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CFP: *Workshop on Methods and Evaluation in
Interdisciplinary Collaboration*
Computer/Human Interaction Conference, 2007
San Jose, CA
http://orch
id.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://orch
id.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/
RELATED LINKS (precedent at University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign)
http://www.ar
t.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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