Welcome

CREATE 2008 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. A conference where the emphasis is on sharing the wealth of creative ideas we have developed to resolve problems, to create new capabilities, or new functions; where the aim is to spawn further creative designs that can make a difference to people. In keeping with this theme, we invite people to bring:

* Your experiences - designs, both successes and failures, that have pushed the boundaries of interaction
* Your approaches - principles and methods that have delivered new, people-centred ideas and products.

This year's theme is “embedding people-centred design in the process of innovation”. How do we work together as designers and HCI specialists to come up with people-centred design, and how do we work with others to make our designs a reality?

Also, CREATE2008 will feature the CREATE design show – a forum for people to exhibit and discuss their latest ideas – more details to follow soon.

CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction Specialist Group of the Ergonomics Society, and British Computing Society's Interaction Specialist Group, and will be held at the British Computer Society conference venue in Covent Garden, London, on 24-25 June, 2008.

For enquiries contact Tony Rose (Ergonomics Society HCI Group chair) at hci_sig@yahoo.co.uk.
Submission Format

We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial, public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from any paradigm - the web, mobile and hand held, or consumer electronics. Please outline the problems, capabilities, or new functions that were being addressed, and describe the solutions you or your team created to resolve it.

IMPORTANT: For your full submission include photos, screen shots, or sketches, and tell us how and why it did or did not work.

We also welcome theoretical and research perspectives on the process of design innovation and approaches to creativity in HCI; how human factors can be integrated within a creative design process, methods that encourage creativity in interaction design, and the challenges of working in multi-disciplinary teams.

Initial submissions should be no more than 3000 characters (approx. 500 words). Accepted papers can be either short papers 2 pages long, or be extended to long papers of up to 6 pages.

Please click here to submit your paper/proposal online (hosted at the Ergonomics Society's website).

Submission information for the design exhibition will follow soon.
Important Dates

* Initial submission = 3rd March
* Notification of acceptance = 27th March
* Full papers = 28th April

People

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

* Dr. David Golightly, Nottingham University
* Dr. Tony Rose, System Concepts
* Dr. John Bonner, Huddersfield University

EXHBITION CHAIR

Dr. Stephen Boyd-Davis, Middlesex University

ADVISORY PANEL

* Dr. Ann Light, Sheffield-Hallam University
* Prof. William Wong, Middlesex University

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

To follow

SECRETARIAT

Sue Hull, Ergonomics Society, s.hull@ergonomics.org.uk
Create 2007

The first CREATE conference was held last year between 13-14 June in London, jointly organised by the Ergonomics Society and the HCI Group of the British Computer Society. The two-day programme showcased an eclectic range of commercial case studies and highly creative research, together with excellent keynote presentations, lively debates, posters and a hands-on workshop.

The first day's introductory keynote by Jarnail Chudge gave us a glimpse of a major Microsoft project tasked with defining common user interface guidelines for NHS clinical software systems, highlighting the scale, complexity and depth of work being undertaken. Looking at the design methods and the introduction of innovative consumer products, Ian Worley demonstrated a software tool designed for EasyJet travelling executives, and the StyleCoach, a product idea by Philips Research, a touch-less interactive mirror that can be used in the bathroom to provide style and beauty care tips to young women. Michael Smyth presented a project on wearable computing, in the form of jewellery, that combines sound and touch to provide a multimodal interactive user experience, within a gallery environment. In the afternoon, John Bonner offered some insights into introducing novel user interfaces into a large consumer products manufacturer. Luigina Ciolfi described the use of a physical walkthrough in the Hunt Museum to discover ways of displaying exhibits that encourage visitor interaction, invoking opinion sharing and exploration of artefacts. Sara Jones from City University presented their creativity workshops, which particularly encourage creative ideas, teamwork and participation in high level requirements gathering. Peter Wright closed the day with a talk on how we can understand and use our values and beliefs to inform design and new technology developments.

On the second day, Bill Gaver treated us to some mesmerising electronic visual display devices for the home that provide a novel and unusual way to experience our neighbourhood and the world around us, including a 'flight-spotting' TV with a NASA-designed aerial! In the theme of safety critical applications, Anna Pohlmeyer presented her view of a radical re-design of a car dashboard, to reduce driver distraction, and provide selected information in their field of view, moving irrelevant information to the periphery. Her design incorporates the multitude of accessories and mobile devices now used in cars. Hugh David and William Wong then alternated talks about the issues of complex information presentation and visualisation for safety critical systems for air traffic control, such as using colour to codify data and 3D into 2D visualisation techniques. Further creative strategies were explored by Simon Rubens, who used contextual enquiry research to review the trends and differences between digital music downloads against physical purchase of records, and identified an opportunity for an on-line labelling tool to add value to users' music experience. The final presentation by Oliver Mival was a captivating and highly effective demonstration of how video can be used to generate very realistic, information rich and mood inducing conceptual scenarios, and as a way of formalising the evolution and further concretisation of scenarios.

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