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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 8 Number 11, Nov 2003 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o On-line Conference, Design in the University
o FUTUREGROUND Final Call for Abstracts
o Design Studies Special Edition Common Ground - Contents
o Design Issues - Contents
o Calls
o Announcements
o Books
o Web
o The Design Research Society: information
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to Design Research News
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EDITOR'S SPACE
Please note the special online conference just starting on
PhD-Design.
End of November is the closing date for abstracts for the DRS
Conference FUTUREGROUND - please see the final call below.
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DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSITY: AN ON-LINE CONFERENCE
This month, the editors of Design Research News invite you to
participate in an unusual on-line conference titled "Design in
the University." The conference will convene on the PhD-Design
list to examine the issues, challenges, and problems of planning
university level design education. What makes this conference
unusual is the fact that the keynote "speakers" will focus on a
specific project: the proposal for a new school of design at the
University of California, Irvine.
In the fall of 2000, the University of California at Irvine
established a committee to develop a proposal for a new design
school. Their mandate was to plan a school balancing inquiry
into the nature of design and the design process with training
in professional design practice. To write its report and guide
the university debate, the committee studied today's leading
design schools while working with a wide range of experts to
plan the university-level design school of the future.
The committee faced two major challenges. One was economic. The
new design school would have to contribute to the economic
growth and prosperity of a complex multi-cultural state
positioned at the edge of the increasingly important economy of
the larger Pacific region.
The second challenge was quality - conceptual, intellectual, and
professional. The new school must further and advance the work
of one of the world's great universities, enhancing the
university while drawing on its resources.
After two years of work studying everything from design programs
and best practices in curriculum planning to demographic trends
and professional development, the committee delivered its
report. The June 2003 issues of Design Research News reviewed
the report:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html
The report is available in free .pdf download at
http://www.evc.uci.edu/growth/design/SoD-proposal.pdf
This on-line conference offers you an opportunity to meet the
committee, to reflect on the questions they asked, and to ask
questions of your own.
Speakers at the on-line conference will include committee
chairman professor Richard Taylor of information and computer
science, professors Kristen Day and Sanjoy Mazumdar of urban and
regional planning, professor Alladi Venkatesh of management, as
well as Michael Clark, professor of English and comparative
literature and associate executive vice chancellor for academic
planning.
Respondents include professors Lorraine Justice, head of
industrial design at Georgia Technical University, Keith Russell
of Newcastle University in Australia, Charles Burnette of the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Christene Nippert-Eng of
Illinois Institute of Technology, and David Durling of
Staffordshire University.
The conference open on November 10, convened by Ken Friedman of
the Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School.
Following a brief introduction, Prof. Taylor will lead off and
Prof. Justice will respond. This will be followed by two or
three brief invited comments. The floor will then be open for
conversation among the speakers. At this point, any conference
participant will be free to ask questions or to offer comments.
The first session will last for four days. The second session
will open with Prof. Day, following a similar four-day format.
Prof. Mazumdar will speak third, followed by Prof. Venkatesh.
Vice Chancellor Clark will speak last.
This conference offers participants a chance to benefit from the
three-year process of research and development at the University
of California, Irvine.
In today's economic climate, few universities - and fewer design
schools - will have the budgetary resources to build (or
rebuild) design education on the level of a new purpose-built
school. What this conference offers to existing schools is an
opportunity to learn from improvements and changes implemented
elsewhere, adapting them to local needs and opportunities as
they shape programs for the future.
To participate in this conference, please go to URL
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html
Click on the line that reads
Join or leave the list
Follow the on-screen instructions to join.
We hope you will join us in what promises to be an extraordinary
on-line event with speakers and participants from around the
world.
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FUTUREGROUND - FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
End of November is the final date for your 500 word abstract for
the DRS International Design Conference FUTUREGROUND. Calls for
astracts closes on 28th November 2003.
Monash University, one of Australia's leading research
universities, is proud to host the Design Research Society
International Conference during November 2004 in Melbourne.
The theme is 'FUTUREGROUND', and it will feature leading-edge
design research from the international research community.
Supporting the central theme will be discourse around design as
both cultural activity and production; mapping the discipline's
development; and research in an industrial context.
For more information on the 'Call for Papers', go to
http://www.futureground.monash.edu.au
Please note that submissions are invited for oral presentations,
poster presentations, 3D poster/exhibition presentations, as
well as presentations in the form of CD or DVD displays.
Abstracts and papers are to be submitted in English. However,
where appropriate, English language editorial support may be
provided prior to the finalisation of papers.
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* DESIGN STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE: COMMON GROUND
The November 2003 issue (Volume 24, Number 6) of Design
Studies is a special issue containing a small selection of
papers from the DRS 2002 conference 'Common Ground'.
