CFP: HCI 2009 Workshop - INFORMATION SPACES FOR CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS

> Call for papers
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> INFORMATION SPACES FOR CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
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> Tuesday 1st September, 2009.
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> In conjunction with HCI 2009, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer
> Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 5 September, 2009.
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> http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/hci2009.html
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> The strategic importance of creativity has been acknowledged by many
> commentators, both at the international level – the Nomura Institute
> 's proposition is that "Creativity will be the next economic activit
> y, replacing the current focus on information" – and within the
> UK, where the Cox review, commissioned by the Chancellor in 2005, se
> es exploitation of the nation's creative skills as 'vital to the
> UK's long-term economic success'.
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> A fertile creative conversation, of the kind that might take place
> as part of a design process, requires many things, including a
> willingness and ability to quickly generate new ideas and to release
> less promising ones, a focus on evaluation and development of ideas
> and contributions rather than the personality or position of the
> proposer, and the possibility to revisit and change earlier
> decisions. This workshop will explore the extent to which technical
> and other artefacts and interventions can facilitate rather than
> inhibit such conversations, both in design practice and in learning
> situations.
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> We wish to support designers in engaging more flexibly and
> effectively in conversations that are characterized by both
> innovation and reflective, critical thinking, and that take place in
> both co-located and distributed settings. Key technological aspects
> of this support include the management and display of design
> information and critical feedback across a range of appropriate
> display surfaces; the capture in appropriate media – audio, video, s
> till images – of significant design information; and the ability to
> replay, annotate and reflect upon such captured content. However, we
> are also interested in the social and procedural contexts in which
> such technologies may be deployed.
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> Workshop programme:
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> In the first half of the workshop, participants will make short
> presentations of their position papers. There will be an extended
> lunch break to enable sufficient opportunity for participants to get
> to know each other, and to peruse posters, videos and
> demonstrations. In the afternoon, participants will take part in a
> creative design workshop, facilitated by the organizers, which will
> develop ideas for future systems and artefacts that can support the
> kinds of creative design work discussed in the earlier presentations.
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> The organizers are exploring the possibility of publishing extended
> versions of selected papers in a journal special issue on the topic
> of supporting creative conversations. It is also hoped that workshop
> participants will collaborate in developing new research proposals
> on this topic.
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> Primary objectives of the workshop:
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> · To provide an opportunity for HCI researchers and practitioners
> to share and learn from each other's experiences of developing and e
> valuating technologies that support creative conversations, both in
> design practice and in learning situations.
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> · To exchange ideas about empirical and theoretical contributions
> to our understanding of the relationships between technological affo
> rdance and the structure of creative conversations.
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> · To explore a space of technological and other support mechanisms
> for enhancing creative design.
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> · To elaborate the challenges in providing technical and other sup
> port in this area.
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> · To understand how these issues play out in different contexts, e
> .g., where teams are co-located or distributed.
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> · To work towards an agenda for the development of new technologie
> s in support of collaborative creativity.
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> · To develop a community of HCI practitioners to take the agenda f
> orward.
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> Participants may include:
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> · Researchers studying creative design work as a collaborative or
> conversational practice
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> · Design practitioners wanting to improve their own practice
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> · Technology providers involved in the design of novel technologie
> s to enhance creative activity in collaborative contexts
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> · Educators with an interest in designing learning spaces to train
> reflective, creative design practitioners
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> Workshop co-chairs:
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> Sara Jones, Centre for HCI Design, City University, saraj@soi.city.ac.uk
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> Bob Fields, Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University, b.fields@mdx.ac.uk
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> Andy Bardill, Product Design Research Centre, Middlesex University, A.Bardill@mdx.ac.uk
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> Panayiotis Zaphiris, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts,
> Cyprus University of Technology, pzaphiri@gmail.com
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> Submission:
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> Potential participants are invited to send a position paper of up to
> two pages detailing their past work in this area, their perspectives
> on the challenges and approaches for overcoming them.
>
> Submissions should be sent, by email, as an electronic document (in
> pdf, or MS Word) to saraj@soi.city.ac.uk.
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> Important dates:
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> Deadline for submissions: Friday 1 May
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> Position paper Notification: Tuesday 12 May
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> Position paper final copy: Monday 17 August
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> Fees:
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> The cost of attending a workshop at HCI 2009 will be £80. There may
> be a discount on this fee for people also attending the conference.
> There is NO compulsion to attend the main conference, though this is
> , of course, recommended.
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> Bob Fields
> b.fields@mdx.ac.uk http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf
> +44 (0)20 8411 2272
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> Town Hall Room TG17
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> Interaction Design Centre
> School of Engineering and Information Sciences
> Middlesex University
> The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BG, UK
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> Bob Fields
> b.fields@mdx.ac.uk http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf
> +44 (0)20 8411 2272
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> Town Hall Room TG17
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> Interaction Design Centre
> School of Engineering and Information Sciences
> Middlesex University
> The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BG, UK
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