On Thursday, October 3rd from 1:30pm to 5pm, the Blended Interactions Studio in concert with the GCCIS IST department will be hosting the Blended Interactions Workshop. Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University’s Centre for Interaction Design, Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design and RIT’s MS Human Computer Interaction program will showcase their latest evaluated interaction design innovations in digital tourism, presence and user experience design as mobile services. The workshop will chaired by Brian O’Keefe, with presentations from:

David Benyon (Edinburgh Napier University): Presence and Digital Tourism

John Zimmerman (Carnegie Mellon University): Mobile Service Design and the User Experience

Oli Mival  (Edinburgh Napier University): The Design, Development and Evaluation of the Jupiter Artland Mobile App

Brian O’Keefe (RIT): NYSCA Mobile Experiences for Tourism Project

RIT Student Exhibit: MS HCI Capstone projects, defended and in-progress

When: Thursday, October 3rd
When: Doors open at 1pm
Where: Bamboo Room 03-2610

After the presentations, we will have a focus group session for future collaborations and strategies to continue research in the blended theory domain. Graduate Research Assistants in the Blended Interactions domain will be showcasing their research for feedback from the interaction design community. After 5pm the workshop will reconvene at Dinosaur BBQ for happy hour and dinner.