BCS-HCI

Create 2009 (London, UK)

Create 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. The emphasis is on sharing the wealth of creative ideas we have developed to resolve problems, to create new capabilities, or new functions; where the aim is to evolve further creative designs that can make a difference to people.

This conference will be of use to you if you are involved in user experience design and management, human-computer interaction, interaction design and usability, particularly if you want to hear how others are managing during these turbulent times.

See the Create 2009 site for more information.

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CyberGames 2008 (Beijing, China)

The Fourth International Conference on Games Research and Development, CyberGames 2008, will explore the latest developments in the game and interactive entertainment industry. Papers are invited in the following games research and development topics (but not limited to them) from both industry and academia:

• HCI for Games
• Agents for Games
• Online and Multiplayer Games
• Interactive Digital Media

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Create 2008 (London, UK)

Create 2008 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. The emphasis is on sharing the wealth of creative ideas we have developed to resolve problems, to create new capabilities, or new functions. The aim is to spawn further creative designs that can make a difference to people. In keeping with this theme, we invite people to bring:

• Your experiences - designs, both successes and failures, that have pushed the boundaries of interaction
• Your approaches - principles and methods that have delivered new, people-centred ideas and products.

This year’s theme is “embedding people-centred design in the process of innovation”. How do we work together as designers and HCI specialists to come up with people-centred design, and how do we work with others to make our designs a reality?

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HCIEd 2008 (Rome, Italy)

HCIEd 2008 is the annual international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) educators. It will be held in Rome, Italy, from April 2-4 (just before the CHI 2008 Conference in Florence).

HCIEd 2008 will promote a discussion on the evolution of HCI education towards a more holistic vision requiring a stronger dialogue between a variety of disciplines. This is in reaction to the demand of new curricula to equip practitioners and designers of the future with the necessary skills to cope with developments in, amongst others, mediated communication that is increasingly becoming ubiquitous, embedded and ‘wearable’ and tends to be part of complex interactive systems that populate co-evolving spaces.

We wish to enrich and integrate our knowledge of the design processes that are used in the various design domains (process control, consumer electronics, architecture, product design, fashion design, software engineering, etc.), by peeling away the domain specifics, identifying what is universal and what is different, and what common methods and tools can be identified. We would like to investigate how to better handle and integrate the border conditions impacting on our domain (educational policies, social environments, political issues, ethics and acceptability, role of industry, etc.) and the influence of cross-cultural issues.

We therefore invite educators, researchers, designers and developers from a variety of domains to attend and take part in HCIEd 2008: computer and information scientists, engineers, product, graphic and interaction designers, architects, social scientists, ethnographers and anthropologists, etc.

Posted in BCS-HCI | Calendar | Conference | IFIP | Rome, Italy
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Sociotech ID Workshop 2008 (London, UK)

Interaction design is becoming more challenging because of advances in technology – pervasive, ubiquitous, multimodal and adaptive – are changing the nature of interaction. The Sociotech ID Workshop 2008 has two main goals: identifying a common framework for sociotechnical research in interaction design and to explore and enable new translations from the social sciences into interaction design.

These goals involve, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Actionable recommendations and guidelines for the conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems
• Improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of sociotechnical requirements for interaction design
• Social interaction design and Web 2.0
• Socially responsible policies for interaction design
• Participatory design as a sociotechnical endeavor
• Sociotechnical dynamics of multidisciplinary teams in the context of novel user-centered development methodologies
• Culture and interaction design

The workshop will begin with a brief introduction of key officers and participants followed by the presentation of papers. Presentations will be divided into three sessions each including a concluding panel discussion. The event will close with a plenary session which will summarize the lessons learned on the possibilities for an interdisciplinary sociotechnical research framework in interaction design.

Posted in BCS-HCI | Calendar | London, UK | Working group
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HCI 2008 (Liverpool, UK)

“Culture, Creativity, Interaction” is the conference theme for BCS-HCI’s 2008 annual conference, HCI 2008. Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture and throughout the year there will be cultural events ranging from community arts to headline events such as the Turner Prize. In the week before the conference there will be the Annual Beatles Week and immediately afterwards Liverpool will host the British Academy Festival of Science.

The cultural theme reflects not just events in Liverpool but also recent developments in HCI where the arts and humanities offer new insights and new challenges. Culture will be a unifying theme for the various strands that form the user experience family of disciplines.

Posted in Annual association conference | BCS-HCI | Calendar | Manchester, UK
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