CALL FOR PAPERS Bridging the Gaps Between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction http://www.se-hci.org/bridging.html International Conference on Software Engineering 2003 http://cs.oregonstate.edu/icse2003/ May 3-4, 2003 Portland, Oregon, USA The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) being the premier software engineering conference presents an unparalleled opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and educators to discuss the shared trends and concerns. In the case of this workshop, we are interested in the relationships between the field of software engineering (SE) and the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Goal. Almost half of software in systems being developed today and thirty-seven to fifty percent of efforts throughout the software life cycle are related to the system's user interface. For this reason problems and methods from the field of human-computer interaction affect the overall process of software engineering tremendously, and vice versa. Yet despite these powerful reasons to practice and apply effective SE and HCI method there still exist major gaps of understanding both between suggested practice and how software is actually developed in industry, and between the best practices of each of the fields. The standard curricula for each field makes little if any reference to the other field and certainly does not teach how to interact with the other field. There are major gaps of communication between the HCI and SE fields: the architectures, processes, methods and vocabulary being used in each community are often foreign to the other community. As a result, product quality is not as high as it could be, and (avoidable) re-work is frequently necessary. The theme of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and academics in the two fields in an attempt to enumerate and understand these gaps of understanding and communication, with an eventual goal of proposing practical ways-shared processes, shared architectures, shared notations, etc.-to bridge these gaps. Scope. The focus areas of the workshop will be aimed at: increasing awareness of the issues in the world at large; designing joint or related curricula; creating unified tools, methods, and processes; and influencing regulations and/or conventions of practice. The tangible results of the workshop will be a practical program of education, research, and public relations focused on changing the way that people think about these two fields, and the way that the fields are actually practiced. How to Submit. Submit your position paper in Adobe PDF format via electronic submission to Rick Kazman (kazman@sei.cmu.edu). Your paper must conform to the proceedings publication format and must not exceed eight pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Additional and updated details (ignoring page limit details) are available at: http://cs.oregonstate.edu/icse2003/ Select ``Submission Information'' in Index. Then select ``Submission Format'' in third paragraph. Submission Due Dates. * Submission Date: February 1, 2003 * Acceptance/rejection: March 1, 2003 * Camera-ready Copy: April 1, 2003 Review Process. A maximum of 30 participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted material. Papers will be reviewed by a program committee in terms of their relevance to the aims of the workshop and technical content. The workshop will be closed. Participation will be based upon the submitted papers, which will be reviewed by a program committee. The best papers will be presented. All papers will be distributed to the participants before the workshop starts. Each presented paper will be assigned an opponent, who should present a brief counterpoint to the point of view of the presenter of the paper. During the day, participants can propose issues to be discussed at the end of the day. The workshop should lead to a list of issues discussed, conclusions reached, disagreements identified, and topics to be researched further. Organizing Committee Dr. Rick Kazman Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University 4500 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213 E-mail: kazman@sei.cmu.edu WWW: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/rkazman/ Dr. Len Bass Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University 4500 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213 E-mail: ljb@sei.cmu.edu WWW: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/ljb/ Dr. Jan Bosch University of Groningen Department of Mathematics and Computing Science PO Box 800, NL9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands E-mail: Jan.Bosch@cs.rug.nl WWW: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bosch