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Chi Nederland, the Dutch chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction organized its 13th annual conference on Thursday, June 11th 2009,  hosted by Leiden University.

Theme

In Subject to Change - creating great products and services for an uncertain world (O’Reilly 2008), Jesse James Garret writes:

“The key to creating successful products and services in a rapidly changing world is not resistance to unexpected change, but the flexibility to adapt to it. That flexibility must take a number of forms: flexible design processes to adapt to new insights into user behavior, flexible development processes to adapt to new technological opportunities, and flexible decision-making processes to adapt to new competitive and market realities.”

The CHI Nederland Conference 2009: Change! offered a forum for discussion and exploration of innovative approaches and contexts to facilitate and design for these changes in all aspects of research, industry, and society. Featuring multidisciplinary speakers and participants, we hope that this conference served as a catalyst to push the boundaries of human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience design (UxD).

HRPR ‘09

This year the Chi Nederland conference joined forces with the international conference on human-robot personal relationships. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (known for creating androids) presented a spotlight lecture for both conferences. There was be a separate HRPR track on Thursday, while Chi Nederland participants could buy a discount ticket for the HRPR’s second day (Friday 12th of June)