The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted in even more data created, published and consumed by users. This vast amount of data is available in various formats (text, image, video, etc.), can be presented on different platforms, and most importantly, contains linkages between different entities on the Web. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. In addition, the workshop also serves as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work as well as to identify potential collaborations with their peers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
We welcome three types of submissions:
Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system . Accepted papers are published in CEUR-WS.org proceedings Vol-443. RDF data about the workshop is available here.
Please refer to the main conference website for registration details.
Compelling research prototypes can help communicate abstract, elusive big ideas and visions convincingly to everyone regardless of their technical backgrounds and interests, from conference reviewers, potential funders, potential usability subjects, to friends who want to know just what exactly you're working on so that they can share your enthusiasm. Compelling research prototypes can even enlist real-world users and let you test out ideas that are next to impossible to test in lab settings. But building compelling research prototypes is not a skill taught in school, and the general population has not found many Semantic Web research prototypes compelling. In this talk, I will share with you tips and tricks that have helped me build my research prototypes, particularly those that showcase Semantic Web ideas and technologies.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organizers at: vissw2009 at easychair dot org
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