************************************************* Workshop on Professional Usability vs Academic HCI Call for position papers Date: 2nd September, 2008 www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~pcairns/AcademiaIndustry.html British HCI 2008 http://www.hci2008.org/ ************************************************* Do students coming out of university have the skills the usability industry needs? Do they sufficient knowledge? Do they have the right knowledge? Where is the field of HCI now in terms of incorporating the needs of industry versus academia? How do we support the creation of well trained professionals while also allowing the development of rounded researchers? What is our ideal and do we reach it? These are the questions that we aim to address in the workshop "The challenges faced by academia preparing students for industry: What we teach and what we do." You are invited to submit a position paper of not more than two pages addressing these or related questions on the overlap between industry needs and academic delivery of HCI, usability and interaction design. The aims of this workshop are three fold. 1. Take stock of where we stand as both an academic and industry discipline on what we teach, what we research and what we do/apply in the real world. 2. Rejuvenate the dialogue between the two segments of our discipline about the needs and goals of each for learning and practice. 3. Most importantly, develop a framework and suggestions in order to redress the gaps that exist on an ongoing basis. The framework will broadly attempt to produce recommendations: a. For academia on possible changes to curriculum for both undergraduates and masters level students. b. For industry on how to become more involved in expressing their training needs and influencing student projects and teaching. c. For building more inclusive relationships and better communications between academia and business. Workshop participants will also be invited to participate in forming a permanent workgroup that will address these questions on a continuing basis in the British HCI community. Submission details Papers should be not more than two pages long and should set out you view on the relation between academia and industry when it comes to producing HCI professionals. You can present problems, issues and challenges that we face now or may face in future as well as things that are done well or how the differences between academia and industry are valuable. Papers should be submitted to: Lidia Oshlyansky, [log in to unmask]<http:[log in to unmask]> By: 30th May, 2008 Acceptanced papers notified by: 30th June, 2008 Workshop details The workshop will take place as part of the BCS HCI 2008 conference at Liverpool John Moores University. See their website for details of the venue: http://www.hci2008.org/ Date: 2nd September, 2008 Time:9-30 to 5:30 For any further details contact the workshop organisers: Lidia Oshlyansky, [log in to unmask]<http:[log in to unmask]> Paul Cairns, [log in to unmask]<http:[log in to unmask]> Also see our website for up to date details: website: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~pcairns/AcademiaIndustry.html<http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/%7Epcairns/AcademiaIndustry.html> --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------