INTERACT 2007: Socially-Responsible Interaction

Technology has escaped from the zoo: studying usability in the wild.

A highly energetic and interactive exploration, the workshop will investigate usability in the wild, where laboratory modeling ends and reality begins. The workshop will investigate methods to gather sufficient usability feedback in non-traditional environments--those environments where change is rapid, unpredictable and difficult to control.

Driven by emergent themes from participant submissions, the workshop aims to address the challenges faced by researchers working in non-traditional environments, reviewing how data can be collected under limited control and how data can be analyzed using methods applicable to the evaluation of limited usability data. Additionally, participants will collaboratively review social responsibility challenges in each non-traditional environment, such as maintaining the health and safety of researchers and participants without distracting from primary tasks.

Successful submissions will be grouped into domains. Based on previous workshops, the following domains will likely, but not necessarily, emerge:

• Healthcare
• Community
• Military
• Mobile & Location Based Games
• Everyday Life

Topics of interest include:

• Usability Evaluation and Evaluation methods
• Social Responsibility
• Ubiquitious and Context Aware Computing
• Safety Issues and Human Error
• International and Cultural Aspects of HCI
• Mobile Computing