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Cultural Impact on User Experience Design and Evaluation
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Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 (
http://nordichi2012.org/ )
Workshop Website: http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/
The objective of the Cultural Impact workshop at NordiCHI
2012 is to
share our experiences, identify themes, and examine
unexplored topics
about cultural impact on User Experience (UX) design and
evaluation
methods. The expected result is an establishment of an
international
community on this topic for collective learning.
By accumulating knowledge through the international
community,
ultimately the workshop and the community will contribute
to emerging
demands to understand UX in services and products design
domains
internationally.
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[Themes and goals]
http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/themes-goals/
This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging
dialogue
between researchers and practitioners who are interested in
the issues
regarding cultural impact on User Experience design and
evaluation
methods.
This workshop aims at extending our understandings and lead
to
practical recommendations for people applying User
Experience methods.
The workshop has six goals;
1. Share each other’s current findings and experiences to
open up an
international dialogue of design and User Experience
Methods in
different cultural settings.
2. Discuss the variety of culture conceptions relied on in
the existing
HCI research and their implications on the assumed cultural
impact in
the methods.
3. Explore UX methods’ specific adaptability
+ Which UX methods can be transferred from one context to
another?
+ Which UX methods have to be localized largely?
+ Which UX methods can hardly be adapted in other social
contexts?
+ What does it entail to localize a UX method to fit a
cultural context
in question?
+ What does it mean to enculturate a UX method in a
specific cultural
context; how has it been or how will it be modified or
interpreted in
practice?
4. Examine unexplored topics on cultural impacts on User
Experience
design and evaluation methods;
+ What could be interesting to investigate?
+ What is beneficial to investigate in multiple cultural
settings?
5. Establish an international network and community.
6. Create a shortlist that can be basis for a proposal for
a special
issue, e.g., CSCW journal or other design related journals.
[Structure]
http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/workshop-structure/
The one-day Cultural Impact Workshop NordiCHI consists of
two sections,
half a day for each. The first section is presentation and
the other is
forum theatre workshop.
1. Case presentations from all participants and
discussions. (Half day)
2.Workshop on new methods and cultural impacts and fit.
(Half day)
This workshop will use the forum theatre method. Forum
theatre is a
type of theatre created by the innovative and influential
practitioner
Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his “Theatre of the
Oppressed.”
[1, 2]. This part of the session will be facilitated by
professional
actors.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre
[2] http://www.ccdc.in/
[Participation] http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/participate/
To participate in the workshop, please send a 2-4 page
position paper
with your original experiences, cases or interests to the
themes of the
workshop to Mika Yasuoka myj@itu.dk and Netta Iivari
netta.iivari@oulu.fi, include “Cultural Impact Workshop
NordiCHI,
submission“ as subject heading.
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August 17th, 2012 – Submission deadline of workshop papers
August 24th, 2012 – Notification of acceptance sent to the
first author
September 16th, 2012 – End of early registration
October 14th, 2012 – Workshop at NordiCHI 2012
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Accepted participants must register for the workshop, for
more
information visit: www.nordichi2012.org
Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings
at
CEUR-WS.org.
[Workshop Organisers]
Mika Yasuoka, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland
Momoko Nakatani, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan
For further information contact: myj@itu.dk
Workshop Website http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/
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