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 The 20th British HCI Group Annual Conference 11-15 September 2006 Queen Mary, University of London |
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Workshop on The Role of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction 12 September 2006 |
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IMPRESSIONS Oh how time flies! Now the second workshop of this successfull series has gone by with lots of lovely memories, long lasting emotions (a.k.a. moods), and novel interactive experiences still being present in our minds - and on this web site. Fire! Fire!! Or is
it? One participant very
efficiently demonstrated already before
the workshop how very little interaction with the environment could trigger intense engagement of other participants, strangers, and even the fire brigade! As undisclosed but usually well informed sources revealed, it's not been hot discussions, nor steamy socks that triggered the alarm, but just a hot shower. Ho-ha! Ethics,
ethics - who cares? Oh
how did we improve!
Compared to last year, the topic finding discussion has been much more focussed now, much quicker, and much more substantial. While last year we had 8 main and 17 sub-topics to be discussed by two groups, we very quickly agreed on 4, sorry 5 groups now with less yet more focussed topics. Also as last year, all participants consensually pointed out the importance of the ethical and legal issues group, before joining one of the others. Hello? HELLO? Hello! Oh how to switch that damn thing off?
HCI specialists obviosly are not necessarely technologists we learned from the owner of a new cell phone who had the number given to just one person! Oh what tasty! The Haz restaurant in somewhere
London,
UK, has been selected to
host the post-workshop dinner. That Turkish restaurant really has wonderful dishes to fair prices, provided one knows what one orders. But most of us definitely enjoyed our stay there! A list of contributions can be seen here Enquiries Workshop committee: |
