6th Educators Workshop: Effective Teaching and Training in HCI
The A B C (Appropriateness, Benefits and Costs) of D-E-F- (Distributed,
Electronic and Face-to-Face ) Learning

Monday March 31st / Tuesday April 1st 2003
Napier University Edinburgh UK

The School of Computing at Napier University is delighted to host the
6th British HCI Group’s Educators’ Workshop. The workshop co-organisers
are the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN).

The workshop will comprise a mixture of invited speakers, paper
presentations, posters, panels and debate. The emphasis will be on
discussion. What we teach, and how best we teach it, is context-based.
The workshop will provide a welcome opportunity for us to explore these
ever-changing and growing contexts – the HCI Curriculum continues to
expand while students can learn in an increasing variety of ways.
We are planning to take a topic-based approach and will be particularly
interested in contributions regarding these examples of change in the
following contexts:

· Design context (interaction design, graphic design and HCI,
evaluation...)
· Domain context (recent additions such as assistive technologies,
multi-modal interfaces...)
· Learning context (innovation in learning, teaching and
assessment, design for learning with new learning technologies,
collaborative learning, what employers want...)

Key Dates
· Wed January 15th 2003 – Call for Participation – we will be
looking for panel suggestions, position papers, and posters.
· Fri February 14th 2003 – Deadline for Submissions
· Fri February 28th – Programme finalised
· Mon March 3rd – Deadline for early bird registration (cost £85*)
· Fri March 13th – Deadline for final camera-ready or electronic
copy of all presented papers and posters
· Wed March 26th – Deadline for late registration (cost £100*)
· Mon March 31st – Conference starts

There will be time to relax – a full and varied social programme (with a
Scottish flavour) is planned for the Monday evening

Accommodation details can be provided on request.

*Registration costs will cover the two days of the workshop, coffee and
lunches, while the social programme will cost an additional £45
approximately.

Further details are available from
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/hci2003/ or www.hcie2003.org
If you have any queries, questions or suggestions in the meantime please
feel free to contact us at [log in to unmask]

We look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh in the spring.
Sandra Cairncross and Alison Varey
Workshop co-chairs

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The British HCI Group’s Educators’ workshop has run annually since 1998,
attracting around 40 of the UK’s top HCI lecturers and professors each
year:

2002 Department of Information Systems, University of Portsmouth
http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/rosbottj/hciWS2002/
2001 Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering ,Heriot-Watt
University 2002 http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/events/HCI2001/
2000 (School of Computing, South Bank University
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/hci2000/
1999 School of Computing, South Bank University
http://www.ulst.ac.uk/cticomp/hci99.html