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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:29:45 +0100
From: Peter Mambrey
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:
1. Maintain and deepen the knowledge about design through participation in order to promote inclusion of workers, citizens, students and users; 2. 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:
1. Community-based systems 2. Health care systems 3. Governmental and GIS systems at local, regional and international levels 4. Education, instructional technologies and learning communities across distance 5. Media, broadcast and new media environments 6. Virtual communities and interactive designs 7. Union - management relations 8. 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:
1. Papers: scholarly papers of up to 10 pages 2. Work-in-progress presentations: 3-5 page proposals for presentations of current research, projects, practices and lab reports 3. Country, regional reports: 3-5 page proposals for reports and demonstrations of events and activities 4. Workshops about methods, practices, and other areas of interest: 1-2 page proposals for 3 hour workshops 5. 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/pdc200 ```
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