Quality of Life:  A Transformative Framework for Human-Centered Design - Gerhard Fischer
Channel: UCIBrenICS
Date: 2016-11-19

Gerhard Fischer

Professor Adjunct and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science
Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D)
University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, November 18, 2016

Title:  Quality of Life:  A Transformative Framework for Human-Centered Design

Creating a transformative framework to foster, nurture, and support “Quality of Life (QoL)” is one of the most challenging design problems of the digital age. QoL is a broad concept without a precise, generally accepted definition. In design, trade-offs are universal because there are no best solutions independent of goals, objectives, and values, specifically for systemic, ill-defined, and wicked problems such as QoL. Grounded in research activities from a broad spectrum of different disciplines and an analysis from our research over the last two decades, this presentation will explore specific design trade-offs. The insights and arguments are summarized in requirements for the design of socio-technical environments to address future challenges for human-centered design grounded in a QoL perspective.

Bio:  Gerhard Fischer is a Professor Adjunct and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the Computer Human Interaction Academy (CHI; 2007), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM; 2009), and a recipient of the RIGO Award of ACM-SIGDOC (2012). In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research has focused on new conceptual frameworks and new socio-technical environments for human-centered computing, design, and learning, working, and collaborating,. His recent work is centered on quality of life in the digital age, social creativity, meta-design, cultures of participation, design trade-offs, and rich landscapes for learning (including MOOCs).

publications at:            
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers.html

home page:                 
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/