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CHI 2006 Workshop
Reality Testing:
HCI Challenges in Non-Traditional Environments
April 22, 2006 * Hyatt Regency * Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   
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Notes from the workshop are available here.

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All of the accepted papers are posted.

Workshop schedule posted.

Workshop participant list posted.

Workshop Schedule

Overview

Introduction: Each workshop attendee will introduce themselves and their interest in the workshop (1 minute per person).

Workshop: Everyone who submitted a paper will participate in a panel during the workshop listed below. There will be three panels in the military, everyday life, and medical/care domains.

Presentations: Authors from each paper will be asked to present a short 5 minute lightening talk. The talk should cover a brief overview of their project and what challenges they encountered while working in their domain area (military, everyday life, or medical/care).

Schedule

9.00 Introductions (Moderator: Katie Siek)
9.30 Military Domain Panel (Moderator: Kay Connelly)
9.30 Katie Minardo, MITRE Corporation (paper)
9.35 Keesah Hall, Georgia Tech Research Institute (paper)(ppt)
9.40 Panel discussion about Reality Testing issues in Military Domains
10.30 Coffee Break
10.45 Everyday Life Domain Panel (Moderator: Gisele Bennett)
10.45 Francis JAMBON, CLIPS-IMAG, MultiCom (paper)(ppt)
10.50 Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (paper)(ppt)
10.55 Carolyn Fuson, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington (paper)
11.00 Regina Bernhaupt, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg (paper)(ppt)
11.05 Gitte Lindgaard, Bruce Tsuji, and Shamima Khan, HOT Lab, Carleton University (paper)(ppt)
11.10 Avi Parush and Sheila Narasimhan, HOT Lab, Carleton University (paper)(ppt)
11.15 Panel discussion about Reality Testing issues in Everday Life Domains
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Medical and Care Domain Panel (Moderator: Bruce Tsuji)
14.00 Anthony P. Glascock and David Kutzik, Drexel University (paper)
14.05 Katie A. Siek and Kay Connelly, SURG Lab, Indiana University (paper)(ppt)
14.10 Paula J. Edwards, Julie Jacko, and Kevin P. Moloney, Center for Interactive Systems, Georgia Tech (paper)(ppt)
14.15 Panel discussion about Reality Testing issues in Medical and Care Domains
15.15 Generalizing Challenges Across Domains and Future Research Agenda (Moderator: Gitte Lindgaard)
Decide on themes and meet in groups to discuss themes more in depth. (ppt)
16.00 Coffee Break
16.15 Generalizing Challenges Across Domains and Future Research Agenda (Moderator: Gitte Lindgaard)
Groups share their results with everyone.
17.30 Workshop Finished
18.00 Workshop Dinner

Following the workshop

A summary of the workshop will be submitted to the SIGCHI bulletin and other publications. Organizers and interested participants will continue formalizing the framework for later publication.

Accepted Papers

  1. Home or Factory, Mobile or Multimodal: Challenges for Today's HCI Researchers
    Regina Bernhaupt, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg

  2. HCI Challenges Case Study: Implementing an Electronic Medical Record
    Paula J. Edwards, Julie Jacko, Kevin P. Moloney, and François Sainfort*, Center for Interactive Systems Engineering and *Health Systems Institute, Georgia Tech

  3. MSN Design Innovation Process
    Carolyn Fuson, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington

  4. Embrace the Chaos, It's Not Noise: Lessons Learned from Non-Traditional Environments
    Anthony P. Glascock and David Kutzik, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University

  5. Testing in the Hangar: User Studies in a Maintenance Environment
    Keesah Hall, Georgia Tech Research Institute

  6. Reality Testing of Mobile Devices: How to Ensure Analysis Validity?
    Françis Jambon, CLIPS-IMAG, MultiCom

  7. Reality Testing Mobile and Entertainment Applications
    Gitte Lindgaard, Bruce Tsuji, and Shamima Khan, Human Oriented Technology Lab (HOT Lab), Carleton University

  8. Hostile HCI: Research Methods for Unobservable Conflict Environments
    Katie Minardo, MITRE Corporation

  9. Testing Moving Map Algorithms
    Avi Parush and Sheila Narasimhan, HOT Lab, Carleton University

  10. "The Panopticon": A Method for Observing Inter-Group Interactions
    Antti Salovaara, Antti Oulasvirta, and Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

  11. Lessons Learned Conducting User Studies in a Dialysis Ward
    Katie A. Siek and Kay H. Connelly, Security for Ubiquitous Resources Group (SURG), Indiana University

Workshop Participants

  1. Nancy Bell, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington
  2. Gisele Bennett, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  3. Regina Bernhaupt, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg
  4. Kay Connelly, SURG Lab, Indiana Univeristy
  5. Paula J. Edwards, Center for Interactive Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
  6. Carolyn Fuson, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington
  7. Anthony P. Glascock, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University
  8. Ron Goldin, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington
  9. Keesah Hall, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  10. Julie Jacko, Center for Interactive Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
  11. Francis Jambon, CLIPS-IMAG, MultiCom
  12. Shamima Khan, HOT Lab, Carleton University
  13. David Kutzik, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University
  14. Gitte Lindgaard, HOT Lab, Carleton University
  15. Katie Minardo, MITRE Corporation
  16. Kevin P. Moloney, Center for Interactive Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
  17. Sheila Narasimhan, HOT Lab, Carleton University
  18. Marianna Obrist, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg
  19. Avi Parush, HOT Lab, Carleton University
  20. Asta Roseway, Microsoft - Redmond, Washington
  21. Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
  22. Katie A. Siek, SURG Lab, Indiana University
  23. Bruce Tsuji, HOT Lab, Carleton University