Call for Participation: CHI 2013 Workshop
== Made for Sharing: HCI Stories of Transfer, Triumph and Tragedy ===
Date: 27th April 2013
Venue: Palais de Congrès de Paris, France
Contribution Submission Deadline: 11th January 2013
Author Notification: 8th February 2013
Workshop website: http://www.le.ac.uk/compsci/people/elaw/HCI-3T
== Motivation ==
The success of HCI approaches is beyond doubt, yet remains limited, and
there is still considerable scope for transferring new User Experience
(UX) practices to new application contexts and design settings. We need
to better understand how HCI approaches are transferred between usage
contexts. The main contribution of the workshop will be a deeper
understanding of how HCI ‘methods’ (including practices, approaches,
etc.) are transferred across a range of design contexts, which may be
distinguished by application domain or project or organizational
constraints. These deeper understandings will be grounded in case
studies submitted to the workshop. The workshop will explore
transferring “methods-as-configurable-combinational-resources”, which
involves analysis, appropriation, adaptation and synthesis of re-usable
resources (Woolrych et al. 2011). We will use narratives to expose the
complexity of the following:
* Perception and assessment of the role of methods in real-life design
and evaluation settings
* Externalization of HCI professionals’ repertoire for modifying
resources of an existing HCI method by taking into account contextual
factors of a new project
* Compatibility of HCI methods with new contexts
== Submission ==
For this workshop, we invite:
* UX practitioners to submit case studies of (un)successful transfer of
HCI methods from ‘old’ to ‘new’ interaction design contexts.
* UX researchers with theoretical positions on the nature of interaction
design work to submit position papers on frameworks for understanding
methods, approaches and re-usable resources and their relation to design
work in specific project settings.
Accepted case studies and theoretical positions will provide a corpus
for analysis at the CHI workshop. We will focus on the design work
required to get HCI methods to work, and how this is impacted by
contextual factors such as application domains, organizational factors
and project constraints. Of particular interest for this workshop is the
relationship between specific re-usable methodological resources and
their commoditization into design ‘methods’ on the one hand, and the
realities of UX work on the other. The work required to bridge theory
and practice is a key focus.
Guidelines are provided for describing a case study (4-6 pages, SIGCHI
format). An audio recording of 15-20 minutes is an alternative format.
Submissions are to be sent to Effie Law per email <e...@mcs.le.ac.uk>
All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at
least one day of the main conference.
The reason for this policy is that workshops are part of the CHI
conference.
== Workshop Organizers ==
Effie Law, University of Leicester, UK
Ebba Hvannberg, University of Iceland, Iceland
Arnold P.O.S. Vermeeren, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Gilbert Cockton, Northumbria University, UK
Timo Jokela, Joticon Oy/Aalto University, Finland
== References ==
Woolrych, A., Hornbæk, K., Frøkjær, E., & Cockton, G. (2011).
Ingredients and meals rather than recipes: A proposal for research that
does not treat usability evaluation methods as indivisible wholes. Int.
J. HCI 27(10), 940-70.
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