Media: HCI 2006 Panel on Practising what you Preach

"Practising what you preach" was a panel at HCI 2006 that looked at what makes for successful knowledge transfer between research and practice in interaction design and HCI. Nico Macdonald chaired a group of researchers mixed with practitioners from BBC Future Media & Technology to discuss the problems and opportunities on the subject of exchange, inspired by the AHRC/BBC New Media Knowledge Transfer initiative. The panelists were:
* Professor Robert Zimmer, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
* Professor Angela Sasse, Department of Computer Science, UCL
* Kai En Ong, Senior Designer, BBC Factual and Learning
* James Howard, Design and Development Manager, BBC Sport Interactive
and notes from the discussion can be found linked from the site below.

Themes included:
What is the attitude of practitioners to researchers? Engagement, ingorance, non-plussed, irrelevant? And What is the attitude of researchers to practitioners ?
What are the best formats for communicating research insights?
How are research agendas set? To what extent are they, or should they, be influenced by industry?
What examples of successful knowledge transfer initiatives are there?
Do designers need to be educated better to understand HCI research and theory?
What impacts are the changing dynamics of the HCI world having?
How can we better connect practitioners and researchers?
What do researchers need from industry, and how can industry better help research (and benefit from this activity)?

Associated Link: Spy: Practising what you preach

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