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Cultural Impact on User Experience Design and Evaluation<br>
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Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 ( <a href="http://nordichi2012.org/" target="_blank">
http://nordichi2012.org/</a> )<br>
Workshop Website: <a href="http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/" target="_blank">http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/</a><br>
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The objective of the Cultural Impact workshop at NordiCHI 2012 is to <br>
share our experiences, identify themes, and examine unexplored topics <br>
about cultural impact on User Experience (UX) design and evaluation <br>
methods. The expected result is an establishment of an international <br>
community on this topic for collective learning. <br>
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By accumulating knowledge through the international community, <br>
ultimately the workshop and the community will contribute to emerging <br>
demands to understand UX in services and products design domains <br>
internationally.<br>
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[Themes and goals] <a href="http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/themes-goals/" target="_blank">
http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/themes-goals/</a><br>
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This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging dialogue <br>
between researchers and practitioners who are interested in the issues <br>
regarding cultural impact on User Experience design and evaluation <br>
methods.<br>
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This workshop aims at extending our understandings and lead to <br>
practical recommendations for people applying User Experience methods.<br>
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The workshop has six goals;<br>
1. Share each other’s current findings and experiences to open up an <br>
international dialogue of design and User Experience Methods in <br>
different cultural settings.<br>
2. Discuss the variety of culture conceptions relied on in the existing <br>
HCI research and their implications on the assumed cultural impact in <br>
the methods.<br>
3. Explore UX methods’ specific adaptability<br>
+ Which UX methods can be transferred from one context to another?<br>
+ Which UX methods have to be localized largely?<br>
+ Which UX methods can hardly be adapted in other social contexts?<br>
+ What does it entail to localize a UX method to fit a cultural context <br>
in question?<br>
+ What does it mean to enculturate a UX method in a specific cultural <br>
context; how has it been or how will it be modified or interpreted in <br>
practice?<br>
4. Examine unexplored topics on cultural impacts on User Experience <br>
design and evaluation methods;<br>
+ What could be interesting to investigate?<br>
+ What is beneficial to investigate in multiple cultural settings?<br>
5. Establish an international network and community.<br>
6. Create a shortlist that can be basis for a proposal for a special <br>
issue, e.g., CSCW journal or other design related journals.<br>
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[Structure] <a href="http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/workshop-structure/" target="_blank">
http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/workshop-structure/</a><br>
The one-day Cultural Impact Workshop NordiCHI consists of two sections, <br>
half a day for each. The first section is presentation and the other is <br>
forum theatre workshop.<br>
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1. Case presentations from all participants and discussions. (Half day)<br>
2.Workshop on new methods and cultural impacts and fit. (Half day)<br>
This workshop will use the forum theatre method. Forum theatre is a <br>
type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner <br>
Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his “Theatre of the Oppressed.” <br>
[1, 2]. This part of the session will be facilitated by professional <br>
actors.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.ccdc.in/" target="_blank">http://www.ccdc.in/</a><br>
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[Participation] <a href="http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/participate/" target="_blank">http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/participate/</a><br>
To participate in the workshop, please send a 2-4 page position paper <br>
with your original experiences, cases or interests to the themes of the <br>
workshop to Mika Yasuoka myj@itu.dk and Netta Iivari <br>
netta.iivari@oulu.fi, include “Cultural Impact Workshop NordiCHI, <br>
submission“ as subject heading.<br>
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August 17th, 2012 – Submission deadline of workshop papers<br>
August 24th, 2012 – Notification of acceptance sent to the first author<br>
September 16th, 2012 – End of early registration<br>
October 14th, 2012 – Workshop at NordiCHI 2012<br>
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Accepted participants must register for the workshop, for more <br>
information visit: <a href="http://www.nordichi2012.org" target="_blank">www.nordichi2012.org</a><br>
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Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings at <br>
CEUR-WS.org.<br>
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[Workshop Organisers]<br>
Mika Yasuoka, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark<br>
Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland<br>
Momoko Nakatani, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan<br>
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For further information contact: myj@itu.dk<br>
Workshop Website <a href="http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/" target="_blank">http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/</a><br>
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