Monday, November 22, 2004
OZCHI at Wollongong
It's currently lunchtime at Ozchi - some quick impressions..... About 150 people, mainly Asia-Pacific, some key people (Jenny Preece, Gerhard Fischer) from the US. Conference theme is focussed on communities, with many of the talks so far on covering aspects of this theme. Biggest point so far is that communities and social interaction is much harder than 'conventional' HCI cos we're using techniology to mediate and support human-human interactions, with unknown participants, which is tougher than designing an interface for a set of users.
Friendly, and helpful. Even managed to write my first talk during a slack part this morning, so ahead of myself!
It's currently lunchtime at Ozchi - some quick impressions..... About 150 people, mainly Asia-Pacific, some key people (Jenny Preece, Gerhard Fischer) from the US. Conference theme is focussed on communities, with many of the talks so far on covering aspects of this theme. Biggest point so far is that communities and social interaction is much harder than 'conventional' HCI cos we're using techniology to mediate and support human-human interactions, with unknown participants, which is tougher than designing an interface for a set of users.
Friendly, and helpful. Even managed to write my first talk during a slack part this morning, so ahead of myself!
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