To day as a good day.
The CHI workshop bid got OKed !
Here is my internal press release.
Dr Sheep Dalton and Professor Gerd Kortuem ( members of the pervasive computing group) along with an international team of fellow academics have be successful in a bid for a workshop the CHI2012 conference. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on computer–human interaction. CHI has been held annually since 1982 and attracts thousands of international attendees. CHI 2012 will be held in Austin, Texas, USA.
The workshop Ar-CHI-tecture seeks to examine the growing relationship between the fields of human computer interaction and Architecture.
The rise of ubiquitous computing leads to a convergence between the areas of architectural design and HCI. Human-computer interaction is a type of human-artefact interaction, and its research is characterized by analysing human behavior, cognitive processes and task structures. Buildings can also be understood as artefacts and people interact with them in numerous ways. We believe that the methodological toolbox of HCI researchers/practitioners can be valuable for understanding the challenges of designing buildings that meet users’ needs. Conversely, architectural knowledge is essential for HCI professionals and researchers designing interactive technologies for architectural settings. This workshop will bring together these communities to explore the benefits of architecture envisioned as integral to an expanded CHI community and identify fundamental differences, similarities and synergies between design and research approaches that use architecture in different ways in HCI.
I actually got this yesterday - but I was too busy with finalising another experiment to notice!
PS notice the bit shamelessly stolen from wikipedia ?
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