Panel 1: Mind, body & spirit - how does diversity impact? The PACCIT experience.
Date: 13/09/2006 14:30
Room: People's Palace 2

Facilitator:
Professor Anne Anderson
Director of the PACCIT Programme
University of Glasgow

PACCIT - People @ the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies is a research programme funded by ESRC, EPSRC & DTI. We will explore the question of 'how does diversity impact' by sharing some of the experiences of a number of PACCIT projects, and exploring how the projects overcame the challenges of genuine user-engagement across their diverse user groups. We want conference participants to come along and share their own experiences of working with diverse user groups.

Panel 2: Practising what you preach
Date: 14/09/2006 11:30
Room: People’s Palace 2

Facilitators:
Nico Macdonald, Spy
Prof Angela Sasse, Department of Computer Science, UCL
James Howard, Design and Development Manager, BBC Sport Interactive
Prof Robert Zimmer, Dept of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

How successful is knowledge transfer between research and practice in interaction design and HCI? Is research relevant, understandable and actionable for working designers? We bring together researchers, mediators, and practitioners from the BBC to discuss the problems and opportunities in this areas. For more information see http://events.spy.co.uk/