Einladung zum öffentlichen Vortrag:
ALAN DIX
Computing Department
Lancaster University
Dienstag, 12.02.2008, 18.15 - 19.45 Uhr
TU Berlin
EW 203
(ehemals PN, neben Hauptmensa)
Hardenbergstraße 36
http://www.berliner-stadtplan.com/adresse/karte/berlin/pos/3770,5773.htm...
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Systems clearly need to be useful and usable on order to do a job for
people and to do it easily. However if a system is wonderfully
designed, fulfills a real need and would be a pleasure to use, it is
still no good at all unless it is actually used.
I will discuss two aspects of getting systems or products actually used:
adoption - managing the path from no users to widespread use
and
appropriation - designing systems that users can change to their own
purposes
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Professor Alan Dix has taught and researched in human-computer
interaction (HCI) for over 20 years and he is the author of one of the
most widely used textbooks on the subject used across the world. His
interests in the area range from the application of formal techniques in
interface design to methods for enhancing innovation and creativity. He
began as a mathematician at Cambridge University and moved into
computing and HCI whilst doing his PhD at University of York. His
background also includes work on farm crop sprayers and remote
controlled submarines. He was a founder director of two Internet dot.com
companies. http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/
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Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Kollegseminars des Graduiertenkolleg
prometei (Prospektive Gestaltung von Mensch-Technik-Interaktion) statt.
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I was there
It was worth it to attend Alan Dix's lecture from which I took away some nice ideas. Being different from the common triad 'Useful, Usable, Desirable', he suggested 'Useful, Usable, Used' to be the guiding principles for designing systems. From these three key concepts, he was able to sketch a diagram describing the process of systems design & development. It was a nice and consistent diagram that can be used to organize and to think about the design process.
I was fortunate to have dinner with him after the talk with 20 other people and I told him then that his idea of design for appropriation sounded very similar to design for self-organisation and to John Chris Jones' creative democracy. He admitted that he was not too familiar with these ideas and that he was not too aware of the works from Design Research. I thought it was too bad (for us), but then again it is up to Design Researchers to promote our work. No?