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Welcome to the 2006 Convivio Summer School at Napier University in Edinburgh2003 Rome - 2004 Split - 2005 Timisoara

2006: 44 participants, 7 atelier leaders, 11 lecturers, from 15 countries

Directors: Riccardo Antonini, Yngve SundbladLocal organiser 2006: Michael Smyth

Convivio is the EU-supported Network of excellence in

people-centred design of interactive systems

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Our host, Napier University

Represented byProfessor Peter Strike

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Programme August 14-18, 21-25

In general:9.30 Lecture here11.00 Coffee break11.30 Continued lecture13.00 Catered lunch here14.00- Atelier work

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Programme, special events

Mon Aug.14, 14:00 City bus tour from here followed by atelier set-up

Wed Aug.16, 19:00 Film here: Kitchen stories

Fri Aug.18, 20:30 Ghost walk Mercat Cross

Tue Aug.22, 19:30 Gala Dinner - The DomeThu Aug.24 Full day atelier workFri Aug.25, 10:00 Public presentation, p.97,

followed by feedback

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LecturesMon 14thMichael Smyth, Napier University

Artefacts, Places and Interaction DesignTue 15thIrene McAra-McWilliam,Glasgow Art school

'Connected Community' and Living Memory' and examples of designing for & with community

Wed 16thAnxo, Univ. Brighton & Nina, NID, IndiaThe User experience in pervasive communication scenarios, Design for contexts and sociability

Thu 17thDK Arvind, Univ. Edinburgh: Speckled Computing

Fri 18thJoi Roberts, Motorola, Chicago: Interaction Design - Life Beyond Academia

Mon 21stAlan Munro: Lecture title to be decided Tue 22ndJean-Baptiste Labrune, Univ. Paris Sud

Reflexive creativity Wed 23rdVictor Vina, Design School Barcelona

Narrative and Meaning of Electronic Products

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Five ateliers - with leaders

Bandwagon - Silvio Cioni, University of SienaCapture Experiences - Kicki Groth & Adler, KTH Companions - David Benyon, Napier UniversitySharing Stories - Anxo Cereijo Roibàs, Univ. of Brighton & Nina Sabnani, National Institute of Design, India

Speckled Computing, DK Arvind, University of Edinburgh

All participants got their first or second choice!

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Philosophy

Multidisciplinary and multicultural meetingsSharing, developing and working with interaction design coupled to a local context

Design of interactive systems, emphasising paying attention to users’ needs

People centred design - involving users, let them participate at as equal standing as possible

Work with ideas and materialsFast prototypesProcess rather than productsBased on long people centred IT tradition (Participatory Design etc)

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Aims

Experience the value of involving users

Experience the importance of different perspectives (”disciplines”) for understanding• habits, needs and expectations• what to design• how to design

Present ideas and process - not only product

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Brief brief

Involve and meet usersSpend considerable time with users in town, understanding habits, needs and desires

Work multidisciplinarilyExplore ideasMingle and discuss project with other ateliers - No Competition!!

IterateDocument process thoroughly with video

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Methods

A large set of methods, useful in same or different contexts, not just “the method”

Adopt some methods contributed by lecturers, atelier leaders, yourselves

Try to get widely different perspectives, “triangulate” (Wendy Mackay)

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Methods

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Methods - there are many

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Methods - one specific: Probes

Open ended to provide inspirational responses for designers (Bill Gaver, Fiona Raby, Andy Dunne)

For us also involving users in discussions about habits, needs and desires

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Some probe observations of family communication habits and desires:

shared information spaces,

nice and ugly things

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Methods - another specific:Low-tech prototyping

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My own experience of IT user involvementGraphic workers - Utopia 1981-85Architects for sketching toolsProgrammers for cooperation toolsOffice workers’ cooperation - EU Comic 1992-95Elementary school children - EU KidStory 1998-2001

Intergenerational Family Comm. - EU interLiving 2001-04

Call centres in Stockholm archipelagoTeachers in Stockholm archipelagoWorkfloor use of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Knowledge workers - EU Nepomuk 2006-08…

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Spectacular user involvement for new ideasSpreadsheet ~ 1978 – Computer Science student Bob Frankston with Economy student Dan Bricklin (user)http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

KidPix ~ 1988 – Craig Hickman with 3-year-old son Ben http://pixelpoppin.com/kidpix/

PhotoShop ~ 1990 – Adobe programmers with photographers (users)http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia/multimedia_photoshop.html

Mosaic/Netscape ~ 1993 – Mark Andriessen, Univ. of Illinois, with buddies as usershttp://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/Communications/MosaicHistory/

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Summer school experiences: Fun (Timisoara 2005)

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Experiences: Atelier work (Split 2004) - Lynn Baillie

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Ajmo Splite! (Come on Split!) - Adults and children giving city planning video input via playful kiosk - display on Diocletian palace walls

QuickTime och enTIFF (LZW)-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

QuickTime och enTIFF (LZW)-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

QuickTime och enTIFF (LZW)-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

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Experiences: >10 media coverages of Split

QuickTime och enTIFF (okomprimerat)-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

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Experiences: Process video (Rome 2003)

”Red atelier” - Memory Book - Sally Beardsley

”Green atelier” - Digital traces - Ivica Mitrovic

”White atelier” - Invisible cities - Alan Munro

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Experiences: General impactVery active student (and teacher) communities:Network groups from 2003, 2004 and 2005 with peaks of about 100 messages per monthAlmost Terabytes of pictures and videos on common serversConference joint papers, e.g. Short CHI

Great international network and community for the future

Extended understanding for importance of people-centred ICT design (press coverage etc.)

Closer involvement with all parts of EuropeImpact also in the Argentina, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, USA

Participants and lecturers and atelier leaders alsofrom industry

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Practicalities

Internet - WaveLan - access: fill in form

Coffee break and lunch outside…