Call for Papers
In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods
27-28 October 2005.
Venue: BCS London, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, Convent
Garden, London WC2E 7HA.
Organised by the Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University, and
the
BCS HCI Education & Practice SubGroup, BCS HCI Group.
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-situin 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 rather prototypes evaluated "analytically" by
non-experts. These different evaluations do happen, however, before the
artifacts are introduced into the "real" world, and that, typically, is
where evaluation ceases. This seems to be a real limitation considering
the increasing diversity and complexity of computer applications.
For instance, mixed reality multimedia environments, where novel
technologies meet complex activity in contexts ranging from air traffic
control to performance art demonstrate the difficulties of anticipating
how technology will be used in practice. The issues that are thrown up
call for extending research on frameworks for assessing in situthe
social, cultural, cognitive impacts of these technologies once they
have been in-use for sometime.
The workshop will explore the state of art in field research,
experimental work, and other methods of data collection relevant to
designing/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.
The first day of this 2-day event will consist of a tutorial
on‘Activity theory in the “fields”: Perspectives for thinking about
design’ presented by Seth Chaiklin (Department of Educational
Psychology,The Danish University of Education). The tutorial will
introduce some of the concepts and principles underlying the Activity
Theory approach and their application to the design and evaluation of
systems.
The second day of the workshop will be a forum for discussion and
presentation. We invite the submission of position papers on the theme
of ‘in-use, in-situ’ evaluation. Papers should be no more than 4 pages
in length and should be submitted by 22 July 2005.; Position papers
will be reviewed by a programme committee, and selected authors will be
invited to present their work on the second day of the event.
Position papers will be distributed to workshop participants. Following
the workshop it is anticipated that a journal special issue will be
organised on the same theme, and workshop presenters will be encouraged
to extend their papers for publication in this issue
Research areas include, but are not limited to the following:
* Ethnographic or similar studies of technology in use
* Evaluation and validation of technology
* Assessing the impact of technological interventions on work and other
systems
* Contextual and collaborative approaches to design
* Studies of cooperative work
* Tailoring and appropriation of technology
* Novel technologies and contexts of interaction
Submission
Submissions should be sent to: Paola Amaldi ([log in to unmask])
by 22 July 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 2 September
2005.
Organising Committee
Co-Chairs: Paola Amaldi, Satinder P. Gill (Interaction Design Center,
Middlesex University)
Bob Fields (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex University)
William Wong (Interaction Design Center, Middlesex University)
For further information contact
Paola Amaldi ([log in to unmask])
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc
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Bob Fields
Interaction Design Centre Email [log in to unmask]
School of Computing Science Phone 020 8411 2272
Middlesex University Fax 020 8411 5216
Bramley Road, London, UK.
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/
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