UA Conference - Europe 2008 is a conference for User Assistance specialists and Technical Communicators. It covers a range of aspects (including tools, technologies, design, and usability) of user assistance for software.

The conference will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on 18-19 September 2008.

Proposals are invited for Case Study presentations and Peer Showcase items.

• Case Study presentations are 25 - 35 minutes in duration (including question time) and form part of the main Conference programme.
• The Peer Showcase is a short informal exhibition of interesting user assistance solutions at the end of the first Conference day. This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your project and to receive valuable feedback.

For both Case Study presentations and PeerShowcase items, the conference organisers are especially interested in projects that demonstrate any of the following:

• A new authoring tool, or a new version of an established authoring tool, such as Adobe RoboHelp 7 or Author-it 5
• Collaborative authoring
• Innovative design solutions for user assistance, such as creative ways of enabling users to navigate through the Help to find the information they need
• Embedded user assistance (where the Help is incorporated within the user interface of the application itself)
• Alternative ways of presenting user assistance content, such as animations, sound, or guided tasks
• DITA or other XML-based technologies
• Cross-platform solutions, or user assistance for mobile devices
• Localisation for a range of cultures and languages

You do not have to be an experienced conference presenter to submit a Case Study or Peer Showcase proposal -- the quality and originality of your user assistance project is of most importance. Case study and Peer Showcase presenters must be independent of any tool vendor.

To submit a Case Study or Peer Showcase proposal, please visit http://www.uaconference.eu/proposal.html.

Proposals must be received by 16th May 2008.