12:30 - 3:00 Mockup activities
3:00 - 4:00 demonstrations
A collaborative hands-on workshop between Orit Shaer's CS220: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) course at Wellesley and Amon Millner’s Designing Resources for Empowerment and Making (DREAM) class at Olin. Students from Wellesley, Olin, and Babson will work together in teams to develop ideas and propose innovative tools and applications for empowering immigrants and those connected to them (all of us). Students will envision and design technological solutions which promote immigrant inclusion, integration, self-reliance, and activism. To bring their ideas to life, participants will use video as a creative tool for exploring, simulating, and communicating technological solutions.
Once teams have completed their video prototype production, we will have lunch and watch the video output of each team.
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Reception and panel at Wellesley College:
After the hands-on workshop, we will come back to Wellesley where we will be joined by other students and members of the Wellesley, Olin, and Boston HCI communities for a reception and conversation between two leaders in HCI - Wendy Mackay and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (more information on each speaker below). The speakers will be examining the role of Human-Computer interface and interaction design methods in fostering social change - informed by experiences living and working in the United States and France. They will address the ways that the increasing speed with which videos can be taken, curated, and disseminated has influenced what professors, students, researchers, and members of marginalized communities can do to support activism. The results of the student hands-on video mockup-athon (which takes place on the morning of the panel) will serve as a starting off point for the timely conversation.