Free, One Day Online Course – 13 May 2025
Two working groups of IFIP TC13 (Human Computer Interaction), WG 13.3 (Human Computer Interaction, Disability and Ageing) and WG 13.9 (Interaction Design and Children) are organising a series of free, one day online courses to introduce a number of topics in human-computer interaction. While particularly aimed at PhD students and new researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction and related areas, they are open to anyone.
The next course will discuss the challenges of working with specific populations, particularly children, people with disabilities and older people, when developing new technologies or making mainstream technologies accessible. This course will be led by Gavin Sim of the University of Central Lancashire (UK) and Helen Petrie of the University of York (UK) who have many years of research in these areas between them.
HCI researchers have a long tradition of working with a wide range of different user groups, including children, people with disabilities, older people and people from different cultures.
Working with a different population from yourselves can present many challenges to researchers. The ability to work positively with diverse groups of people is a core requirement for successful research. This includes how to recruit appropriate participants, how to work with participants in respectful and successful ways, how to write respectfully about different groups and how to ensure ethical and legal considerations are followed in all cases.
In this course, you will cover a wide range of concepts for conducting research with specific populations including ethics and good practice of working with children, people with disabilities and older people. In many cases standard research methods in HCI are applicable to different groups, but care needs to be taken in applying them and some adjustments may be needed to meet the differing needs of different groups. The course will provide you with theoretical underpinnings as well practical advice on how best to work with different user groups in running studies of different kinds.
The course will be run on Zoom between 9:30am and approximately 17:00 BST (+1 GMT/UTC)
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-statistics-for-hci-researchers-tickets-1295595112859?aff=oddtdtcreator
Any questions, please contact Gavin Sim (GRSim@uclan.ac.uk) and Helen Petrie (helen.petrie@york.ac.uk)
