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First British HCI Group one-day meeting on
"COMPUTERS AND FUN"
Monday 30th November 1998
The Huntingdon Room, King's Manor
University of York
PROGRAMME
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 Opening remarks - Andrew Monk
10.00 - 10.30 Anu Makela, Pia Kurimo & Katja Battarbee
Helsinki University of Technology
Fun is doing it together
10.30 - 11.00 Girish Prabhu, Jack Yu & Madhav Mehra
System Concept Center, Eastman Kodak Co.
Rochester NY
Fun user interface (FUI): does user-centred
design work in entertainment imaging?
11.00 Coffee
11.30 - 12.00 Chris Johnson
University of Glasgow
Using Cognitive Models to Transfer the
Strengths of Computer Games into
Human-Computer Interfaces
12.00 - 12.30 Helen Petrie & Julia Francis
University of Hertfordshire
Playfulness, persistence and computer use
12.30 Lunch
2.00 - 2.30 Sharon Springel
CCSR, Cambridge
The Virtual Theatre immersive drama project
2.30 - 3.00 Tom Rogers, Simon Turley,
Peter Jagodinski, Mike Phillips
& Dan Livingstone
Plymouth University
User engagement and interactive drama
3.30 - 4.00 Patricia Wright, Steve Belt & Ann Lickorish
Cardiff University
Animation, the fun factor and memory
4.00 - 4.30 Christina Hook, Per Persson
& Marie Sjolinder
SICS, Sweden
From task-based to fun-based design
4.30 - 5.00 Closing discussion
What makes for enjoyment in the use of
information and communication technologies?
An opportunity for members of the audience
to contribute their own ideas.
5.00 End of meeting
WHY FUN?
Why not! While most of the research effort in HCI is aimed at the world of
work, leisure is also a large part of people's lives. Computing and
communication equipment is now within the price range of a mass market of
home users who do not find surfing the web or playing arcade games of more
than passing amusement. Educational technologists also want their programs
to be "edu-tainment".
The papers listed above consider where HCI has something to say about fun,
and perhaps more importantly, where HCI has nothing to say. The objective
of the meeting is ambitious - to map out a whole new area of HCI research.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal
Personal Technologies.
YORK
The meeting will be held in The King's Manor in the centre of York and
within walking distance of the railway station. York is less than 2 hours
from London King's Cross and 2.5 hours from Edinburgh.
THE COST
The standard fee is 75 pounds (Students 20 pounds;
British HCI Group members 45 pounds). This includes lunch and refreshments,
registration and printed copies of the abstracts.
TO REGISTER
Please send a cheque payable to "the University of York" with full contact
details to Patricia Lowson at the address below, preferably using the
application form available at the web site
http://www.york.ac.uk/~am1/Comp&Fun.html
ORGANISED ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH HCI GROUP BY:
Andrew Monk
Department of Psychology
University of York
York
YO1 5DD
UK
Tel: 01904 433148, Fax (+44) 01904 433181,
Email: [log in to unmask]
For the latest details see
http://www.york.ac.uk/~am1/Comp&Fun.html
accessible through the British HCI Group pages at
http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Steve Draper (University of Glasgow),
Steve Emmott (NCR Knowledge Labs, London),
David Frohlich (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol),
Helen Petrie (University of Hertfordshire).
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