Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008:
Exploring HCI Challenges
Main Program

Saturday, 5th April, 2008 at CHI2008 in Florence, Italy

Home Description Program Participate Committee Review Criteria SWUI Background
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction
9:15-10:30
Building
Experiences with Content Extraction from the Web
Mira Dontcheva, Sharon Lin, Steven M. Drucker, David Salesin and Michael F. Cohen.
AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki
Tobias Kuhn.
User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Interface Enhancements to the Semantic MediaWiki
Frederik Pfisterer, Markus Nitsche, Anthony Jameson and Catalin Barbu.
Exploiting user gratificaton for collaborative semantic annotation
Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti.

Wrap-up
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30
Interacting
From Semantic Web Data to Inform-Action: a Means to an End
Laurence Noël and Ghislaine Azémard.
Atom Interface — a novel interface for exploring and browsing semantic space
Krystian Samp, Cosmin Basca, Bill McDaniel and Stefan Decker.
NITELIGHT: A Graphical Tool for Semantic Query Construction
Alistair Russell, Paul Smart, Dave Braines and Nigel Shadbolt.
Visual Exploration, Query, and Debugging of RDF Graphs
Wolfgang Weiss, Michael Hausenblas and Gerhard Sprung.
The effects of transparency on perceived and actual competence of a content-based recommender
Henriette Cramer, Bob Wielinga, Vanessa Evers, Satyan Ramlal, Lloyd Rutledge and Natalia Stash.

Wrap-up
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30
Position Papers
Bringing the Semantic Web home: a research agenda for local, personalized SWUI
Paul André, mc schraefel, Max Van Kleek and David Karger.
Combined Usage of Ontologies and Folksonomies in E-learning Environments
Scott Bateman, Jelena Jovanovic, Carlo Torniai, Dragan Gasevic and Marek Hatala.
Why Evaluating Semantic Web Applications is Difficult
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Alia Amin and Michiel Hildebrand.
Simplifying knowledge acquisition from end-users on the Semantic Web
Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, Paul André, Mikko Perttunen, David Karger and mc schraefel

Planning the breakout sessions
3:30-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:30 Breakout sessions for developing SWUI2008 poster for CHI2008