It’s not easy to gather people in a room to assist to a tutorial, especially in a place like Sanibel Island – where GROUP2009 is taking place. Rather than trying to force people to pay attention to our speech, we decided to meet the interested ones during the poster session, giving them a chance to freely and directly ask whatever questions they had in mind and to preview our Web emulator (coming in the next weeks!) and our 0.1 prototype. We spoke to 20-some professional researchers and graduate students in the fields of social computing and CSCW (and similar) and collected some interesting remarks and references that we’ll thoroughly analyse very soon.
Even though, none of them had heard about us before, they all shared our vision on metaphors for user interfaces (i.e., the desktop metaphor does not work, let’s put the user first) and the participatory approach that we have adopted for itsme, also based on social computing (that’s what this website is for!) We have the feeling that we managed to successfully convey our message, and now we’ll be moving on to Massachusetts, and next to Baltimore to continue our mission to make itsme known abroad.
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Tags: conference, event, Group 2009, poster, reception, usa
Nice picture. Very gone-with-the-wind-ish venue
If you have been able to transmit infos about itsme in such scenario you’ll rock in Baltimore !