[chisigmail] IDG Seminar on Friday, July 6th 3pm: "Ethnographic Design: Future Ethnography in the Suburban Communities Project"

[Regina Huntington]

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From: Benda, Peter
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2007 10:33 AM
Subject: IDG Seminar on Friday, July 6th 3pm: "Ethnographic Design: 
Future Ethnography in the Suburban Communities Project"


Please join us for a 'between semester' seminar this week.

 

Ethnographic Design: Future Ethnography in the Suburban Communities 
Project

Suburban Communities is a project within the Smart Living program of 
the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), aiming to design 
new information and communication technologies with and for place-based 
communities. The project focuses on residents, households and 
communities in suburbia and specifically seeks to understand and 
facilitate the activities of suburban households and communities in 
relation to new communication interfaces, especially with respect to 
interactive design and digital tools. In this presentation we discuss 
how our research brings together a diverse range of technical and 
social perspectives, and we introduce 'future ethnography', combining 
what might be termed 'social context' approaches with participatory and 
scenario-based design.

Ian MacColl works in the Information Environments Program of the School 
of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of 
Queensland, and is Program Manager for ACID Smart Living. He has a 
previous life as a theatre lighting designer and production manager, 
and his research focuses on physical and social computing, with an 
emphasis on lightweight design, agile development and underlying 
infrastructures and platforms.

Ingrid Richardson works in the School of Media Communication and 
Culture at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and is Project 
Manager of ACID Suburban Communities. Her research interests include 
philosophy of science and technology, new and interactive media theory, 
phenomenology, embodied interaction and feminist theory.

The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd
 
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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
 
Email: pbenda at unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 1499
Fax: + 61 3 9349 4596
Mob: 0413 085 126