The HCID Open Day is a free mini conference hosted by our centre attracting an audience of 200+ UX / design / digital professionals. The theme for this year will be ‘Design for Good’ and will focus on how design can be used to positively impact society, designing for inclusion and the moral implications of design.
The Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design (HCID) at City, University of London have chosen this topic as we believe it reflects the kind of work we are currently doing and that all designers have the power to enact positive change. The day will close with us presenting our vision for HCIDs future.
Every year we invite in guest speakers from industry and academia to talk about UX / HCI / Interaction Design and related fields. The day will be been made up of 21 concurrent talks / workshops with opening and closing keynotes, past keynotes have included Google, eBay, Ideo and Modern Human. You can get a feel for the event through our recap video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7HsPUJfjQ&t=2s.
This year’s HCID Open Day will be on Tuesday 18th June 2019 starting at 10:30am, and running until 6:30pm.
Personally, I’d be keen to see ideas from colleagues who would like to do presentations on designing of comics and animation for good, or, if you will, on practice-based uses of comics and animation in scholarly communications, education, health care, social justice and international development as ‘design for good’.
Needless to say, I’d also like to encourage colleagues doing HCI/UCD work in the areas of open access academic publishing, open education, open data and ITC4D to consider submitting ideas too.
If you are interested in taking part please contact the event’s organiser Stuart Scott on stuart.scott.2@city.ac.uk with an idea for your talk and mentioning it was me who sent you. If you aren’t able to talk at the event it would still be great to see you there!
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