Catherine R. Marshall
Collaborative Technologies
2600 Garden Road, Ste. 201
Monterey, CA 93940 USA
+1 408-471-9140
David G. Novick,
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute
P. O. Box 91000
Portland, OR 97291-1000 USA
+1 503 690 1156
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Future, scenario, planning, education, management, career, CHI, HCI, Human Factors, CHI'06.
What kind of work will CHI professionals be doing in ten years? What will be the key issues and research questions addressed at CHI 06 -- assuming that the CHI community will still exist and will be sponsoring a conference in ten years? How can the CHI community create and sustain common ground today that will help it thrive and make important contributions in 2006 and beyond?
At the CHI'95 Doctoral Consortium, students and faculty worked on a brief exercise in which they considered what the CHI field will be like in ten years. The results of that exercise will be combined with position papers submitted by workshop participants to provide a starting point for this activity. Scenario development techniques similar to those used for corporate strategic planning [1] will then be employed to further expand and organize workshop participants' thinking about the future of CHI.
The first goal of this workshop is to create and document a set of three scenarios that describe alternative futures based on the following questions:
The second goal of the workshop will be to use the scenarios to address further the subject of common ground.
The workshop will last one day. Prior to the workshop, the organizers will identify key factors and prepare skeleton scenarios based on position papers and email contributions of workshop participants. During the workshop, participants will alternate between small-group breakout sessions and whole-group reporting and discussion sessions to expand, modify and identify implications of these scenarios.
The results of this workshop will be (1) a set of scenarios describing possible future states of the CHI community and its work and (2) ideas for creating and sustaining common ground that will prepare the CHI community for a successful future. Workshop participants will collaborate during and after the conference to communicate, apply and extend these results. Current plans for communicating with the CHI community include some form of presentation at CHI 96, a SIGCHI Bulletin report, and a World-Wide Web document.
The results of this workshop should be of interest to educators and managers involved in the development of CHI professionals, as well as to researchers and practitioners planning for their careers or future programs of work. In addition, this workshop and the dissemination of its results should contribute to the common ground of the CHI community.