CREATE 2007: Creating Innovative Interactions Conference - London

Event Date: 13 June 2007 to 14 June 2007
CREATE 2007: Creative Inventions, Innovations and Everyday Designs in HCI

13-14 June 2007
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London

CREATE is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. A conference where the emphasis is not on presenting technology or evaluation, but to share the wealth of creative ideas we have developed to resolve problems, to create new capabilities, or new functions. A conference where the aim is to spawn further creative designs that can make a difference to people. In keeping with this theme, we invite people to bring:
- Their experiences - designs, both successes and failures, that have pushed the boundaries of interaction
- Their approaches - principles and methods that have delivered new, people-centred ideas and products.

CREATE will present cases of innovative interactions and visualisations, and discussions of how we innovate. It will show the role of user-centred design in the innovation process, in a workshop format allowing us to debate the ways in which new designs come about and how novel but usable interactions can be developed.

COST
The cost for this two day conference is:
Members of the Ergonomics Society and members of the British Computer Society: £188 (£160 plus vat)
Non members: £235 (£200 plus vat)


PROGRAMME

Day One
Keynote: Jarnail Chudge, Microsoft "Designing the User Experience for the Common User Interface Project for NHS Connecting for Health"

Design at the Edge - shaping user experience
Interactive mirror: Application and interaction design for innovative beauty care, Tatiana Lashina
Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation, Michael Smyth
Intuitively handling calendars in virtual environments, Emília Dias da Costa
Case study: EasyJet Desktop Gadget, Pete Gale

Creative Strategies - doing things differently
Taking a walk: using methods creatively to inform the design of interactive environments, Luigina Ciolfi
Organisational ambivalence in creating innovative interactions, John V H Bonner
Creativity in the Specification of Large-Scale Socio-technical Systems, Sara Jones

Keynote: Peter Wright, Sheffield Hallam University "Design and the dialogical imagination"
Poster session


Day Two
Keynote: Bill Gaver, Goldsmiths College, University of London "We design for everyday life. Who knows if we succeed?"

Design at the Edge - safety critical thinking
A dynamic content visualization framework to optimize driver information processing, Anna Pohlmeyer
ATC Conflict: evolution and design of air traffic conflict displays, Hugh David
3D-in-2D DISPLAYS FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, William Wong
ATC Symbol: re-design of the aircraft symbol in air traffic control, Hugh David

Creative Strategies - techniques for innovating
Understanding the gap between the physical and digital music worlds to develop a product that encourages legal downloading, Simon Rubens
From Conceptual to Concrete: the power of video in scenario development and design communication, Oli Mival

Summary workshop