Drawing Attention Through Technology Design
Event details
| Date | 16.06.2015 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker | Yvonne Rogers, University College London (UK) |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
There has been growing concern about how children are becoming increasingly distracted by digital technology; notably playing video games for hours on end, perpetually texting during family meals, browsing dizzying amounts of digital content and constantly using various social media apps for existential reassurance. Attention drift appears to be on the rise raising much debate about its detrimental effect on child development. There is, however, as of yet no real evidence to support this. I argue that we should turn this worry on its head: and think instead about the potential benefits of digital technology’s attention grabbing affordances, that can be exploited to good effect in various contexts. This requires determining how to inform and guide attention-switching strategies, temporally and spatially, across a range of activities. In my talk I will present our ‘mechanisms for collaboration’ framework that seeks to achieve this through constraining the interface and activity in specific ways. Our goal is to enable children to learn where, when, what and how to look at relevant foci more effectively during ongoing learning activities in individual, group and whole classroom contexts. I will describe a number of technologies that we have designed and deployed that have been successful at guiding attention and improving learning in terms of increasing awareness, shared decision-making and reflection in problem-solving contexts.
Bio:
Yvonne Rogers is the director of the Interaction Centre at UCL (UCLIC), deputy head of department for Computer Science and a professor of Interaction Design. She is the Principal Investigator for the Intel-funded Cities collaborative research Institute (cities.io) at UCL. She is also an honorary professor at University Cape Town and has spent sabbaticals at Stanford, Apple, Queensland University, Melbourne University, University Cape Town and UCSD. Her research is in the areas of ubiquitous computing, interaction design and human-computer interaction. This involves informing, building and evaluating novel user experiences through creating and assembling a diversity of pervasive technologies. She has been instrumental in promulgating new theories (e.g., external cognition), alternative methodologies (e.g., in the wild studies) and far-reaching research agendas (e.g., “Being Human: HCI in 2020” manifesto), and has pioneered an approach to innovation and ubiquitous learning. She is a co-author of the definitive textbook on Interaction Design and HCI now published in its 4th edition that has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into 6 languages. She has been elected as a fellow of the BCS and the ACM CHI Academy. She was also awarded a prestigious EPSRC dream fellowship concerned with rethinking the relationship between ageing, computing and creativity.
Bio:
Yvonne Rogers is the director of the Interaction Centre at UCL (UCLIC), deputy head of department for Computer Science and a professor of Interaction Design. She is the Principal Investigator for the Intel-funded Cities collaborative research Institute (cities.io) at UCL. She is also an honorary professor at University Cape Town and has spent sabbaticals at Stanford, Apple, Queensland University, Melbourne University, University Cape Town and UCSD. Her research is in the areas of ubiquitous computing, interaction design and human-computer interaction. This involves informing, building and evaluating novel user experiences through creating and assembling a diversity of pervasive technologies. She has been instrumental in promulgating new theories (e.g., external cognition), alternative methodologies (e.g., in the wild studies) and far-reaching research agendas (e.g., “Being Human: HCI in 2020” manifesto), and has pioneered an approach to innovation and ubiquitous learning. She is a co-author of the definitive textbook on Interaction Design and HCI now published in its 4th edition that has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into 6 languages. She has been elected as a fellow of the BCS and the ACM CHI Academy. She was also awarded a prestigious EPSRC dream fellowship concerned with rethinking the relationship between ageing, computing and creativity.
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- Pierre Dillenbourg
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- Sylvie Thomet