HCI Themes for the Future: Collaborative Design, Social Creativity, and Meta-design

The participants will be acquainted with HCI themes for the future. These themes will be instantiated with new conceptual frameworks and illustrated with innovative systems. The presentation will be linked as much as possible to the concerns and experiences of the participants. The objective of the tutorial is to provide the participants with opportunities to think differently about the future challenges facing HCI research and practice and to illustrate with concrete examples how these challenges can be addressed. The tutorial will focus on three major themes: (1) design, specifically collaborative design and an assessment of different design methodologies (including: user-centered design, learner-centered design, and participatory design); (2) social creativity which is required because complex design problems transcend the unaided, individual human mind; and (3) meta-design which creates environments involving users as active contributors rather than as passive consumers. The themes of the tutorial will be illustrated with specific theoretical frameworks and innovative systems developed by the presenter and his colleagues and other research groups working on these topics. The relevance of these themes has been demonstrated by their impact on research, education, and design practices in companies, educational institutions, and research organizations with which we have collaborated.