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PDC 2000 - the Participatory Design Conference
"Designing Digital Environments - Bringing in More Voices"
Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2000 - New York City, USA
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
In Cooperation with the ACM and IFIP
Held in conjunction with CSCW 2000
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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 are available at the 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
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, Univ. 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, Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Batya Friedman, Colby College, USA
Davydd Greenwood, Cornell University, USA
Joe Glick, City University of New York, USA
Thomas Herrmann, University of Dortmund, Germany
Finn Kensing, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
David Levinger, Qpass, USA
Kim Halskov Madsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Terri Mizrahi, City University of New York, USA
Michael Muller, Lotus Research., USA
Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sidney, Australia
Mike Robinson, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA
Patricia Sachs, Social Solutions, 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
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