interaction12 redux

Louise Taylor & Vicky Teinaki

REDUX

4th Interactions conference (& first out of North America)749 attendees at conference (800 total)33 countries represented across 6 continents

Statistics: http://www.ixda.org/node/32121

Dublin, IrelandFeb 1–4 2012

A City of Writing … and Drinking

Backchannels & In Jokes

Sketchnotes

Parties. With Geeks. Be very afraid.

And very big sponsors : Microsoft, Google….

Lots. Of. Talks.

Conference Themes

Conference Themes

The Edges of Interaction DesignStorytellingInnovation

Photo courtesy of Joe Sokohl

Jonas Löwgren, Anthony Dunne

Fabian Hemmert

Genevieve Bell

Photo courtesy of Joe Sokohl

Amber Case

Ariel Waldman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcordell/6811557353

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jalderman/6926254491

Adrian Westaway

Conference Themes

The Edges of Interaction DesignStorytellingInnovation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactiondesign/6828695033/

Jeroen Van Geelhttp://www.slideshare.net/fabriquenl/aristotles-storytelling-framework-for-the-web

Entertainment

Abi Jones

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jalderman/6780124540

Giles Colborne

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cxpartners/artificial-emotional-intelligence-giles-colborne http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisnoessel/6838628937/

Conference Themes

The Edges of Interaction DesignStorytellingInnovation

Luke Williams

Photo courtesy of Joe Sohkohl

Jonathan Kahn

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jdkahn/effective-interaction-designers-change-organisations

IXD12 Conference conceptual framework

•Theory•Context•Strategy•Dialogue•Ecosystems•Behaviour

Reference: http://www.ixda.org/node/32038

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevebaty/6860666191

IXDA Interaction Design Awards

Inaugral Event

Photo courtesy of Joe Sokohl

CategoriesOptimising

Making daily activities more efficient.

Engaging

Capturing attention, creating delight & delivering meaning.

Empowering

Enabling people to go beyond their limits.

Expressing

Encouraging self expression and/or creativity.

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people & communities.

Disrupting

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service

by creating new behaviors, usages or markets.

IXDA Award Winners

Video story telling

Also…

Dan Saffer, ‘How To Lie With Design Thinking’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqQ03DayHI

Consideration for Researchers

The talks usually look & sound good.Quality can vary though.

Unfortunately, the interesting stuff is mostly hidden behind NDAs!

Consideration for Researchers

Researchers are, on the whole, enthusiastically embraced

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicodruif/6807408997

e.g. Maggie Breslin’s Mayo Clinic Work

Photo from @justsomeguy http://twitpic.com/8es34n

… though you may hit the A words!(A for Academic—“how will I use this in my work?”—or Art “isn’t this just art?” )

Non-paper conferences can’t help a university either, unfortunately.

Consideration for Researchers

Newcastle?

See Thomas Greenough if you’re interested

Interaction 13‘Social Impact, Social Innovation.’Toronto, Canada early February (to coincide with Toronto Design Week)

ResourcesIxDA: ixda.org

Interaction 12: interaction12.ixda.org/

IxDA Awards: awards.ixda.org

Johnny Holland reports & media:

johnnyholland.org/series/interaction-conference

Storify: storify.com/johnnyholland

Other reports

core77.com/blog/competition/ixda_interaction12_

interaction_awards_winners_21689.asp