The workshop on "Designing for Children with Special Needs" will be a pre-conference full-day workshop-format session and will be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
The goals of the session are to:
•Bring together researchers and designers who work with children with special needs and their caregivers
•Discuss best practices for understanding and designing for children's needs
•Analyze specific challenges for working with special populations and new methods for approaching these challenges
•Brainstorm about new directions for research and design
•Discover opportunities for collaboration and innovation
On Tuesday, June 10, at 6:30pm there will be a dinner for all workshop authors at Tommy Nevin's Irish Pub. We hope you can plan your travel accordingly so you can attend. The dinner is funded by the NSF. Only accepted authors can attend.
About IDC 2008
Dates: June 11-13, 2008.
The goals of the 2008 conference are to better understand children's needs, and how to design for them, by presenting and discussing the most innovative research in the field of interaction design for children, by exhibiting the most recent developments in design and design methodologies, and by gathering the leading minds in the field of interaction design for children - all in one place.
IDC 2008 will be held on Northwestern's beautiful Evanston campus located an half hour north of downtown Chicago. The Evanston campus is just steps from the lakefront and an ideal location for the conference with access to campus resources, walking distance to hotels, nearby shops, and restaurants. Information about the building will be published as soon as the venue is confirmed.
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