PEICS 2012 - The Third Workshop on Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS)

Via different case studies presented by different academic researchers and industry practitioners, this workshop will aim to explore two different avenues to enhance the use of interaction patterns and their integration into software engineering approaches such as e.g. agile methods. On the designer?s side the workshop will investigate the effectiveness and powerfulness of the existing HCI pattern languages in enhancing user interface design in form of two main investigations: (i) We explore the important but often neglected interaction between user interfaces and the underlying system. We provide several examples and show how HCI patterns can support this interaction for better interface design as well as the system feature itself. (ii) We look at current approaches of user interface design processes and the commonly used models. Then we show potential improvements in terms of usable systems through informed application of design patterns. In the second avenue (The HCI design of patterns), the workshop participants will discuss innovative models for the current design pattern lifecycle and propose in addition to it a new integrative format to document patterns and facilitate its discovery and dissemination. The participants will show how these models can be embedded in software engineering methods. Our goal is to propose a new dissemination method to collect and glue together all relevant patterns, activities and models within a comprehensive and structured step-by-step design approach