[chisigmail] Seminar - Measuring Fun, Friday 18 January 2008

[Steve Howard]

> Please join us for an out of semester IDG seminar on Friday 18 January.

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> Measuring fun

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> How do you measure fun? Most commonly one asks people to reflect on how much

> they just enjoyed themselves after doing something. Alternatively, one can

> interrupt them in the middle of doing something and ask the same question.

> In both cases one can only tap their reconstruction of the experience after

> the event. In this talk Andrew will describe work at York to devise and

> validate quantitative measures of user experience abstracted from recordings

> of group behaviour.

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> Andrew Monk is Director of The Centre for Usable Home Technology

> (http://www.cuhtec.org.uk) at the University of York. He is professor of

> Psychology and a Fellow of the British Computing Society. His work has been

> concerned with taking a user-centred approach to the design many kinds of

> information and communication technologies. Most recently this has taken the

> form of research on technological support for older people who wish to live

> independently.

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> Seminar details:

> The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.

> Time: 3-4pm Wednesday 16th of January

> 111 Barry Street, Carlton.

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> http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html