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Workshops

Here you can find an overview of the workshops at INTERACT 2015. Workshops take place on 14 and 15 September at the ERBA building. Detailed maps and floor plans can be found in the printed program: Lo-Res PDF | Hi-Res PDF.

W01: Methods for Undertaking Research on Technology With Older and Disabled People

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/05.004

Helen Petrie (University of York, UK)
Blaithin Gallagher (National Council for the Blind, IE)
Jenny Darzentas (University of the Aegean, GR)

Developing interactive systems for disabled and older people is an increasingly important topic in HCI, yet there is little discussion of methods used to conduct research with these user groups. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss research methods used in HCI when applied to working with older and disabled people for the elicitation of user needs, evaluation of technologies and understanding of the uses of technologies by these important user groups.

For more information please contact helen.petrie@york.ac.uk

W02: IFIP WG 13.5 Workshop on Resilience, Reliability, Safety and Human Error in System Development

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/01.017

Philippe Palanque (Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, FR)
Célia Martinie (Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, FR)
Mike Feary (NASA, Ames Research Center, USA)
Chris Johnson (University of Glasgow, UK)
Regina Peldszus (European Space Operations Centre, DE)

This workshop focusses on the issues of bringing together several properties to the interactive systems. While research in the field of HCI is mainly targeting at Usability and user experience (UX) this workshop focusses on Resilience, Relia-bility and Safety. It is organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Resilience, Reliability, Safety and Human Error in System Development. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from these various disciplines or their related application domains (such as nuclear, space, aero-nautics …) to discuss real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories of development processes that target at resilient interactive systems and take into reliability, safety and human errors for interactive system. The objective of the workshop is to produce a structured roadmap and a research agenda for the de-sign, construction and assessment of resilient interactive systems.

For more information please contact palanque@irit.fr or consult the website of the workshop under www.irit.fr/recherches/ICS/events/conferences/workshop-IFIPWG13.5-Bamberg/

W03: Human Work Interaction Design (HWID): Design for Challenging Work Environments

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/02.020

Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg, AU)
Martin Murer (University of Salzburg, AU)
Manfred Tscheligi (University of Salzburg, AU)
José Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK)
Pedro Campos (Universidade da Madeira, PT)
Frederica Gonçalves (Universidade da Madeira, PT)
Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Milano, IT)

This one-day workshop aims to contribute to the goals of the IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) working group, i.e., to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and recent developments in interaction design. This goal translates to the workshop by focusing on work environments that are challenging for research and design; from physically or spatially unusual workplaces (e.g., oil platforms), mentally demanding or specifically boring work (e.g., control rooms, academics) to challenging social situations at work (e.g., in hospitals). The workshop aims to discuss resulting constraints for research and design, e.g., restricted access for research, or difficulties in articulating the specifics of the workplaces to a wider audience that is not familiar with them. Some work environments may even impede forms of design research, e.g., critical or provocative design will be hard to carry out in safety- or efficiency-critical workplaces. Thus, ways to generate knowledge addressing the design of interactive artifacts for challenging workplaces will be discussed.

For more information please contact verena.fuchsberger@sbg.ac.at or consult the website of the workshop under projects.hci.sbg.ac.at/hwid2015/

W04: IFIP WG 13.2 Workshop on User Experience and User-Centered Development Processes

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/03.004

Marco Winckler (ICS-IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, FR)
Regina Bernhaupt (ICS-IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, FR)
Peter Forbrig (Universität Rostock, DE)
Stefan Sauer (Universität Paderborn, DE)

This workshop focusses on the interplay of user experience (UX) and user-centered development processes of interactive systems. It is organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Human-Centered Software Methodologies. It is proposed as a follow-up activity started at an interactive session organized at HCSE 2014. Our ultimate goal is bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories of development processes that take into account UX as an important dimension for the interactive system at concern. Based on these discussions, we expect to deepen the understanding of problems and challenges when dealing with UX in the software development process.

For more information please contact winckler@irit.fr or consult the website of the workshop under www.irit.fr/recherches/ICS/events/conferences/workshop-IFIPWG13.2-Bamberg/

W05: IFIP WG 13.7 Workshop on Designing Interaction and Visualization for Mobile Applications (DIViM 2015)

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/05.003

Shah Rukh Humayoun (University of Kaiserslautern, DE)
Achim Ebert (University of Kaiserslautern, DE)
Steffen Hess (Fraunhofer IESE, DE);
Gerrit van der Veer (Dalian Maritime University, CN)

Inspired by the critical role of interaction design and visualization in the current mobile app development, DIViM 2015 focuses on different issues and limitations regarding designing intuitive interaction and visualization for mobile apps and devices, as well as how to overcome these limits through novel approaches and techniques. The recent advances in mobile environments bring new challenges and open issues for the different responsible parties (e.g., interaction designers, visualization and HCI experts, etc.) in developing intuitive and interactive mobile applications. In this context, designing intuitive interaction and visualization plays an important role for many purposes, e.g., improved user experience and aesthetics. In addition, better interaction modes and suitable visual representations in mobile apps are critical for the successful executions of the users’ required tasks. However, this requires not only an intensive collaboration between the responsible parties – especially the interaction/UX designers, visualization and HCI experts – but also needs focusing on novel interaction and visualization approaches and techniques targeting this new mobile paradigm.

For more information please contact divim15@hciv.de or consult the website of the workshop under hciv.de/divim15/.

