UrbanIxD Summer School on urban interaction design (Aug 2013, Croatia)

Dates: 23 Aug – 1 Sept 2013
Location: Split, Croatia.
Website: www.urbanixd.eu
Application deadline: Monday 15 April, 2013

The UrbanIxD Summer School will be grounded in the emerging discipline of urban interaction design. The Summer School will address the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments, with a particular emphasis on human activities, experiences and behaviours.

Human Work Interaction Design 2012 (Dec 2012, Copenhagen)

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/hwid2012/
Dates: 5–6 December 2012
Location: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Solbjerg Plads 3, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2012.

Theme, Scope and Focus: The HUMAN WORK INTERACTION DESIGN 2012 (HWID 2012) working conference analyzes the combination of empirical Work Analysis and Human computer interaction (HCI).

Human work analysis involves user goals, user requirements, tasks and procedures, human factors, cognitive and physical processes, contexts (organizational, social, cultural). In particular in the HCI and human factors tradition, work is analyzed as end-user tasks
performed within a work domain. The focus is on the user’s experience of tasks (procedures) and the artefact environment (constraints in the work domain). Hierarchical Task Analysis (Annett & Duncan, 1967) and Work Domain Analysis (Salmon, Jenkins, Stanton, & Walker, 2010) are among the methods that can be used to analyse the goal-directed tasks, and map the work environmental constraints and opportunities for behavior. In addition, there is a strong tradition in HCI for studying work with ethnographic methods (Button & Sharrock, 2009) and from socio-technical perspectives (e.g., Nocera, Dunckley, & Sharp, 2007). These approaches focus on work as end-user actions performed together with other people in a field setting, that is, the user’s experience of using systems are social and organizational experiences. User experience, usability and interaction design are influenced by these approaches and techniques for analyzing and interpreting the human work, which eventually manifests in the design of technological products, systems and applications.

The working conference will present current research of human work interaction design and industrial experiences in a wide spectrum of domains such as medical, safety critical systems, e-government, enterprise IT solutions, learning systems, information systems for rural populations, etc. The relevant domains not mentioned here could also be considered.

The purpose of the working conference is to enable practitioners and researchers to analyze the relation between empirical work analysis and HCI/user experience. After the conference, a limited number of selected papers will be published in an IFIP Springer book. We expect the participants will be people from industry and academia with an interest on empirical work analysis, HCI, interaction design and usability and user experience in work situations and at the workplace. The working conference will be conducted in a good social atmosphere that invites to openness and provides time to reflection and discussion about each of the accepted papers and cases.

8th Swiss Design Network Conf: “Disruptive Interaction” (Nov 2012, Lugano Switzerland)

Date: Friday 9 November 2012
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Website: http://www.sdn2012.ch
Deadline for submission: 24 June 2012

We are pleased to announce this year’s Swiss Design Network Conference 2012 in Lugano. This one day conference focuses on the dialectical relationship between design and disruptive ideas, practices and innovations. “Disruptive Interaction” aims to investigate and discuss the capability, responsibility and agency of design in areas of disruptive change.

We invite designers, researchers and scholars to present their work in Lugano, Switzerland.

Mon 24 June 2012 Submission deadline for abstracts
Thu 16 August 2012 Notification of acceptance for abstracts
Mon 1 October 2012 Submission deadline for final papers
Fri 19 October 2012 Papers revised
Fri 9 November 2012 Conference opens

The general chairs
Massimo Botta, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI
Martin Wiedmer, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW

For more information about the conference topic, submission and review process please visit our website: http://www.sdn2012.ch

HAID 2012: 7th Intl Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (Aug 2012, Sweden)

Location: Lund, Sweden
Dates: 23-24 August 2012
Website:  http://www.haid.ws
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2012

The combination of haptic and audio for interaction design is a challenging research area, and we invite researchers and practitioners interested in these non-visual modalities to come to HAID to exchange designs and research findings. This year’s HAID has a particular  (but not exclusive) focus on the mobile setting –  while on the move the haptic and audio combination has great (but sadly under-exploited) potential.  More non-visual interaction designs will make applications and devices easier to user for everyone.
We invite contributions on the appropriate use of haptics and audio in interaction design:  how do we design effectively for mobile interaction? How can we design effective haptic, audio and multimodal interfaces? In what new application areas can we apply these techniques? Are there design methods that are useful? Or evaluation techniques that are particularly appropriate?  We also welcome artistic exhibits and commercial design cases for our exhibition.

DIS’12 Workshop: Designing Wellbeing (June 2012, Newcastle UK)

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dates: 11-12 June 2012
Website: http://di.ncl.ac.uk/designwellbeing/
Deadline for submissions: 16 March 2012

This two-day workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, designers and practitioners who are currently working on wellbeing in the field of interaction design or health care, or are interested in the topic.

