ABOUT SIDER

The fifth Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) conference will in 2009 be hosted in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The conference enables students to participate in and contribute to the emerging discipline of designing (for) interaction. Students (especially: graduate and post-graduate students) are invited to challenge the state of art of the current design world by submitting their 'interactions'.

SIDeR will generate a dialogue between students with different educational and cultural backgrounds; enabling them to expand their horizon, share perspectives on design and critically evaluate the future trends.

The SIDeR conference will be a three day event, with a mixture of keynote lectures, interaction presentations, demonstrations, workshops, interactive sessions and social events.

Workshop sessions will be an important part of the conference as well: small groups of people will work together while creating parts of interactive systems. This encourages coherence, discussion and cooperation, while increasing the understanding of different stages of the design process from different perspectives.

We aim for 70-100 participants. A total of 24 interactions (interactive system demonstrators supported by 2000-word max. design arguments) will be accepted, complemented by breaking-news short papers/pamphlets/manifests.

BACKGROUND OF SIDeR

This will be the fifth Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) conference. This conference series was inaugurated in 2005 in Sønderborg as a means of enabling interaction design students to participate in and contribute to research in the emerging discipline of interaction design. It has since been hosted by Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg (2006), Blekinge Intsitute of Technology in Ronneby (2007) and Mads Clausen Institute in Sønderborg (2008).

WEBSITES OF PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

SIDeR05 in Sønderborg
SIDeR06 in Göteborg
SIDeR07 in Ronneby
SIDeR08 in Sønderborg