Submit papers, posters, & presentation abstracts to WIPTE 2010

The 2010 Workshop on the Impact of Pen-Based Technology on Education (WIPTE) will be held on October 25th and 26th, 2010 at Virginia Tech.  The organizing committee invites submissions of full papers, posters and short presentation abstracts by June 15th. The committee also invites entries to the 2010 WIPTE Video Contest with a deadline of September 15th. The video contest carries a $3,000 first prize. 

Submissions in each category should describe experiences using Tablet PCs or other pen-based technology in K-12, higher education, or other teaching and learning environments.  Full paper submissions will be peer-reviewed, other submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted submissions will appear in a Monograph to be published by Purdue University Press and authors will present their work at WIPTE 2010.  For detailed calls and additional information see www.wipte.org

Online conference registration will be available at www.wipte.org by June 1st, 2010. The early bird registration fee is $100. After September 30th, 2010 the registration fee is $150.  The registration includes a reception, a dinner, a copy of the conference proceedings, and the opportunity to win a variety of raffle prizes. Last year’s prizes included Tablet PCs and smart phones.

Imagine Cup Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award – Round 2 Begins

Round 2 of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award begins today.

Students are competiting to create a new education application that uses Touch & Tablet technology in accessibility scenarios to expand the possibilities about how a user (student or educator) interacts with the computer. Round 1 began in January and now ten teams advanced to Round 2, where those teams will finalize storyboards and build functional prototypes of their software applications. Of these ten teams, the top two will be invited to compete in the final round, which will be in Warsaw, Poland in July.

Congratulations to Round 1 participants for your unique approaches to improving accessibility issues in education. Now, it will be exciting to see how the top 10 progress! Good luck!

Teams advancing to Round 2:

  1. Default Dream from Ukraine
  2. eVolve from Poland
  3. Griffin from Indonesia
  4. IC – UNICAMP from Brazil
  5. inTouch from United States
  6. Layar Sentuh from Indonesia
  7. MacroSight from Indonesia
  8. Note-Taker Project from United States
  9. OneView from United States
  10. Ramians from India

Call for Participation: Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling

SBIM-NPAR is hosting a conference June 7 -10 at University of Savoie at Annecy, France. Researchers, students and practitioners working on sketch-based systems can now submit papers. See the call for participation for details.

Paper deadline: April 7, 2010
Papers acceptance notification: April 28, 2010
Papers camera-ready deadline: May 5, 2010