[esocialaction] FW: Call for Participation; 2006 Participatory Design Conference; Trento, Italy, July 31- August 5

[Dearden, Andrew M]

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Subject: Call for Participation; 2006 Participatory Design Conference;Trento, Italy, July 31- August 5


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Call for Participation

2006 Participatory Design Conference
Expanding Boundaries in Design

Trento, Italy, July 31- August 5, 2006

http://www.pdc2006.org


Participatory design (PD) is a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies and social institutions
more responsive to human needs. A central tenet of PD is the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the systems they
use. The PD Conferences have been held every two years since 1990.

The theme of the 2006 conference, Expanding Boundaries in Design, focuses attention on the multiple contexts in which design takes
place and on an expanding range of possible design outcomes. While participatory design principles and practices are most often
applied to the design of technical systems and artefacts, increasingly there is both the need and the opportunity to focus PD
approaches on other domains, such as physical environments, organizational practices, and IT-enabled services. Likewise, the
contexts in which PD is practiced has grown to include teams of globally distributed designers and practitioners; actor networks
that span organizational, expertise, cultural and linguistic difference; and activity areas beyond the workplace, such as domestic
and leisure. Finally, PD has a significant role to play at various stages of design, from initial concept development, to system
configuration, to implementation, to integration within the context of use, and ultimately to ongoing design in use. This year's
theme recognizes that we have an opportunity to expand our community, our design focus and the sites for action by bringing the
principles of informed participation and social good to an even wider audience.

The upcoming conference will bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers, software developers,
social scientists, designers, activists, practitioners, users, citizens, cultural workers and managers who adopt distinctively
participatory approaches in the design of artefacts, systems, services, environments and technologies.

We are inviting submissions for a diverse set of session and contribution types.

Research Papers: (maximum 10 pages) Research papers should report on completed research which furthers topics in Participatory
Design. Research papers will be published in the ACM International Conference series

Exploratory papers: (maximum 4 pages) Exploratory papers should present ideas that could benefit from discussion with members of
the PD community. These papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel
concepts and approaches.

Interactive workshops: (2 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions on topics that include methods, practices, and other areas
of interest and that support an interactive format where active participation beyond presentation is solicited. Workshops will
take place on August 1 before the start of the paper sessions.

Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions for teaching conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel
approaches. The tutorials will take place on July 31 before the start of the paper sessions.

Doctoral consortium: (2 page proposal) Full day session taking place on August 1 before the start of the paper sessions.

Art installations: Artists/designers working in the field of visual, installation, and performative arts are invited to submit a
project that explores how participant's interactions can become part of a piece of art or performance. This session will be held
at MART - Museo d'arte contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.

Deadline for Submissions (all contribution types): January 16, 2006


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Conference chairs (chairs at pdc2006.org)
Gianni Jacucci, University of Trento, Italy
Finn Kensing, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Program chairs (pc at pdc2006.org)
Jeanette Blomberg, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Ina Wagner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Workshops (workshops at pdc2006.org)
David Hakken, Indiana University, USA
Eva Hornecker, University of Bremen, Germany

Tutorials (tutorials at pdc2006.org)
Monika Büscher, Lancaster University, UK
Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer-FIT and Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany

Doctorial consortium (phd at pdc2006.org)
Jesper Simonsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sidney, Australia

Panels (panels at pdc2006.org)
Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway
Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Art track (art at pdc2006.org)
Bo Helgeson, Blekinge University of Technology, Sweden
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Intitute for Information Technology, Finland Giorgio Verzotti, MART, Italy Debra Cash, New Century
Enterprises, USA Leah Lievrouw, University of California, USA

Exploratory work (exploratory at pdc2006.org)
Ellen Balka, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Sussex University, UK

Organizing Committee (info at pdc2006.org)
Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy

Artful integration award
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK
Treasurer
Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany



PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Thomas Binder, Center for Designforskning, Denmark
Eva Brandt, Danmarks Designskole, Denmark
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy
Pelle Ehn, Malmö University, Sweden
Joan Greenbaum, City University of New York, USA
Judith Gregory, University of Oslo, Norway
Joachim Halse, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kim Halskov Madsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Thomas Hermann, University of Dortmund, Germany
Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Per Linde, Malmö School of Art and Communication, Sweden
Peter Mambrey, GMD-FIT, Germany
Norberto Patrignani, Catholic University of Milano, Italy Volkmar Pipek, IISI - International Institute for Socio-Informatics, 
Germany
Rob Procter, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Bettina Törpel, Technical University of Denmark
Randall Trigg, The Global Fund for Women, USA
Peter van den Besselaar, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, Netherlands
Jaakko Virkkunen. University of Helsinki, Finland

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