Dear list members - DPPI 2013 is very much alive, please find the call for
submissions below. Please distribute to anyone or anywhere of interest.

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Call for submissions

Poetics and Praxis: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2013

3rd ­ 5th September 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/dppi

We are excited to invite submissions for the 6th International conference
on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, hosted by Northumbria
University at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK 3rd ­ 5th of
September 2013. DPPI is a leading venue for designers, artists,
psychologists, systems engineers, social scientists and many more to come
together to debate and define future design research and practice. This
year's conference is hosted by Northumbria University (UK) and will be
held on the riverbanks of the Tyne in the glorious BALTIC, Centre for
Contemporary Art between the 3-5 of September 2013. DPPI 2013 will also be
co-located with the first biannual Research Through Design conference
http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/researchthroughdesign/.

THEME
This year's conference theme is Poetics and Praxis. With this year's theme
we wish to reflect on the great changes that have occurred in design
research, human-computer interaction and interaction design since the
first DPPI conference in 2003. We wish to celebrate the diversification
and growth of research studying and exploring the role of fun, enjoyment,
pleasure, intimacy and emotion as a central feature of the everyday
experience of products, services and technologies and as resources for new
design ideas. As an interdisciplinary venue, DPPI welcomes submissions
from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds including: design,
human-computer interaction, engineering, the arts and humanities, social
science and psychology. We call for the submission of a broad range of
research outcomes related to the experiential, emotional and aesthetic
qualities of design as it relates to graphical, tangible and wearable
interfaces. Specifically, however, we encourage submissions addressing the
diversity of poetics in design, such as:


* Desire
* Creativity
* Art
* Sexuality
* Spirituality
* Craft
* Tradition
* Talent
* Gaming
* Play
* Humour
* Embodiment
* Mythology
* Sublimity
* Utopianism


Papers published at DPPI 2013 are archival publications and therefore
represent a significant contribution to interaction design, product design
and human-computer interaction research and practice.

All submissions should be formatted using the DPPI 2013 Word template
<http://di.ncl.ac.uk/dppi2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DPPI-2013-Format.d
oc>. Sorry LaTex users, but it is not supported by DPPI. Papers should be
no longer than 10 pages. All submissions should be anonymised for peer
review and submitted via the DPPI precision conference submission system
(currently not open, but check the website again soon).

IMPORTANT DATES
1st June 2013: Submission deadline
8th July 2013: Author notifications
24th July 2013: Camera-ready deadline
3rd-5th September 2013: DPPI 2013 conference

PAPER REVIEWING
All papers will be rigorously double blind reviewed by members of the
conference programme committee and peer experts. This year, the DPPI
organisers are trialling a novel method of peer review whereby all
submitting authors agree to review three other submissions to the
conference (that is three reviews per submission, not per author). The
programme committee may ask authors for specific changes as a condition of
publication based upon the reviews.

If you have any questions at all, please contact the conference general
chairs at the following email address: [log in to unmask]

PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Jeffrey Bardzell, Indiana University, USA
Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University, USA

DPPI 2013 GENERAL CHAIRS
Mark Blythe ­ Northumbria University, UK
John Vines ­ Newcastle University, UK
Jonathan Hook ­ Newcastle University, UK


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