WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS & CfPs
From OZCHI
Designing for Engaged Experience Workshop
David Browning, Erik Champion, truna ak j.turner
Web site
Facebook event
This full day workshop gives participants an opportunity to explore how our interaction with recorded research data might inspire designing digital technologies that enrich our experience of natural places. Experience centred design and designing for affective computing leads us to use what might loosely be called 'ethnographic methods'. Numerous constraints might prohibit full-blown ethnography, so we often end up analysing recorded media records of people interacting in a variety of contexts. The resulting artefacts are often enticing in their own right and interaction with them has a remediating and inspirational effect.
If you would like to express an early interest consider joining our Facebook event. (Yes, I know, I hate fb too, but I guess it is useful.)
We are accepting short paper submissions from interested participants. Themes should respond to the workshop issues, for example:
- Natural places & data collection
- Participant collaboration in the data production process
- (Re) remediation with rich data objects – data as a site of interaction
- Participant collaboration in the design process
- Inspiring new interaction designs
- Designing within the value model paradigm (or another paradigm)
- Places & design
If you are a researcher: submit a short paper (no more than 4 pages) that describes your use of video and/or photographs and/or audio. Include media examples. If you have not yet done this sort of work, detail your interest (1-2 pages). If you are a practitioner: detail your interest and processes (1-2 pages). Include media examples if you wish.
Formal short papers will be peer reviewed and included in the workshop proceedings. Please use the OZCHI 2008 Template (MS word format)
Workshop formal submissions should be sent to: David Browning by the due date
Informal expressions of interest and discussions may be sent up to a few days before the workshop via this website, these will be included on the website but not included in the proceedings.
Dates:
- Workshop Formal Short Papers due: October 31, 2008
- Notification: November 7, 2008
- Camara ready due: November 30, 2008
- Workshop Informal papers due: Up to December 6, 2008 (via this website)
- Early bird registration – subject to confirmation: November 14, 2008 (for workshop participants with accepted formal workshop submissions only)
- Designing for Engaged Experience - December 8, 2008 Full day
- OzCHI 2008 December 8 - 12, 2008
Inclusivity, Interaction Design and Culture Workshop
Ann Light, Gary Marsden, Susan Dray, Margot Brereton, Nicola J Bidwell
Facebook event
HCI and interaction design face new challenges with the globalization of digital technologies. Tools only bring opportunities if they can be made relevant. Individuals exist within specific cultural contexts that influence how they regard all aspects of use, from usability to acceptability. Therefore it is critical to cultivate design practices that allow for meaningful embedding of interactive systems in the cultural settings where they will be used. This workshop goes to the heart of the theoretical and methodological questions that accompany working across cultures, offering a space for reflection for anyone bridging worlds, whether locally or internationally. By asking what we hope to achieve in designing tools that everyone can use, and how we can work sensitively where understandings of technology differ, we can equip ourselves to develop new and better techniques for meetings these ends.
Much of this workshop will be based on discussion and group exercises. We will focus on ways of engaging with a variety of people to do research and design. We will conduct a series of group tasks to keep this focus practical. In addition to any deliverables that we generate during our investigations in the workshop, there are book projects at a formative stage within the community interested in interaction design for international development (IDID ), which are intended to explore design methods across cultures and which might benefit from the workshop’s insights.
We believe that all work in interaction design carries a cultural component, even if this isn’t specifically articulated at the time. Participants do not need direct experience in examining cultural aspects to gain value from participating in this workshop, but are requested to show their interest in the issue by scrutinizing a piece of their work for its relevance to the discussion of culture and inclusivity. We welcome both academic and industry researchers, stressing that the reflective element of the workshop offers a chance to consider one’s practice regardless of the constraints imposed by day-to-day necessities.
To register for the workshop please send two short pieces to the organisers c/o Ann Light by 24th October. The first of these is a brief reflection on your approach to your work. The featured material may include international projects, or local work, but should stress the way in which cultural boundaries were examined and negotiated or had unforeseen impact. The second piece of work should describe, in no more than four sentences, a couple of potential workshop outputs that would have methodological benefit to you.
And have a look at the extended abstract on the Facebook event for more inspiration.
Design to read: designing for people who do not read easily Workshop - CANCELLED
Caroline Jarrett
Website
If you want to use web sites, you have to be able to read them. The same is true for many other things we use: computer programs, product instructions, timetables, medicine bottles and leaflets.
If you are a researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in this problem then come to this workshop at OzCHI 2008 in Cairns, Australia on 10th December 2008. We will:
- share experiences with our different audiences
- compare the advice and approaches that we use
- critique a 'framework' for audiences and advice that was the outcome of the first workshop in this series, in the UK in September.
For more information about this workshop visit the website.
Submission:
- You will need to prepare a position paper by 10th November 2008
- Acceptances will be sent out by 17th November 2008
- Final presentations will be due by 30th November 2008
Public and Situated Displays to Support Communities Workshop
Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, Christine Satchell, Marcus Foth, Ian MacColl
Website Facebook event
AIMS AND SCOPE
This OZCHI 2008 workshop will discuss the ways that public, situated displays can support communities. Our primary aim is to explore the potential for situated displays to support communities of all kinds by bringing together many individual community display projects, with the added benefit of increasing awareness and communication between researchers involved in this field. We hope to share experiences of working with communities and the challenges this can involve and explore the different approaches, techniques and technologies used by the workshop participants.
In doing this, we aim to learn which of those have proved successful, which have not been so successful, and facilitate comparison of the various approaches and the contrasting communities in which they were based. It is our hope that the workshop will encourage collaboration between disparate research groups, and if suitable the outcomes of the event may be considered for publication in an appropriate venue.
The day will comprise conference-style paper presentations, discussion of emerging themes and issues from the presentations, and a group design exercise based around a scenario for a new community display.
We welcome all contributions related to the use of public situated displays in supporting communities. Relevant areas for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Exploration of different settings and deployment environments
- Techniques for gathering requirements and information for design
- Display designs and design techniques
- Discussion of key deployment challenges
- Issues arising from working with communities
- Evaluation of community displays and different interaction techniques
- Issues arising from display content and repurposing of content
- Access control and possible solutions and approaches
- Persuasiveness and community-building effects
- Sustainability and evolution of solutions
- Managing multiple displays
- Enticing and encouraging users, incentives to contribute
- Role of gatekeepers and local champions
- Spaces and places
SUBMISSION
We invite submissions of up to three pages in OZCHI submission format. Submissions should be made via our workshop website
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Michael Arnold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Margot Brereton (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK)
- Matt Jones (Swansea University, UK)
- Christian Kray (Newcastle University, UK)
- Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Ann Morrison (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Kenton O'Hara (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK)
- Mark Perry (Brunel University, UK)
- Fiona Redhead (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch University, Australia)
- Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University, UK)
Information Science and HCI: Information Behaviour Design Workshop - CANCELLED
Christopher Lueg, Gregor McEwan, Amanda Spink
Web site
Submissions and Evaluations:
Participants should prepare a 1 page statement of interest and relevant experience and are also encouraged to submit a 2-3 page paper on a topic of interest to the discussion. Papers should clearly identify how they contribute to exploring the Information Science (IS) - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) nexus eg by suggesting questions raised by their research that could be discussed at the workshop. Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers for acceptance in the workshop proceedings. The organisers will arrange for publishing the workshop proceedings as a technical report as well as on a web site. As experienced editors we are also looking at publishing revised and expanded versions of the papers as a special issue in an established, topically related journal.