Proceedings of the 17th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Citizens Online: Considerations for Today and the Future

Abstract

Welcome to OZCHI 2005, held for the second time in Canberra, the capital city of Australia and the hub of our Government. OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA).This year's theme reflects on the change in the way we interact as citizens, and explores how that might further evolve. In the last decade, we've seen a paradigm shift take us from physical to digital. Time and space have become looser constraints as people use the Internet, PDAs and mobile phones to do things such as: work remotely and across time zones; purchase items without consideration for national boundaries; find jobs outside their local areas; submit tax returns and do their banking out of hours; and perform research and complete degrees without ever having to set foot in a University.We have come to expect businesses, education and Government to have websites that allow us to order products and engage in services from anywhere at any time. We hope that this conference offers an insight into what we might expect in the future.OZCHI is the leading conference in Computer Human Interaction in Australia and New Zealand. It attracts Australian and international participants from industry and academia who are interested in human-computer interaction, ergonomics, psychology, software engineering, design, social science, management and information systems.OZCHI provides an important opportunity for researchers and practitioners to both learn and share their ideas. To strengthen this relationship, this year we have created a practitioner-based stream with industry case studies, panels and demonstrations to run alongside two research streams of long papers, short papers and posters.