Title: HUSITA7 Synthesis Report
1HUSITA7 Synthesis Report
- Dick Schoech
- U of TX at Arlington School of Social Work
2HUSITA7 forces us to encounter understand
things we have not experienced before
3Finding Connecting the Dots at HUSITA7 is
difficult
4New Concepts at HUSITA7
- Jockey Club Our friends and supporters are
everywhere, need to network and ask - 2008 more Chinese speaking than English speaking
Internet users - E-life style (Singapore)
- Education portals including parents, students
alone, and supporters (UK, HK, others) - Gradual disclosure during online counseling
(Singapore) - Digital inclusionavailable, affordable,
assessable (Kelly) - Only one in 250 people in Africa can connect to
the Internet (Canadian video) - The computer is coming to our village (Canadian
video)
5More new concepts
- Wearable IT (Vanderheiden)
- Small nanotech robots. Things you do not see
are as important as things you see. No-see-ems - Measure computer performance in human brain
power, 20241brain computer - 144 hours of training for cyber counselor
certificate to gain the new skills, BBS
moderation (Singapore) - Family formed by a string of successful marriages
(Finland)
6 7Make people feel welcomed
8Make a good first impression
9Make others look good no matter how difficult the
task
10Interest in our presentations was unprecedented.
Witness a typical interview of a session speaker
11Everyone likes something to take home and show
their boss
12Attract big crowds
13Doing is learning
14Learn the local customs
15 16Evidence Based
- Use research, measurement, evaluation,
cost/benefit information (Dr Hanna) - Critical mass needed Training one teacher on IT
in each school is a waste of time (Dr. Kelley)
17Design with digital Inclusion in mind
- Review what others have done. Tours of the
Americas, Japan, Korea, Singapore China show
lots is being done. - Develop IT only as a last resort. Least
desirable is to have special designs for the
human services because of the problems with
funding and support. - Think of market potential before design. Design
so market will pick up and run with product - Consider how non human service clients can use
solutions so industry will develop and support
solutions. - Design for options, choice, and to empower
18Using IT as a hot medium
- Move from text
- Better to use pictures, music, video
- Better yet to be interactive infotainment,
Disneyworld - Example Typhoon. Level 8, black rain --
energized a tired audience yesterday
19- Final Challenges and Lessons from HUSITA7
20Some things are hard to explain
21Get together a hard working board
22Involve many wonderful hard working staff and
volunteers
23Clone Dr. John Fung and Staff