Contents:
Editorial to: Common ground
N. Cross
pp 473
Teaching the writing and role of specifications via a
structured teardown process
T. Abe, P. Starr
pp 475-489
The nature of intuitive use of products: an experimental
approach
A. Blackler, V. Popovic, D. Mahar
Theory construction in design research: criteria:
approaches, and methods
K. Friedman
pp 507-522
Dialogue in participatory design
R. Luck
pp 523-535
Telling tales: understanding the role of narrative in the
design of taxonomic software
S. Turner, P. Turner
pp 537-547
For more information about Design Studies visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/destud
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* Design Issues 19:4 Fall Contents
Introduction
Dennis Doordan
On Materials
Bruce Hanington
Methods in the Making: A Perspective on the State of Human
Research in Design
David Cabianca
Note on the AIGA 365 Debate
Carl Mitchum
In Memoriam: Ivan Illich: Critic of Professionalized Design
Martin Racine with Alain Findeli
Julien Hebert and the Emergence of Industrial Design in
Canada
James Fathers
Peripheral Vision: An Interview with Gui Bonsiepe Charting a
Lifetime of Commitment to Design
Sarah Teasley
Furnishing the Modern Metropolitan: Moriya Nobuo's Designs
for Domestic Interiors 1922?1927
Cal Swann
Icons of the Bush
Artemis Yagou
Facing the West: Greece in the Great Exhibition of 1851
Notes and Observations
Jennifer Jue-Steuck
John J. Graham: Behind the Peacock's Plumage
Book Reviews
Victor Margolin
Avant-Garde Book Design, 1900-1950<P> by Jaroslav Andel
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CALLS
* 2 July 2004: Research into practice conference
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The third international biennial conference on the
foundations of practice-based research in art and design
will be convened at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
The theme of RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2004 is: What is the
role of the artefact in art and design research?
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/res2prac/confhome.htm
* 12-14 July 2004: Design and Emotion 2004: Second
Announcement
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: November 28, 2003
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN AND EMOTION
Middle East Technical University - Ankara, Turkey
Middle East Technical University (METU) will host the 4th
International Conference on Design and Emotion in July 2004.
The venue will be METU Cultural & Convention Center,
situated in the richly forested University Campus.
We invite researchers, practitioners and students as well as
companies and research institutes from all over the world to
take part in this stimulating event by submitting an
abstract.
For up-to-date information on the conference themes,
submission categories and guidelines, key dates,
international panel of reviewers, confirmed keynote
speakers, and the conference venue, please visit the
conference web site regularly at:
http://www.de2004.metu.edu
* 28-30 June 2004: Design & Nature 2004
Second International Conference: Comparing Design in Nature
with Science and Engineering is to take place in Rhodes,
Greece.
I am currently preparing the programme for the conference
and do hope that you can participate. This successful
conference has attracted the interest of many of our
colleagues around the world and continues to update the
international scientific community through the subsequent
distribution of the conference book and the permanent
archive of conference papers in the WIT eLibrary on our
website.
If you wish to present a paper, I will need to receive your
abstract now so that we can incorporate your work into the
conference programme. At this stage, I only need a short
abstract (200 words or so) plus the title of the paper and
name(s) of the author(s) with affiliation(s) and full
particulars of the corresponding author.
Please note that the paper deadline is 26th March 2004,
however if you need any additional time please contact me or
the Conference Secretariat, Katie Banham, Tel: 44 (0) 238
029 3223 or Email: [log in to unmask]
For further information about the conference, you can visit:
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2004/design2004/2.html
* 2-3 September 2004 Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands
2nd INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION
CONFERENCE: THE CHANGING FACE OF DESIGN EDUCATION
We are pleased to announce the 2nd International Engineering
and Product Design Engineering Conference, organized by the
TU Delft in participation with the Design Education Special
Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design Society, the UK
institution of Engineering Designers, and the Royal
Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI).
The conference aims to explore best practices and new
directions for design education in the multidisciplinary
context of new product development. Papers are invited in
the following categories:
- Theories of Design education
- Styles of teaching and learning
- Computer support for learning
- Curriculum development
- Assessing design competence
- Models of industrial and cross-discipline collaboration
- The changing role of the design studio
- International exchanges
Those wishing to submit a paper should first submit an
extended abstract of 600 words by December 19th 2003 via the
conference website. Abstracts and final papers will be
reviewed by two referees. There will be a published
proceedings of the conference. Further information is
available by from Peter Lloyd ([log in to unmask]).
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/iepde04
* DIS2004 CALL FOR PANEL SESSION Deadline March 12, 2004
Do you have a compelling, provocative or fun perspective on
designing interactive systems? Are you an artist, designer,
technologist, researcher, academic, business expert,
scientist, cultural specialist or someone else whose work is
enmeshed with interactive systems design? We would like to
invite you to bring your ideas to DIS 2004!
This is a call for panel sessions for DIS2004 Deadline: 12
March 2004 Panels Co-chairs: Michael Smyth and Tracee Wolf
DIS2004: ACROSS THE SPECTRUM http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004
Be a part of Designing Interactive Systems 2004! We would
like to invite you to bring your ideas to DIS2004 in the
form of an interactive panel session. 'Across the Spectrum'
encourages an interdisciplinary community to express
emergent opportunities and challenges of new and future
interactive systems, be it for systems design theory, new
design methodologies or reflecting on design practice. We'd
love to hear from you!
