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~~~~~~~ BRITISH HCI GROUP NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/ ~~ ~~ All news to: [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ~~ ~~ not the News Service ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for participation One day workshop at South Bank University, London Tuesday 3rd September 2002 as part of the HCI'2002 International conference Understanding User Experience: Literary Analysis meets HCI Organisers: Peter Wright (University of York) Janet Finlay (Leeds Metropolitan University) You are invited to participate in an interactive workshop exploring the potential contribution of approaches from literary and cultural studies to interaction design. With the confluence of computing and communications technology and the deeper penetration of computers into our everyday lives, purely functional construals of human interaction are limiting progress in our understanding of interaction design. In today's world, interaction design is as much about fun, entertainment, community and identity it as it is about work, tasks and goals. This is reflected in recent concerns to contrast usability and user experience and to analyse such uniquely human characteristics such as trust and loyalty and identity. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are actively exploring the application of new metaphors, models and approaches from literary or cultural studies to interaction design as well as those who have a specific interest in these possibilities. The latter group may include researchers in cultural studies interested in this application area or developers of interactive artefacts, such as games or multimedia, where these approaches have clear application. The workshop's objectives are to begin to develop a research agenda for HCI practitioners interested in these issues and to help to establish an active research community. Literary analysis covers a very broad range of potentially relevant topics, for example: * Genre theory provides us with a potentially valuable way of characterising the relationship between user and artefact in a way that orients us towards experience and expectation as key components of user satisfaction. * Reception theory views the reader as an active interpreter of texts who forges meaning on the basis of her personal, social and historical context. * Dialogism gives us a way of approaching interaction as a perspectival and creative process. * Narrative is central in many approaches to understanding human activity and interaction. * Deconstructionism is one approach to the analysis of texts and artifacts that may have analytical value in HCI. The workshop will be based around position paper presentations and facilitated and focused discussions. Each participant will be asked to prepare a response to another position paper and to facilitate discussion around it. This pre-workshop activity will be critical to the success of the event and all participants should be prepared to take an active part. If you are interested in participating in the workshop please submit a position paper of no more than 4 A4 pages explaining your interest in this area and/or summarising any work you have previously undertaken in this field. Your position paper should indicate how you consider literary analysis can contribute to HCI (or indeed problems with this approach) and what you consider to be the most important research issues in this area. Position papers should be sent to Peter Wright ([log in to unmask]) no later than July 31st. Successful applicants will be notified by August 10th, together with details of the paper they are required to respond to. A discussion web site will also be provided at that time. The outcomes of the workshop will be disseminated at the conference by the production of a poster and it is hoped that some or all of the position papers will be developed into contributions for a journal special issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To receive HCI news, send the message: ~~ ~~ "JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname" ~~ ~~ to [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Newsarchives: ~~ ~~ http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bcs-hci.html ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To join the British HCI Group, contact ~~ ~~ [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________________________ This email (and any attachment) is private and confidential. If you were not meant to receive it, please delete it and tell us by phone or email. Although we scan all email and attachments we do not accept responsibility for viruses. ________________________________________________________________________________