[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: "All green fingers and no thumbs!": Reflections on multidisciplinary design for a garden watering system

[Imalka Nilma Perera]

(apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ...


PRESENTER: Jon Pearce, Wally Smith & John Murphy

TITLE:  "All green fingers and no thumbs!": Reflections  on
multidisciplinary design for a garden watering system

VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street,
Carlton

DATE and TIME: Friday 30th May  2008, 3-4 pm

ABSTRACT:
There were these three guys in a pub: a horticulturist, and HCI academic and
a consultant...  Well ­ it was a bit like that. We will talk about the
development of a software tool to advise Melburnians on how much water to
put on their gardens. The story begins at Burnley Horticultural College with
an investigation of various facets of how to water gardens efficiently and
effectively, and ends (hopefully) with an innovative, engaging design of a
decision support tool to facilitate the task. Our interest in this talk is
trickiness of this apparently simple design journey and the emergence of a
unsuspected minefield of concepts like soils, mulches, crop factors,
sprinklers, garden zones, standard drinks, schedules, and plant performance.
We will discuss the collaborative design process, the conversion of
horticulturists¹ model into a Web application, and the research agenda that
we hope to leverage from the endeavour.

BYO watering can ;)

BIO:
Jon Pearce and Wally Smith are both senior lecturers in the Department of
Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Jon¹s research interests are
in the areas of engagement and online learning. Wally¹s interests are in the
design of socio-technical systems. John Murphy is an HCI consultant who has
a long history of research involvement with this department.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm
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Cheers
Nilma 
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 Nilma Perera
 PhD Candidate 
 Interaction Design Group
 Department of Information Systems
 The University of Melbourne
 VIC 3010

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