Themes Check out the DIS2004 website for the full version
(http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004). - Inter-disciplinary design
and the contributions of different cultures within design. -
Work processes and social processes. - Information systems
as interactive systems. - The body and design - Emotion and
aesthetics.
* 21-25 July 2004: EISTA '04 International Conference on
Education and Information Systems: Technologies and
Applications Orlando, Florida, USA
EISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit
their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas
based on analogical thinking, problems that require
solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the
fields of Education/Training and Information/Communication
Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present
their research results. Practitioners and consultants are
invited to present case study papers and innovative
solutions. Corporations are invited to present
education/training information systems and software based
solutions. Teachers and University professors are invited to
present case studies, information systems developed for
specific purposes, and innovative ideas and designs.
Educational scientists and technologists are invited to
present research or position papers on the impact and the
future possibilities of ICT in educational systems and
training processes and methodologies. Manager of educational
organizations and training consultants are invited to
present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or
solutions that might be improved by different approaches and
design in ICT.
All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel
sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT
researchers/practitioners and teachers/professors.
http://www.confinf.org/eista04
* 13-15 November 2003: Emotional Intelligence: Knowns &
Unknowns - ETS, Princeton, NJ
This workshop brings together 21 of the top researchers from
around the world who specialize in emotion, individual
differences in related constructs (e.g., personality,
intelligence), and assessment to resolve empirical,
conceptual, and practical limitations currently facing
scientific progress towards understanding emotional
intelligence. Among those who will be presenting are Paul
Ekman, Richard Lane, Jack Mayer and Klaus Scherer.
The venue for the workshop will be the Chauncey Conference
Center on the ETS campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Located
in 370 private woodland acres, the facility features a
200-seat auditorium, where the conference will be held. The
workshop is cosponsored by Educational Testing Service
(ETS), Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), and
U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI).
The purpose of this workshop is to attempt to provide a
scientific definition and taxonomic model of emotional
intelligence and to explore assessment and applications of
the construct. The workshop will consist of five sessions,
organized around the following themes:
- Emotions: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Emotions: Psychological Perspectives
- Related Constructs
- Assessment
- Applications
http://www.ets.org/research/conferences/ei.html
* Call for Papers: Journal of the Association for Information
Systems (JAIS) SPECIAL ISSUE ON "ONTOLOGIES IN THE CONTEXT
OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS"
Ontology as 'the metaphysical study of the nature of being
and existence' is as old as the discipline of philosophy.
More recently, ontology has been defined as 'the science of
what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties,
events, processes, and relations in every area of reality.'
While it remains a fertile area of research in the field of
philosophy, ontology has been a subject matter of inquiry,
development, and application for quite some time now in
disciplines related to computation, information, and
knowledge. Recently there has been an explosion in the
interest and application of ontological principles in a
number of disciplines, including chemistry, enterprise
management, geography, linguistics, mathematics, medicine,
etc., to create domain-specific ontologies. As a result,
while the philosophy discipline still treats ontology in the
singular because it deals with the nature of all reality,
other disciplines take a rather narrower view of ontology
and use it only in the limited context of domain-specific
reality. Consequently, there is no more ontology but
ontologies, and each individual ontology in a particular
domain deals with only a limited portion of reality that is
pertinent to that domain. The goal behind creating
domain-specific ontologies is to structure and codify
knowledge about the concepts, relationships, and
axioms/constraints pertaining to that domain in a
computational format so that it can be manipulated and
utilized by the computer to aid human and machine agents in
their performance of tasks within the domain.
Ontologies can become a fruitful subject of inquiry and
development in the information systems (IS) discipline.
Information systems are essentially knowledge artifacts that
capture and represent knowledge about certain domains (e.g.
in the form of entities, relationships, constraints, and
processes). Consequently, IS professionals and researchers
have traditionally dealt with issues of identifying,
capturing, and representing such domain knowledge within
information systems. Philosophical ontology has been
utilized in the IS discipline in the past as a basis for
evaluating systems analysis modeling techniques and
grammars. Ontological principles have also informed the
development of organizational knowledge ontologies and
knowledge management systems. Clearly, this area of work
remains a fertile area for research. Recently the notion of
'ontology-driven information systems' (ODIS) has also been
proposed that opens up new ways of thinking about ontologies
and IS in conjunction with each other and covers both the
structural and the temporal dimensions of information
systems. In the structural dimension, ontologies can provide
mechanisms for structuring and storing generic IS content
including database schemas, user interface objects, and
application programs that can be customized and integrated
into a functioning IS. In the temporal dimension, ontologies
can guide the development of new information systems by
helping analysts/designers choose appropriate processes,
algorithms, rules, and software components depending upon
their needs. It has also been suggested recently that
ontologies, frameworks, and systems are essentially
knowledge artifacts at different levels of knowledge
abstraction and, therefore, systems can be generated from
bounded-universe ontologies through specialization and
combination. It also appears that the emerging paradigms
such as web services and the semantic web will enable the
large-scale development, deployment, and sharing of
ontologies and ontology-driven information systems.
