Eunice Sari

Exploring potentials and challenges of mobile ICT for learning in Finland and Indonesia

In this paper, we introduce our research in the use of Mobile ICT in Finnish and Indonesian education systems for the past three years. Based on the research results, the paper discusses the potentials and challenges in the use of Mobile ICT for learning in Finland and Indonesia. Concluding the paper, several m-learning scenarios will illustrate the viable m-learning applications in both developed and developing countries.

Sharing Economy in Smart City Transportation Services

Sharing economy has created a number of opportunities for Smart Cities and their communities around the world to create a better and smarter working and living environment. With economic transactions that usually happen through a variety of interconnected data-driven digital platforms, sharing economy has a potential to improve asset utilization and reduce transaction cost or waste effectively and efficiently. Similar to the aims of Smart Cities in providing better and smarter working and living environment, sharing economy is seemingly a natural match for Smart Cities. Nonetheless, the critics around sharing economy, highlight several potential challenges in several fronts, i.e. regulation, inequality and sustainability. Based on the insights gained from User Research conducted in Indonesia, Australia and USA for the last four months, we build our initial arguments to validate the challenges of the current sharing economy practice embedded in app-based transportation services.

Growing together with Indonesian SIGCHI

SIGCHI chapter was born. Like all babies, this chapter was not born instantly. The idea was conceived back in early 2002, when we started our work in HCI in Indonesia. Many still considered HCI an alien concept from the West at that time. In order to grow awareness, we held a series of informational events for academics and professionals in the region. In 2011, we saw a light at the end of the tunnel when Adi Tedjasaputra received an invitation from Zhengjie Liu, adjunct chair for developing worlds at SIGCHI, to attend the SIGCHI Asia workshop in Beijing. I represented Adi at the event, and suddenly a new hope arose. During the event, attended by many ACM SIGCHI chairs and representatives from Asian countries, we were informed how ACM SIGCHI could support developing countries in nurturing the field of HCI. After reviewing the readiness of the market, Adi and I approached ACM SIGCHI at the end of 2013 about advancing HCI and UX in Indonesia with their support. It was indeed the right timing—they accepted our proposal to support a special kick-off event. UX Indonesia-Malaysia 2014 was held on April 26, 2014, in Jakarta as the first-ever UX conference conducted in Indonesia. The event was attended by academics, practitioners, and students from a variety of affiliations in Indonesia and Malaysia and featured renowned speakers from Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Australia, and the U.S. This first HCI/UX venue opened our eyes to a significant commitment to keeping the flame alight in the wider community. There had been an increase in people working in HCI/UX in Indonesia and Malaysia, yet many of us still worked in silos. After the conference, we invited several people to be part of the process of forming a new chapter. Our eventual proposal to ACM to form Indonesia ACM SIGCHI was approved on May 19, 2014. What a joy to have reached this milestone! Indonesia ACM SIGCHI is a unique chapter, as it covers the whole nation of Indonesia, the fourth most populated country in the world. To run this giant chapter, we seeded the development of local representatives. At the moment, there are six local representatives that work on the specific needs of the community in their own regions. This concept seems to work well, as we have been developing and executing diverse ideas and programs from each region. Since its formation, this local chapter has been active, conducting seminars, bootcamps, and workshops to promote both ACM SIGCHI and the fields of HCI/UX in Indonesia. We hope this chapter will continue to grow and have a greater impact. We look forward to seeing you all at CHIuXID 2015 (April 8–10, 2015; http://chiuxindo. uxindo.com/chi-ux-indonesia-2015/)!

Engaging stakeholders through Facebook for teacher professional development in Indonesia

This paper discusses the implementation of social media, i.e. Facebook during the design and development of an online learning community for teacher professional development in Indonesia. The study employed Design Research where intensive interaction with stakeholders played a key role in design decisions. During the third intervention, Facebook was employed as the main design artifact to engage stakeholders in reflective action and critical reflection. The implementation of Facebook was contextualised to the socio-cultural settings of Indonesia. This paper reports several findings related to stakeholder participation in this study, i.e. online membership and online interaction.

Designing Valuable Products with Design Sprint

The shift of creating valuable products, from only aesthetically pleasing, usable, or loveable products, has required adjustment of skills to create value as well as a mindset change. Instead of spending weeks and months to design a product, a rapid validation process takes place to explore how a product should be transformed into a valuable one. This course will teach the participants several key Design Sprint techniques in a nutshell (80 min). Google Ventures initially introduced Design Sprint to tackle critical business problems and come up with viable solutions within five days. Open to anyone who is involved in product and service design, the course aims to teach Design Sprint key techniques to create meaningful insights and hands-on experience for the participants. At the conclusion of the course, the participants are expected to envision how the lessons learned from the course can be applied in either academia or industry.

Design Thinking 101 for Education

Design Thinking is often used to solve ill-defined complex problems. The application of Design Thinking for teaching and learning in the field of Education, however, is still relatively new. In this extended abstract, we propose the application of Design Thinking to solve general teaching and learning problems faced by educators and students in Indonesia. With the introduction of Design thinking to lecturers and future school teachers in a keynote talk during CHIuXiD 2018 Extended Conference, the 4th ACM In-Coop International HCI and Conference by the first author, we specifically aim to begin a transformation on how educators, students, and other stakeholders in school communities can collaborate and develop new creative way of tackling complex problems, while inspiring each other. The event was held at the State University of Malang in Malang, Indonesia on the 28th March 2018. This extended abstract narrates the keynote talk.

Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection

This symposium showcases the latest work from Japan and Southeast Asia on interactive systems and user interfaces that address under-explored problems and demonstrate unique approaches. In addition to circulating ideas and sharing a vision of future research in human-computer interaction, this symposium aims to foster social networks among young researchers and students and create a fresh research community.

SEACHI 2016: Smart Cities for Better Living with HCI and UX

Smart Cities are proliferating around the world, including in the Southeast Asia region. While many developed countries have started defining their Smart Cities, most Southeast Asian countries are still exploring their own ideal Smart Cities. Consisting of mostly developing countries, the Southeast Asian countries have a need to learn from their own cultural heritage, history, political, economic, social and technological contexts to discover Smart City models that work best for better living of their residents. In this context, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) approaches may offer a number of value propositions for the learning, reusing, adapting, designing, developing, inventing, innovating, and sustaining Smart Cities and their inhabitants in Southeast Asia. Thus, this full day symposium aims to explore the relationship between HCI, UX and the development of Smart Cities for better living in Southeast Asian countries in comparison to the Smart Cities around the world.

HCI and UX in Indonesia: The Past, Present, and Future

The last decade has witnessed the development of academic research and professional work in the field of Human-computer interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) design in Indonesia. The pervasive adoption of mobile technology, the Internet and social technologies in the Indonesian society has highlighted the personal interaction and usability problems in the everyday life of Indonesians. This work-in-progress is intended to serve as a reference for the growing HCI and UX community in Indonesia. This paper represents a first attempt at describing the history of HCI and UX in Indonesia, the research and practice that contribute to its development in the present state, and a reflection of its future. A reflective discussion then concludes what defines the HCI and UX community in Indonesia, including what lies ahead in its future.