Despite the dramatic increase in power and functionality in contemporary information appliances, interaction methods continue to be heavily dependent on more and more overloaded small graphical user interfaces. Tiny screens are proliferating on appliances in the home, devices in cars and on the phones, and media players we carry on our bodies. However, an ageing population means that such screens may have increasingly limited utility, and even for those with full sight, staring at a tiny screen is not always optimal whether operating a remote whilst watch TV, or navigating down a busy street.

We welcome position papers that address towards a less-GUI interface theme, but also those covering other areas of physicality including:

1. enabling technologies for haptic input and output;
   

2. physicality and fidelity in design;
   

3. design at the physical-digital frontier;
   

4. philosophy of physicality;
   

5. artefact-focussed social interaction;
   

6. physically-inspired interaction in virtual worlds;
   

7. creativity and materiality;
   

8. interactive art and performance;
   

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Important Dates

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Submission Deadline : 17 July 2009

Acceptance Notification : 31 July 2009

Camera-ready Deadline : 17 August 2009

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We invite submissions in the form of a 2-6 page position paper in ACM Format. We would also like to encourage contributions in other forms (e.g. demonstration, artwork, performance) but please contact us. Submissions and enquiries should be sent to <devina AT physicality.org>.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings as either short or long papers.

The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations and a design session based on the main theme. There will also be a poster session that will allow participants to showcase their work or demonstrations.

Previous workshops in the Physicality series have attracted a mixture of designers and technologists, artists and architects, psychologists and philosophers; we expect a similar eclectic and enthusiastic combination of researchers and practitioners from industry and academia for this event.