Transcending disciplinary, cultural and national boundaries: Emergent technologies, new education landscape and the cloud workshop project

Rafael Gomez*, Patricia FLANAGAN, Rebekah Davis

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As technology continues to become more accessible, miniaturised and diffused into the environment, the potential of wearable technology to impact our lives in significant ways becomes increasingly viable. Wearables afford unique interaction, communication and functional capabilities between users, their environment as well as access to information and digital data. Wearables also demand an inter-disciplinary approach and, depending on the purpose, can be fashioned to transcend cultural, national and spatial boundaries. This paper presents the Cloud Workshop project based on the theme of ‘Wearables and Wellbeing; Enriching connections between citizens in the Asia-Pacific region’, initiated through a cooperative partnership between Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and Griffith University (GU). The project was unique due to its inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural and inter-national scope that occurred simultaneously between Australia and Hong Kong.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign, User Experience, and Usability
Subtitle of host publicationUsers and Interactions - 4th International Conference, DUXU 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings
EditorsAaron Marcus
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages631-642
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319208978
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event4th International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, DUXU 2015 Held as Part of 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015 - Los Angeles, CA, USA, Los Angeles, United States
Duration: 2 Aug 20157 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9187
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, DUXU 2015 Held as Part of 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period2/08/157/08/15

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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