The goals of the "Affective User Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Environments" workshop are:

The origin of this workshop dates from a series of successful workshops concerned with Embodied Conversational Agents and Talking Heads:

• AAMAS 2003 Workshop, Melbourne, (July 2003)
• AAMAS 2002 Workshop, Bologna, Italy (July 2002)
• HF2002 Workshop, Melbourne, November 2002
• Talking Heads Technology Workshop, Perth (Nov 2001)

The Workshop Organisers would welcome the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects from the Major Topic areas. These include (but are not limited to)

The full day workshop will feature a mix of paper presentations, demonstrations, and discussion rounds. The presentations should cover one of the several academic or industrial themes of the workshop and should be oriented toward:

We especially invite papers/presentations/demonstrations of industrial AUI research and/or commercial AUI systems as well as the application of AUIs to Smart Environments.

We strongly encourage you to demonstrate your work and to provide URLs to permanent web sites that contain examples of your system. To give us time to organize the technical requirements, if you are to demonstrate your system, we must be notified before . Contact us for details at: raytrace@vhml.org

The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion of:

At the end of the workshop, participants should have a broad understanding of the differing technologies involved in the production, development and directing of AUI systems and applications. They will have seen several AUI systems and will understand the problems associated with the technology. They will have contributed, through discussion, to the future development of individual AUI interfaces within the global context. They will also become part of a network of AUI researchers and practitioners.

The collected papers will become part of a permanent web page for this workshop and hence all required permissions must be obtained by the authors for any copyright material in their papers.
The authors will retain copyright of their work.
In submitting a paper to the workshop, the authors must grant a non-exclusive licence to the workshop organisers to publish their paper and associated material in full on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM and in printed form . Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the author.
Authors are encouraged to add a brief copyright notice to their paper.

Since we aim at a highly focused event on the aspect of AUIs, we kindly ask authors to prepare their submissions according to the following structure:

1. Brief description of application area and research goals;
2. Description of their requirements for an AUI;
3. Description of the actual aspects of AUI being used in their system(s);
4. Report on experiences and on evaluation studies with the creation of a particular AUI - what are the useful features, what are the necessary steps toward such a creation;
5. Other aspects relevant to the topic of this workshop

Papers length should be 2 to 4 pages long (using 10pt, single space, all margins of 2cm) and should be accompanied as much as possible with an animation or URL's showing multimedia content (actual systems, screenshots, animations, etc) describing the work presented. Papers must be written in English and submitted in electronic format (see below).

Every paper submitted will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers from the program committee. Reviewing will take place as soon as the paper is received so please get your papers in early.

The first page of your submission should include:

If email is not possible, please send two copies of your paper to (though, email is much preferred):

Andrew Marriott Dep't of Computing Curtin University of Technology Hayman Road, Bentley Western Australia 6107

A MS Word template is provided here. The file OZCHI2004_AUI.doc is an example of how the submission should look as is OZCHI2004_AUI.pdf.