Advance Program - Tutorial

18. Video Techniques for Participatory Design: Observation, Brainstorming and Prototyping

Monday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructor
Wendy E. Mackay, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Benefits
Video is a flexible tool for supporting participatory design. You will learn how to use video to observe users, analyze multimedia data, capture brainstorming sessions, simulate and test interaction styles, prototype new designs, and present design ideas, gaining hands-on experience using video equipment and addressing ethical issues.

Origins
This is a repeat of a highly-rated tutorial from CHI 99. Variations of this course have been taught to university and post-graduate students, as well as to practicing HCI developers in industry. The techniques are derived from the authors' experiences in multimedia research and product development.

Features

• General participatory design techniques
• Technical aspects of video
• Video observation of users
• Video data analysis
• Video brainstorming
• Video prototyping
• Video presentations
• Ethics of using video

Audience
HCI designers in industry and researchers interested using video to support participatory design. Basic knowledge of video is useful, but not essential.

Presentation
Lecture, video, demonstrations, hands-on video exercises, and student presentations.

Instructor
Wendy Mackay received her Ph.D. from MIT and has worked as a designer and manager responsible for over 30 multimedia products and the industry's first interactive video computer system (IVIS). She has managed multimedia research and development groups at Digital, MIT and Xerox EuroPARC. She was a Professor at University de Paris-Sud and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark.