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“From HCI and Human-Building Interaction to Citizen-Environment Interaction“ Dr. rer.nat. Dr. phil. Norbert A. Streitz, Scientific Director, Smart Future Initiative |
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Abstract
This keynote, addressing several conferences at MCCSIS 2023, presents the grand challenges people are confronted with when interacting with technology in today’s smart environments. Originally, the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) investigated the interaction of individual humans with one (desktop) computer and then smart phones. Human-Building Interaction (HBI) represents the shift from laptops and smartphones to smart artifacts and smart materials embedded in the environment, but also a shift in terms of scale and context, ranging from individual devices for personal activities to multiple devices used in group activities and social interactions. This is followed by the progression from smart rooms (Roomware) to smart or cooperative buildings and their extension to smart urban environments as, e.g., smart cities and airports. The trend towards more comprehensive situations requires a corresponding shift from an individual user-centred design to a multiple people and multiple devices-based citizen-centred approach investigating Citizen-Environment Interaction (CEI) for designing smart urban environments.
At the same time, this development raises fundamental questions about smart services exploiting data collected by sensors via an IoT infrastructure and controlled by software based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. It results in importunate automation, lack of transparency and privacy infringements. Humans are increasingly removed from being the ‘operator’ and thus in control of their environment and decisions. Our proposal is to redefine this ‘Smart-Everything’ Paradigm via a citizen-centred and participatory design approach, keeping the human in the loop and considering the relevant design trade-offs. Application examples are taken from the domain of connected smart cities, urban spies, and automated driving as well as rethinking ‘smart’ islands. Our goal is to move beyond ‘smart-only’ cities towards Humane, Sociable, Cooperative, Self-aware Hybrid Cities fostering human-technology symbiosis and urban sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.
Bio
Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz (Ph.D. in physics, Ph.D. in cognitive science) is a Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor with more than 35 years of experience in ICT. Founder and Scientific Director of the Smart Future Initiative launched in 2009. Before, Norbert held different positions as Deputy Director and Division Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, for more than 20 years and was a Lecturer at the Computer Science Department at Technical University Darmstadt. This was preceeded by being an Assistant Professor at the Technical University Aachen (RWTH). At different times of his career, he was a post-doc research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, and at the Intelligent Systems Lab, MITI, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Norbert has published/co-edited 36 books/proceedings and authored/coauthored about 170 peer-reviewed papers. His research covers a wide range of areas: Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Experience Design, Hypertext/Hypermedia, CSCW, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Privacy by Design, Industry 4.0, Autonomous Driving, Hybrid Smart Cities, Smart Airports, Smart Islands. Norbert was a PI of many projects funded by the European Commission as well as industry. He was/is on Advisory Boards and Evaluation Committees of research institutes and on Editorial Boards of relevant journals. Norbert is an elected member of the CHI Academy, the prestigious ACM SIGCHI award honoring his substantial contributions shaping the field of human-computer interaction. (https://www.smart-future.net/norbert-streitz/)
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“How the Failure of e-Learning during the Covid-19 Lockdown Could Have Been Avoided Through Enhanced Learning Design Alignment” Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology, The University of Georgia, USA |
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Abstract
After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, educators at every level struggled to provide adequate learning opportunities for their students. The Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns forced educational institutions to rush to provide online instruction and other forms of digital learning, a massive shift that has been largely dissatisfying for learning and teachers alike. What was forgotten in the race to provide teaching and learning opportunities online was that the effectiveness of e-learning requires careful alignment among seven critical factors: 1) objectives, 2) content, 3) instructional design, 4) learner tasks, 5) instructor roles, 6) technological affordances, and 7) assessment. Research and evaluation studies focused on e-learning programs unambiguously indicate that misalignments among these factors are all too common. For example, although a digital learning program may have appropriate objectives, accurate content, and even innovative instructional designs, its assessment strategies might be misaligned by focusing on what is easy to measure rather than what is important. This presentation will describe the importance of alignment and strategies for designing well-aligned interactive e-learning programs with examples taken from award-winning online learning programs developed by the World Health Organization and other groups.
Bio
Thomas C. Reeves, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology in the College of Education at The University of Georgia. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Peru and has given invited presentations in the USA and more than 30 other countries. In 2003, he received the AACE Fellowship Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, in 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), and in 2013 he received the Lifetime Award from the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) as well as the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). He is the former editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and the author of more than 200 scholarly papers and books. His co-authored books include Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation, A Guide to Authentic E-Learning, Conducting Educational Design Research (two editions), MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, and MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South. His current research interests include educational design research, active learning, and medical and public health education. His scholarly work has been cited over 28,000 times in the research literature placing him among the top two percent of most-cited scientists in the world according to a recent bibliographic
analysis.