Monday 3 March 2014

Curriculum or Not – Show Us How You Teach Interaction Design and Children. Workshop @ IDC 2014

DEVICE partners organize a workshop named Curriculum or Not – Show Us How You Teach Interaction Design and Children. The workshop will be held during Interaction Design and Children 2014 conference that will take place in Aarhus, Denmark in June 2014.

Submission deadline: April 20, 2014
Notification to authors: April 25, 2014

More information are available here

Sunday 23 February 2014

DEVICE AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!

The first prize winner of DEVICE BEST PRACTISE AWARD  for design targeted at vulnerable generations - children and elderly people  is ” Developmentally Situated Design (DSD) cards” by  Tilde Bekker & Alyssa Antle. For more information see http://www.antle.iat.sfu.ca/DSD/.  The motivation is as follows: “The DSD cards is a tool that transforms a wealth of theory, not really accessible for practitioners, into a readily accessible tool for designers. The tool is highly suitable in teaching and training becoming designers in the art of designing for and with children.”

The first prize winner of DEVICE Design Award 2014 - Student Category go to   ”TWIG CEILING: Emotional Design in Hospital Environment - From a Child perspective" by Linda Lundeholm.  The motivation is as follows: “The design is innovative and very useful for children, and there is potential for improved health through the intention to reduce pain. The methods used to develop the idea and design are well explained and fit very well with the DEVICE Award requirements, using children, parents and staff in its development. There was good identification of context of use, and the design also has potential to be used with other user groups.”

The first prize winner of DEVICE Design Award 2014 -Professional Category go to   ”LinkLights: Supporting Home-based Vestibular Rehabilitation " by Erik Grönvall & Gunnar Kramp.  The motivation is as follows: “The design is innovative and can be a very useful tool for elderly supporting home rehabilitation exercises. It is adaptable to the user needs, and the design considered the person, the task and the environment, and fit well with the DEVICE Award requirements. The participatory design based development process is clearly described. Further, the paper presents general considerations to take into account when designing similar tools.”

First prize winners od DEVICE AWARDS will present their works at DEVICE Final Event that will take place the 7th of March 2014 at Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi, Via Bligny 1/a, Reggio Emilia, Italy. More information are availabe here and here.

The second prize for DEVICE Design Award 2014 - Student Category go to ”CamQuest: Design and Evaluation of a Tablet Application for Educational Use in Preschools " by Jennie Berggren & Catherine Hedler.  The motivation is as follows: “The design presents a good pedagogical application for children, based on an interesting concept of learning about geometry. The method is clearly described with a high degree of participation of children in the iterative design process. In this way the project contributes to development of apps that are specifically tailored to fit into a preschool context.”

The second prize for DEVICE Design Award 2014 - Professional Category go to ”The Baobab, A Bilingual Storybook App Designed for Deaf Children" by Melissa Malzkuhn & Melissa Herzig.  The motivation is as follows: “The design is innovative in its approach to help children learn to read and sign. Very useful idea tested with users in a natural setting, and is needs driven with a technology solution.”

The third prize for DEVICE Design Award 2014 - Student Category go to   ”Tableware for people with Parkinson’s disease" by Emily Lukes.  The motivation is as follows: “This design is aesthetically pleasing and is very inclusive in its approach as it included all household members as users. It is a good and useful idea that includes the use of materials in an innovative and useful way, and uses the material properties to resolve the user issues. The design showed it had been developed to consider different types of Parkinson’s suffer and allowed for their different needs and requirements.”


The third prize for DEVICE Design Award 2014 - Professional Category go to ” Once Upon a Time in the Bronx: Addressing Youth Violence Through Performance and Play" by Melanie Crean.  The motivation is as follows: “This is an innovative and interesting idea for social intervention with teenagers. There has been high involvement of end users in the development, and with a strong link to their context.”

DEVICE Final event is approaching!!

DEVICE Final event: March 7th 2014
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi, Via Bligny 1/a, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
More info on the event available here.
The agenda of the event available here.
Register now to the DEVICE Final Event sending an e-mail to deviceeuproject@gmail.com.

Thursday 9 January 2014

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR DEVICE DESIGN AWARD 2014

VERY IMPORTANT: The deadline for DEVICE design award submission is extended to January 31st 2014.

To submit your  abstract please use this link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=device2014 

Monday 2 December 2013

DEVICE FINAL EVENT

The DEVICE project is pleased to invite you to the Final Event.

The Final Event will be held on Friday 7th March 2014  at Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi, Via Bligny 1/a, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Celebrate the achievements of the past two years and find out who thewinners of the DEVICE AWARD are.

DEVICE is an Erasmus Multilateral Project funded by the European Commission withinthe Lifelong Learning Program. DEVICE was launched on 1st of October 2011 torespond to the European Commission's' call to help companies and academicresearch centres to appropriately address DEsign of Vulnerable generatIons: Childrenand Elderly. Its overarching aim is to improve the quality of life of future generations bydeveloping training resources for designers which will support them in including the specificneeds of children and elderly people within their designs.A holistic approach to design has been adopted based on user-centred design.The project aspires to bridge traditional industrial design programs with ergonomics,usability concepts and user experience with a specific focus on vulnerable generationsthought and to become a milestone towards the modernization of design education.
Theresults of this project will be unveiled during the event.Guests at the Final Event include international experts, winners of the DEVICE AWARD,and the project partners.You are also invited to visit the Atelier of Loris Malaguzzi International Centre.

Caterina Calefato and The DEVICE Consortium


Friday 8 November 2013

New dates! - call for paper @IxD&A journal

The editorial board of the Interaction Design and Architecture journal that will host a special issue on the Device topics has postponed the publication dates .


The new dates are:
• Deadline: 20 May, 2014
• Notification to the authors: 20 June, 2014
• Deadline for submission of the final camera ready version of accepted papers: 10 July, 2014
• Publication of the special issue: end of July 2014

Wednesday 2 October 2013

DEVICE Design Award 2014 – Call for submissions

The DEVICE design award is the first step in order to establish an international EU funded award of excellence in designing for vulnerable generations - children and elderly. The award is initiated by the EU funded project Design for Vulnerable Generations – Children and Elderly (DEVICE), which aims to bridge traditional industrial design programs with ergonomics, usability concepts and user experience approaches with a specific focus on vulnerable generations.

The DEVICE award is targeted to different types of design fields, and is divided into one student category and one category for professionals. Submissions describing innovative products and services or design methodology for working with vulnerable generations are equally welcome. The call is now open, and the deadline for submission is January 10th, 2014. The submission should be sent using the Easy Chair system accessible at this link
 Submissions are evaluated based on their
  • Contribution to the development of design for vulnerable generations
  • Involvement of vulnerable generations in the design process
  • Use of innovative and explorative approaches towards materials/methods
  • The connection between the vulnerable generations and their context
  • Contribution to improving or adding to facilities, products or services for vulnerable generations
  • Contribution to method development for vulnerable generations design


The winner will be invited to take part in the award ceremony in Italy on March 7, 2014, to accept the DEVICE Award Diploma and to present the winning work.


For more information please visit the project website.