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Workshop on Designing for
Reflective Practitioners Theme and Call |
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Workshop Home Page and Schedule |
This workshop is an opportunity for diverse
researchers to come together to identify and trace common ideas evolving from
the work of Donald Schön about the reflective practitioner. It is an
opportunity to assess solutions, and to open channels of communication. Donald Schön wrote about
the reflective practitioner, describing professional practice as transcending
technical rationality, requiring reflection-in-action. Researchers in diverse
communities have articulated related concepts. Fred Brooks distinguished
between accidental and essential activities for software designers. Herbert
Simon referred to the bounds of rationality in solving ill-formed problems. Lucy
Suchman demonstrated the limits of rationalized
designs in her characterization of situated action. In response to these
observations, and sometimes in parallel, researchers and practitioners in
many communities developed techniques, methods, and theories to support
reflection on the part of end users. Software critics, agents, and wizards
are example techniques developed by the intelligent user interface community
to prompt end users to reflect on their work. The computer-supported
collaborative learning community has worked to integrate working and
learning. Methodologies such as participatory design and open source
development support reflection and greater realism in software systems in the
ways they involve end users. Participants will be
selected on the basis of a 2-4 page position paper discussing their
experiences developing and using techniques, methods, and theories that
support reflective practitioners. Authors should address how the concepts
they have used have evolved over time. Papers in MS Word or Adobe PDF formats
should be submitted to redmiles@ics.uci.edu
with the subject line “CHI Workshop Submission” no later than References: Schön, D. The Reflective
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the Artificial, The MIT Press, Suchman, L. Plans and Situated Actions, |
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