They also include methods such as Contextual Design, which address the full design problem from gathering data about the customer in the field through developing and testing a coherent design based on that data. This SIG mixes presentation of experience with discussion to give participants a feel for what is being done to make contextual techniques part of real development, who is doing it, and how they have brought their design and development teams along. Participants should leave with a good sense for the stability and usefulness of the techniques, and some clear pointers on what they can do in their own jobs to take advantage of them. One or two experience reports. Questions and group discussion follows each presentation.
Participants share their own successes, problems, or issues.
Group discussion gives perspective or suggests solutions. The proposed SIG follows on the SIG War Stories and Experience Designing with Contextual Techniques offered at CHI '94. At that time we were urged to make this an annual event to support a continuing conversation among practitioners in which they could share experience and problems. In this year's SIG, we propose to focus on the problem of creating a project team that uses contextual techniques. This ensures that everyone knows what we are talking about, and gives a common ground for comparing different approaches.