Hi I am forwarding this from the CAPchi list. Looks interesting!
Rob -- Rob Echlin, B. Eng. 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON http://talksoftware.wordpress.com/ ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: capchi-announce <[email protected]> >To: capchi-announce Subscriber <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:49:02 AM >Subject: capchi-announce Tuesday, April 17, 2012: Interactional identity: >designers and developers making joint work meaningful and effective > >(Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located >at the end of this message.) >__ > >Interactional identity: designers and developers making joint work meaningful >and effective > >Presented by Judith Brown > >Date: Tuesday April 17th, 2012 >Time: doors open at 6:00 pm; talk begins at 6:30 pm >Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa, ON, Canada > >Abstract: >How does identity enter into software creation work? We studied collaborating >interface designers and software developers engaged in multidisciplinary >software creation work on novel software projects with significant user >interface design challenges. Twenty-one designers and developers in 8 >organizations were interviewed to understand how each specialist viewed their >interactions with their fellow team members. We also shadowed most of these >designers and developers for a week as they worked. The results of our >analysis showed that designers and developers construct unique identities in >the process of collaborating that are satisfying personally, provide meaning >to their artifact-mediated interactions, and help them to effectively >accomplish the work of creating novel software. Our model of interactional >identities specifies a number of aspects of joint project work in which an >interactional identity is expressed, such as project tensions. We suggest these identities are co > >nstructed to bridge a gap between how designers and developers were taught to >enact their roles and the demands of project-specific work. We look at >specific identities such as the “movie director” designer or the “binder” >developer and show how these emerged as a direct response to past and present >experiences, as well as touching on 19 others. We show how people develop >more effective interactional identities after about 10 years of experience in >the field. As part of this presentation we will launch a discussion on how >practitioners can be encouraged to adopt more effective identities sooner. > >Bio: > >Judith Brown is a post doctoral fellow at Carleton University in the >Human-Oriented Technology Software Research Lab. Judith recently received her >PhD in Psychology/Human-Computer Interaction as a result of her field studies >of collaborative work on software teams. She is currently engaged in a project >for creating team room software for large displays to be used by software >teams, another project to enable collaborative security work in data centres, >and another to look at how large displays can enable analysis work. Judith was >a professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering for 15 years and has >many publications in software engineering and HCI. She has 6 years of >experience as a developer in the field of telecommunications. > >When and Where: > >This event will take place on Tuesday, April 17th, 6:00 pm at TheCodeFactory, >located at 246 Queen Street, between Bank and Kent, (on the second floor) >above the Green Papaya Restaurant. The doors open at 6:00 pm for networking >and the talk begins at 6:30 pm. > >Note: There is no cost for attending this event and prior registration is not >required. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. An informal social >gathering will follow at a nearby pub. > >CapCHI (www.capchi.org) is a social and professional society of people who >work as user interface designers, researchers, educators, software developers, >web designers, graphic designers and human factors engineers in and around >Canada’s National Capital Region. Founded in 1991, CapCHI’s goal is to bring >together local professionals interested in how humans and computers interact, >in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. > >... > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
