What will be going on at Chi Sparks? There will be 3 parallel tracks, over 20 presentations, multiple workshops and panels, demonstrations of interactive art, posters sessions and 3 keynote presentations of renowned and emerging leaders and influencers. Expect a full day of deep-dive into the subject of Human Computer Interaction. More details will be put online as speakers finalize their presentations.

• Bill Verplank – An interaction designer, human-factors engineer and lecturer at Stanford University. Bill Verplank has an amazing ability to draw at the same time as he talks. He explains the history and future of interaction design with paradigms that serve as patterns for the way people think about the subject.
• Jasper van Kuijk – A postdoctoral research fellow who studied how companies deal with usability in the development of electronic consumer products. Through his research he identified mechanisms of barriers and enablers for usability in practice. He is also the author of the product usability weblog uselog.com.
• Virpi Roto – A user experience researcher at Aalto University and in the University of Helsinki. Her mission is to clarify the notion of user experience and make user experience work more systematic. She has been the driving force behind the All About UX site and has done a long career in Nokia Research Center.

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Early bird promo ends Monday 6 June

Have you registered and purchased your tickets already? Don’t forget: normal rates apply for payments received after 6 June. So sign up now and purchase your tickets to avail of our early bird prices. And there is an additional discount for members of Chi Nederland, ACM SIGCHI, NVvE, ReN and SIGCHI.be.
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Call for sponsors

Is your company or organization interested in fostering its relationship with the highly dynamic Dutch user experience community? Promote your product, services or find employees? Want to get a spot where all attendants can talk to you? Be a sponsor of Chi Sparks!
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The theme of this year’s Chi Sparks conference is ‘HCI research, innovation and implementation’. With this edition, Chi Sparks emphasizes the contribution of good HCI research in realizing successful, innovative, products or production systems as well as services for organizations, businesses, and society that have a real impact on people’s lives and work.

Therefore we invite industry practitioners, academics, researchers, designers, and educators to participate in and contribute to this conference!
Students (BA, MA, or PhD-levels) are explicitly invited to participate and contribute. We also invite project leads, managers, and CEO’s to contribute and attend, to emphasize the benefits of HCI in product development. During this conference, practice and theory will complement each other.

Submissions to Chi Sparks are possible in a wide variety of formats, including both full and short papers, but also industry or educational cases and even posters or interactive installations or demonstrations.

Thesis Award – Bachelor and Master students
During the Chi Sparks 2011 conference the winner of the Gerrit van der Veer Thesis Award will be announced. Nominated candidates will give a presentation of their graduation project during the conference. Bachelor and master students can submit their thesis to participate in this award. See www.gerritvanderveerprijs.nl for more information and the separate submission process.

Find out all the details in the official Call for Participation for Chi Sparks. For instructions on how exactly to submit your work to Chi Sparks, please download the Submission Guidelines.