Managing Usability Defects from Identification to Closure 14. Towards Universal Access in the Information Society 6. In the early stages designers employ metaphors, allow ideas to remain open, and identify requirements and frame a problem. Although design has been an abiding interest in the CHI community, we lack a firm understanding of these cognitive modes, the processes of early design, and the types of computational support they imply. This one-day workshop aims to address this lack, by bringing together practicing designers from diverse domains, cognitive scientists and HCI researchers who study designing, and system builders who construct tools for early stages of design.
External representations are one focus of the workshop.
In many domains, sketching, diagramming, and free arrangement of physical components play an important role in early stage design. Following these presentations, we will discuss and reflect on the commonalties and differences among the approaches, and begin to develop a framework for comparison. York University Mobile computing devices like mobile phones, handheld computers, digital cameras, GPS navigators, pagers, game consoles, wrist-top computers and many other types of gadgets are becoming more frequent every day. Many of these devices would benefit from an easy and effortless system for text entry. Not surprisingly, systems claiming to satisfy this need have been proposed in recent years.