Final Call for Participation :: Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 http://nordichi2012.org/
August 17th, 2012 – Submission deadline of workshop papers
Future Interactions:
Using Critical Design Approaches to Explore Urban Data Transactions
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Workshop Website: http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/
This interaction design workshop, at NordiCHI 2012 in Copenhagen, will address the question of how we, as individuals, might gain value from the exchange of data on a near-future urban setting. Together with a rapid ethnographic study of data exchange, the workshop will adopt a critical design approach as a means to reveal and examine potential issues around the design for this new landscape. Critical design [1] presents design as a catalyst or provocation for thought. It is a strategy for exploring the space that lies tantalizingly beyond the current and the now through the creation of “design fictions” [2]. At the core of critical design is the attempt to challenge our assumptions and preconceptions about the role that products and services play in everyday life.
Participation
This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging dialogue between researchers, technologists and design practitioners who are interested in forming collaborative links. Through the generation of design scenarios, participants will focus on the possible human-level interactions that will occur during these activities. These interactions will be explored through the creation of lo-fi prototypes. Participants will consider and discuss the merits and potential uses of this kind of approach. It is hoped that new partnerships will be formed with the aim of producing tangible “speculative” or “critical” design outputs as means of exploring future-orientated interaction design scenarios.
Important Dates
August 17th, 2012 – Submission deadline of workshop papers
August 24th, 2012 – Notification of acceptance
October 14th, 2012 – Workshop at NordiCHI 2012
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Workshop Organisers
Michael Smyth www.michael-smyth.co.uk<http://www.michael-smyth.co.uk/>
Ingi Helgason www.ingihelgason.co.uk<http://www.ingihelgason.co.uk/>
Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK
Twitter: @urbanixd Website: http://www.urbanixd.org<http://www.urbanixd.org/>
Workshop Website: http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/
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