New Sociotechnical Insights in Interaction Design
Call for Participation
Workshop on sociotechnical insights in interaction design
(Sociotech-ID'08)
May 30th in BCS Offices in London, United Kingdom
Programme now available at
http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id08/Programme.htm
A joint event of the BCS Interaction and Sociotechnical groups
Aims and goals of the workshop
Diverse areas of the social sciences explore and conceptualize the
relation between people, society and technology under the rubric of
'sociotechnical', which can bring interesting insights into interaction
design. Organizational studies of technology adoption have a well
defined conceptual framework known as sociotechnical systems theory with
established principles. However, the situation is not the same for
interaction design research, which gives diverse uses to the term
'sociotechnical' when involving social methods and theories.
Methodological perspectives like ethnography, ethnomethodology and
activity theory have had a clear impact in interaction design, but the
potential contribution of other areas of the social sciences has not
become so clear and uniform despite the increased development of the
pervasive and social proxy - mediating and mediated -- characters of
interactive systems.
This workshop will bring together good examples of research in
interaction design that refer to the term 'sociotechnical'. The
challenge is to achieve some level of 'translation' despite differences
between disciplines whose main interest is understanding social
phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of
interactive systems. It is hoped the workshop will identify
opportunities for a sociotechnical knowledge framework in interaction
design.
Registration deadline:
- April, 30th, 2008: £30 Students and BCS members, £50 General Public
Late Registration deadline:
- May, 15th 2008: £50 Students and BCS members, £80 General Public
Registration includes refreshments for the day and a copy of the
proceedings.
More info on http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id08/registration.htm
Workshop Co-Chair(s):
Jose Abdelnour-Nocera , Thames Valley University, UK
Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
Lynne Dunckley, Thames Valley University, UK
Ken Eason, The Bayswater Institute, UK
Workshop Programme Committee:
Paola Amaldi, Middlesex University, UK
Fiona Concannon, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Elisa del Galdo, Human Factor International, UK/US
Joy Goodman, University of Cambridge, UK
Susan Dray, Dray Associates, US
Rogerio DePaula, Intel, Brazil
Bob Fields, Middlesex University, UK
Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Elise van den Hoven, Technological University of Eindhoven, The
Netherlands
Ann Light, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Stephan Lukosch, University of Hagen, Germany
Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium
Ian MacColl, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, France
Daniel Pargman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ulrike Pfeil, City University, UK
Suzana Sukovic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Christian Sturm, Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Mexico
Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK
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