[Air-l] CFP: Workshop on Methods of Collaboration - CHI 2007

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

 HCI and New Media: Methodology and Evaluation
 
 CFP: *Workshop on Methods and Evaluation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration*
 Human  Computer Interaction Conference, April 28-May 3, 2007
 San Jose, CA

http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia
 
 Research into new forms of sociality or critical applications of
 technology often requires unexpected and even disjunctive institutional
 partnerships. Universities in particular find researchers coming
 together around common resources or initiatives who share little in the
 way of methods, values, or politics.
 
 How are researchers and practitioners from Art/Design and the Sciences
 negotiating and sustaining collaboration today? What differences are
 preserved in the process, which ones obscured, which transcended? When
 have quantitative and qualitative methodologies successfully co-mingled,
 and what do the adherents of each have to learn?  Aren't disharmonious
 partnerships more likely to be formed in a climate of decreased
 resources and increased pressure to demonstrate "creativity" that
 produces capital?
 
 This April in San Jose at the annual Computer/Human Interaction (CHI)
 Conference, we'll be conducting a workshop on these subjects for a day,
 and we're eager to enlist some more participants. The workshop will take
 the form of short presentations, large and small-group discussions, with
 representatives present from many disciplines.
 
 The context, if you're new to CHI, is a professional conference based
 predominantly in scientific discourse.  We've proposed this workshop to
 CHI as an interdisciplinary team from art and science, and indeed the
 conference has seen an increasing amount of designers and artists in
 attendance recently.
 
 We'll be focusing on the following specific questions and topics:
 
 1 - How are projects evaluated by  interdisciplinary teams? Which
 criteria from which constituencies are applied, and to what ends?
 2 - What methods of investigation are employed in design processes by
 teams composed of diverse practitioners? How are ideas iterated?
 3 - When is labor divided based on disciplinary difference? At what
 stages in the process are these differences ignored?
 4 - When is evaluation and critique incorporated into process, and how?
 
 If your research or practice has led you to navigation of these or
 related questions, we invite you to submit proposals for participation
 and presentation at this Spring's workshop, on April 27th in San Jose.
 Please see the full CFP for more a more detailed explication of this
 workshop's goals.
 
 We hope to assemble a group capable of producing applicable methods and
 useful processes in the pursuit of research that is interdisciplinary by
 necessity, and perhaps not by choice.
 
 DEADLINE: January 12, 2007
 
 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
 http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/
 
 RELATED LINKS (precedent at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
 http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/memory
 http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/mobilemapping
 http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/people/adamczyk/pvss/
 http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/


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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820