Wellbeing is defined as positive mental health, it is not only the absence of mental illness but the presence of positive psychological functioning. The workshop aims to establish a foundational agenda for interaction design research around this concept of wellbeing. It will provide a platform to share experiences and resources, create new ideas for design and build valuable future collaborations. The workshop will further include activities that allow for the experience of different aspects of wellbeing. Moreover, workshop attendees will be invited to collaboratively create design concepts that have the potential to support peoples’ wellbeing and will develop first prototypes using Gadgeteer.

3rd Biennial, Global Interaction in Design Conference (Nov. 7, 2012, virtually)

New deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2012.
For more information, visit http://glideconference.org/. 

Full and poster paper proposals are invited for presentation at the 3rd Global Interaction in Design Conference to be held virtually on November 7, 2012. GLIDE is a biennial, virtual conference that disseminates cutting-edge research on topics related to interaction between designers and global communities. The purpose of a virtual-only format is to bridge cultural and geographic divides in an eco-friendly way.

2nd Intl Symp on Culture, Creativity, and Interaction Design (July 2011, Newcastle UK)

Website: http://ccid2.wordpress.com/
Location: Northumbria University, Newcastle UK
Dates: July 4-5, 2011
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 May 2011

Held in conjunction with BCS HCI 2011, CCID2 is a two-day symposium cultural approaches to HCI and interaction design, emphasizing the intersections between critical theory, the arts, creativity, aesthetics, and felt experience and computing.

In the past decade, HCI¹s cultural research agenda has stabilized as an important sub-domain of the field. Approaches include disciplinary inputs beyond the social sciences, including literary theory, critical theory, aesthetic philosophy, feminism, performance theory, film studies, hermeneutics, postmodernism, fine arts, queer theory, and post-colonialism. Following on the success of 2006′s First International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and Interaction Design (CCID), CCID2 seek to strengthen the connections among the diverse disciplines contributing to culture, creativity, and interaction design research. It will explore critical and reflective approaches to the design and analysis of interactive technology.

2nd Intl Workshop on Science Fiction Prototyping for Technology Innovation (July 2011, Nottingham/UK)

Dates: 25-26 July, 2011
Location: Nottingham, UK
Deadline for Papers: March 28, 2011
Website: http://www.creative-science.org/

This workshop will explore the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies and consumer products. It does this by creating science fiction stories grounded in current science and engineering research that are written for the explicit purpose of acting as prototypes for people to explore a wide variety of futures.

We we are inviting short imaginative fictional stories (prototypes) of no more than 12 pages (and presentations of 20 minutes).

The workshop is running in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE’11.

Workshop 07- CHCI&ID: Intl W/S on Collaboration: Human-Centered Issues & Interactivity Design (May 2011, Philadelphia)

As part of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011) http://cts2011.cisedu.info
Dates: May 23 – 27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Submission Deadline:  January 21, 2011

The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011) is targeted “to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaboration enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, applications, and their impact.”

The 2011 International Workshop on Collaboration:  Human-Centered Issues &  Interactivity Design (CHCI&ID 2011) focuses specifically on the human-centered issues connected to collaboration technologies and systems.  We are especially interested in the contexts of how human-computer interaction (HCI) and interactivity design are implicated in collaboration.  The human-centered issues include the social implications of technologies and systems for collaboration, the sustainability implications, ethics, privacy, diversity and social inclusion, health, and other concerns at the nexus of human collaboration needs and practices and the mediation of collaborations by technologies and systems.

SIDeR’11: Student Conference: Interaction Design Research (Apr 2011, Denmark)

Theme: ENGAGING INTERACTION IN DESIGN
14-15 April 2011, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark (near Copenhagen)
Dept. of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
UPDATE: Deadline for submission: 28 February 2011

DTU is pleased to announce the 7th annual Student Interaction Design Research Conference (SIDeR). The inaugural conference was held at Mads Clausen Institute at SDU in Sønderborg in 2005. Since then, Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg (2006), Blekinge Institute of Technology in Ronneby (2007), Sønderborg (2008), TU Eindhoven (2009) and Umeå Institute of Design (2010) have hosted this event. The Conference has served as a venue through which interaction design students may participate in, and contribute to, research in the emerging interdisciplinary field of interaction design.  SIDeR is a chance for students to use their own design projects and reflections on design thinking from coursework in theory and the practice of design as a basis for an academic paper. The event will be an occasion for generating dialogue with students from other universities, for building networks, sharing perspectives on design and critically reflecting on design practice. We hereby invite graduate students to come together to present and discuss their views on interaction design, based on recent work in the area, be it graduate course work or completed bachelor thesis projects.