hi xmca'ers,
the application of theory in practice is a challenge to both practice
and theory; a challenge that is changing with the domain of
application.
in the field of IT-design AT has almost exclusively been applied as a
set of glasses. this is not a bad thing, but why haven't we been able
to crystallize AT into design methods that engineers can apply? is it
impossible? how does it work in other fields?
kind regards
/olav (xmca lurker)
ps: if any of you should be interested i am organizing a workshop
together with daisy mwanza, september 1, at this years interact
conference in zurich (more information below).
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Call for Position Papers (deadline 1st August 2003):
METHODS FOR APPLYING ACTIVITY THEORY TO HCI DESIGN
Zürich, Switzerland, September 1, 2003
Workshop Web site: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~olavb/athci2003/
One day workshop at INTERACT 2003:
Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
http://www.interact2003.org/
Activity Theory (AT) has been a recognised framework for enhancing
design practices in HCI and related disciplines for a couple of
decades. In most cases, AT has been deployed as an analytical
framework for conceptualising user and contextual perspectives during
systems design. However, the popularity of this framework has not
yet resulted in many operational methods and techniques that can
easily and readily be applied in HCI design. The purpose of this
workshop is to examine current methods and techniques based on AT so
as to establish the feasibility of using this framework in HCI for
practical design purposes.
We invite position papers on the workshop theme, outlining
experiences and novel ideas for applying AT in HCI design. Position
papers should be no longer than 2 pages (approximately 1000 words)
presented in the conference format and emailed in PDF to Daisy Mwanza
(D.Mwanza@open.ac.uk) by 1st August 2003.
More information about the workshop is available at the workshop website:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~olavb/athci2003/
-- -- OLAV BERTELSEN http://www.daimi.au.dk/~olavb Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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