Tutorial: 10. Techniques for Participatory Design: Brainstorming, Prototyping, and User Observation

Sunday 09:00 - 17:30.

Wendy E. Mackay, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne-Laure Fayard, EDF, France

Benefits
Learn how to use video as a flexible tool for supporting participatory design. Gain experience using video to observe users, analyze multimedia data, capture brainstorming sessions, simulate and test interaction styles, prototype new designs, consider ethical issues, and present design ideas.

Origins
A new tutorial for CHI 99, variations of this course have been taught to practicing HCI developers in industry as well as university and master's level students.

Features

• general participatory design techniques
• technical aspects of video
• video observation of users
• video data analysis
• video brainstorming
• video prototyping
• video presentations
• ethics of using video

Audience
Industrial HCI designers and researchers interested in using video to support participatory design. Basic knowledge of video is useful, but not essential.

Presentation
Lecture, video, demonstrations, hands-on video exercises, and student presentations.

Instructors
Wendy Mackay received her Ph.D. from MIT, and has worked as a designer and manager responsible for more than 30 multimedia products and the industry's first interactive video computer system. She has managed multimedia research and development groups at Digital, MIT, and Xerox EuroPARC. Formerly a Professor at University of Paris-Sud, she is currently a visiting professor at Aarhus University. Anne-Laure Fayard received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris. She is currently a research scientist at EDF, where she conducts participatory research using video.

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• 21. Using Customer Work Models to Drive Systems Design (Monday)
• 27. Variations on a Theme: Card-Based Techniques for Participatory Analysis and Design (Monday)
• 28. Conceptual Design (Monday)