This workshop will be held at [[http://www.chi2010.org/ | CHI 2010]] in Atlanta, GA.
Design is a complex and collaborative activity that requires designers to be creative while still being ground in a thorough understanding of the system’s domain and the users’ activities, goals, and concerns.
Typically, system design first involves some form of contextual analysis. Generally speaking, this type of knowledge is obtained through methods such as contextual inquiry, ethnography, surveys, interviews, etc. Following this requirements elicitation, designers must transition into actual design based on the obtained contextual understanding. The challenge, however, is that this transition is often not simple to accomplish.
Even though processes such as Contextual Design and design artifacts such as personas, scenarios, or tasks , attempt to solve this problem, they often do not provide adequate support for designers to make this transition easily. Design literature in HCI tends to gloss over the steps taken to transition from contextual analysis to design. Similarly, researchers may tend to describe their method for contextual analysis and provide design implications, yet not describe how these implications directly affected the design decisions in an eventual system.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners who: perform contextual analysis or requirements analysis, design, or face the challenge of moving between the two. We would like to build a community around these topics to understand the approaches people take to address the gap between contextual analysis and design, the limitations in their methods, and potential solutions to overcome these challenges. Within this scope, we will focus on and discuss the following issues:
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This workshop will be held at [[http://www.chi2010.org/ | CHI 2010]] in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, April 10, 2010.
A typical development lifecycle for interactive systems starts with contextual analysis to guide system design. By contextual analysis, we are referring to any number of methods that create an understanding of users, their tasks and practices, and the situational context in which their practices and behaviors lie. Following this requirements elicitation, designers must transition into actual design based on the obtained contextual understanding. The challenge, however, is that this transition is often not simple to accomplish.
In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners who regularly face the challenge of transitioning from contextual analysis to design implications and/or actual design.
Our goal is to foster a community in this space, understand the techniques that are being employed to move from contextual analysis to design, the challenges that still exist, and solutions to overcome them.
Interested parties should submit a 2-4 page position paper (in CHI extended abstract format) to tkjudge@vt.edu by January 6, 2010. Authors should provide details of the methodological tools they use and the challenges they face in bridging the gap, along with biographies for each author.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the topic area and the authors’ ability to bring a unique perspective. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and at least one day of the conference. The workshop will involve short presentations from select attendees and we will compliment these with group discussions.