The special issue of JAIS invites high-quality conceptual,
analytical and empirical articles representing original
contributions dealing with the design, technical,
managerial, behavioral, and organizational aspects of
ontology-driven information systems.
http://www.mgt.buffalo.edu/jais_special_issue_on_ontologies
* 2-3 September 2004 Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands
2nd International Engineering and Product Design Education
Conference: The Changing Face of Design Education
We are pleased to announce the 2nd International and Product
Design Engineering Conference, organized by the TU Delft in
participation with the Design Education Special Interest
Group (DESIG) of the Design Society, the UK institution of
Engineering Designers, and the Royal Institution of
Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI).
The conference aims to explore best practices and new
directions for design education in the multidisciplinary
context of new development. Papers are invited in the
following categories:
- Theories of Design education
- Styles of teaching and learning
- Computer support for learning
- Curriculum development
- Assessing design competence
- Models of industrial and cross-discipline collaboration
- The changing role of the design studio
- International exchanges
Those wishing to submit a paper should first submit an
extended abstract of 600 words by December 19th 2003 via the
conference website. Abstracts and final papers will be
reviewed by two referees. There will be a published
proceedings of the conference. Further information is
available by from Peter Lloyd ([log in to unmask])
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/iepde04
* DIS2004 call for participation
Call for participation for ACM Designing Interactive Systems
2004 The conference theme is 'Across the Spectrum' and it
will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1-4 August 2004.
DIS2004 will explore the many ways the diverse elements
involved in design together influence both process and
result. Co-chairs are David Benyon, Napier University, and
Paul Moody, IBM Research. Deadline for full papers and
design cases: 10 December 2003. Other submissions: 12 March
2004.
http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004/participate/
* DIS2004 CALL FOR PANEL SESSION Deadline March 12, 2004
Do you have a compelling, provocative or fun perspective on
designing interactive systems? Are you an artist, designer,
technologist, researcher, academic, business expert,
scientist, cultural specialist or someone else whose work is
enmeshed with interactive systems design? We would like to
invite you to bring your ideas to DIS 2004!
This is a call for panel sessions for DIS2004 Deadline: 12
March 2004 Panels Co-chairs: Michael Smyth and Tracee Wolf
DIS2004: ACROSS THE SPECTRUM http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004
Be a part of Designing Interactive Systems 2004! We would
like to invite you to bring your ideas to DIS2004 in the
form of an interactive panel session. 'Across the Spectrum'
encourages an interdisciplinary community to express
emergent opportunities and challenges of new and future
interactive systems, be it for systems design theory, new
design methodologies or reflecting on design practice. We'd
love to hear from you!
Themes Check out the DIS2004 website for the full version
(http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004). - Inter-disciplinary design
and the contributions of different cultures within design. -
Work processes and social processes. - Information systems
as interactive systems. - The body and design - Emotion and
aesthetics.
* 21-25 July 2004: EISTA '04 International Conference on
Education and Information Systems: Technologies and
Applications Orlando, Florida, USA
EISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit
their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas
based on analogical thinking, problems that require
solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the
fields of Education/Training and Information/Communication
Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present
their research results. Practitioners and consultants are
invited to present case study papers and innovative
solutions. Corporations are invited to present
education/training information systems and software based
solutions. Teachers and University professors are invited to
present case studies, information systems developed for
specific purposes, and innovative ideas and designs.
Educational scientists and technologists are invited to
present research or position papers on the impact and the
future possibilities of ICT in educational systems and
training processes and methodologies. Manager of educational
organizations and training consultants are invited to
present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or
solutions that might be improved by different approaches and
design in ICT.
All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel
sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT
researchers/practitioners and teachers/professors.
http://www.confinf.org/eista04
* 13-15 November 2003: Emotional Intelligence: Knowns &
Unknowns - ETS, Princeton, NJ
This workshop brings together 21 of the top researchers from
around the world who specialize in emotion, individual
differences in related constructs (e.g., personality,
intelligence), and assessment to resolve empirical,
conceptual, and practical limitations currently facing
scientific progress towards understanding emotional
intelligence. Among those who will be presenting are Paul
Ekman, Richard Lane, Jack Mayer and Klaus Scherer.
The venue for the workshop will be the Chauncey Conference
Center on the ETS campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Located
in 370 private woodland acres, the facility features a
200-seat auditorium, where the conference will be held. The
workshop is cosponsored by Educational Testing Service
(ETS), Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), and
U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI).
