| Editor |
Coughlin, Julie Bergman, M. Carroll, John M. Gauthier, J.-M. De Michelis, G. Harrison, S. Wake, W. Kellogg, W. A. van der Schijff, J. Forlizzi, J. Bødker, Susanne Rosson, M. B. Sutcliffe, A. G. Nadarajan, G. van der Veer, G. |
| Abstract |
One evening, 13 years ago, I was sitting with my friends Ruven Brooks and Alan MacLean enjoying a very tasty Belgian ale on a terrace overlooking the Leidseplein in Amsterdam. We were in the Netherlands for a joint ACM/IFIP conference, named INTERCHI -- the first of a series of international CHI (computer-human interaction) conferences. That conference was a wonderful gathering. But, as people often do, we were complaining that the conference did not include enough work on design: design representations, design methods, design rationale, design cases. All three of us were researching the design process at that point in time.The next day, we had lunch with three other friends - Gerhard Fischer, Tom Moran, and Gary Olson. Over that lunch, the six of us decided to initiate what became the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference series. A little over two years later, the first DIS was held on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems -- DIS 2006. This year's conference launches the second decade of a conference series that has become an internationally recognized forum for design researchers and reflective practitioners. DIS 2006 continues the tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of design analysis, design representations, design methods, design rationale capture, presentation and use, on innovation in design, and on tools and environments for designing interactive systems.The mission of the conference is to provide a forum for sharing insights and perspectives and for building bridges among researchers, designers, educators, and students from many disciplines, including anthropology, art and architecture, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, ergonomics, design studies, education, graphic design, information systems, industrial engineering, interaction design, journalism, law, linguistics and semiotics, psychology, requirements engineering, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, and user experience design.The call for papers attracted 134 submissions. The program committee eventually accepted 34 of those papers, covering a variety of topics, including innovation in design, divergent thinking, product development, ethnographic methods, social interfaces, activity design, design documentation, design evaluation, and tools and environments to support design. In addition, the program includes a panel on measuring quality and two keynote talks by Sol Greenspan of the US National Science Foundation on the scientific foundations of designing interactive systems and by Antonio Rizzo of the University of Siena on the design of affordances. I expect that these proceedings will be a valuable reference for design researchers and reflective practitioners for years to come. |
