Tutorial: Interaction Design: a Narrative Approach
(Full day)
Carlos Scolari, Universidad de Vic (Spain)
Place: Sala 2 (Main building 2nd floor)

Tutorial: Cross-cultural usability:
challenges, approaches and practical solutions
(Half day)
Christian Sturm, Arolis-Munich (Germany)
Mario Moreno, Univ. Tec. de la Mixteca (Mexico)
Place: Sala 1 (Main building 2nd floor)

Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza - PUC-RIO, Brazil

Interaction for inclusion: Who should be included? (Keynote abstract)

Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza graduated as a Translator and Conference Interpreter from PUC-Rio, where she also obtained an M.A. in Portuguese and a Ph. D. in Applied (Computational) Linguistics. She worked as a translator and interpreter for English and French. From 1984 to 1988 she worked at EMBRATEL, heading a research and development project on natural language interfaces for data base systems. In 1988 she joined the Informatics Department at PUC-Rio, where she started the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) area and gave origin to Semiotic Engineering - a semiotically-based theory of HCI.

She has been a visiting scholar and professor in a number of institutions abroad, such as CSLI (Stanford University), SLIS (Indiana University), LT3 (University of Waterloo) and IFSM (University of Maryland Baltimore County). Among her areas of interest are: Semiotic Engineering and Computer Semiotics, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications for Online Communities.

Clarisse de Souza's web page
Author of The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction
2005, The MIT Press

Paul Dourish - University of California, Irvine, USA

The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality (Keynote abstract)

Paul Dourish is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, and Associate Director of the Irvine Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. His primary research interests are in the areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is especially interested in the foundational relationships between social scientific analysis and technological design. His book, "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" was published by MIT Press in 2001; it explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the embodied experience of interactive and computational systems.

Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.

Paul Dourish's web page
Author of Where the Action Is: The foundations of Embodied Interaction
2001, The MIT Press