[chisigmail] Call for participation: Design to Read workshop

[Caroline Jarrett]

Dear all,

(My first post on CHISIG, so my apologies if I've contravened any list
conventions).

Reading is a skill that most of us take for granted, but many people do not
read easily. 

If you are a designer, practitioner, or researcher who is interested in how
to design for people who do not read easily, then please think of coming to
the Design to Read workshop that I'm leading at OzCHI in Cairns, 9th
December 2008.

This is the second in a series that started at HCI2008 in Liverpool in
September. We had a fascinating, varied group of people with expertise in
different parts of this problem space: designing for people with low
literacy, the difficulties of people who are aging, the use of controlled
vocabularies, reading difficulties caused by stressful environments - and
many more.

So why come to the Australian workshop? Well, there are certainly many more
aspects of the problem that we didn't have a chance to explore. For example,
what about designing for people who are learning to read later in life, or
for children who are learning to read as children, or for people who are
reading in a second language? 

And I'm really keen to get a wider critique of the framework that we came up
with in Liverpool. If you're a designer, is there any use in such a
framework or guidelines in general? Would you like to share some tips on how
to involve people with reading difficulties in the design process?

If you'd like to see more about the work so far, there's more information on
our wiki: http://designtoread.editme.com/

If you'd like to come to the workshop, please contact me:
caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk

best

Caroline Jarrett

Effortmark Ltd
Usability - Forms - Content

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