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We invite contributions for the WI22-halfday-Workshop on  Design- and specification methods for efficient user

Involvement (see https://www.wi22.eu/workshops/ ) – 23^rd February 22 in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

We have updated the Deadlines:

• 19 December 2021: Submissions of proposals (extended abstracts of about 800 words length without literature or references) via conference tool
• 5 January 2022: Review feedback
• 22 January 2022: Submission of camera-ready version

 

Background and Topic:

Users are increasingly involved in semi-automated, parallel executed processes, and perceive current waiting times and system requests for user decisions as unnecessarily long or as unnecessary at all.

… it is beneficial to minimize mandatory user involvement in the design process and, at the same time, to keep the user sufficiently in control of the process and its outcome.

… We need new metrics and methods which can express, define and specify user involvement related performance goals which can be systematically considered in a design and development project from the very beginning.

… The new methods of design for efficiency have to take into account that the ways users are involved has changed over the last thirty years:

·  Users use several devices in different use contexts

·  User involvement includes a variety of interaction modes

·  Several user roles contribute to a value chain

·  Performing several user tasks in parallel

 

Submissions should address at least one of the following aspects:

• Metric to specify the efficiency or performance for user involvement
• Measurements methods, techniques, and tools
• Model dependencies between involvement of different user roles and user task along a value chain (for an eco-system)
• Consideration of various types of user involvement, such as fine grained interaction or user intervention.
• Modeling of multiple user contexts
• Modeling of changing user tasks and situational awareness

Best regards

 

Helmut Degen, Siemens Corporation
(helmut.degen@siemens.com)

 

Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum