Along with an incredible group of progressive design researchers, I am co-organizing two workshops at CHI 2016.
Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research
Tom Jenkins, Georgia Tech
Kristina Andersen, STEIM
Bill Gaver, Goldsmiths
William Odom, Simon Fraser University
James Pierce, Carnegie Mellon University
Anna Vallgårda, IT University of Copenhagen
The goal for this workshop is to provide a venue at CHI for research through design practitioners to materially share their work with each other. Conversation will largely be centered upon a discussion of objects produced through a research through design process. Bringing together researchers as well as their physical work is a means of gaining insight into the practices and outcomes of research through design. If research through design is to continue to develop as a research practice for generating knowledge within HCI, this requires developing ways of attending to its made, material outcomes. The premise of this workshop is simply stated: We need additional spaces for interacting with and reflecting upon material design outcomes at CHI. The goal of this workshop is to experiment with such a space, and to initially do so without a strong theoretical or conceptual framing.
Visual Literacy in Human-Computer Interaction
Kyle Overton, Indiana University
Omar Sosa-Tzec, Indiana University
Nancy Smit, Indiana University
Eli Blevis, Indiana University
William Odom, Simon Fraser University
Sabrina Hauser, Simon Fraser University
Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University
The goal of this workshop is to develop ideas about and expand a research agenda for visual literacy in HCI. By visual literacy, we mean the competency (i) to understand visual materials, (ii) to create visuals materials, and (iii) to think visually [2]. There are three primary motivations for this workshop on visual literacy in HCI, namely (i) to engage HCI researchers in the transformative dimensions of visual literacy with respect to modern digital technology (ii) to assess the relevance and pervasive nature of visual artifacts in and as a consequence of HCI design, and (iii) to promote visual literacy as a first-class competency in HCI research and practice. This workshop will consist of paper and visual material presentations, critique, and structured discussion sessions. The overall goal is to detail a viable research agenda that investigates the persistent and emerging dimensions of visual literacy in HCI.
MORE TO COME SOON ABOUT BOTH OF THESE WORKSHOPS!