[Ltg] HAIL Seminar *Reminder* (26th November): Professor Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

[Andrew Lampert]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
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Title:          Meta-Design: A Framework for Software Design of the Future

Speaker:        Professor Gerhard Fischer
                Director
                Center of Lifelong Learning and Design
                University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Date:           *** Note unusual day ***

                Friday 26th November 2004 at 11am

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                JRCASE Seminar Room
                Building E6A, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

In a world that is not predictable, improvisation, evolution, and innovation
are more than a luxury: they are a necessity. The challenge of design is not a
matter of getting rid of the emergent, but rather of including it and making it
an opportunity for more creative and more adequate solutions to problems.

Meta-design is an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining and creating
social and technical infrastructures in which new forms of collaborative design
can take place. It extends the traditional notion of system design beyond the
original development of a system to include a co-adaptive process between users
and a system, in which the users become co-developers or co-designers. It is
grounded in the basic assumption that future uses and problems cannot be
completely anticipated at design time, when a system is developed. Users, at
use time, will discover mismatches between their needs and the support that an
existing system can provide for them. These mismatches will lead to breakdowns
that serve as potential sources of new insights, new knowledge, and new
understanding.


Short resume

Gerhard Fischer (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/) is a professor of
Computer Science, a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the
director of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D) at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Current research interests include new media supporting
lifelong learning, human-human and human-computer collaboration, (software)
design, knowledge management, domain-oriented design environments, and
universal design (assistive technologies).

More information about the (L3D) center can be found at:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/


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