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December 9, 2003

SoSo-flavored workshops @ CHI2004

Posted by Seb Paquet

The CHI2004 conference will feature a few interesting workshops. One of them focuses on Human-Computer-Human Interaction Patterns:

“Patterns” were defined and named by architect Christopher Alexander in 1977. They espouse an approach to design – codified in the patterns --- focusing on interactions between physical forms and personal and social behaviour. At the CHI 2004 workshop, we elicit patterns describing human–computer–human interaction. Areas of interest include collaborative workspaces and intelligent environments, multi-player games, collaborative web-sites, interaction among mobile users, collaborative learning, and peer-to-peer applications. The role of patterns in these areas should focus on users. As with Alexandrian patterns, patterns of interest should shift emphasis from developers to end users and from computer system internals to usage and interaction.

Another has a whuffie ring to it. It is titled "Considering Trust in Ambient Societies", and is organized by my colleague Steve Marsh and others:

The ubiquitous technology explosion, and its natural extension as Ambient Intelligence (AmI), will ensure that technology is embedded into human society in deep and pervasive ways. As a result the parameters of information exchange will be fundamentally changed. There will be very few boundaries.This raises questions about how those boundaries may be created and maintained. How will individuals in the Ambient Society manage their information flows, in and out? How can they know whether to trust the information that is given to them? What freedoms can they give their devices to trust others, and how will they manage that process? It also raises questions of interaction design to allow people to truly understand and control their personal world, and it raises questions about how trust itself works and can work in such a society.

*Update*: danah mentions another one on Online Personals.

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1. zephoria on December 9, 2003 8:44 PM writes...

The one of interest to me (if only i could afford to go to CHI) is the one on Online Personals:

Online personal advertisements have shed their stereotype as matchmakers for the awkward to claim a prominent role in the social lives of millions of users. This one-day workshop will bring together social scientists and designers to discuss: - How people are behaving in online personals systems and how best to study this behavior. - How different personals systems handle self-expression, searching, matching, and communicating. - How the design of personals systems interacts with individual and cultural constructs of relationships and attraction. - New methods, metaphors, design paradigms, and gadgets for finding and communicating with dating partners.

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2. zephoria on December 9, 2003 8:48 PM writes...

Erg.. forgot that M-M removes URLs. The call is at: http://smg.media.mit.edu/personals/chi2004/