Agile and User Centred Design – What lies Ahead?

Session Title Agile and User Centered Design – What lies Ahead?
Session Type Goldfish Bowl
Duration 60 minutes
Session Description Are you a researcher or an industrial practitioner whose work involves integrating agile development processes and user centered design?
Would you like to share your wisdom on agile and user centred design integration topics that need to be further investigated or tackled in the future by academic researchers and industrial practitioners? Then this session is for you.
We’re running this session in a Goldfish Bowl format .
Goldfish bowls provide broad-ranging discussion on a general topic. The session organizer can act as a facilitator, scribe, audience member or active participant in the goldfish bowl.
A goldfish bowl is a bit like a panel discussion, but the people on the panel change during the discussion. The rules are:

  • start with a small circle or semi-circle of about 5 chairs in the middle of the room;
  • arrange all the other chairs facing towards these, so you have several concentric circles;
  • the goldfish bowl has a topic which is usually quite broad, and the organizer usually asks two or three people to get the discussion started and explains the rules to the audience;
  • during the discussion, anyone sitting on one of the central chairs can speak, but no-one else can;
  • if someone wants to speak, they have to sit on one of the central chairs, even if they just want to ask a question;
  • one of the central chairs is always kept free for this purpose;
  • whenever all of the central chairs are occupied, at least one person has to leave to create a new vacant chair.

Unlike a panel, it is usually self-moderating, and most goldfish bowls have a scribe or sound recorder to record the proceedings.