The purpose of this workshop is to attempt to provide a
scientific definition and taxonomic model of emotional
intelligence and to explore assessment and applications of
the construct. The workshop will consist of five sessions,
organized around the following themes:
- Emotions: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Emotions: Psychological Perspectives
- Related Constructs
- Assessment
- Applications
http://www.ets.org/research/conferences/ei.html
* September - November 2004: The Biennale of Electronic Arts
Perth
OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEDIA WORKS, PAPERS, PERFORMANCES AND
WORKSHOPS
BEAP2004 SameDifference is a festival of electronic and
biological art examining the cutting edge of critical work
and thinking in relationship to technology.
Artists and researchers from all disciplines who are
involved in exploring through theory and practice
inter-relationships between notions of Difference and the
Denial of Difference are invited to submit applications to
present workshops, papers, performances or new work.
Applicants should base their projects within the thematic
scope of SameDifference - an investigation of notions of
'Difference', focusing on:
1. Sonic-Differences
2. Bio-Differences
3. Data-Differences
4. Perceptual-Differences
5. Distributed-Differences
http://www.beap.org
* 2-5 July 2004: Bi-annual conference on Design & Decision
Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning. We
cordially invite you to participate in the 7th conference of
this series, which will be held near Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.
All details about this call for papers can be found on the
conference website, where you can also pre-register and
submit abstracts.
The topics invited for the conference include:
- Developments in Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Developments in Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD)
- Multimedia applications in CAAD and GIS
- (Augmented) Virtual Environments
- (Multi) Agent technology
- Design theory and evaluation
- Knowledge-based systems and conceptual modelling
- Neural networks
- Product and process modelling
- User interfaces and human-computer interaction
- Visualisation, computer vision, and image processing
- Collaborative design
- Simulation of users and/or the built environment
- Genetic algorithms
- Database technologies
Abstracts are due 1 December 2003.
http://www.ddss.arch.tue.nl/conference/2004
* Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on
Information Design Models and Processes
Special issue Editor: David Lowe University of Technology,
Sydney
Submission deadline: 15 December 2003 Publication: April
2004
Submissions are invited for a special issue of the
Information Management theme of JoDI on information design
models and processes.
A crucial aspect of Web systems is the way in which
information is utilised and managed. Recent work on areas as
diverse as topic maps, information architectures, adaptation
of UML, agile development methods such as extreme
programming, and modelling for the semantic Web, have all
contributed to an emerging understanding of how to design
the information structures that underpin the Web (and of
course much of this work has in turn been informed by
research in areas like hypertext and HCI). Despite this the
research outcomes have had questionable impact on current
commercial practice - something of significant concern as
Web systems mature and become an increasingly integral
element of our social infrastructure.
Much work remains on supporting the wide adoption of
emerging modelling approaches and development processes.
There are numerous unanswered questions around aspects such
as: what these models ought to capture; how they relate
information design to functional design; and how the design
process accommodates changing client and developer
understanding of information designs during the development.
This special issue will focus on how this body of work might
best support practical improvement to Web system
development.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/infomodels.html
* 22-24 July 2004: Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design,
VR'04 Third International Conference MIT, Cambridge, USA
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/vr04/
* 5-7 April 2004: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS evoMUSART 2004 2nd
European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, Coimbra,
Portugal
EvoMUSART2004 is the second workshop of the EvoNet working
group on evolutionary music and art.
The application of Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques
for the development of creative systems is a new, exciting
and significant area of research. There is a growing
interest in the application of these techniques in fields
such as: art and music generation, analysis and
interpretation; architecture; and design.
The goal of evoMUSART2004 is to bring together researchers
that are using EC in this context, providing the opportunity
to promote, present and discuss ongoing work on the area.
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/
* 15-18 April 2004: 21st Annual Association of Management
(AoM) Conference at the Waterside Marriott Hotel in Norfolk,
Virginia USA.
We are featuring 20 sections/divisions with some 400 topical
interest areas in management, education, health care,
technology, and etc., inclusive of those consisting of new
ideas and those that expound unshackled creativity. We aim
to make this an extraordinary academic conference with
exceptional scholarly work and seek to have you with us. As
in the past, an accepted paper submitted by you would be
eligible for immediate publication in the 2004 conference
proceedings, and possibly, after the conference, in one of
AoMs academic journals, once author enhancement of said
completes journal publication requirements. Generally, this
would typically be in APA writing style consisting of some
4000 words. AoM would like very much to feature your
presentation in conference and the paper/article in its
proceedings and leading academic journal publications.
Example: The Journal of Management Systems (JMS), The
Journal of Information Technology (JITM), or Computer
Systems Information Management (CSIM).
Let us hear from you. In the meantime, please visit our
conference site at:
http://www.aom-iaom.org
* 19-21 July 2004: DCC'04, First International Conference on
Design Computing and Cognition, to be held at MIT,
Cambridge, USA.
This new biennial conference series provides an
international forum for the presentation and discussion of
state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research. The
conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of
design computing and cognition research. The conference will
be preceded by a series of half-day workshops on specialist
topics in design computing and cognition.
