Important dates: PAPERS
10 October 2007:
first announcement and call for papers
5 December 2007:
last call for papers
20 December 2007:
deadline for submission of papers
16 February 2008:
authors of accepted papers notified
1 March 2008:
revised versions of accepted papers due
2 to 4 April 2008:
HCIEd 2008 conference
Important dates: Student IxDesign Competition (SIxDC)
10 October 2007:
first announcement and call for participation in SIxDC.
30 October 2007:
Opening of the on-line submission to participate in SIxDC.
15 November 2007:
Last call for participation in the SIxDC
30 November 2007:
Closing of the on-line submission to participate in SIxDC.
2 December 2007:
SIxDC starts
20 February 2008:
On-line public voting for the SIxDC project starts.
28 February 2008:
On-line public voting for the SIxDC project ends.
2 March 2008:
Decision taken on winners of the SIxDC and invitation to attend HCIEd 2008.
10 March 2008:
Revised versions of the contribution to be published due.
2 to 4 April 2008:
HCIEd 2008, conference communication and demonstration.
10 October 2007:
first announcement and call for papers
5 December 2007:
last call for papers
20 December 2007:
deadline for submission of papers
16 February 2008:
authors of accepted papers notified
1 March 2008:
revised versions of accepted papers due
2 to 4 April 2008:
HCIEd 2008 conference
Important dates: Student IxDesign Competition (SIxDC)
10 October 2007:
first announcement and call for participation in SIxDC.
30 October 2007:
Opening of the on-line submission to participate in SIxDC.
15 November 2007:
Last call for participation in the SIxDC
30 November 2007:
Closing of the on-line submission to participate in SIxDC.
2 December 2007:
SIxDC starts
20 February 2008:
On-line public voting for the SIxDC project starts.
28 February 2008:
On-line public voting for the SIxDC project ends.
2 March 2008:
Decision taken on winners of the SIxDC and invitation to attend HCIEd 2008.
10 March 2008:
Revised versions of the contribution to be published due.
2 to 4 April 2008:
HCIEd 2008, conference communication and demonstration.
OVERVIEW
HCIEd 2008 is the annual international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) educators. It will be held in Rome, Italy from 2 to 4 of April 2008 (just before the CHI2008 Conference in Florence). HCIEd 2008 is run under the auspices of IFIP WG 13.1 on Education in HCI and the HCI Curriculum and the BCS HCI Group, with the support of IaD School of Tor Vergata University in Rome and of the CNR, Institute of Science and Technology of the Cognition in Rome, and the endorsement of the SIGCHI Italy.
HCIEd 2008 aims at promoting 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.
It became evident from discussions at HCIEd 2006 and HCIEd 2007 that future HCI education cannot avoid developing within interdisciplinary learning environments, capturing the lessons learned in traditional design schools, stimulating creative innovation as a form of social activity, whilst at the same time focusing on developing systems meeting the guidelines and principles of human-centred design. The main focuses of HCIEd 2006 and HCIEd 2007 have been on inventivity and creativity. Several experiences, best practices, tools and methods have been presented, compared and critically discussed. Some reflections and very preliminary drafts of systematisation of the way in which the design process may be taught have been proposed.
While we wish, as a community, to continue our exploration of methodologies, tools, best practices and to investigate solutions to issues that are still unanswered, we also would like to move a step forward and have an in-depth reflection on the required foundations of future HCI education. 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 would like to critically compare learning contexts. We thus aim to discuss ‘Architecting the Future’ of the HCI and design education.
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.
HCIEd 2008 aims at promoting 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.
It became evident from discussions at HCIEd 2006 and HCIEd 2007 that future HCI education cannot avoid developing within interdisciplinary learning environments, capturing the lessons learned in traditional design schools, stimulating creative innovation as a form of social activity, whilst at the same time focusing on developing systems meeting the guidelines and principles of human-centred design. The main focuses of HCIEd 2006 and HCIEd 2007 have been on inventivity and creativity. Several experiences, best practices, tools and methods have been presented, compared and critically discussed. Some reflections and very preliminary drafts of systematisation of the way in which the design process may be taught have been proposed.
While we wish, as a community, to continue our exploration of methodologies, tools, best practices and to investigate solutions to issues that are still unanswered, we also would like to move a step forward and have an in-depth reflection on the required foundations of future HCI education. 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 would like to critically compare learning contexts. We thus aim to discuss ‘Architecting the Future’ of the HCI and design education.
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.
