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Dear colleague,
If you are studying human factors or user interface design with novel technologies, read on.
One of the huge research challenges that keep on haunting us is this: how do we create test conditions reflecting ecological validity so well that they reliably evoke the kinds of behaviors we expect to observe and enable us to trust the results? The problem occurs especially when we attempt to determine thresholds, the fine point where user acceptance of a technology or service is so low that it turns into frustration, anxiety, or other forms of hyper-excitation. How is frustration/anxiety/hyper-excitation manifested in observable behavior? How can we produce it in the lab? How can we set up an experiment that will pass through the ethics committee and still give us what we need? We will discuss these and other issues related to predicting the usefulness and user acceptance of novel technologies in a forthcoming workshop to which you are cordially invited. The aim is to share the ways researchers deal with these problems, learn from each other, and hopefully come up with better behavioral measures and more innovative solutions to the ecological validity issues than we have produced to date.
We have also arranged things so that if your company or organization has difficulty with the prospect of "revealing your hand" we can cloak the organization to which you belong so that a useful discussion can still be had without revealing company secrets.
The workshop: HCI 2005 Conference (http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2005/)
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
When: (2 days) 5-6 September 2005; rest of conference 7-9 September
Who runs it: Gitte Lindgaard, Bruce Tsuji, Shamima Khan, Carleton University
What to do next:
Write and forward to us a 2-page position statement outlining the problems you have encountered/the solutions you have invented to overcome these problems/ideas you have of how to solve the problems
If you know of other researchers/practitioners who would be interested in this workshop and who have encountered problems of defining behavioral measures and/or ecological validity problems in the context of defining, designing, testing, evaluating novel technologies and devices, please forward this email to them.
For more information, please see http://hot.carleton.ca/~labpubs/hci05/
Please forward your position statement to: Gitte Lindgaard ([log in to unmask])
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Dr. Gitte Lindgaard
Professor & Chair, User-Centred Design
Director, Human Oriented Technology Lab (HOTLab)
Ontario K1S 5B6
Canada
Ph: +1 (613) 520 2600 ext 2255
Fax: +1 (613) 520 3667
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http://www.carleton.ca/~glindgaa
Bruce Tsuji
Carleton University
Human Oriented Technology Lab
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http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/students/phd/menu_right/BruceTsuji.html
Shamima Khan
Carleton University
Human Oriented Technology Lab
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http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/students/ma/menu_right/ShamimaKhan.html
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