SICSA UX Workshop

This SICSA workshop aims to bring together UX researchers and practitioners from throughout Scotland. This workshop will be of interest to anyone working in the broad area of UX, including those working in HCI, usability, and ethnographic/qualitative evaluation. The goal of this workshop is to identify and discuss interesting ways in which the practice of UX varies in academia and industry and establish ways in which these groups might work more closely together in the future.

This workshop is supported by the SICSA Multimodal Interaction Theme.

Organizers

Julie R. Williamson is a Research Assistant in the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST) at the University of Glasgow. Her research revolves around the use of performative actions as input for mobile phones, examining user perceptions and the social acceptability of taking part in such interactions. She has explored these issues through a variety of methods including surveys, on-the-street user studies, interviews, and focus groups.

Tom McEwan is active in various parts of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, chairing their Interaction specialist group (chairing EISE09, helping run HCI2010 at Abertay Dundee, and HCI2011 at Northumbria 4-8th July 2011 - this is two months earlier than traditional dates to avoid a conference overload and start of academic years - more about Interaction SG below). He has a three year position on BCS Government Relations Group and want to improve BCS links with the Scottish Parliament in particular. He participates in the Research group of BCS Academy. He is also PR person for Edinburgh BCS branch, and chair the annual November Debate for them.