[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS User Interfaces for Theorem Provers, UITP 2006 A satellite workshop of FLoC'06 Seattle, USA, Monday August 21st 2006 http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~omega/workshops/UITP06/ The User Interfaces for Theorem Provers workshop series brings together researchers interested in designing, developing and evaluating interfaces for interactive proof systems, such as theorem provers, formal method tools, and other tools manipulating and presenting mathematical formulas. While the reasoning capabilities of interactive proof systems have increased dramatically over the last years, the system interfaces have often not enjoyed the same attention as the proof engines themselves. In many cases, interfaces remain relatively basic and under-designed. Initial studies by HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) practitioners and theorem-prover developers working in collaboration have had promising early results, but much remains to be investigated. The User Interfaces for Theorem Provers workshop series provides a forum for researchers interested in improving human interaction with proof systems. We welcome participation and contributions from the theorem proving, formal methods and tools, and HCI communities, both to report on experience with existing systems, and to discuss new directions. UITP 2006 is a one-day workshop to be held on Monday, August 21st 2006 in Seattle, USA, as a FLoC'06 workshop. Submissions We encourage submission of short abstracts or papers (from 4--20 pages). Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. We will invite authors of accepted submissions to talk at the workshop (slots of 20--30 minutes are expected). Submissions presented at the workshop will be included in informal proceedings to be distributed at the workshop and made available electronically afterward. Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to: * Novel and traditional interfaces for interactive proof systems including: - command line based user interfaces - graphical user interfaces - natural language based user interfaces * Bridging the gap between human-oriented and machine-oriented proofs * Design principles for interfaces * Representation languages for proofs and mathematical objects * Tools for exploration, visualization and explanation of mathematical objects and proofs * User-evaluation of interfaces * Integration of proof systems into e-learning environments * Web-based services for proof systems * Implementation experiences * System descriptions Authors are encouraged to bring along versions of their systems suitable for informal demonstration during breaks in the program of talks. The workshop proceedings will be distributed at the workshop as a collection of the accepted papers. Final versions of accepted papers have to be prepared with LaTeX. Following up the workshop the (revised) accepted papers will be published in a volume of ENTCS devoted to the workshop. Dates Deadline for submissions: May 15th 2006 Notification: June 20th 2006 Final versions due: July 10th 2006 Workshop: August 21st 2006 Submission is via EasyChair (thanks to Andrei Voronkov) http://www.easychair.org/UITP-06/ More information can be found on the UITP web page at http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~omega/workshops/UITP06/ Program Committee David Aspinall (University of Edinburgh, UK) Yves Bertot (INRIA Sophia Antiplois, France) Paul Cairns (University College London, UK) Ewen Denney (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Christoph Lüth (University of Bremen, Germany) Michael Norrish (NICTA, Australia) Florina Piroi (RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University, Sweden) Makarius M. M. Wenzel (Technical University Munich, Germany) Organizers and PC Chairs Serge Autexier (DFKI, Germany) Christoph Benzmüller (Saarland University, Germany)