Participatory Design Conference 2002 - 1 March extended deadline

From: Judith Gregory (judithg@ifi.uio.no)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 09:25:43 PST


APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING

Dear all,
For those of you interested in design, here is the announcement
of the extended deadline to 1 March for the Participatory Design
Conference (PDC) 2002. The PDC 2002, June 23-25
in Malmö, Sweden (across the water from Copenhagen) follows
immediately after the ISCRAT.

Judith

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CALL FOR ENTRIES

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: MARCH 1, 2002

PDC 2002 the Participatory Design Conference
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2002

PARTICIPATION AND DESIGN
INQUIRING INTO THE POLITICS, CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES
OF COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WORK

June 23.- 25. 2002 - School of Art and Communication
Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden

Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
In cooperation with IFIP WG 9.1, Computers and Work

CONFERENCE THEME:
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With the theme Participation and Design, the Participatory
Design Conference 2002 invites researchers, designers and other
practitioners to present inquiries into the politics, contexts and
practices of collaborative design work. We invite contributions
from all design fields such as architecture, urban planning,
engineering, interaction design and others (such as the fine arts)
with a focus on understanding collaborative design work.

IMPORTANT DATES
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1 MARCH Due date for all submissions (PLEASE NOTE: FULL PAPERS)
18 APRIL Acceptance notification to authors
15 MAY Due date for Final Proceedings version for written submissions

TYPES OF SESSIONS
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Papers,
Work-in-progress presentations,
Country, regional reports
Artifacts, posters, interactive demonstrations
Workshops about methods, practices and other areas of interest
Tutorials (Tutorials will take place on the morning of June 23 only)

Submission requirements are available at the conference website
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2002
or by writing to pdc2002 who-is-at cpsr.org.

MORE ON THE CONFERENCE THEME
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Since 1990, the Participatory Design Conferences have brought
together researchers and practitioners from a variety of
disciplines and work traditions, probing the social scope and
practices of design of technology. A core concern has been to
understand how collaborative design processes can be based on
participation of the people affected by the technology designed.

The involvement of users and the focus on human-centered
design, addressing the design of technology "through the
interface", were pioneered by contributions to the Participatory
Design Conferences. Debates within the participatory design
community have contributed to the development of a new IT
design field emphasizing simultanously the need for thorough
studies of the context of use, the relevance of an open and
participatory design process, and concern for the political
aspects of the technology in use.

Today the collaborative nature of the design process and the
need to involve a large variety of stakeholders has gained wider
acceptance. At the same time a fundamental uncertainty
concerning the scope and directions for the design of technology
has created a growing interest in innovative approaches to
participation and design.

With the theme Participation and Design, the Participatory
Design Conference 2002 invites researchers, designers and other
practitioners to present inquiries into the politics, contexts and
practices of collaborative design work. We invite contributions
from all design fields such as architecture, urban planning,
engineering, interaction design and others (such as the fine arts)
with a focus on understanding collaborative design work.

Inquiring into the contexts of use is becoming increasingly
important as part of design work. Ethnographic approaches to
field studies are producing valuable insights into existing and
emerging practices of use, but the transition from what we learn
from studies of work practices and social interactions to the
design of a system, application or other design products remains
poorly explored. Despite a well established literature on such
approaches as contextual inquiry, focus groups and cooperative
prototyping, the potential of participatory approaches to design
oriented practice studies is often neglected in ethnographic
approaches.

Altogether, collaborative design practices, although widespread,
are still not well understood. Design processes that are open to a
large and varied group of participants are lacking a firm
grounding in analysis of empirical studies and action research.
How can the organisation of design processes in time and space
accommodate participation? What roles do coordinating artifacts
play in collaboration? How do design artifacts serve as bridges
or barriers to diverse users, including users with disabilities?
What are the effects of distributed design processes on patterns
of participation? What kinds of dialogues are possible between
distributed design practices vs. local design practices and
national or regional cultures? How does the local design process
relate to the potential global outreach of the design?

The politics of design must address questions about what can be
and what should be designed. In a user-centered design process
the distinction between the designed artifact, the context of use
and the process of design may become blurred . Where does the
design practice end, and the practice of use begin? When the
technology is becoming tailorable in use, what is it then relevant
to design for? How does participatory design work allow for
redesign and participation in use over time?

ALSO OF INTEREST
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DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for
Participation, Action, and Change, Seattle, Washington,
May 16-19.
See http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02

ISCRAT, International Society for Cultural Research and
Activity Theory (Activity Theory Congress), Amsterdam,
June 18-22. See http://www.psy.vu.nl/iscrat2002/

DIS 2002, Designing Interactive Systems, London, June 26-28.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/dis2002/

The Second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
NordiCHI 2002, Tradition and Transcendence,
Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-23, 2002.
http://www.nordichi.org/

CSCW 2002 in New Orleans, November 16-20.
See http://www.fxpal.com/conferencesworkshops/cscw2002/

SUBMISSION INQUIRIES
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Write to pdc2002@cpsr.org
or to Thomas Binder, Judith Gregory or Ina Wagner.

Thomas Binder. PDC 2002 Conference Chair
E-mail: thomas.binder@interactiveinstitute.se
Telephone: +46 40 6657 103
Fax: +46 40 6657 360

Judith Gregory, PDC 2000 Program Co-chair
E-mail: judithg@ifi.uio.no
Telephone: +47 2285 2897
Fax: +47 2285 2401

Ina Wagner, PDC 2002 Program Co-chair
Email: iwagner@pop.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 58801 18711
Fax: +43 1 58801 18799



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