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A one-day workshop on "Inclusivity, Interaction Design and Culture" on 8th December 2008
takes place in Cairns, Australia during OzCHI (8th to 13th Dec 2008): http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2008.
HCI and interaction design face new challenges with the globalization of digital technologies. Tools only bring opportunities if they can be made relevant. Individuals exist within specific cultural contexts that influence how they regard all aspects of use, from usability to acceptability. Therefore it is critical to cultivate design practices that allow for meaningful embedding of interactive systems in the cultural settings where they will be used. This workshop goes to the heart of the theoretical and methodological questions that accompany working across cultures, offering a space for reflection for anyone bridging worlds, whether locally or internationally. By asking what we hope to achieve in designing tools that everyone can use, and how we can work sensitively where understandings of technology differ, we can equip ourselves to develop new and better techniques for meetings these ends.
Much of this workshop will be based on discussion and group exercises. We will focus on ways of engaging with a variety of people to do research and design. We will conduct a series of group tasks to keep this focus practical. In addition to any deliverables that we generate during our investigations in the workshop, there are book projects at a formative stage within the community interested in interaction design for international development (IDID ), which are intended to explore design methods across cultures and which might benefit from the workshop's insights.
We believe that all work in interaction design carries a cultural component, even if this isn't specifically articulated at the time. Participants do not need direct experience in examining cultural aspects to gain value from participating in this workshop, but are requested to show their interest in the issue by scrutinizing a piece of their work for its relevance to the discussion of culture and inclusivity. We welcome both academic and industry researchers, stressing that the reflective element of the workshop offers a chance to consider one's practice regardless of the constraints imposed by day-to-day necessities.
To register for the workshop please send two short pieces to the organisers c/o Ann Light [log in to unmask] by 24th October. The first of these is a brief reflection on your approach to your work. The featured material may include international projects, or local work, but should stress the way in which cultural boundaries were examined and negotiated or had unforeseen impact. The second piece of work should describe, in no more than four sentences, a couple of potential workshop outputs that would have methodological benefit to you.
And have a look at the extended abstract on the conference website and the Facebook event at <http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72873155084> for more inspiration.
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