BooksOnline'10 Workshop

BooksOnline'10 Workshop:  Research Advances in Large Digital Book  Repositories and Complementary Media

CIKM 2010, October 26, 2010, Toronto, Canada

<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/>http://research.microsoft.com/

booksonline10/

Call for Posters and Participation

Keynotes

The Present and Future of Google Books
James Crawford (Google Books)

The Metadata Challenge: Promoting Discovery, Access, and Usability for Online Books
John Ockerbloom (University of Pennsylvania)

Goals
The 3rd BooksOnline workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, eBooks, Human Computer Interaction, Publishing industry and on-line book services to foster progress on addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media.
The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation of research papers and the discussion of the challenges and opportunities identified in the position papers and project proposals. Participants will be encouraged to jointly create innovative solutions in collaboration around the themes that emerge from the submissions and discussions at the workshop. A seed fund of £3,000, provided by Microsoft Research, will be awarded to one or more selected projects as judged by the workshop organizers and a selected panel of experts.

Call for Posters
We solicit posters (1-5 pages in length) describing last minute results, new ideas and research directions, latest developments, and project proposals to be presented at the workshop. Please note that posters will not be published by ACM, but will be posted on the workshop website and disseminated at the workshop. The purpose of the posters is to attract community attention, leading to possible collaborations. Posters of project proposals will also be considered for the £3,000 seed fund.

Topics of interest


The following is only a sample listing of possible topics of interests:
· Enriched digital collections:
o Virtual learning environments and eBooks and eBooks in teaching
o eBooks as integrated content, data, and media
o Knowledge discovery and sharing in digital book repositories
o Cross-referencing and sense making
o Community interests and social context.
· Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services:
o Affordances of physical books and electronic media
o Mobile and multi-touch devices for reading and annotating
o Ink-based applications
o Social navigation and annotations, social interactions
o User profiles and content types
o Children and electronic reading
o Usage scenarios: searching, browsing, collection building, annotations, authoring, sharing
o Personalization and context sensitivity
o Ubiquitous access
o Immersive user experience
o User studies and study design
· Design and technology
o eBook UI and interaction designs, e.g., for active reading
o Usability issues when reading digital books
o Feature engineering for collection browsing
o Content representation and discovery
o Indexing and retrieval
o Scalability and interoperability
o Technologies for searching, browsing, filtering, and information extraction
o Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata
o Integration of complementary content and services
o Evaluation methodology and practices

Poster submission
Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> ACM
templates: using the "Option 2" style. Posters must be submitted as pdf files via the
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=booksonline10>
BooksOnline'10 Easychair submission site. Please note that you may need to create an Easychair account first. Contributions will be reviewed by the organising committee within two  weeks of submission and notifications sent to authors. Final  submission deadline is September 30, 2010. Please note however that
spaces are limited and earlier submissions are encouraged. One author per accepted poster is required to register and attend the workshop.

Workshop format
The one day workshop will include keynote and selected paper presentations, a poster session, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and research ideas, and a panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions. The £3,000 seed fund will be awarded following the workshop to one or more research project proposals selected by a panel of judges from those presented or proposed at the workshop.

Accepted papers

HCI Design Principles for eReaders
Jennifer Pearson (Swansea University), George Buchanan (City University) and Harold Thimbleby (Swansea University)

The sBook: Towards Social and Personalized Learning Experiences Myriam Ribière, Jérome Picault and Sylvain Squedin (Alcatel-Lucent  Bell Labs France)

Real-Time Document Collaboration Using iPads
Jennifer Pearson (Swansea University) and George Buchanan (City University)

Ebooks Children Would Want to Read and Engage with
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano)

A System for the Collaborative Reading of Digital Books with the Partially Sighted
W. Xavier Snelgrove and Ronald M. Baecker (University of Toronto)

Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Building Upon Research Foundations to Understand Books and Reading in the Digital Age
Ray Siemens and Julie Meloni (University of Victoria)

Working with First Nations: On-Demand Book Service
Nadia Caidi and Margaret Lam (University of Toronto)

Biblioteca de Livros Digitais: The Privileged Space of a Transliterate Experience for Children Reading Online
Fernanda Bonacho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Evaluating E-books
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano)

Organizers
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Programme Committee
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (State and University Library, Denmark)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Gilles Falquet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg, Germany)
Gene Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.)
Ananda Gunawardena (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Ivan Koychev (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Michael E. Lesk (Rutgers University, US)
Catherine C. Marshall (Microsoft Corporation, US)
John Ockerbloom (University of Pennsylvania, US)
Prakash Reddy (Hewlett-Packard)
Ian Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Further information
For further information, please visit
<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/>http://research.microsoft.com/
booksonline10/