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Call For Participation
CHI 2003 Workshop:
Designing Culturally Situated Technologies For The Home
(http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/Sengers/DomesticTech03/)
Through the ownership and use of particular technologies and artefacts we
make statements about our selves, our values and our culture. Nowhere is
this clearer than in the home, which is widely recognised as a complex and
diverse design environment. Critical readings of the social context of use
and the codification of meaning can generate innovative approaches to
design problems. This workshop
will consider how designers do, can, and should integrate cultural analysis
in their technologies
Issues of interest include the following:
- Design techniques that use cultural and social analysis to inform the
design of new home based digital products.
- Analytical techniques for studying the cultural and political assumptions
that are embodied in current domestic technology.
- Methods and techniques for designing across cultural boundaries.
We plan to cover the following general topics: theory, drawn from various
disciplines; field studies and experiments; practice, through case studies
of products and experimental designs; technique, and the design process.
The workshop format will include a presentation by each participant. In
addition each participant will lead a discussion of the issues raised by
another participant's paper. We encourage participation from a wide range
of disciplines including Computer Science, Product Design, Psychology,
Social Sciences, Literary and Cultural Studies.
Please submit a one- or two-page position paper (as a Word or PDF file)
outlining your interest in this topic to
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Position papers must be received by 17th January 2003. Participants will be
notified of selection by 7th February 2003.
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