Workshops
| Title: W1: HCI and the Older Population |
| Authors: Dr Joy Goodman, Dr Anna Dickinson |
| Room: 2/05 |
| Date: Monday 05/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: A forum for current work on older people and HCI, exploring the relevance of inclusive design and asking what makes the older population distinct (or not) from the wider population. |
| Title: W2: Commercial uses of eyetracking |
| Authors: Natalie Webb, Tony Renshaw |
| Room: 3/06 |
| Date: Monday 05/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop is aimed at sharing and defining best practice, ideas and unanswered questions on the use of eyetracking as applied to commercial UCD. Both practitioners and academics are invited.
read the full workshop description |
| Title: W3: Ecological Validity and Behavioural Measures in the Usability Testing of New Applications |
| Authors: Gitte Lindgaard, Bruce Tsuji, Shamima Khan |
| Room: 1/09 |
| Date: Monday 05/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop will help you identify ecologically valid usability test methods, measures, and procedures for your applications and products while “cloaking” key details to ensure confidentiality and keep secrets. (PLEASE NOTE: This workshop was originally advertised as a two-day event. Delegates who registered and paid before the change will receive a full refund for the second day.) |
| Title: W4: Understanding and Designing for Aesthetic Experience |
| Authors: Luigina Ciolfi, Michael Cooke, Olav Bertelsen, Liam Bannon |
| Room: 3/07 |
| Date: Monday 05/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop will discuss conceptual and methodological tools for studying aesthetic aspects of human experience of technology. Participants will present and discuss examples of work dealing with aesthetic issues around the design of technology, and will be involved in small group sessions focused on outstanding issues around this topic. |
| Title: W5: Improving and Assessing Pen-Based Input Techniques |
| Authors: Janet Read, Phil Gray |
| Room: 3/08 |
| Date: Monday 05/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop focuses on pen-based input and will cover the handling of rich input streams including free text, drawings, etc.; reading pen-generated input; interactive error repair techniques; and evaluation methods. |
| Title: HEW: HCI Educators Workshop - Beyond the Rhetoric |
| Authors: Janet Read |
| Room: 1/10 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: Recent HCI Educators workshops have focussed on the impact of external frameworks and guidelines on the HCI curriculum. This workshop will continue these discussions, looking at the Skills Framework for the Information Age, as well as the BCS accreditation requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate HCI courses and for skills training in the workplace. This workshop aims to provide a meeting place for educators mapping out a research and activity agenda for common concerns.
Topics of interest include - the value of HCI to students, industry and society; measuring, assessing and recording professionalism in HCI; the existence or otherwise of a core curriculum for HCI; the relationship between HCI, multimedia and Interaction Design and a consideration of how HCI has changed in the last 20 years and how it might look 20 years from now The workshop will be supported by a dedicated website (hosted by the HE Academy) and will result in the production of a number of posters for the conference attendees. |
| Title: IDEC 2005: International Engagability and Design Conference (HCI Guest Conference) |
| Authors: John Knight |
| Room: 1/06 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: IDEC 2005 welcomes theoretical, empirical papers and interactive user experiences dealing with any aspects of engaging designs, products and services. IDEC 2005 will bring together academics, researchers, designers and companies interested in engaging products, services and designs. With case studies, theoretical papers and interactive user experiences, the conference programme is designed to create a lively atmosphere, as at the first year of the conference.
The content of this one-day conference celebrates designing for engagement. The themes of the conference are, but not limited to
Submissions should be emailed to john.knight@uce.ac.uk. The fee for registering for the conference is only £75. For further information, please contact John Knight, Director at User-Lab, on +44 (0) 121 331 7868. Important dates
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| Title: W10: Human - Animated Characters Interaction |
| Authors: Daniela Romano, Lynne Hall, Ruth Aylett |
| Room: 1/07 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop brings together multidisciplinary researchers to investigate human interaction with animated characters, exploring how social interaction and user engagement can be facilitated.
for further details see http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cogsys/workshop |
| Title: W11: Games testing methodologies and their impact on actionable user requirements |
| Authors: Geanbry Demming (Amberlight), Jamie Gerig, Emily Brown (both Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) |
| Room: 2/09 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop is aimed at those with an interest in games design and research to explore various commercially feasible approaches to gathering user requirements across various game genres.
read the full workshop description |
| Title: W7: Design and Performance |
| Authors: Catriona Macaulay, Chris Hand, Morna Simpson, Jon Rogers |
| Room: 1/07 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: This workshop will bring together a diverse range of participants to exchange experiences of performance in design activity, and to develop an agenda for future research in this emerging field |
| Title: W8: The Role of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction |
| Authors: Christian Peter, Gerred Blyth |
| Room: 1/06 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: Discuss about where, how, and to which extend emotions are involved in HCI, how to exploit them, which value they might bring in, and wider implications for the HCI community. |
| Title: W9: Lost—or liberated?—without theory |
| Authors: Jan Gulliksen, Inger Boivie, Liam Bannon, Lidia Oshlyansky, Harold Thimbleby |
| Room: 1/08 |
| Date: Tuesday 06/09/2005 09:30 |
| Description: What is your conceptual framework, your theory or method? Why is your work valid? This workshop addresses these questions and related problems facing all researchers within HCI, and their solutions. |
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