Dear all,

may I use this forum to invite you all to participate in a workshop on
Exploring the Relationship between Design and Human-Computer Interaction.
It will take place in Vienna, Austria, on Monday 26 April 2004, as part of
the ACM CHI 2004 Conference.

I look forward to your replies and hope to see many of you in Vienna.

Konrad Baumann

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Workshop Call for Participation
Exploring the relationship between design and HCI (Human-Computer
Interaction)

In recent years the relationship between design and HCI has been a topic of
interest at CHI conference. In 2002 in the panel discussion CHI@20 Don
Norman suggested that design was "skill one" while Stu Card suggested that
encouraging a robust HCI component within Industrial Design was a good
effort. In 2003, Daniel Fallman contributed a paper called Design-oriented
Human-Computer Interaction detailing "design-oriented research" and
"research-oriented design." These three positions suggest that new ways of
looking at the relationship between HCI and Design (meaning industrial,
communication, and interaction/experience) are emerging within the SIGCHI
community. The goal of this workshop is to explore this emerging
relationship by examining two themes:
1. the definition and role of design research and
2. the role of design in HCI education.

The topic of design research is still emerging in the HCI community, and
very little has been published on this topic. Workshop participants will
explore design research by sharing models they have seen in both industry
and academia and elaborating on why these models succeed or fail.

The issue of design education in HCI has two themes:
1. Do HCI students need to study design?
2. What should designers study with respect to HCI in order to successfully
participate?

Workshop participants will discuss the goals for design education and will
generate sample syllabi that meet those goals. Examining these two issues
will provide designers, computer scientists, and behavioral scientist an
opportunity to better understand the relationship of design to HCI.

Goals
This workshop is intended:
... to document prevailing points of view on the relationship between design
and HCI
... to discover and document current practice with regard to design and HCI
in research, development and education
... to search for a place for design within the context of scientific
education and evaluation.
... to inventory and highlight patterns in successful design-oriented HCI
research and HCI-oriented design research
... to explore the motivation for teaching design to non-design HCI students
as well as the educational requirements for interaction designers who wish
to effectively participate in HCI research and product development.

Workshop Activities
Models of Design Research
Participants will engage in directed story telling based on their case
stories as a method of mapping how participants think design research works
and how they use design research.

Design and HCI Education:
Participants will explore the issues of education in two groups. One group
will develop a syllabus and rationale for teaching design to HCI students.
The other group will develop a syllabus and rationale for teaching HCI to
interaction design students.

Groups will share results from their explorations from both design research
and design and HCI education, and these results will be formatted as a
poster for presentation at the CHI conference.

Participation
Participant position papers are due 12 January 2004. Position papers focused
on research must propose a research 'case story' that can be recounted at
the workshop. Position papers focused on education issues must also have an
educational 'case story' to tell.

You are invited to submit position papers of 2 to 3 pages. Submitted papers
must use the CHI publications format. See
http://www.chi2004.org/res/CHI04PubsFormat.doc for formatting information.
All papers selected for this Workshop will be peer-reviewed and published
online before the Workshop. Please email a PDF version of your paper to
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Participants will be notified of their acceptance by 23 February 2004. The
organizers will construct a website with an annotated bibliography of recent
work that relates to the relationship between design and HCI. Position
papers of accepted participants will be also be posted the website.

Important Dates:
* Email Position Papers: 12 January, Monday, 2004
* Author notification: 23 February, Monday, 2004
* Workshop: 26 April, Monday, 2004

Workshop Organizers
Konrad Baumann
Shelley Evenson
Peter Purgathofer
John Zimmerman

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John Zimmerman
Assistant Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
tel: +1.412.268.1313
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DIS 2004 Interactive Posters Co-chair: http://www.sigchi.org/dis2004/
SIGGRAPH 2004 Courses Sub-committee: http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/


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konrad baumann
professor (fh)
fh joanneum, school of information design
graz, austria
mobile +43 676 6800442
phone +43 316 5453 8615
fax +43 316 5453 8601
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