 2009 organization.
6. Schedule, attend and coordinate their entire workshop (at least one organizer must register at early registration date).
7. Prepare a poster summarizing the workshop results to be presented at the IUI poster session.

Review Criteria

The proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the chairs and IUI 2009 organizing/program committee members. The following criteria will guide the review: Relevance to IUI, interesting for the audience, Quality, Organization.