The conference is soliciting full papers that will be
rigorously refereed by an international board of reviewers
and accepted papers will be published as a book. In addition
posters describing ongoing research are being sought.
Authors of selected papers may be invited to participate in
special issues of AIEDAM, International Journal of Design
Computing, or Automation in Construction.
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/dcc04/
* 30 June - 1 July 2005: 2nd International Meeting, PRIDE AND
PRE-DESIGN, The Cultural Heritage and the Science of Design,
Lisbon - Portugal
The scope of the conference is to evaluate the links between
the cultural heritage and the projectual culture. It will be
focused on rewriting the idea of Material Culture. This
concept, discharged from its materialist stigmata, is useful
to understand broad frameworks that links Science, Art and
Design.
One of the major results of "Senses & Sensibility" meeting
was that people using different methodologies from sciences,
engineering and design found numerous platforms in which
they could talk about related issues. With P&P we aim to
gather, also, artists and historians to this group. Although
this is a fact, we are interested, mostly, on the
contemporary use of cultural heritage. Findings about what
was the real author of a particular sculpture the mausoleum
of an obscure rich man from Braga in the XVIII Century or
what was Caravaggio last meal are not recommended.
The scope of the meeting is to show and discuss how the
design sciences are linked (directly or indirectly) to each
one's cultural heritage, from artefacts or science knowledge
to works of art. We also remind you that cultural heritage
starts yesterday and discussions on relations between
contemporary art and design are welcome.
In short, we are focused in culture, material culture, or
even e-material culture for which the cultural heritage is
the knowledgeable starting point.
http://www.iade.pt/pp2005/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
* 4 December 2003: EPMF 4, ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT
FORUM. Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George
Street, Westminster SW1.
The Engineering Project Management Forum promotes Project
Management in all organisations. Project Management helps
organisations drive up profitability and competitiveness.
Project Management is a Key Management Competency and a
critical element of Management Performance.
All enquiries including bookings: Steve Wake, EPMF Chairman
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* 3 Oct - 5 Dec, 2003: Experimental Arabic Type: Breaking
Away from a Rich Tradition
The Special Collections Gallery University Library Amsterdam
(UvA), Singel 425.
http://www.uba.uva.nl/actueel/tentoonstellingen.cfm
* The Journal of Industrial Ecology has just published a
special issue on electronic commerce, the Internet and the
environment.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/JIE/e-commerce
* Announcement: new educators list - ATypI Educators
Discussion List.
The purpose of this new list is to provide a forum for
people who are teaching or have taught typography and
typeface design (using the terms in a wide and inclusive
interpretation) to discuss issues currently relevant in
design education. The objective is to create channels of
communication between educators so that we may exchange and
benefit from others' experience, and to help establish
common themes of concern amongst educators that may feed
back into teaching agendas (for example, how are legal
aspects of typefaces taught in design programmes).
Furthermore, several issues relating to the development of
an "e-agenda" in Higher and Further Education may face
particular difficulties in application to practice-based
fields, which HE/FE administrators may not always be best
informed about; this forum could help educators glean useful
information on developments in other institutions.
Acknowledging the risk of excluding members with potentially
valuable contributions, at this stage we would like to limit
membership to past and present educators, rather than just
people with a view on teaching design but without relevant
experience. We hope this restriction will allow discussions
to move forward swiftly without undue contextualisations or
digressions, while allowing every participant to contribute
constructively with personal experience. At the same time,
the list is also set it up initially so that educators don't
have to be members, so non-member educators who may have
been following the AtypI members list silently are welcome
to join.
To join, please send a message with the subject 'subscribe'
to <[log in to unmask]>. Mark Barratt is
responsible for member approval, and I have been asked to be
list moderator. Once membership is approved, new list
members will be expected to post a message to the list with
a brief statement of where they gained their teaching
experience, and what their main concerns are. This will help
us get some idea of the membership background and interests.
Posts to the list will be archived and available to list
members.
* One of the major forums of CSCW, the 8th European Conference
on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/ ) was successfully held in
Helsinki in last September, and we have now a limited
number of leftover proceedings (396 pages) available.
Proceedings contain 20 state-of -art papers on CSCW, and
although only one paper (Iacucci & Wagner: Supporting
collaboration ubiquitously: An augmented learning
environment for architecture students) is directly
addressing the field of design, most of the other papers
also explore issues very relevant to IT-mediated cooperative
design work.
The table of contents, cover images and the ordering
information is available at
http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/ecscw_03_proceedings.htm
* 19-20 November 2003: Beyond the Exam: Innovative Approaches
to Learning and Assessment, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
UK.
Digital technologies may offer the opportunity to test
better, test faster and test more effectively. This
conference explores whether these technologies can also
revolutionise our approach to assessment, enabling us to
encourage and measure the full range of complex skills
required for life in the digital age and to develop a system
that fully supports learning.
