Workshop Overview

This workshop will be held at CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, April 10, 2010.

A typical development lifecycle for interactive systems starts with contextual analysis to guide system design. By contextual analysis, we are referring to any number of methods that create an understanding of users, their tasks and practices, and the situational context in which their practices and behaviors lie. Following this requirements elicitation, designers must transition into actual design based on the obtained contextual understanding. The challenge, however, is that this transition is often not simple to accomplish.

In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners who regularly face the challenge of transitioning from contextual analysis to design implications and/or actual design. Our goal is to foster a community in this space, understand the techniques that are being employed to move from contextual analysis to design, the challenges that still exist, and solutions to overcome them.

Interested parties should submit a 2-4 page position paper (in CHI extended abstract format) to tkjudge@vt.edu by January 6, 2010.