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Workshop - The End of Cognition?
to be held at the HCI 2007 conference, Lancaster, UK
Tuesday 4 September 2007
Workshop website:
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~phil/workshop/welcome.htm
Conference website:
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2007/
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The first 25 years of human-computer interaction (HCI) have been
dominated by what has been described as rationalistic design. Winograd
and Flores describe this as the attempt to model people as "cognitive
machines", whose psychology and behaviour can be built on or reproduced
by digital computers.
This in turn was a major influence in the first great HCI text - The
Psychology of Human Computer Interaction which sought to create a
scientific HCI.
But times have changed - cognition is now situated, distributed,
external and even collective and the methods of rationalistic design
have been replaced with "enlightened trial and error".
User experience also seems to be supplanting usability as the must-have
attribute of interactive applications, devices and systems. So is there
still a place for cognition or is it limited to safety critical or
otherwise demanding situations?
This workshop will consider the future of cognition in HCI.
Themes
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Traditional, "narrow" cognition pervades all aspects of HCI from the
simple guideline "design for recognition rather than recall", to the
basis of evaluation techniques (e.g. the cognitive walkthrough) and is
central to entire methodologies, such as, Cognitive Work Analysis. But
what is the future of cognition in HCI given the rise of user
experience? The workshop will consider themes such as
*Does cognition have a continued role in evaluation in the face of the
focus on affect, fun and aesthetics?
*Can the newer forms of cognition - situated, distributed, external -
actually contribute anything substantive to the design and evaluation of
interactive systems?
*Is cognition now merely a curiosity, belonging to an earlier age and
reflecting first generation HCI concepts?
*If cognition is now longer very important do we need to replace it?
Should HCI reflect "techne" rather than "episteme"? Is it acceptable to
be arational?
Other relevant themes are, of course, welcome.
Workshop Format
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This is a full-day workshop. Participants will be expected to present
their ideas followed by group discussion.
Output
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After the workshop participants will be invited to submit full papers
for a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Human Technology
www.humantechnology.jyu.fi
Participation
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To participate in the workshop please submit a position paper with your
ideas, work or demo description. The paper may be up to 4 pages long and
when accepted will be published on the workshop website. For the
position paper, please use the Word Template that can be found on the
conference website.
In advance of the workshop, participants' presentation slides or other
material provided will also be made available on the website.
Submissions should be emailed to Phil Turner ([log in to unmask]).
Please note that registration to the HCI2007 conference is required at
least for the day of the workshop. For details about conference
registration, see www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2007
Dates
18 July 07 - position paper deadline
30 July 07 - notification of acceptance
05 Aug 07 - early bird registration deadline conference
04 Sept 07 - workshop
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