A Call for Submissions
Dialectic, the scholarly journal of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Design Educators Community (DEC)
Volume 6, issue 1
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The ninth overall issue of Dialectic is slated for publication in the late winter or early spring of 2024 by University of Michigan Publishing and AIGA DEC. This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is now accepting submissions across eight subject matter categories in research, scholarship, and criticism in and around design education, research, scholarship and practice and their intersections. To learn more about these categories, and how to effectively prepare a manuscript, please visit the following URLs:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/what-we-publish
and
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/submit
Please note: submissions not meeting our standards for manuscript preparation (i.e. improperly formatted or structured, and/or poorly written from a grammatical/syntactical standpoint, and/or don’t follow the guidelines articulated in the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style) will NOT be considered. All potential authors are responsible for meeting these standards, and for ensuring that their work does NOT exceed the word counts specified for the submissions category within which they wish to publish.
Manuscripts that require extensive, line-by-line (a.k.a. “inline”) editing will be rejected: it is expected that all authors who submit their work for critical assessment by our teams of reviewers and editors write well enough from a phrase-to-phrase, sentence-to-sentence, and paragraph-to-paragraph standpoint to NOT require a significant amount of revision. Authors who are unsure if the prose they have written is strong enough to meet our publication standards are hereby encouraged to work with personnel in their respective institution’s writing centers or workshops to ensure that their submissions will require only minimal line-by-line editing. Members of our editorial and review teams also strongly suggest that would-be authors utilize the guidelines articulated in the book The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White to ensure that their prose is clearly and precisely written, is unified structurally, and flows well.
The deadline for submissions for possible publication in Dialectic v6, i1 to be uploaded to our online submission portal is Friday, July 21, 2023 at 4:59 pm, CDT (U.S.). The URL of this portal is:
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/dialectic/submissions/
A more specifically articulated call for submissions for possible publication in Dialectic v6, i1
In addition to general submissions across our eight categories for scholarly writing, issue nine is seeking work that addresses or considers how the outcomes of a wide variety of design decision-making processes—across the realms of design education, practice and research, or some combination of these—are being affected by emerging forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Additionally, we are also seeking work that addresses or considers how the outcomes of design decision-making processes should NOT be affected by emerging forms of artificial intelligence.
We invite potential authors to consider some of the following questions as they engage in crafting their submissions:
* How might thoughtful design strategies that involve AI be formulated and enacted to deliver high levels of human control, and, at the same time also deliver high levels of automation, without compromising human autonomy and well-being? This currently occurs in devices like digital cameras and in-vehicle navigation tools. (This idea is adapted from Ben Shneiderman’s writing on behalf of the Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Group: https://hcil.umd.edu/human-centered-ai/; accessed May 7, 2023.)
* How should human characteristics such as empathy, creativity, and intuition, be supported by AI in ways that empower and enhance human performance? (Endlsey, M.R. “Supporting Human-AI Teams: Transparency, explainability, and situation awareness.” Computers in Human Behavior, 140, March (2023). Online. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222003946; accessed May 7, 2023.)
* How might emerging (i.e. student) and experienced designers best learn to develop effective methods for ensuring that the questions and other prompts/input parameters they pose to (for example) DALL-E 2, OpenAI Playground and ChatGPT, Artbreeder, NightCafe, GetIMG, and Deep Dream Generator effectively guide and fuel projects? How can designers ensure that AI does not inhibit their abilities to effectively engage in brainstorming and other idea generation processes, or, as these processes evolve, low- to mid-fidelity prototypes or code that enables functionalities for various types of digital products?
* How can human-centered AI be developed and operated to ensure human-centered design principles are effectively followed and fostered, and ensure that the cognitive capacities of individuals and groups are respected as various types of interactions transpire? (Garibay, O.O., Winslow, B., et al. “Six Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenges.” International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 39.3 (2023): pgs. 391-437. Online. Available at: https://hcil.umd.edu/human-centered-ai/; accessed May 7, 2023.)
* What are some of the most potentially adverse effects that could emanate from the kind(s) of automated decision-making that AI provokes and spawns?
* What are some of the most positively beneficial effects that could originate in or emanate from the kind(s) automated decision-making that AI provokes and spawns?
How might AI effectively augment rather than supplant human activity, and do so in ways that uphold broadly informed and empathetically rooted value systems, and that also satisfy real human needs and aspirations?
The scope and aims of Dialectic
Dialectic publishes peer-reviewed research, scholarship and criticism that contribute to the bases of knowledge that inform design education, design research and design practice. In particular, we welcome work that bridges gaps in understanding between these areas. Dialectic also publishes material that bridges gaps in understanding between design practice and academic disciplines that operate (or are perceived to operate) outside of it.
Dialectic’s advisory and editorial boards recognize that design education, research, scholarship, and professional practice exist in complicated relationships. They are broadly informed by theoretical frameworks and applications of knowledge derived from the social and applied sciences, the humanities, and other professions such as business, education, information technology and media studies. The outcomes of these synergies often result in the invention, discovery, understanding, and construction of new knowledge, innovation, and best practices. Dialectic seeks to disseminate what emerges from these endeavors and explorations.
Thank you for your time and for your consideration of this communiqué.
Michael g
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Professor Michael R. Gibson
Communication Design
Graduate Programs Coordinator, Interaction Design & Design Research<https://cvad.unt.edu/design/design-ma-ixd>
The University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
Department of Design
https://cvad.unt.edu/design/design-ma-ixd
Producer and Co-Managing Editor, Dialectic:<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic> A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design
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