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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Usability Pattern Language: Creating a Community
31 August 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland
An Interact '99 Workshop http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/i99
Patterns have proved to be a Big Idea in the object-oriented software
design world. Pattern Language may turn out to be an even bigger idea
for the HCI community!
This workshop is intended to develop the idea of using pattern languages
for recording and disseminating good practice in HCI/usability design,
and to build a community of HCI design pattern practitioners.
The idea of patterns and pattern language, originally developed by the
architect Christopher Alexander and colleagues in the 1960's, has been
widely applied in the area of object-oriented software design. On the
face of it, Alexander's original use of pattern language for the
planning of towns and design of architecture has a more immediate
applicability to user interface design. Researchers and designers in
HCI are faced with the similar challenge of creating interfaces, systems
and settings for systems which have that 'quality without a name', which
in our community we acknowledge via terms such as 'user friendliness,'
'affordance,' 'intuitive,' 'transparent' and so on. What is more, there
are very direct analogies between the architectural and HCI domains: we
constantly appeal to spatial notions in HCI design whether we are
discussing screen layout, information visualisation, web navigation or
interaction in virtual reality environments. Moreover, Alexander's goal
of enabling inhabitants to design their own environments is quite close
to HCI's paradigm of participatory design. Alexander's ideas have
recently begun to be explored for application to the practice of HCI
design, most notably in the Design Patterns Workshop at CHI'97,
(Erickson, T. Report on Design Patterns Workshop CHI '97.
http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/ ) and HCI design pattern
languages have started to appear. For a substantial example, see Jenny
Tidwell's Web site, (Tidwell, J. Common Ground: A Pattern Language for
Human-Computer Interface Design,
http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html ) and our own, more
modest collection, (The Usability Group at the University of Brighton
UK, The Brighton Usability Pattern Collection,
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/cil/usability/patterns/).
The workshop, will address the following issues with the aim of
initiating a continuous process of HCI design pattern development and
review:
how best to find HCI design patterns
how to document them
how to maintain pattern languages
how to disseminate pattern languages
how to use them to bridge interdisciplinary gaps
how to apply patterns
how to evaluate patterns
how to evaluate the application of patterns
if and how to teach pattern use
case studies and examples
It is intended that this workshop will help to establish an
international community of HCI design pattern writers and that
structures will be set up at this meeting to support this community.
INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE
If you intend to take part in the workshop, please submit a full
(Alexander-format) pattern which relates to an aspect of human computer
interaction, together with a short (1-2 page) outline of your own
position on patterns for interaction design. These, together with
existing patterns, will form the basis of the practical work of the
meeting and will be circulated to participants beforehand. Submission
can be electronic (e-mailed URL reference to a single HTML page, PDF or
Word or plain text) or on paper.
However, we may allow additional people to attend the workshop even if
they cannot submit a position paper, but only if space permits.
To attend the workshop, you are expected to register for Interact '99,
and there is an additional fee of £40 to cover workshop expenses.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PATTERNS: June 25th.
SUBMISSION TO:
Richard Griffiths
School of Information Management
University of Brighton
Lewes Rd, Brighton BN2 4GJ
email: [log in to unmask]
For more information, please contact any of the facilitators: Richard
Griffiths, University of Brighton, UK ([log in to unmask]), Lyn
Pemberton, University of Brighton, UK ([log in to unmask]), and Jan
Borchers, University of Linz, Austria ([log in to unmask]).
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