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Interaction Design Centre ·
Department of
Computer Science & Information Systems
University of Limerick
Ireland
RTW Aachen, 14 July 2010
Dr. Gabriela Avram – short introduction
• Lecturer in Digital Media at the CSIS Department, University of Limerick
• Senior member of the Interaction Design Centre
• Short resume
• Blogging at: coniecto.org
• Twitter: @gabig58
• Linkedin: gabrielaavram
IDCInterdisciplinary Centre
ResearchTeaching Consulting
helping create a new area of Human-Centred Computing
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UL Interaction Design Centre - Integrating technical & human/social perspectives
• People-centred ICT design & use
• Human, social, organizational, & technical factors
• Information “ecologies” , not simply systems
• Designing ICT artefacts & infrastructures
• Quality….. in Use (user expectations,experiences)
• Technology as mediator in human activities..emphasis on human activities, history, (Marx, Vygotsky)
• The work required to make things work- infrastructures, facilitation, org. culture...
• New media design - user experience, play
Interaction Design CentreInterdisciplinary Research Group (22+)
computer science, telecommunications, software engineering, industrial design, graphic design, fine arts, ceramics, architecture, media studies, education, psychology, sociology, …
Interaction Design CentreInterdisciplinary Research Group (22+)
•Conceptual Issues activity theory, ethnomethodology, phenomenology….
•Design Methods video analysis, paper prototyping, participative methods, video prototyping …
•Technical Probes Vibro-tactile surfaces, sound models, gestural interfaces…
Interaction Design CentreInterdisciplinary Research Group (22+)
·Human Activity·Materiality of Objects ·Engagement
·Multimodality ·Interaction ·Sociality ·Augmentation
IDC Research Themes• Materiality of Objects – the central role of material artefacts • Human Activity – a fundamental aspect of human being in the world• Engagement – the need to excite, motivate, enhance the user
experience• Interaction – human play with objects being seen as a narrative
activity, not simple action-reaction (mouse event – action) pairs• Multimodality – incorporating several sensory modalities – visual,
tactile, kinaesthetic, sonic, auditory• Sociality – creating artefacts or assemblies of artefacts that allow for
or encourage collaborative activity• Computer as an augmentation tool – not a substitute for existing
practices
• HEA/MLE Z-Tiles/SOS (12/02)• EU DC SHAPE (6/04)• EI VisiBreath (9/04)• SFI NomadS (10/06)• SFI Shared Worlds (10/07)• SFI socGSD (10/08)• EI IMS-ARCS (06/09) • Leonardo da Vinci MedCap (10/09)• PRTLI FUTURE COMM(10/11)• PRTLI NOMADIC WORK/LIVES(10/12)
Projects
A selection of
IDC Projects
Courses
• M.A./M.Sc. in Interactive Media • M.A./M.Sc. in Music Technology
• B.Sc. in Digital Media Design
• BSc in Music, Media & Performance Technology
Communities• CSCW - ECSCW’07
Limerick
• GSE - ICGSE’08 Limerick
• Irish HCI community- initiated iHCI in 2007
• 3D - initiated 3Dcamp in 2008
• IxD – created IxDA Limerick chapter in 2009
• Digital arts Festival – Tweak – since 2008
People & research directions
Mikael Fernstrom•Auditory displays
•Mobile technologies
•The future internet
•Haptics
Luigina Ciolfi•Museums
•Public spaces
•User Experience
Gabriela Avram•Social Media
•E-learning 2.0
•Online facilitation
Cristiano Storni•Socio-Technical Studies
•The Future Internet
•Medical Informatics
Prof. Liam Bannon
Student projects
Images from DAWN’09: the annual student exhibition
Towards a Human-Centred Computing?
• Understanding the everyday world of human activity• Understanding human practices• Computing - as a human activity• Artefacts as mediators in human activity• Ubiquitous computing, sensors, infrastructures• Novel interaction paradigms
– (e.g. haptic interfaces, multimodality, performance)
We need to explore the design space where we do not MODEL the user!
Technology as a means to an end, not an end in itself…
Selected publications • Ciolfi, L., McLoughlin, M. and Bannon
, L. (2008), "Lessons from a Walk in the Park: Augmenting the Visitor Experience at Heritage Sites", in McCarthy, J., Pitt, I. and Kirakowski, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of iHCI 2008.
• Ciolfi, L., Bannon, L. J. and Fernström (2007), “Visitors contributions as cultural heritage: designing for participation”, Proceedings of ICHIM 2007, Toronto (Canada), October 2007.
• E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Investigating ambient auditory information systems. In G. P. Scavone, editor, International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-07), pages 326–333, June 26-29 2007
• Avram G.(2010) ‘Social Objects and their Role in Building a Community’, Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives) Workshop, co-located with the COOP 2010 Conference, Aix-en-Provence, 18-21 May 2010
• Avram, G., Bannon, L., Bowers, J., Sheehan, A., Sullivan, D. (2009) ‘Bridging, Patching and Keeping the Work Flowing: Defect Resolution in Distributed Software Development’, accepted for publication in the Special Issue dedicated to ‘Software Engineering as Cooperative Work’ of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Avram G. (2008) ‘Knowledge Work Practices in Global Software Development‘, Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 5 (4) 347-356
• Avram, G., O’Donovan, B., Bannon, L. (2008) ‘What is happening behind the firewall?- The emerging role of social software in IBM’, presented at BlogTalk 08, Cork, Ireland, 3-4 March 2008
• Storni, C. (2009) Reassembling HealthCare: The politics of design in socio-technical dispositifs, full paper accepted at INTERACT conference workshop, 2009, Uppsala
• Storni, C. and Bannon, L. (2009) Reassembling Healthcare: toward a patient-centric approach, Proceedings of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland 14th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland (pg. 8)
• Storni, C. and Griffin, L. (2009) Toward future Health Social Networking: patient generated contents and the role of community pharmacists, full paper presented at Mediterranean Conference of Information Systems 2009, Athens
Further Information
Interaction Design Centre http://www.idc.ul.ie
