CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Designing with Users for Domestic Environments: Methods, Challenges,
Lessons Learned
Workshop at ECSCW 2013
Paphos, Cyprus, 22 September 2013
Submission Deadline: 28 June 2013
https://socialmedia-community.de/ecscw13_ws
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When developing new ICT systems and applications for domestic
environments rich qualitative approaches improve the understanding of
the users integral usage of technology in their daily routines to inform
the design. This knowledge will often be reached through long-term
investigations in the users’ homes, a strong relationship with the users
and their involvement in the design and evaluation process. However,
whilst this kind of research offers valuable context insights and brings
out unexpected findings, it also presents methodological, technical and
organisational challenges for the study design and its underlying
cooperation processes. In particular, due to heterogeneous users in
households in terms of technology affinity, individual needs, age
distribution, social constellations, project expectations, it produces
particular demands to collaborate with users in the design process and
exposes a range of practical challenges.
WORKSHOP AIMS AND TOPIC:
The workshop wishes to identify a variety of practical challenges of
applied methods, collaboration with users and lessons learned from
long-term user involvement for ICT design in different domestic
contexts. Best practices should be discussed and a roadmap for
sustainable relationships for design with users developed.
For this purpose, the workshop wishes to gather research on ICT design
for domestic contexts from a wide variety and from different
perspectives in methodologies, study design and underlying research
paradigms used:
* Social/Interactive TV, also concerned with the design of value-added
applications, services, in- and output devices that can be convergent.
* Social media for social support, such as online communities with
special support for domestic and cross-generational communication
between disperse households
* ICT support for the aging society regarding social support, health and
care etc.
* Measuring energy consumption in households, also concerned with
visualizing strategies on different devices and interests in raising
awareness of users consumption
* Other technologies such as smart environments, intelligent interior
design and games supporting social interactions.
Submission are invited to the following topics, but not limited to:
* Ethnographic or observational studies on people at home
* Empirical and design methods for the home and their benefits and
straits for ICT design in long-term studies
* Studies on appropriation in domestic environments
* Living Lab, co-creation and action research approaches for innovation
related to the home
* How to find the right users for long-term studies? What defines
suitable users?
* Collaboration, motivation, trust and empowerment of users
* Cooperation strategies and relationships between several stakeholders
(user, researcher, designer, industrial players)
* Ethical issues (e.g. when researchers becoming part of users life)
* Longevity and sustainability in context of long-term studies, e.g.
strategies for technical self-management of users, strategies after
projects and user interactions end
* Role of mediators between users, researcher, designer and other
institutions
TO PARTICIPATE:
Position papers (4-8 pages, 2000-4000 words) and short information on
the background of the authors should be submitted to the workshop
organizers (using the designated email address provided below), no later
than 28 June 2013.
Submissions should use the ECSCW template
(https://ecscw2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy/templates.zip) and be sent as PDF file
to: [log in to unmask]
The program committee and organisers will review submissions based on
quality, relevance and diversity. Accepted position papers will be
published on the workshop website in August 2013. Prior to the workshop,
each participant will be asked to prepare a short talk based on the
position paper, as a starting point on the morning of the workshop.
If a position paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will be
expected to attend the workshop. Please note that all workshop
participants must register for both the workshop and the main conference.
As a follow up to the workshop, a special issue in a selected journal is
planned to provide a platform to publish the outcomes of this workshop
in an extended form.
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Deadline workshop papers: 28 June 2013
* Notification for workshop participants: 31 July 2013
* Early registration deadline: 9 August 2013 * Workshop at ECSCW2013: 22
September 2013
ORGANISERS:
Corinna Ogonowski (Institute for Information Systems, University of
Siegen, Germany)
Benedikt Ley (Institute for Information Systems, University of Siegen,
Germany)
David Randall (Institute for Information Systems, University of Siegen,
Germany)
Mu Mu (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK)
Nicholas Race (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster
University, UK)
Mark Rouncefield (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster
University, UK)
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