HCI & Education: CHI 2010 Workshop On User Interface/Interaction Technologies and Educational Pedagogy

The 28th CHI 2010 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) will be held from April 10-15 2010 in Atlanta, GA.  The Workshop on UI Technology & Educational Pedagogy will be one of several workshops held during the conference.

Info from the workshop's website:

Given the exponential growth of interactive whiteboards in classrooms around the world, there has been a need to explore how next generation HCI will impact education in the future. Educators are depending on the interaction communities to deliver technologies that will improve/adapt learning to an ever-changing world.

In addition to novel UI concepts, the HCI community needs to examine how these concepts can be matched to contemporary paradigms in Educational pedagogy. The classroom is a challenging environment for evaluation, thus new techniques need to be established to prove the value of new HCI interactions in the Educational space. This workshop provides a forum to discuss key HCI issues facing next generation education.

We invite authors to present position papers about potential design challenges and perspectives on how the community should handle the next generation of HCI in education. Topics of interest include:

• Gestural input, multitouch, large displays
• Mobile Devices, response systems (clickers)
• Tangible, VR, AR & MR, Multimodal interfaces
• Console gaming, 3D input devices
• Co-located interaction, presentations
• Educational Pedagogy, learner-centric
• Empirical methods, case studies
• Multi-display interaction

Submission:  The deadline for workshop paper submissions is January 6th, 2010. Interested researchers should submit a 4-page position paper in the ACM CHI Extended Abstract Format to the workshop management system. Acceptance notifications will be sent out March 15, 2010. The workshop will be held April 11, 2010 in Atlanta, USA. Please note that at least one author of an accepted position paper must register for the workshop and for one or more days of the CHI 2010 conference. 

Website: http://TechnologyAndPedagogy.edwardtse.com

Workshop Contact:  Edward Tse  edwardtse [at] smarttech.com SMART Technologies

Johannes Schöning

DFKI GmbH

Yvonne Rogers

Pervasive Computing Laboratory

The Open University,

Chia Shen

Scientists Discovery Room

School of Engineering and

Applied Sciences

Harvard University

Gerald Morrison

SMART Technologies

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The Vodafone Symphonia- A Symphony of Phones, Via Henry Jenkins, author of "The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture"

I learned about the Vodafone Symphonia video through Henry Jenkins. If you haven't heard of him by now, and you've found your way to this post, you should!


Henry Jenkins co-founded the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and now is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California.


Be sure to read Henry's recent blog post, Strange Overtures: Vodafone, Tchaikovsky, Ernie Kovacs and the "Wowness" of New Media, focuses on how joyful it is to receive a delightful gifts, such as the VodaFone video,  and how this sent to him by a former student. In this post, he relates this experience to some of his thoughts from his recent book, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture.


I came across the link to the video through Facebook, since Henry decided to circulate the video. (I'm really Henry Jenkin's FAN.)


FYI: Today, 11/6/09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Henry is participating in a free webinar, "Moving from "Sticky" to Spreadable": The Antidote to "Viral Marketing" and the Broadcast Mentality". 


VodaFone Symphonia



The Making of the Vodafone Symphonia


The Making of the Vodafone Symphonia Part II


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Vodafone's Symphonia Website
(You can download the full track of the Symphonia and the 53 ringtones)

Interactive Video Art in Action: MuchoWall from Tangible Display (and Jimmy Hertz)

 

Photo of MuchoWall, an 80" multimodal sensitive wall from Tangible Displays (Jimmy Hertz, Founder)

Jimmy Hertz is a member of the NUI-Group and has been involved in various activities to spread the world about natural-user interfaces and interaction.



Be sure to watch the entire video. It is almost like watching a dance performance when you watch artist interact with the display.


Thanks, Seth Sandler, for the the link!

A little off-topic: Video parody of the Facebook friending ritual, only in real life - (and more serious thoughts about social software apps)

Facebook in Real Life is a short parody of the Facebook "friending" ritual by theBritish comedy sketch group, Idiots of Ants



I came across this video featured in a blog post on the Core77 website, "Software: The Other "Design for Social Impact", by Gentry Underwood, after following a link from Experientia's Putting People First blog. 

Gentry Underwood works at IDEO, and he's spent some time thinking deeply about social software design and everything that surrounds it.  His article is long, but in my opinion, very important to read, even if you are not a designer or developer.  

After you finish the article, you might be interested in visiting Underwoods' new Designing Social Software website.

Eric Sailers' "Bling Your Blog" Presentation: How to spice up a blog with Web 2.0 widgets and interactive things

Eric Sailers is a speech-language pathologist and assistive technology specialist in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District in San Diago, CA. He's ahead of the pack when it comes to embracing emerging collaborative and interactive technologies in education. Eric recently shared his presentation, "Bling Your Blog" on SlideShare. The presentation is an overview of how to incorporate Web 2.0 technology into blogging.

Bling Your Blog

View more presentations from Eric Sailers.

Below are links to a few things discussed in the presentation:
Animoto


Glogster: "Poster Yourself"
Interactive Calendar Poster by a Glogster


Voicethread (Collaborative digital storytelling.  The Ed. VoiceThread is a secure K-12 network.)


Web 2.0 Guru (Web 2.0 Resources for 21st Century Instruction)


100 Awesome, Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers

Eric Sailers' Blog


(Cross posted on the TechPsych blog.)

Adobe's Resources: Contextual Solutions, Rich internet applications across devices, and Open Screen.

I thought I'd share a few interesting resources from Adobe.  The company is focused on the future, and I plan to watch what unfolds.  Adobe believes that the next generation of the company's products will move us forward to a world of seamless access to content, across screens of all sizes, everywhere we go.

I'm hoping that this will not lead to an environment where we have difficulty escaping "skip intro" ads everywhere we turn.  Hopefully it won't be too bad!

I found a few gems of wisdom in the Adobe white paper,   Designing Contextual Solutions and Applications.  The paper provides a conceptual framework that I think would be helpful to web designers/developers who are interested in off-the-desktop application development.


Here is an excerpt from the introduction of the white paper:
"With its platforms and products that are inherently multichannel and multidevice, Adobe envisions a new class of “contextual solutions” taking hold in the marketplace. These solutions are broader in scope than a device, a campaign, or a single service; rather, they encapsulate the various contexts in which the end user exists, interacts, thinks, consumes, and purchases. And when content owners understand the different types of users and how they differ in their contexts, they are in a much better position to design experiences that are compelling and sticky. At the heart of every contextual solution is at least one or more contextual applications—an emerging type of application that spans multiple devices and uses system, user, and network contexts to provide an optimized user experience and deliver improved business results.

This white paper provides an overview of the types of contexts that compose a contextual solution and application. With examples given along the way, it culminates with a framework for considering all appropriate contexts while designing and developing a new contextual solution or an application that is part of an existing solution."


Another Adobe white paper is quite useful - Rich Internet Applications across devices: The emergence of contextual applications.  It provides examples of RIA's across devices, such as Amazon Video On Demand,  Demandbase, Atlantic Records: Fanbase, Finetune, and Times Reader 2.0.

Additional Adobe Resources
Contextual Applications
Open Screen Project:  "Singular experience, multiple devices"
Adobe Flash Platform