PDC 2000 the Participatory Design Conference
“Designing Digital Environments
Bringing in More Voices”
Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2000
City University of New York Conference Center
New York City, USA
pdc2000@cpsr.org
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 9.1 Computers and Work
The conference is held in conjunction with CSCW 2000
Call For Participation
Participatory Design (PD) is a set of diverse ways of thinking, planning,
and acting through which people make their work, technologies, and social
institutions more responsive to human needs. The Participatory Design
conferences, held every two years since 1990, have brought together a
multidisciplinary and international group of researchers, designers,
practitioners, users, and managers. The disconnection of the design of
technology from the context of its use is well documented, yet the gap
between design and use seems to be getting wider.
Many people claim that the wide-spread use of computers and the Internet
have opened up democratic possibilities previously undreamed of. However,
we believe that democracy and the quality of life are not givens in the
design and use of computer systems. The socio-technical design of digital
environments is a dynamic project, which requires the social inclusion and
active participation of the users rather than the more typical situation in
which the designers are far removed from the daily tasks and activities of
the people who use the environments. This is particularly important, as
systems grow more complex, intertwined and intransigent. The overall theme
of this conference, "Designing Digital Environments Bringing in More
Voices" grows out of the earlier papers, books and proceedings of the PDC
conferences. It is aimed at extending beyond Information System design
toward the participatory design of web-based, mobile and new media
environments that are linked through digital technology.
THEMES
The Participatory Design Conferences have been held in even-numbered years
in North-America since 1990, at institutions such as MIT and the University
of Washington. The sixth Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2000, is a
forum to explore theories, methods, and examples of design through
participation that foster early intervention on the part of future users
and active and democratic involvement of both current and future users.
Conference participants will exchange ideas and experiences that can be
applied throughout the cycles of design and use to:
· Maintain and deepen the knowledge about design through
participation in order to promote inclusion of workers, citizens, students
and users;
· Explore practices and methods of early intervention into the design
and use of digital environments.
We encourage academics, practitioners, and users to document and
demonstrate ways that multiple voices can be heard in technical design
environments. In particular we are interested in research and experience
about participation of active users in the following design environments:
· Community-based systems
· Health care systems
· Governmental and GIS systems at local, regional and international
levels
· Education, instructional technologies and learning communities
across distance
· Media, broadcast and new media environments
· Virtual communities and interactive designs
· Union management relations
· Curricula for participatory design
We welcome interdisciplinary studies of use situations and users, and
intercultural studies among new media users. In addition, we encourage
educators and learning specialists to link us with cooperative and
participatory movements in education and community networks. As in prior
conferences, we look forward to examples and case studies of participatory
design from areas in addition to computer systems development including
psychology, environmental studies, urban and housing planning, and work
practices.
TYPES OF SESSIONS
We invite submissions for the following types of sessions:
· Papers: scholarly papers of up to 10 pages
· Work-in-progress presentations: 3-5 page proposals for
presentations of current research, projects, practices and lab reports
· Country, regional reports: 3-5 page proposals for reports and
demonstrations of events and activities
· Workshops about methods, practices, and other areas of interest:
1-2 page proposals for 3 hour workshops
· Artifacts, posters, interactive demonstrations: 1-2 page proposals
for presentations which will be held during an evening sessions where
participants can try out and discuss with presenters
Submission requirements will be available at conference website
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000
We encourage electronic submissions. Abstracts must be included for all
submissions. We solicit individual and joint papers, proposals and reports
in any of the above formats. Papers and reports may address practices,
methods, theories, or project experiences (e.g. from perspectives of
analysis, design, embedding, use, teaching, coaching, or
maintenance). All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program
committee. Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit work based on their
research.
IMPORTANT DATES IN 2000
Monday, 1 May Due date for Paper and Workshop submissions
Thursday, 15 June Acceptance notification to authors
Tuesday, 1 August Due date for Poster/Artifact submissions
Tuesday, 15 August Due date for Final Proceedings version of Papers
and Workshops
Friday, 1 September Acceptance notification for Poster /Artifact presenters
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Computer
Supported Cooperative Work takes place in Philadelphia, Pa, 1 1/2 hrs by
train from New York immediately following the conference. PDC and CSCW have
been co-located since 1992. More information is available at:
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000 and at http://www.acm.org/
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Chair Todd Cherkasky, Rensselaer, USA
Program Co-chairs Joan Greenbaum, CUNY, USA
Peter Mambrey, GMD-FIT, Germany
Tutorial Co-chairs Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Michael Muller, Lotus Development Corp., USA
Poster/artifact/demonstration Chair Randy Trigg, Work Practice &
Technology Assoc., USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Phil Agre, University of California San Diego, USA
Peter v. d. Besselaar, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jeanette Blomberg, Sapient Corp., San Francisco, USA
Jorn Braa, University of Oslo, Norway
Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway
Debra Cash, New Century Enterprises, Belmont, MA, USA
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Day, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy
Frank Emspak, University of Wisconsin, USA
Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Batya Friedman, Colby College, USA
Davydd Greenwood, Cornell University, USA
Joe Glick, City University of New York, USA
Finn Kensing, Roskilde University, Denmark
Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Kim Halskov Madsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
David Levinger, Rensselaer, USA
Terry Mizrahi, City University of New York, USA
Michael Muller, Lotus Development Corp., USA
Agneta Ranerup, Goteburg University, Sweden
Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sidney, Australia
Mike Robinson, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA
Susan Leigh Star, University of California, USA
Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC, USA
Randall Trigg, Work Practice & Technology Assoc., USA
Ina Wagner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Coralee Whitcomb, CPSR, USA
Volker Wulf, University of Bonn, Germany
Visit the Participatory Design Conference website:
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 01 2000 - 01:02:03 PST