Human Work Interaction Design: Designing for Human Work: The first IFIP TC 13.6 WG Conference: Designing for Human Work, February 13-15, 2006, Madeira, ... in Information and Communication Technology)

This book records the very first Working Conference of the newly established IFIP Working Group on Human-Work Interaction Design, which was hosted by the University of Madeira in 2006. The theme of the conference was on synthesizing sketches within different approaches to analysis and design of human-work interaction. Authors were encouraged to submit papers about design sketches- for interfaces, for organizations of work, etc. - that they themselves had worked on. During the conference, they presented the lessons they had learned from the design and evaluation process, citing reasons for why the designs worked or why they did not work. In this way, researchers, designers, and analysts confronted concrete design problems in complex work domains and used this unique opportunity to share their own design problems and solutions. This book records the very first Working Conference of the newly established IFIP Working Group on Human-Work Interaction Design, which was hosted by the University of Madeira in 2006. The theme of the conference was on synthesizing work analysis and design sketching, with a particular focus on how to read design sketches within different approaches to analysis and design of human-work interaction. Authors were encouraged to submit papers about design sketches - for interfaces, for organizations of work etc. - that they themselves had worked on. During the conference, they presented the lessons they had learnt from the design and evaluation process, citing reasons for why the designs worked or why they did not work. Researchers, designers and analysts in this way confronted concrete design problems in complex work domains and used this unique opportunity to share their own design problems and solutions with the community. To successfully practice and do research within Human - Work Interaction Design requires a high level of personal skill, which the conference aimed at by confronting designers and work analysts and those whose research is both analysis and design. They were asked to collaborate in small groups about analysis and solutions to a common design problem. Contents......Page 6 The International Federation for Information Processing –IFIP......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Activity Theory for Design: From Checklist to Interview......Page 11 Visual Representation of Complex Information Structures in High Volume manufacturing......Page 36 VIHO – Efficient IT Support in Home Care Services......Page 55 Design of a Resource Allocation Planning System......Page 75 Embedding complementarity in HCI methods and techniques – designing for the “cultural other”......Page 101 Using Sketching to Aid the Collaborative Design of Information Visualisation Software......Page 111 Linking requirements specification with interaction design and implementation......Page 131 Human Motion Analysis in Treadle Pump Devices......Page 142 Continuous fitness at home: Designing exercise equipment for the daily routine......Page 153 Design Sketching for Space and Time......Page 167 The Design Sketching Process......Page 190 Principles and Practice of Work Style Modeling: Sketching Design Tools......Page 208 A simple design for a complex work domain – the role of sketches in the design of a Bachelor study's new folder structure for use by teachers, students and administrators......Page 225 Design as Dialogue – a New Design Framework......Page 245 International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springer.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.