In bringing together the technology, education, policy,
media and academic sectors and by combining studies of
assessment with detailed examples of innovative practice,
this conference provides the first coherent debate on how to
shift our thinking of assessment beyond the exam hall in the
digital age.
http://www.nestafuturelab.org/events.htm
* Information Design Journal
Contents Volume 11, number 1, 2002/2003
- Editorial introduction: From avionics to aviation
information architecture
Piet Westendorp & Karel van der Waarde
THEME: Information design for Air traffic
- Displays in air traffic control: Arrival/Departure
coordination
Markus Ort
- Designing for the future advanced controller displays.
Ed Knapen & Ernst Kesseler
- Computer graphics in the cockpit.
Erik Theunissen & Tim Etherington
- Displaying multi-domain graphical databases: an evaluation
of scanning clutter, display size, and user activity.
Paul Kroft & Christopher Wickens
CARTOON Romedi Passini
CONFERENCE: InfoDesign 2000 conference Coventry
- A model of genre in document layout
Judy Delin, John Bateman, Patrick Allen
- Social issues infotainment: Using emotions and
entertainment to attract readers' attention in social issues
leaflets.
Judy Gregory
- Designing Information Design
Dino Karabeg
Selected conference summaries
- Caroline Jarrett
- Mary Dyson
- Frances Rock
- Yuri Engelhardt
- Nigel Power
- Audrey Cantley
- David Sless
SUMMARY OF AN INFODESIGN-CAFE DISCUSSION
- Classifying information types
Michael Andrews
BOOK REVIEW
Language and Communication: Essential concepts for user
interface and documentation design. By Agnes Kukulska-Hulme.
Review by Michael J. Albers
http://www.benjamins.com/idj
* 2-4 December 2003: Seongnam 2003, world design forum.
Emerging Asia and Design Business Strategy
Registration on
http://www.worlddesignforum.org
6F Design Convention Hall,Korea Design Center,South Korea.
Endorsed by ICSID
* Research Issues in Art, Design and Media ISSN 1474-2365
ISSUE No.5 - The Ethical Dimension of Aesthetic Research by
Clive Caseaux
Website: http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/
* Director, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Faculty
of Applied Science (www.surrey.sfu.ca) Simon Fraser
University, Canada
The Director will lead one of the newest and most dynamic
schools in Canada. The School has the goal of becoming an
international leader in its field and the Director will have
the opportunity to play a major role in its continuing
development. The School has programs in interaction design,
performance and media art, art and design technology and is
developing new offerings in related emerging areas. The
successful candidate will have an accomplished record of
scholarship and teaching in at least one of these areas,
along with proven leadership skills in an academic setting.
PhD or equivalent is required. For more information
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* 31 October - 30 November 2003: Otto Neurath: ISOTYPE and the
development of modern global signs Milan, Triennale
Aiap and Triennale di Milano present an exhibition dedicated
to the work of Otto Neurath (1882-1945) Austrian
sociologist, political economist and philosopher, who
invented a new method for the display of quantitative
information. The 'Vienna Method' for such displays, also
called Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture
Education) was developed in collaboration with Gerd Arntz
(1900-1988). Besides Neurath and Arntz's work, the
exhibition shows the further developments of Isotype, and
its influence on 20th century visual communication.
http://www.triennale.it
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BOOKS
* Squires, Susan, and Bryan Byrne, editors. 2002.
Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of
Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development
Industry. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey.
Creating Breakthrough Ideas came about from a desire of the
editors of the book to learn more about, and improve, their
own working processes. The editors pull from a variety of
authors in a variety of areas in relation to design,
ethnography, and the customer experience. The book covers
four areas of inquiry: Converging Professions, Creating
Collaborative Cultures, Emerging Collaborative Processes and
The Future of Design. As you can deduce from the titles of
the four sections, collaborative work is the underlying
theme that is discussed by the section authors who include:
Charles Leinbach, William Reese, Ed Sands, Christina Wasson,
Sally Ann Applin, George Walls, Rita Denny, Mark Dawson,
Heiko Sacher, Ken Friedman, Eric Arnould and the editors of
the book.
As an anthropologist, John Sherry sets the tone of the book
by emphasizing how complex consumer behavior is and how the
behavior is a prelude to "knowing what consumers are."
Sherry believes that the engineers, marketers and developers
can become partners in the anthropological research, and
excel when the methods and analysis are understood and
implemented for the design process. Squires and Byrne
reiterate Sherry's stance and expand on the globalization of
design as an impetus for collaborative enthographic
research.
In section one, Leinbach and Reese examine the historical
motivation for the collaboration of social scientists and
designers. In section two, Byrne & Sands, Wasson, and Applin
address issues related to corporate cultures and the
difficulties with conflicting agendas, and the need to
re-think corporate organization. Section three, emerging
collaborative processes is addressed by Squires, who
outlines three ethnographic platforms, Walls, who details an
eight-step process for product development, Denny, who
offers insight into working with businesspersons, Dawson,
who discusses his experience working with designers, and
Sacher, who provides a framework for both designers and
researchers. The fourth section, by Friedman, brings to bear
the realization that crafts-oriented design may need to
merge with other ways of knowing to meet global design
needs.
