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The Proceedings for the EISE workshop on 29-30 October 2009 have been published by BCS and have been made available though the electronic writings in computing (EWIC) system online at: www.bcs.org/ewic/eise2009
A complete overview of the event is also available here.
The EISE workshop has now finished, but the complete program can be viewed here.
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Much of today's research in interactive technologies lacks a tight coupling between technology innovation and end-user needs. The limited research that has been done in this space has a very heavy western bias in terms of understanding the end-user. There are only a few, limited studies investigating interactive technology innovations for end-users within developing markets such as India, Brazil, and China, but these are huge growth areas for new technologies and services. Innovations in interactive technologies have to transcend language and technology barriers while at the same time understanding cultural and societal issues to make them accessible to the wide range of user-groups that might benefit from them.
The UK government (through EPSRC) has funded a research network to unify UK and Indian, academic and commercial, efforts and develop an agenda of activities within the context of interactive technologies for the end-user and to encourage the development of a sustained research collaboration that is internationally outstanding and economically relevant while being real and meaningful to the vision of a shared digital economy.
The Network is based around three inter-related themes that will contribute to the development of novel interac-tive technologies for the end-user. Members will participate in a number of working groups that contribute to the themes. The Network's thrust will be to create a means for the members to lead the way with research that is only possible by bringing together the different institutions within UK and India and create a synergy which no single institution will be able to achieve on its own. The Network will bring together a unique mix of academic and industrial partners combining a wide range of disciplines such as computer science, social science, and de-sign, all key parts of designing future interactive technologies. The themes are:
