SIDeR

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The Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) conference is a series of academic conferences for students in Interaction design held at universities in Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and Germany. SIDeR is held annually since 2005.

Overview

The SIDeR conference is a platform especially created for graduate and post-graduate students in Interaction design studies showcasing research findings by presenting admitted papers, demos or posters to an international audience consisting of students in similar studies, professional researchers and designers as well as the public.

The program structure changes annually due to the changing organisational teams. The conference usually is two days long revolving around the paper sessions where the students present their findings. Each conference usually includes keynote presentations by leading or rising figures in design and design research, hands-on workshops presenting new technologies or fostering creative thinking, panel discussions with advice from companies or other professionals. The formal program is accompanied by social events with the aim to create an international network of like minded people who shape the future of interaction design.

History

The conference was founded and first organised by the students of the IT Product Design department of the University of Southern Denmark, also called SDU, led by Jacob Buur, professor for User-centered design, Ben Matthews, former professor at SDU, and Mette Mark Larsen, Course Coordinator, in 2005. Jacob Buur and Ben Matthews introduced the concept of the conference to universities which followed hosting it.

2005 in Sønderborg

The first conference in the series was held at the Mads Clausen Institute at the SDU in Sønderborg and the proceedings are titled "New eyes on interaction design". The topic of the first day was interaction design and Erik Stolterman, a design researcher at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, opened it with a keynote. The paper sessions on the first day were titled: Full Body Interaction, Hands & Minds and See, Hear & Touch. Thomas Binder, a design researcher, held the keynote on the second day. The paper sessions on day two were titled: Professional Roles I, What User?, Staging Design, Professional Roles II and Design Moves. Student speakers from Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Germany presented their work.

2006 in Gothenburg

The second conference was at the Interaction Design Collegium (IDC), which is a joint department of IT University between Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference chairperson was Eva Eriksson.
The paper sessions were called: Red, Yellow, Black, Blue, Saturation, Brightness, Cyan, Magenta and Green. Papers were presented by students from Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The keynotes were held by Lars Hallnäs from the Swedisch School of Textiles & Chalmers University of Technology, Jussi Holopainen from the Nokia Research Center and Dag Svanaes from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The conference title was first shown as "SIDeR", in all capitals except the lowercase "e".

2007 in Ronneby

SIDeR07 was organised by the collaborating universities Kalmar University, Växjö University and Blekinge Institute of Technology taking place in Ronneby, Sweden. Sara Eriksén and Bo Helgeson of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Welf Löwe of Växjö University and Bo Westerlund of University of Kalmar were the Conference chairpersons and program committee co-chairpersons.

2008 in Sønderborg

SIDeR08 was held at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg for the second time and the proceedings which were edited by Ben Matthews and Jacob Buur were publicated with the title "Participation and innovation: Proceedings of the fourth student interaction design research conference (SIDeR 08)"

2009 in Eindhoven

In 2009 the SIDeR conference was held outside of Scandinavia for the first time in the Netherlands at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
The theme was called: "Flirting with the Future, prototyped visions by the next generation". The paper sessions were ordered by these topics: Big Brother is playing your Music, Designing the void, The illusion of designing interaction, Designocracy or designocrazy, The new pencils for design, Can I pick your brain?

2010 in Umeå

The SIDeR conference 2010 was held at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden and spanned three days. The proceedings were edited by Niklas Andersson, Lauren Javor and Camille Mousette and the theme was "Ingredients in Gradients".
Heather Martin, Erik Stolterman and Zachary Lieberman held keynotes.

2011 in Lyngby

The seventh SIDeR conference was held at the Department of Management Engineering of Technical University of Denmark. It was organised by Christian Clausen and Yutaka Yoshinaka and the theme was "Engaging Interaction in Design".

2012 in Gothenburg

In 2012 the SIDeR conference was held for a second time at the Chalmers University of Technology this time by the Interaction Design division of the Department of Applied Information Technology. The theme was "Intertwine and Play".
Keynotes were held by Staffan Björk with Johan Peitz and Johan Reström. A design competition was added to the program sponsored and presented by the Interactive Institute with Experimedia and the city of Schladming, Austria.

2013 in Aarhus

SIDeR13 was held at the Aarhus University in Denmark. The theme was "Empowering Interactions".

2014 in Stockholm

The tenth SIDeR conference was held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
The theme "The next 10 years of Interaction Design" concludes SIDeRs' ten-year existence and focuses on the near future. The paper sessions were titled: Creativity 1, Methods 1, Creativity 2, Sensing Energies, Mind Blowing, Bodily Presence, Wearable Tech, Productivity, Face-to-Face, Children, Designing for Older People, Smart material.
The conference was opened with an Industrial panel with designers discussing "the next ten years of professional Interaction Design" followed by the paper presentations of the students. The closing keynote was held by Barry Brown.

2015 in Kolding

SIDeR 2015 was held in Kolding at the universities Design School Kolding and the interaction design department of University of Southern Denmark which moved from Sønderborg to Kolding. The conference chairpersons were Andrés Lucero, Michelle Castañeda from SDU and Anne Louise Bang and program committee member was Jacob Buur.
The theme was "Embodied Interactions" and the paper sessions were titled: Is Your Body Your Own?, Embodied Design, The Playful Body, The Social Body, Anybody Home?

2016 in Malmö

The master programme of Interaction Design at Malmö University hosted the SIDeR conference 2016. The theme in Malmö, Sweden, was called "Human / Nature".
It partnered with the NordiCHI conference in a student competition.

2017 in Delft

SIDeR17 was held at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Sophie Holierhoek was the committee chair.
The theme was "The Design Virus" and the paper sessions were titled: Smart Materials, Human Computer Interaction 1, Tech, Human Computer Interaction 2, Design for the Digital Era, Business Models, Design Methodology, Design for Behaviour Change and Culture, Participatory Design 1 and Participatory Design 2.
The keynote was held by Jasper van Kuijk.

2018 in Helsinki

The 14th SIDeR conference was held at Aalto University at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. The conference co-chairpersons were Andrés Lucero, Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the Department of Media and Maria Karyda, Doctoral Candidate of the Embodied Design Group at the Department of Design. Program committee member was postdoc Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas.
The theme of SIDeR18 was "Flux" and the paper sessions were titled: Matter, Sensation, Information, Play, Community, Experience, Self and Intelligence.
Robb Mitchell held a keynote and the conference ended in an industrial panel discussion.
International speakers from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, India, Iran, Turkey, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands and France presented papers spreading the idea of the conference to Asian countries.

2019 in Kiel

In 2019 the conference was first held in Germany at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design(de) Kiel. The theme was called "Sub Side Super Human" and the conference co-chairpersons were Frank Jacob (de) and Jens Alexander Ewald from the Industrial Design and Interface Design department. Annika Frye(de) and Jens Alexander Ewald were program chairs.
The paper sessions were titled: Creative AI, Practicing Ethics, Probing Change, Redefining Perception, Educating Ourselves and Empowering Human Bodies.
Experience designer Lukas Franciszkiewicz and visual artist Nadine Kolodziey held the keynotes.
Demos and poster were shown in an exhibition which also featured student projects from the Interface Design studies.

Topics

List of topics suggested for paper submissions by the varying conference committees:

• Aesthetics of Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Physicalization
• Design cases
• Design Methods
• Design Process
• Eco-design
• Ethical Design
• Experimental Design
• Game Design
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Visualization
• Interaction Techniques
• Mobile Computing
• Multimodal Interaction
• Participatory Design
• Social computing
• Tangible Business Models
• Tangible User Interfaces
• Ubiquitous Computing

Participation

The theme is published by the conference committees with a call for papers which should roughly count 2000 words, following paper formats by the Association for Computing Machinery or Nordes. Posters and demos Entered papers are reviewed by international professors with a focus on junior professors. The approved papers are then curated by the conference committee. For the first conferences the submissions were registered via mail which was improved to EasyChair an electronic submission system used since 2014.

The conferences get financed with contributions by sponsors, university funds and participation fees. Participation fees rose from 25 € at the first conference to 70 € for students in 2018 and 2019. Participants who are not enrolled in studies are charged more, but compared to similar conferences not focussing on students like Design Matters 2020 conference held in Copenhagen participation fees at SIDeR conferences are more affordable.

External links

• Archived website of the SIDeR conference 2005
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2006
• Archived website of the SIDeR conference 2007
• Archived websiteebsite with proceedings of SIDeR conference 2009
• Archived websiteebsite of the SIDeR conference 2010
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2012
• Archived websiteebsite of the SIDeR conference 2013
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2014
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2017
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2018
• Website of the SIDeR conference 2019

References

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