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CALL FOR TEACHERS WORKSHOP

This is a call for teachers within the area of interaction design. During the Scandinavian Student Interaction Design Conference, SIDER’06, there will be a teacher track for interested researchers. The programme is only preliminary so far, but the time will perhaps be at Saturday the 25th of February from 14.30. When the students are in workshops, the teachers have an opportunity to sit down and discuss relevant issues related to the education of the interaction designer, with the motive to increase understanding for the different interpretations within interaction design that we actually do have.

We hope that a lot of teachers will be interested in this, both for a more general discussion upon interaction design but also more concrete on how You use for instance sketching/ prototyping/ methods/ theory within your interaction design education.

To ground this discussion on a common base, then we propose some questions relevant for you all to consider before coming to the conference(see below). You are also welcomed to send answers to these questions to responsible Peter Ljungstrand before this day; peterlj[]cs.chalmers.se.

1. Demography of the education (country, city, have existed for how many years, number of students each year, bachelor-/masters programme)

2. Who is the education directed to?

3. How do You interpret interaction design?

4. What central conceptions are there generally in interaction design?

5. What knowledge and experience is relevant for an interaction designer?

6. What skills are relevant for an interaction designer?

7. How do You teach interaction design?

8. Name three central conceptions that are characteristic for Your education?

9. What are Your future plans? How will You improve or change the education? For instance because of the Bologna model or other.

10. What other areas are related or parts of interaction design, for instance HCI, Product design? What is Your view upon this issue?

11. What is characteristic for the Scandinavian interaction design education?

For interested institutions, there will also be offered education stands as an opportunity to present each institution during the conference. If each course had someone of the staff there this could be even more accessible for the students to see similarities or differences with other institutes, as well as interesting for the staff to network between the different studies.