[esocialaction] FW: CSCW-SIG Digest - 28 Jun 2006 to 1 Jul 2006 (#2006-65)

[Walker, Steve]

Th following workshop may be of interest (I see one of Andy's colleagues is involved in the organisation).
 
Steve
 
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Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer
Leeds Metropolitan University
School of Information Management
Phone: (44) 113 283 7448
Skype: steve_walker

Distributed Participatory Design

NordiCHI 2006 Workshop Oct. 14th, Oslo, Norway

http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html


Important dates:
July 27: Deadline for submission of position paper
August 10: Authors of accepted position papers notified
August 14: Deadline early NordiCHI=B406 registration
October 14: Date of the workshop


INTRODUCTION
The number of potential stakeholder groups who may be involved during
the design process is extensive. Enabling members of these groups to
envisage or make sense of design proposals (whether those proposals
originate with professional designers or from the users themselves)
is an essential element of all participatory approaches to design.
Stakeholders can only make informed choices when the proposals being
discussed are meaningful to them. Participatory design (PD) is a
design approach and philosophy that supports the direct participation
of users and other stakeholders in system analysis and design work.
This becomes challenging in design projects where stakeholders are
fully distributed (both geographically and in regards of competence).

While providing affordable ways for different stakeholders (those who
analyze the system and those who design it) to communicate around the
artefact is discussed in the CSCW literature, there is no explicit
commitment to direct user participation during design of distributed
systems.

Nowadays, PD design teams most often are distributed, which stress a
need for support and knowledge gathered from design of distributed
systems. Given that these fields seem to merge, an interesting
question is how may they best benefit from each other? Kensing &
Blomberg highlighted this topic already in 1998, nevertheless, it
seem to have lost attention since. We stress that whilst most design
teams of today are distributed, further dialogue on this topic is of
great importance.


OBJECTIVES
This full-day workshop has the following objectives:


* Enhance understanding of the differences and similarities between
the fields CSCW and designing with users, and identify how
Distributed Participatory Design (DPD) projects may benefit from the
two.

* Identify existing tools and techniques and explore potential
innovations, which could be applied in DPD projects.

* Explore how users participation may be supported and what
challenges their participation make towards the design team and the
communication and/or design tools.

Further questions based on the position papers will off course also
be of interest to discuss during the workshop.


TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience of this workshop are researchers and
practitioners who have an interest to overcome the challenges of
performing participatory design in distributed design teams, or aim
to expand the involvement of external stakeholders during design in
distributed teams.

ATTENDANCE
All participants must submit their 2 to 4-page position paper no
later than July 27, 2006. Please submit your papers to
kdson at informatik.umu.se, in WORD or PDF format.


Important dates:
July 27: Deadline for submission of position paper
August 10: Authors of accepted position papers notified
August 14: Deadline early NordiCHI=B406 registration
October 14: Date of the workshop


ORGANISERS
Karin Danielsson
Department of Informatics, Umeaa University, Sweden:
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kdson/

Amir M Naghsh
Communications and Computing Research Centre, Faculty of Arts,
Computing, Engineering and Science, Sheffield University, England:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/amir.htm

Dr. Andy Dearden
Communications and Computing Research Centre, Faculty of Arts,
Computing, Engineering and Science, Sheffield University, England:
http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/aces/amd/


Please visit: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html=



NordiCHI Conference: http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/

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