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CALL FOR PAPERS
***** WORKSHOP *****
Critical Issues in Interaction Design
http://designcriticism.googlepages.com/home
At HCI 2008: Culture, Creativity, Interaction
1-5 Sept. 2008, Liverpool, John Moores University, UK
http://www.hci2008.org
Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Computing technology is now so pervasive that the study of Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) is almost the study of everyday life. A consensus has
emerged in HCI that its historical concerns, such as usability and
efficiency, are no longer sufficient scopes of inquiry. There have been
turns to fun and enjoyment, emotional design, experience design, culturally
situated design, critical and reflective design, beauty and aesthetics, and
technology for social action.
As HCI has become more implicated in culture, the field has become concerned
with critical theory. Critical theory is a catch-all term that encompasses a
number of writers and disciplines; it includes the sub fields of
hermeneutics, phenomenology, semiotics, Marxism, feminism, deconstruction,
and postmodernism, among others. Critical theory has traditionally aimed to
help critics, understand, explicate, and evaluate dense cultural phenomena,
such as literature, film, social ritual, and mass media.
Developing connections between critical theory and HCI is a major
undertaking that will likely require much work. This workshop is designed to
bring together some of the people interested in doing it.
[Plans and Goals Of The Workshop]
This one day workshop will take the format of short presentations in the
morning followed by a group design/evaluation activity in the afternoon.
The goals of the workshop are to:
* Provide a forum to discuss current interest in critical theory
* Identify the perspectives which are currently being used in HCI and those
which are neglected
* Discuss the ways in which critical theory can be made relevant to design
* Consider problems of legitimating critical theory as a relevant source for
HCI
[To Participate]
Please send a 300-500 word abstract outlining your interest in critical
theory and/or your current or previous work in the area to
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By the 24th of July
[Workshop Organizers]
Mark Blythe
University of York, UK
Department of Computer Science
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Jeffrey Bardzell
Indiana University School of Informatics
Human Computer Interaction Design
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Shaowen Bardzell
Indiana University School of Informatics
Human Computer Interaction Design
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Alan Blackwell
University of Cambridge, UK
Computer Laboratory
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