NordiCHI 2008 from 20th and 22nd of October in Lund, Sweden

The first workshop focused on eliciting user requirements and the second one on social media development from a HCI perspective. The participants presented their work in three plenary sessions: the first one focusing on Web 2.0 applications, the second one focusing on human aspects of requirements elicitation and the third one focusing on HCI and social media. The common workshop proceedings was published by Tapir academic press (link to the proceedings). The common agenda and the presentations can be found below.

PROGRAM
0900-0910 Introduction and presentation
0910-1030 Supporting development and evaluation of Web 2.0 applications

• Jeroen Vanattenhoven: Research blog: Eliciting user needs and experiences
• Jan Heim, Amela Karahasanovi?, Petter Bae Brandtzæg: Capturing user requirements and feedback for web2.0 applications by a norm-based questionnaire toolset
• Marianna Obrist, Daniela Wurhofer, Manfred Tscheligi: User experience patterns: A useful way to support social media development

1030-1045 Tea
1045-1200 Capturing human aspects during the requirements elicitation

• Deepak Sahni, Jan Van den Bergh, Karin Coninx: Towards a collaboration framework for selection of ICT tools
• Jan Derboven, Alex J. Uyttendaele: Putting personas to work: Combining card sorting and personas in requirements analysis
• Nachiket Apte, Frank H?lsken: Motivation for creating new user experiences while watching online video  

1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1445 HCI and social media

• Jari Multisilta: Designing for social media
• Saila Ovaska, Juha Leino, Kari-Jouko Räihä: Studying user interest in social media sites
• Petri Mannonen, Mikael Runonen: SMEs in social media
• Pirjo Näkki, Maria Antikainen: Online tools for co-design: User involvement through the innovation process

1445-1500 Tea
1500-1600 Group discussions: Defining a research agenda

• Group A (Future research in user requirements elicitation)
• Group B (Future research in the Human computer interaction of social media)
• Group C (Future research in the Human computer interaction of social media)

1600-1645 Plenary presentations and discussion
1645-1700 Wrap-up

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - New approaches to requirements elicitation

• Amela Karahasanovic, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• Jo Pierson IBBT, Studies on Media Information and Telecommunication, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Jeroen Vanattenhoven, IBBT, Centre for Usability Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Alex Uyttendaele IBBT, Centre for Usability Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - How can HCI improve social media development

• Asbjørn Følstad, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• Petter Bae Brandtzæg, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• Marianna Obrist, University of Salzburg, Austria
• David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  
  
  
  The workshop organization was a joint effort of the social media research projects [RECORD] and [CITIZEN MEDIA].