HCI - Multidisciplinary and end-user design and development - UHasselt

Many interactive systems are created by multi-disciplinary teams or by people that are not trained to create such interactive systems. In this line of research, we investigate how tools, methods and notations that have a low threshold and can thus be also used by non-experts. Two notable examples are the construction of mobile guides by pupils (TERF) and teachers (EPICS), and the use of storyboards in the design process of interactive systems. We defined user-centered software engineering process framework (MuiCSer) that is used in our applied research projects and a framework for developing mobile guides in the cultural sector that has been applied in several demonstrator projects.

Key projects:

• In het wiel van Odiel / Van borsteltrekker tot wielrenner
• IBBT ICON: EPICS 
• IBBT ISBO: Gr@sp
• Interreg: VIP-Lab
• EFRO: Ritchie I & II
• IWT SBO: AMASS++

Key publications:

• Multi-touch Storyboarding Tool Concept for User-Centred Design Teams, Mieke Haesen, Karel Robert, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Create 2011 Symposium, London, UK, June 2011
• GRIP: Get better Results from Interactive Prototypes, Jan Van den Bergh, Mieke Haesen, Deepak Sahni, Kris Luyten and Karin Coninx, Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 2011 (EICS 2011),  Pisa, Italy, June 13-16, 2011
• Draw Me a Storyboard: Incorporating Principles and Techniques of Comics to Ease Communication and Artefact Creation in User-Centred Design, Mieke Haesen, Jan Meskens, Kris Luyten and Karin Coninx, 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction - HCI2010,  Dundee, Scotland, September 6-10, 2010
• MuiCSer: A Process Framework for Multi-Disciplinary User-Centered Software Engineering processes, Mieke Haesen, Karin Coninx, Jan Van den Bergh and Kris Luyten, Engineering Interactive Systems 2008 -- 2nd Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE 2008). Pisa, Italy, September 25-26, 2008
• ICT Experience Prototyping in practice: Artefact Transitions,  Mieke Haesen , Karin Coninx , Ilse Bakx and David Geerts, In Proceedings of Improving the Relationship between Research and Practice in Interaction Design, workshop of NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, Norway, October 2006