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CfP: Participatory Design Conference (PDC'96) - short form
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:21:29 -0500
From: Andrew Clement
Call for Papers - PDC96 Please post
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN - 4th Biennial Conference Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov. 13-15, 1996
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 3, 1996 (for PAPERS, PANELS, WORKSHOPS, & DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM; deadline for Artifacts - August 2, 1996)
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, in cooperation with IFIP WG9.1 (Computers and Work), ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS.
(The full Call for Papers is available at http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/conferences/pdc96/pdc96.html or via email from pdc96@ncat.edu)
Participatory design projects combine the skills and knowledge of workers with the technological and organizational expertise of design practitioners in efforts to develop technologies and practices that improve people's work lives. Earlier Participatory Design conferences have explored the historical roots of worker involvement in system design and have looked at the application and transformation of participatory design approaches as they have moved from academic to industrial settings.
PDC'96, along with providing an international forum where researchers and practitioners can exchange ideas and experiences, will consider the relation between participatory design and the changing political, organizational, and economic landscape.
We encourage participation of those interested in learning about participatory design, as well as those currently involved in participatory design projects (possibly under different titles). We welcome paper submissions, proposals for panels and workshops, and submissions to our "artifacts" room. PDC'96 also will sponsor a doctoral consortium. Wherever possible, we encourage participants to draw on their own experience from concrete situations.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Experiences and lessons learned from projects incorporating participatory design approaches;* Tools, techniques, and principles of organization for participatory design projects;* Continuing participation of users in all activities from generation of visions to system maintenance;* The ethics of participation (e.g. obligations to management versus workers, and designers' responsibility for what happens "down stream");* The politics of participatory design (e.g. identifying "stakeholders" over the course of a project);* The relation of participatory design projects to 'information infrastructure' (e.g. digital libraries and community free-nets);* The relation of participatory design to organizational/managerial change agendas (e.g. business process re-engineering);* The relation of participatory design to the labor movement (e.g. to labor unions' own technology development and analysis efforts);* The relation of participatory design to increasing globalization of production;* Frameworks for understanding and analyzing participatory design, and models for its incorporation in system development practice;* The theoretical roots of participatory approaches to design (e.g. connections to action research).
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Andrew Clement Office: +1-416-978-3111 Faculty of Information Studies Fax: +1-416-971-1399 University of Toronto 140 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 clement@fis.utoronto.ca
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