Workshops

Binding images is the theme of the workshop; the final product will be an idiosyncratic photo album. Participants will be asked to bring their own, personal photos, which will inspire them to work creatively on the project.

Vangelio Tzanetatou has ran with great success the bookbinding workshops in the 2002, 2004 and 2007 ICTVC conferences. The final artefacts produced give high pleasure to the participants and provide a firm basis for further exploration and development.

Vangelio has studied bookbinding and book restoration at the London College of Printing. Over the past fifteen years she has been working in the rare book restoration field as well as a bookbinder designer. Some of her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Greece and in other European countries.

The successfull two-day workshop on typeface design, which had been taken place at the University of Nicosia last year, constitutes the basis for this w/kshop as well. The contemporary approaches towards the creation of typefaces will be discussed and evaluated as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the digital design tools.

Gerry Leonidas is lecturer in the Dept of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK and Course Director of the MA in Typeface Design. He is practicing designer of Greek and Latin typefaces and a regular consultant on typography and type design. He has published book reviews and articles on typography and is currently completing a PhD on the relationship of the design processes of Greek and Latin digital typefaces.

In a simulation of the design practice participants are requested to design a solution for a customer. The journey to the final design leads them through a "maze" every designer has to go through: how to get the required information from the customer? Designers are forced to think about their way of working: to design their own design process.

The design game originally was made for the curriculum of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Students for graphic design learn that not asking the right question or not thinking about the design process itself, never leads towards appropriate design. The design game create a small virtual world that hold all aspect of the real designers practice. Interested how your customer feels: play the game. Interested how your designer thinks: play the game.

Anyone can participate: designers, typographers, students, or non-designers. Fun for everyone!

Additional to the game Petr van Blokland will reflect on the game results in relation to the daily practice of a designer and extentions will be made to disciplines as programming and artificial intelligence, whereas the connection to game theory easily can be made.

Τhis workshop is called DanceTypography and its aim is to connect the art of writing with the rest of our body, to bring us into a different relationship with type and typography by learning the correlations of the Alphabet (letters) to the different bodyparts (organs).

Through various exercises of improvisation the participants are to create their own typographical synthesis, by using their bodies as the main tool, their voices and the space around them.

Participants are required to wear relaxed clothing and to join the workshop with an open heart.

“Interaction Design is about designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives” (Sharp, Rogers and Preece, 2007)

Human computer interaction (HCI) is a component of Interaction Design, focusing on the design, implementation and evaluation of interactive computer systems and issues encountered in these processes.

Most people today spend a significant part of their lives in front of a screen, interacting with a computer to get their work done, to communicate, to hold meetings, to socialize with friends, to play games, and so many more. Therefore this interaction has to be carefully studied so as to be supported by a well designed interface to offer an optimal user experience.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners whose work is related to interaction design and human computer interaction.

Topics to be presented/ discussed include:

* Interaction Design and Devices

* Interaction Design and the Web

* Social Interaction Design

* Affective Aspects in Interaction Design

* Prototyping Methods
* Evaluation and Usability
* HCI in eLearning
* Pervasive technologies in HCI
* HCI education

* Accessible Interfaces

The list of talks/speakers will be announced shortly. For general questions about the workshop contact Aimilia Tzanavari [Tzanavari.a@unic.ac.cy] or Panayiotis Zaphiris [panayiotis.zaphiris@cut.ac.cy]