[Om-announce] CfP MathUI 2014, Coimbra: Mathematical User Interfaces Workshop 2014

[Paul Libbrecht]

                   Call for Papers: MathUI'14
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            9th Mathematical User Interfaces Workshop 2014
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         At the Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
              Coimbra, Portugal, a day in 7-11 July, 2014
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  SCOPE
   
  MathUI is an international workshop to discuss how users interact with 
  mathematics represented on a computer.

  - Did users of your software have the a-ha moment 
    after exploring mathematical objects?
  - Did you meet a team of people that exchanged math electronically 
    as easily as talking together on a blackboard?
  - Is it as easy to search for mathematics facts as to search 
    for a history date?
  - Have mathematics learning resources a special flavor 
    that make them less easy to re-use?
  We invite all questions, that care for the use of mathematics 
  on computers and how the user experience can be improved, 
  to be discussed in the workshop.

  Topics include:
  - user-requirements for math interfaces
  - presentation formats
  - mobile-devices powered mathematics
  - cultural differences in practices of mathematical languages
  - didactically sensible scenarios of use
  - spreadsheets as mathematical interfaces
   - manipulations of mathematical expressions
  This workshop follows a successful series of workshops
  held at the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics 
  since 10 years; it features presentations of brand new ideas
  in papers selected by a review process, wide space for discussions,
  as well as a software demonstration session.
  
  SUBMISSIONS

  The organizers invite authors to submit contributions of 6 to 12 pages
  on the workshop-related topics in PDF format optionally 
  illustrated by supplementary media such as video 
  recordings or access to demos.

  Deadline for submissions:  May 15th 2014.

  Method of submission: please login and submit via EasyChair.

  The submissions will be reviewed by the international programme
  committee whose comments and recommendations will be sent back
  by June 3rd requesting a final version no later than June 16th.

  Moreover, MathUI will be concluded by an expo-like 
  demonstration session. Proposed demonstrations should be sent 
  by email until June 20th, containing a URL to a software 
  description, a title, a short abstract of the demonstrated features, 
  and the indication of hardware expectations (own/lent laptop/tablet,
  internet access (speed?), power, ...). After a short elevator pitch,
  the demonstration session will run for 1-3h, each demonstrating to
  interested parties.

  See the web-page:
    http://cermat.org/events/MathUI/14/

    

  PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 
  
  The following persons have accepted to review. More invitations are pending:

  - David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  - Paul Cairns, University of York, Great Britain
  - Olga Caprotti, University of Helsinki, Finland
  - Andrea Hoffkamp, HU Berlin, Germany
  - Andrea Kohlhase (organizer), Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
  - Christoph Lange, University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS.
  - Paul Libbrecht (organizer), University of Education of Weingarten, Germany
  - Andrea Hoffkamp, HU Berlin, Germany
  - Helena Mihaljevic-Brandt, Zentralblatt MATH
  - Elena Smirnova, Texas Instruments Inc. Education Technology, USA
  - Marco Pollanen, Trent University, Canada
  - Frederic Wang, Free Math Software Projects, France

  For other inquiries please contact Paul Libbrecht, paul at cermat.org or
    Andrea Kohlhase a.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de .