W06: Mediation and Meaning in HCI

14 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30

Susanne Bødker (Aarhus University, DK)
Olav W. Bertelsen (Aarhus University, DK)
Bannon Liam (Aarhus University, DK)
de Souza Clarisse (Aarhus University, DK)
Barbosa Simone (Pontifical Catholic University, BR)
Prates Raquel (Federal University of Minas Gerai, BR)

This workshop is about computer mediation in human communication and action. The proponents all look at mediation from different angles, but share the view that meaning is what mediation is about. We aim to dig beneath the surface and touch on the conception, construction, negotiation and evolution of meaning in and of technology, for producers and consumers, before and after technology is deployed. Mediation and meaning will thus allow us to discuss how different segments and perspectives in HCI research can be brought together to give us new insights about how people interact with technology.

For more information please contact bodker@cs.au.dk or consult the website of the workshop under pit.au.dk/news-events/events/upcoming-events/interact-2015-ws-mediation-and-meaning-in-hci/

W07: Learning Beyond the Classroom: for and About Older and Disabled People

15 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/05.004

Gerhard Weber (Technische Universität Dresden, DE)
Christopher Power (University of York, UK)
Helen Petrie (University of York, UK)
Jenny Darzentas (University of the Aegean, GR)

The workshop will provide a forum for discussion for researchers, practitioners and designers interested in both the accessibility of technology-mediated learning for disabled and older learners or in the use of technology-mediated learning to teach professionals about the needs of disabled and older people.

For more information please contact g.weber@hci-research.de

W08: Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS)

15 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/01.017

Vicki Hanson (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Gemma Webster (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Matt Dennis (University of Aberdeen, UK)

We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe. However chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an increasing global obesity problem are still causing a growing number of premature deaths. Chronic conditions and obesity together with an aging population cause a huge strain on healthcare provisions.
There are two approaches to reduce the burden on healthcare services – encouraging healthy lifestyles through increased knowledge, and improving people’s ability to affect the quality of care for those living with long-term conditions and age related illnesses. Although these issues appear to be separate, they have an effect on each other. For example, if someone has a healthier lifestyle they are less likely to develop certain chronic conditions. Furthermore, if someone is used to maintaining a healthy lifestyle then they are more likely to actively engage with their healthcare providers. We have now reached a critical point in healthcare -both healthcare professionals and patients alike recognize the potential for technology to provide them with personalized healthcare and support. The WHO has recognized the importance of using such technology by encouraging investment in this area and forming an internal eHealth division which focuses on promoting and strengthening the use of technology in health.
eHealth can be used in a diverse range of areas to promote access, improve efficiency and enhance quality within healthcare. Key goals in this field are to facilitate personalized health information to promote self-management, to identify and act upon support needs, to improve communication between patients and healthcare workers, to assist with the use of medicine and assistive technology and inform decision-making between healthcare workers. Additionally, any health technology has to be designed to be usable, efficient, effective and accepted by the healthcare community. This workshop aims to promote discussion between multidisciplinary researchers on novel, innovative and connective approaches within eHealth, improving engagement and patient outcomes. This workshop is aimed at multidisciplinary researchers and healthcare professionals from all areas interested in novel approaches to interactivity in technology for healthy living, healthcare and eHealth. The areas of interest are, but not limited to:

For more information please contact gwebster@abdn.ac.uk or consult the website of the workshop under interact.computing.dundee.ac.uk/

W09: The Landscape of the UX Requirements Practices

15 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/02.020

Gregorio Convertino (Informatica Corporation, USA)
Nancy Frishberg (Financial Engines, Inc, USA)
Jettie Hoonhout (Philips Research, NL)
Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari, IT)
Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir (Reykjavik University, IS)
Effie Lai-Chong Law (University of Leicester, UK)

Studies of development practices in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies reveal that usability and user experience (UX) are often not addressed consistently or explicitly in current development processes. In public and private ICT organizations, where agile and lean processes for software development have become widely adopted, the requirements for usability and UX are often not formally defined or validated. This is due to factors such as limited time, periodic changes of goals, and lack of UX requirements methods suitable to this new context. Thus, as the agile and lean software development processes become pervasive, attention is necessary on defining more suitable methods to build and preserve high-quality UX designs along the development process. Ultimately, the problem of omission or poor formalization of UX requirements is limiting the success of projects in both public and private sectors. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who face this problem and have tried effective methods to resolve it. The outcome of the workshop will be a descriptive framework that summarizes best practices, differentiates them along key dimensions, and identifies obstacles so that recommendations for formalizing UX requirements in specific contexts can be provided.

For more information please contact rosa.lanzilotti@uniba.it or consult the website of the workshop under ivu.di.uniba.it/LandscapeOfUXRequirements/

W10: Fostering Smart Energy Applications

15 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30 | Room: WE5/03.004

Masood Masoodian (The University of Waikato, NZ)
Elisabeth André (Augsburg University, DE)
Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, DE)

There is an increasing need for smart applications with interactive visual interfaces that allow users to better manage and monitor their energy generation and consumption. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from interaction design, human-computer interaction, visualization, computer games, and media technology to foster research, design, development, and deployment of energy-related applications, tools, services, games, and persuasive technologies.

For more information please contact masood@waikato.ac.nz or consult the website of the workshop under it4se.informatik.fh-augsburg.de/FSEA15/

W11: Social Image Research in the Age of Selfies

15 September 2015 | 9:00 - 17:30

Casey Dugan (IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Sven Laumer (University of Bamberg, DE)

Capturing & sharing images of ourselves and others has given rise to many applications & much human-computer interaction research. Social media has made it faster and easier than ever to share such photos, with “selfies”, or photographs taken of oneself, invading popular culture. In this workshop, we will bring together researchers studying images of people in the context of HCI, whether thru mining such data, analyzing its use, or creating novel UIs for such.

For more information please contact cadugan@us.ibm.com or consult the website of the workshop under isdl.uni-bamberg.de/selfies/