Shareable Interfaces for Learning Workshop 2008
http://www.shareitproject.org/index.php?page=Workshop2008
We are organizing a workshop on Shareable Interfaces and Learning to
be held in the innovative Sussex University Creativity Zone on the
11-12 September 2008. The aim is to draw together research on the
design of shareable interfaces to support learning from researchers
and practitioners working in areas such as psychology, education,
computing, HCI and architecture. It follows on from the highly
successful workshop on shareable interfaces held last year at the
Open University (http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pm5923/si2007/).
Shareable interfaces are designed to support co-located
collaboration. They include technologies such as interactive multi-
touch whiteboards, walls and tables, tangibles, single display
groupware or multiple personal devices used to interact with a shared
representation. These technical innovations provide both
opportunities and challenges to educators and designers who aim to
design systems to support co-located collaborative learning. On the
one hand, these technologies would intuitively seem to support
collaborative activity better than the single user PC or the one-to-
many PowerPoint presentation. On the other hand, there are few design
frameworks or systematic evaluations of shareable technologies to
guide their design and deployment. Experience has shown that
investment in technology in educational settings can be problematic
in the absence of clear guidelines about its best use.
This workshop, sponsored by the ShareIT project
(www.shareitproject.org) will draw together current themes and topics
and address the potential of different sorts of shareable
technologies for supporting co-located collaborative learning.
The workshop will feature 3 invited talks and several activity
sessions to ground discussion and provide a shared focus. The invited
speakers will be:
Edith Ackermann: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of
Architecture. (http://web.media.mit.edu/~edith/)
Frederic Kaplan: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (http://
www.fkaplan.com/en/index.xml)
Tom Moher: Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois,
(http://www.evl.uic.edu/moher/)
Submission and Participation
Please submit a 1-2 page position paper on the theme of the workshop
by June 20 to:
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In order to facilitate cohesive discussion participation will be
based on accepted submissions only.
Participation is free and will be funded by the ShareIT project.
Lunch and refreshments during the workshop will be provided. There
will be a charge of £30 for the conference dinner to be paid in cash
on arrival at the workshop. Some financial assistance is available to
PhD students to enable participation.
Location
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Inqbate Creativity Zone: Pevensey III building (http://
www.inqbate.co.uk/)
Time and Date
10am 11th – 3pm 12th September 2008
Organisers
Amanda Harris and Nicola Yuill (Department of Psychology, University
of Sussex, Brighton, UK),
Paul Marshall, Eva Hornecker and Yvonne Rogers (Pervasive Interaction
lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
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