Squires and Byrne have brought together a collection of
chapters and essays that form a support for the needs of
collaborative work to enable breakthrough ideas. The
creativity can rest amongst the team members who act and
react within the design process. The book brings a reality
to the difficulty of collaboration but provides, through the
contributing authors, concrete methods of working in complex
business environments. The book brings a depth to the topic
that is needed in the discussion of business practices,
design processes and methods, and collaborative work. As the
first book of this kind by these editors, it would serve the
business and design community to include even more
thoughtful designers and researchers as authors to hear
additional evidence and experience with success in creating
breakthrough ideas in the collaborative environment.
-- reviewed by Lorraine Justice
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WEB
* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 51 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography
presents over 2,000 articles, books, and other printed and
electronic sources that are useful in understanding
scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
* CADE2001 web address: Following re-organisation of the
GSA's web resources, there's a small change to the web
address for the CADE 2001 conference archive:
http://www2.gsa.ac.uk/cade2001/
* University of South Australia has an excellent web site with
a rich array of learning resources.
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learningconnection/learnres
/learng/index.htm
In addition to general resources for university study, the
site offers several guides specifically developed for
students in design, architecture, engineering, and the
visual arts.
* RESEARCH PIXUS PORTAL FOR SEARCHING ACROSS SEVEN IMAGE
ARCHIVES
Pixus is the image portal demonstrator being developed for
JISC.
It will enable users to search, browse and view images from
seven important image collections. The demonstrator features
a 'lightbox' and includes the facility to save searches from
across these different collections. Pixus also offers
potential as a 'shared space' that could be developed to
mediate support and discussion of the use of images to
support the learning and teaching community as well as the
research community.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk
http://www.scran.ac.uk
* The State of the Real conference has a different web address
on the newly updated GSA website than previously advertised.
The conference can currently be found at:
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/gsa.cfm?pid=1015
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DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Design Research Society is the multi-disciplinary
international learned society for the design research community.
DRS was founded in 1967, and since then has established a
record of significant achievements in contributing to design
knowledge.
DRS has facilitated an international design research network in
40 countries comprising members who maintain contact through the
publications and activities of the Society. Members are drawn
from diverse backgrounds, not only from the traditional areas of
design, ranging from fine art to engineering, but also from
subjects like psychology and computer science.
Our interests include:
o recognising design as a creative act common to many
disciplines
o understanding research and its relationship with education
and practice
o advancing the theory and practice of design
We realise these by:
o encouraging the development of scholarship and knowledge in
design
o contributing to the development of doctoral education and
research training
o sharing knowledge across the boundaries of design disciplines
o facilitating networks to exchange and communicate ideas,
experience and research findings among members
o disseminating research findings
o promoting awareness of design research
o organising and sponsoring conferences, and publishing
proceedings
o encouraging communications between members internationally
o responding to consultative documents
o collaborating with other bodies
o lobbying on behalf of members' research interests
o recognising excellence in design research through awards
o sponsoring email discussion groups and a monthly emailed
newsletter
Membership of DRS provides:
o regular communications about research activities worldwide
o reduced subscription to Design Studies, the international
journal for design research in engineering, architecture,
products and systems. Design Studies is published by
Elsevier in cooperation with DRS
o reduced fees to DRS sponsored events
o representation of the design research community and members'
interests
o a means of identifying and contacting other members
o an opportunity to contribute to the international design
research community
For further details and an application form, contact the
membership secretary:
Professor Robert Jerrard, School of Design Research, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England,
Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK B4 7DX
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SERVICES OF THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
o Design Research News is the digital newsletter of the
Design Research Society. It communicates news about
research throughout the world. It is mailed automatically
at the beginning of each month and is free. You may
subscribe and unsubscribe at the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html
o PHD-DESIGN is a discussion list open for unmoderated
discussion on all matters related to the PhD in design.
Topics include philosophies and theories of design, research
methods, curriculum development, and relations between
theory and practice. You may subscribe and unsubscribe at
the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html
o DRS is a discussion list open for unmoderated discussion
on all matters related to design research. You may
subscribe and unsubscribe at the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/drs.html
o Design Studies is the International Journal for Design
Research in Engineering, Architecture, Products and Systems,
which is published in co-operation with the Design Research
Society.
DRS members can subscribe to the journal at special rates.
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/inca/30409/
o The DRS QCR - quarterly council report is sent via
email to full members of the Design Research Society. It
includes a selection of edited reports from international
Council members and Council Officers received from time to
time.
o Full information about the Design Research Society may
be found at:
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Information to the editor Dr David Durling, Director, Advanced
Research Institute, Staffordshire University, UK.
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Book information and suggestions for reviews should be
sent to the book review editor Dr Ken Friedman, Norwegian
School of Management, Oslo, and Advanced Research Institute,
Staffordshire University, UK. <[log in to unmask]>
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