ilities 2015 - Towards an Interaction Engineering Glossary and a Repository for Interactive Software "-ilities"

EICS participants are at the border between at least two domains: software and HCI. In addition, these participants are periodically exposed to other engineering communities, with their own culture. All these domains are facing innovations, raising new challenges, offering new tools or questions to the other domains. Each is developing its own jargon, its own interpretation of common words. Vocabulary is one of the riches of a community. It is what allows it express to its outcomes and its expectations, build a structured, appropriate and relevant set of contributions in a moving research area and clearly evaluate and position these multiple contributions. Establishing a common vocabulary is one of the usual activities that communities develop as a service to its members, along with other consensus-building activities such as public controversies. We consider that our community needs more consensus building. In order to contribute to the need for a shared reference over the community, the first goal of the workshop is to start a glossary of terms, together with their definition, that are of high relevance and importance in the field of HCI engineering. The second goal is the elicitation of reference properties relevant to assess the quality of engineered HCI products.
Organisers: Stéphane Chatty, Emmanuel Dubois, Laurence Nigay, Jean Vanderdonckt