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From: Satinder Gill [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 September 2005 09:12
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Subject: Cfp for BCS workshop

Hi,

Apologies for cross postings. Please send to
interested colleagues.
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Call for Participation

In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods
27th-28th October 2005.

Venue: BCS London, The Davidson Building, 5
Southampton Street,
Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA.

Organised by the Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex
University, and
the BCS HCI Education & Practice SubGroup, BCS HCI
Group.

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The increasing complexity of organisations and systems
of communication, and the fast pace of technological
change and adaptation poses a challenge for
researching the impacts (cognitive, social, cultural)
of technology in-situ, in relation to design (purpose,
intention, practice, and production). Typically,
evaluation paradigms differ substantially as to
whether they employ high fidelity scenarios and real
users or whether prototypes are instead evaluated
"analytically" by non-experts. These different
evaluations usually happen, however, before the
artifacts are introduced into the "real" world, and
that, typically, is where evaluation ceases. This
seems to be a serious limitation, considering the
increasing diversity and complexity of computer
applications.

This workshop will explore the state of the art in
field research, experimental work, and other methods
and concepts relevant to designing and evaluating
technology ‘in-use, in-situ’. An aim is to identify
gaps and problems for the future development of design
methodology. Researchers from domains spanning the
social and computing sciences, engineering, design,
humanities, sciences, will have the opportunity to
both share their experiences and reflect on the
fundamentals of complex socio-technical systems and
human-centered technology.

* Keynote talk - Christian Heath, of Kings College
London.

* Tutorial on ‘Activity theory in the “fields”:
Perspectives for thinking about design’ - Seth
Chaiklin, The Danish University of Education.

* Ten high quality presentations.

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The Registration fees for the workshop are £125 until
3rd October 2005, and £135 thereafter.
BCS members and student fees are £100.
The registration fee covers Lunch and refreshments on
the two days, and a copy of the Proceedings.
Details and registration are at the following address:

http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/Events/In-Use%20In-Situ/book.shtml
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Workshop Programme – (details can be found at)
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/Events/In-Use%20In-Situ/index.shtml

Thursday October 27th

- Tutorial: Activity theory in the “fields”:
Perspectives for thinking about design, Seth Chaiklin

- Keynote (title to be announced), Christian Heath

- Cognitive Artefacts In Support Of Medical Work: An
In-Situ Evaluation,
Stephanie Wilson, Julia Galliers and James Fone

- Designing an Environment for Co-located
Collaborative Analysis of User Experience,
Youn-Kyung Lim, Yvonne Rogers, and Keval Mehta

- A Wearable Multi-Sensor System for Mobile
Acquisition of Emotion-Related Physiological Data,
Christian Peter


Friday October 28th

- Evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Applications  In
Situ,
Katherine Everitt, Sunny Consolvo, Ian Smith, & James
A. Landay

- Interfaces Supporting Rover Re-tasking In-Situ,
Marina Kobayashi ,  Alonso Vera, Chris Connors, Mike
McCurdy

- Empirical Studies Using a Full-Scope Simulator of
Nuclear Power Plants,
Dong-Han Ham; Jinkyun Park, Wondea Jung

- In-use Computing Tasks, In-situ Work Evaluation with
SAM (the Systemic Analysis Method),
Dan Diaper

- Starting to Audit Documents in the Engineering
Domain,
Peter J Wild, Steve Culley, Chris McMahon, Mansur
Darlington, Feng Liu

- Activity Theory, Air Traffic Control and tool
development in research,
Simone Rozzi, Peter Woodward, Bob Fields, Paola Amaldi

- Usability Evaluation in Situ– A Case Study on a
Mobile Field Support Tool,
Bettina Thurnher, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl

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Workshop Committee

Paola Amaldi (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex
University)
Satinder P. Gill (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex
University)
Bob Fields (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex
University)
William Wong (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex
University)



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