[chisigmail] Panels at OZCHI 2008

[Frank Vetere]

Dear HCI colleague

OZCHI 2008 presents three exciting panels, consisting of national and
international experts discussing three fascinating topics: the design of
mobile experiences, industry collaborations with indigenous people, and
interactions between social networks and urban life. 

(1) UNDERSTANDING FUTURE MOBILE LANDSCAPE: INDUSTRY CHALLENGES (3:30 pm,
Wednesday, 10 December) 

(2) INDIGENOUS LED DIGITAL ENTERPRISE (3:00 pm, Thursday, 11 December) 

(3) INFORMATICS BEYOND THE CITY (1:30 pm, Friday, 12 December)

All panels are 90 minutes and are part of OZCHI 2008 held at James Cook
University, Cairns, Australia. Daily registration is available
(http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/Attending)


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Panel 1: UNDERSTANDING FUTURE MOBILE LANDSCAPE: INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
3:30 pm, Wednesday, 10 December
James Cook University, Cairns

INTRODUCTION: Rod Farmer (3 Mobile, Hutchison Telecommunications)
CHAIR: John Murphy (Design4Use)
PANELISTS: Doug Maloney (3 Mobile); Oliver Weidlich (Ideal Interfaces);
Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

This industry panel examines trends in designing mobile experiences and
debate issues in reconciling strategies to understand user contexts with
the speed of industry development cycles. It will explore four themes:
1) Content is the interface of the future: Icons are dead and stripping
away traditional interface elements can put media (photos, music, video)
at the heart of the user experience; 
2) Mobile technology trends and innovation: the tidal wave of innovative
content and services waiting to be unleashed begs considering the role
of emerging technologies in delivering great user experiences and
shaping the business environment; 
3) Appreciating users as uniquely complex and contradictory: Customers
cannot be defined merely and designing experiences that recognise their
individuality requires research tools and analysis techniques which
allow us to live and breath the world as users see it; 
4) Context is the next frontier for the mobile user experience: A key
challenge for the design of new mobile interface experiences is the
tension between the time required to produce rich and rigorous data and
fast paced mobile design environments.


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Panel 2: INDIGENOUS LED DIGITAL ENTERPRISE
3:00 pm, Thursday, 11 December
James Cook University, Cairns

INTRODUCTION: Toni Robertson (UTS)
CHAIR: Peter Radoll (Jabal/ANU)
PANELISTS: Troy Mallie (Cultural Systems Solutions, Townsville); Vicus
Steffensen (Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways, Cape York); Pasty
Cameron (Telling Places in Country, Tasmania); Yvonne Cadet-James
(Gugu-Baden Cultural History, Townsville)

This panel offers invaluable perspectives on technology design and use
filtered through Indigenous expertise on Indigenous issues. Indigenous
Australians have recognised and acted to exploit the contribution that
accessible and usable digital technologies can make to a range of deeply
significant projects within areas such as knowledge preservation,
cultural presentation and land mapping among others. This panel brings
the voices, experience and expertise of Indigenous Australians working
with new and emerging technologies in their own enterprises; enterprises
that all closely linked to Australia's natural heritage and environment.
The panel chair and four speakers each bring perspectives on technology
design and use that are grounded in their day-to-day engagement with the
constraints and opportunities these technologies offer our Indigenous
people to set their own agendas within their own projects.

Sponsored by: Riawunna (UTAS) & nic bidwell (JCU)


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Panel 3: INFORMATICS BEYOND THE CITY 
1:30 pm, Friday, 12 December
James Cook University, Cairns

INTRODUCTION: Marcus Foth (QUT)
CHAIR: Michael Arnold (The University of Melbourne)
PANELISTS Bharat Dave (University of Melbourne); Ann Light (Sheffield
Hallam University, UK); Nancy Odendaal (UKZN School of Architecture,
Planning and Housing, Durban, South Africa); Monica Whitty (Nottingham
Trent University, UK)

Urban informatics research and development is positioned at the
intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on cities,
locative media and mobile technology. In seeking interdisciplinarity an
undifferentiated attention on the 'urban' may segregate rather than
connect. This panel hopes to help critically analyse the specificities
of particular cities across the world and their residents, and a city's
contextual embeddedness with a view to establish a heightened awareness
of the assumptions behind urban informatics. Urban residents need to be
appreciated as differentiated individuals that are situated in a variety
of time and place settings attached to a historical context of personal
experiences. Social networks form between these residents and commuters
and visitors that move in and out of cities.
These connections nurture symbiotic relationships and exchanges between
urban.

Sponsored by: QUT Urban Informatics & Australian Research Council

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For further details on these panels and the wide range of high quality
papers, demos and other interactive activities please visit
www.ozchi.org

We look forward to seeing you in Cairns

OZCHI08 conference team