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19-08-2008 
Katrinebjerg-forskere står bag workshops på HCI-konference 
I forbindelse med den nordiske konference om brug af it-systemer, NordiCHI.org, arrangerer forskere fra Katrinebjerg fire workshops i Lund den 19. oktober i år. Konferencen, der i 2002 blev afholdt i Århus, er et mødested for forskere, udviklere og praktikere fra flere forskellige traditioner og faglige fællesskaber, der alle beskæftiger sig inden for HCI-feltet (menneske-maskine-interaktion).
 
De fire workshops fokuserer på hver sin måde på brugen af it og omhandler:
- Brugbar sikkerhed
- Mobile oplevelser
- Brugerinddragelse i terapeutiske situationer
- Byens digitale liv (læs mere om workshoppen her)

Læs mere om konferencen her og om de specifikke workshops her.

Desuden findes herunder en længere beskrivelse af hver af de fire workshops på engelsk:

User-centered security
The workshop will explore the possibilities of a user-centered perspective on security. With exceptions, existing research may be criticized for being highly system-centered, focusing on how one may change user behavior to deal with the requirements of security, or on how security aspects can be automated and made invisible to users, only to foster problems as things break down. The workshop will outline a user-centered alternative, and discuss its implications. We will address a possible change in perspective along a number of dimensions, e.g. the span from threat to resource, experience, scale, transparency, participation and democracy. We invite participants to bring forth contributions in this direction.

Future Mobile Experiences: next generation mobile interaction and contextualization
Within recent years the mobile phone has been transformed from purely a mechanism for voice calls, to an Internet device with advanced multimedia capabilities, location-based services and a growing number of sensors. However, this expanding feature set poses a number of serious challenges for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and the inclusion of contextual information. The key questions become: How to design efficient, easy to use interaction on a small device capable of offering dozens of different services and applications? And how do we make the best use of user context within applications? This workshop will investigate these questions by focusing on four key themes: Device Interaction, Social Interaction, Location/Proximity Interaction, Physical Interaction.

Participatory Design in Therapeutic Contexts
The issue to be worked with in the workshop is the growing number of design situations where the user side is very heterogeneous and power stratified with one selection of the users fundamentally unable to participate fully in the design activities. Situation where co- determination is replaced by care relations. This is a challenge to standard perspectives in participatory design and it is the purpose of the workshop to elicit and discuss possible new perspectives that enable designers to ensure empowerment for all in such situations. The workshop’s aim is to start the debate. Depending on the quality of the submitted position statements a collection of texts (book or special issue) will be produced.

Digital urban living
Digital technologies are permeating ever-more spheres of urban living, yet the emergence, potentials and consequences of this trend is fairly unexplored. Mobile phones, cameras, various kinds of sensors, and new kinds of large and small displays integrated in built environments provide new means of communicating and experiencing, and in some cases the interaction with emerging interfaces and media become experiences in their own right. The fluent and emergent experience-oriented use of urban interfaces challenges current research in both interaction design and innovation management. The theme of this workshop is to explore and discuss digital urban living as an arena for technologies that facilitate citizen-driven communication, revitalize cultural heritage, and present us with new aesthetic potentials.

Jakob Illeborg Pagter
KONTAKT
Forsknings- og innovationschef
 
M+45 21 65 10 93
Ejakob.i.pagter@alexandra.dk
Hopper bygningen, 2. etage lokale 230

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