Hello,
One of the weaknesses across the design research fields is the gap between
design research and design practice. This has two aspects: 1) design
research has not flowed into design guidelines that specify the detail of
design solutions; and 2) designers and design researchers have ignored many
areas of research that could radically improve and automate design
practice.
Some areas of design are moving ahead rapidly with resolving this issue.
The workshop below looks useful. The source is the Socio-Technical
Interaction Design group at Jiscmail.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dr. Terence Love, FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM, MISI
Curtin University, PO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845
Mob: 0434 975 848, Fax +61(0)8 9305 7629, [log in to unmask]
Member of International Scientific Council UNIDCOM/ IADE, Lisbon, Portugal
Honorary Fellow, IEED, Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster,
UK
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This workshop will bring together researchers and engineering-oriented
practitioners of human-computer interaction to explore the extent to which
difficulties exist between them, and will endeavor to identify the
dimensions of the problems and propose possible solutions. On the one hand,
we will work to articulate factors that may render the research literature
inaccessible or irrelevant to engineers and to suggest potential
improvements and approaches. On the other hand, we will also strive to learn
from researchers how their research could benefit from engineer input. We
invite both practitioners and researchers to submit a position statement of
two to three pages, plus a short bio, by email to ebuie [at] luminanze [dot]
com by 5pm EST on 13 March 2011, to participate in this half-day workshop.
People who participated in the CHI2010 workshop on RPI are also welcome,
because this is a continuing conversation.
Your position statement should attempt to answer one or more of the
following (or related) questions:
How can the usefulness of research papers be improved to suit
engineers of interactive systems?
How should research be disseminated to engineers?
What are the barriers that discourage engineers from adopting
research findings?
How can research papers be made more accessible to engineers?
How can collaboration between the two subcommunities of CHI be
enhanced?
What should students of computer science be taught about HCI
research, to prepare them to engineer more usable and effective interactive
systems?
How can we best include engineers in the RPI conversation?
We will select a variety of viewpoints from participants with diverse
experience. Participants will have access to all of the accepted position
statements in advance, to facilitate preconference discussion and to support
the formulation of discussion questions. The organizers will also publish a
draft agenda to prepare for the in-depth discussions during the workshop.
Important dates
Submission deadline 13 March 2011
Notification 3 April 2011
Final submissions - 29 April 2011
Workshop Monday, 13 June 2011, Pisa (Italy) Organizers
Elizabeth Buie (Luminanze Consulting, LLC) - ebuie [at]
luminanze [dot] com
Andrea Resmini (University of Borεs, Gothenburg IT University)
- andrea [dot] resmini [at] hb [dot] se Please feel free to contact either
of the organizers with questions.
You can learn about the history of our RPI work at
http://instone.org/uxrpi-update The workshop proposal (PDF):
EICS2011WorkshopProposal-RPI.pdf More about EICS 2011.
If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please pass
along this call. The URL is
http://research-practice-interaction.wikispaces.com/EICS2011 - Thanks!
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