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Second Workshop on Distributed Participatory Design
www.distributedpd.com
--- in conjunction with CHI 2008 ---
--- April 6th, Florence, Italy ---
www.chi2008.org
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Important dates:
Deadline for paper submissions: October 31rd 2007, 5:00PM (PDT).
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on November 28th 2007.
http://www.distributedpd.com
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Call for Participation
Participatory Design (PD) is a technique that promotes the direct
participation of stakeholders (especially end-users) in system analysis
and design. It is believed that such direct participation can lead to
more useful and usable systems. In order to facilitate PD a number of
techniques, such as PICTIVE and CARD, and tools, such as GABBEH and PSPD,
to name just a few examples have been developed. However, a limitation of
such techniques and tools is that they are primarily focused on project
stakeholders being colocated, whereas today there is a growing trend
towards distributed software development. Therefore, this workshop is
aimed at researchers and practitioners with an interest to overcome the
challenges of performing PD in distributed design teams, namely
Distributed Participatory Design (DPD).
This one-day workshop hosted at CHI 2008 (www.chi2008.org) aims to explore
the challenges and solutions of DPD. We are particularly interested in
hearing about successes and failures of processes and tools used in DPD.
Thus, the workshop will address, but is not limited to, the following
questions:
What are the challenges performing DPD?
How can we effectively support DPD?
Before the workshop:
Both researchers and practitioners with an interest in DPD are invited to
submit a 2 to 4 page position paper presenting experiences from a DPD case
study. We provide a template available at www.distributedpd.com.
Before the workshop small groups of participants, based on interests, will
be asked to collaboratively work together on a presentation. This
presentation will be presented by the groups at the workshop.
During the workshop:
During the first part of the day, the pre-workshop results will be
presented, followed by discussions and elicitations of themes. The second
part of the day is dedicated to group work, resulting in a poster to be
presented at the CHI 2008 conference.
After the workshop:
After the workshop the website will continue to act as a resource for
those interested in DPD. We have also agreed with the editors of the
British HCI Group’s Interfaces magazine an article to disseminate an
overview of the workshop’s activities and its outcomes to the wider CHI
community.
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submissions: October 3rd 2007, 5:00PM (PDT).
Submissions should be e-mailed to: [log in to unmask]
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on November 28th 2007.
For more information:
Please visit www.distributedpd.com and www.chi2008.org
All the best,
The DPD Workshop Committee - Karin Danielsson, Amir Naghsh, Dorina Gumm
and Andrew Warr
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