Liam Bannon: Bringing it all back home – Interaction Design as an attempt to Integrate Science, Social Science and Design
Vortrag am Montag, 01.02.2010 um 16Uhr im Raum H – C 8326
Title: Bringing it all back home – Interaction Design as an attempt to Integrate Science, Social Science and Design
Abstract
In this talk, Liam Bannon will outline some of the difficulties and successes of a collaborative approach to working across disciplinary boundaries, briefly discuss some examples of IDC work, and present his ideas on how we might move towards a more holistic, integrated, and humane framework for understanding human action in the world, and the role of technology in our daily lives. Despite the recent emphasis on globalization and anytime/anywhere connectivity, a social science engagement implies arguing for the continuing importance of place, and the local, in making sense of our world.
Note on Speaker
Professor Liam Bannon is Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Interaction Design Centre (IDC) at the University of Limerick, and a long-standing international expert in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and has been involved in on-going debates as to the role of ethnography in design. The Centre attempts to create a setting or arena for collaboration across a wide variety of disciplines and practices – engineering, psychology, sociology, media studies, architecture, fine arts, and product design. The Centre has been involved in a number of research projects and exercises in such fields as participative design, interaction design, and ubiquitous computing, as well as HCI and CSCW.