Dear List members

DIS2008 CONFERENCE: A venue for serious reflection on the practice of designing interactive systems, exploring the aesthetic, social and cultural dimensions of new technologies. 
   
DIS 2008 will be hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from Monday 25 February – Wednesday 27 February 2008. It will be the first DIS conference to be held outside the USA or Europe, and as such aims to challenge participants to reflect on designing interactive systems for users outside these established markets. This is especially relevant as these markets are fast becoming more lucrative and influential.  

DIS2008 is being run in conjunction with the annual African design conference, Design Indaba, which will take place the week following the end of DIS.

The Call For Papers is now available for download.

DIS welcomes papers on all varieties of interactive systems - hand-held shopping appliances, immersive toys, head-mounted directional maps, e-commerce Websites, digital books, home entertainment systems, virtual communities. DIS welcomes papers on design analysis, design representations, design methods, design rationale capture, presentation and use, and tools and environments for designing interactive systems. DIS welcomes empirical studies of design practices, including comparative studies, experience-based studies and lessons learned from design projects, investigations and development of formal notations and models, and new theoretical perspectives. DIS welcomes papers exploring, defining, and developing the science of design. 

Researchers, designers, educators, and students from all relevant disciplines are invited to participate, including anthropology, art and architecture, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, design studies, education, graphic design, information systems, industrial engineering, interaction design, linguistics and semiotics, requirements engineering, sociology, software engineering, and user experience design.

Authors and reviewers, please take note of the following dates:
Paper Deadline: 31 July 2007
Reviewers back deadline: 10 September 2007
Acceptance & copyright forms to authors: 1 October 2007
Final Revised Papers from authors: 22 October 2007 

For more information please go to the DIS2008 Home Page: 
http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008/

We would like to reach as wide an audience as possible, and believe that this conference will go a long way towards helping us build research capacity in the new field where design and informatics overlap.

Regards
Johann van der Merwe
Publicity Co-chair
DIS2008