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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Th following workshop may be
of interest (I see one of Andy's colleagues is involved in the
organisation).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leeds Metropolitan University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>School of Information Management</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phone: (44) 113 283 7448</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Skype: steve_walker</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><BR>Distributed Participatory Design<BR><BR>NordiCHI
2006 Workshop Oct. 14th, Oslo, Norway<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html</A><BR><BR><BR>Important
dates:<BR>July 27: Deadline for submission of position paper<BR>August 10:
Authors of accepted position papers notified<BR>August 14: Deadline early
NordiCHI=B406 registration<BR>October 14: Date of the
workshop<BR><BR><BR>INTRODUCTION<BR>The number of potential stakeholder groups
who may be involved during<BR>the design process is extensive. Enabling members
of these groups to<BR>envisage or make sense of design proposals (whether those
proposals<BR>originate with professional designers or from the users
themselves)<BR>is an essential element of all participatory approaches to
design.<BR>Stakeholders can only make informed choices when the proposals
being<BR>discussed are meaningful to them. Participatory design (PD) is
a<BR>design approach and philosophy that supports the direct participation<BR>of
users and other stakeholders in system analysis and design work.<BR>This becomes
challenging in design projects where stakeholders are<BR>fully distributed (both
geographically and in regards of competence).<BR><BR>While providing affordable
ways for different stakeholders (those who<BR>analyze the system and those who
design it) to communicate around the<BR>artefact is discussed in the CSCW
literature, there is no explicit<BR>commitment to direct user participation
during design of distributed<BR>systems.<BR><BR>Nowadays, PD design teams most
often are distributed, which stress a<BR>need for support and knowledge gathered
from design of distributed<BR>systems. Given that these fields seem to merge, an
interesting<BR>question is how may they best benefit from each other? Kensing
&<BR>Blomberg highlighted this topic already in 1998, nevertheless,
it<BR>seem to have lost attention since. We stress that whilst most
design<BR>teams of today are distributed, further dialogue on this topic is
of<BR>great importance.<BR><BR><BR>OBJECTIVES<BR>This full-day workshop has the
following objectives:<BR><BR><BR>* Enhance understanding of the differences and
similarities between<BR>the fields CSCW and designing with users, and identify
how<BR>Distributed Participatory Design (DPD) projects may benefit from
the<BR>two.<BR><BR>* Identify existing tools and techniques and explore
potential<BR>innovations, which could be applied in DPD projects.<BR><BR>*
Explore how users participation may be supported and what<BR>challenges their
participation make towards the design team and the<BR>communication and/or
design tools.<BR><BR>Further questions based on the position papers will off
course also<BR>be of interest to discuss during the workshop.<BR><BR><BR>TARGET
AUDIENCE<BR>The target audience of this workshop are researchers
and<BR>practitioners who have an interest to overcome the challenges
of<BR>performing participatory design in distributed design teams, or aim<BR>to
expand the involvement of external stakeholders during design in<BR>distributed
teams.<BR><BR>ATTENDANCE<BR>All participants must submit their 2 to 4-page
position paper no<BR>later than July 27, 2006. Please submit your papers
to<BR>kdson@informatik.umu.se, in WORD or PDF format.<BR><BR><BR>Important
dates:<BR>July 27: Deadline for submission of position paper<BR>August 10:
Authors of accepted position papers notified<BR>August 14: Deadline early
NordiCHI=B406 registration<BR>October 14: Date of the
workshop<BR><BR><BR>ORGANISERS<BR>Karin Danielsson<BR>Department of Informatics,
Umeaa University, Sweden:<BR><A
href="http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kdson/">http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kdson/</A><BR><BR>Amir
M Naghsh<BR>Communications and Computing Research Centre, Faculty of
Arts,<BR>Computing, Engineering and Science, Sheffield University,
England:<BR><A
href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/amir.htm">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/amir.htm</A><BR><BR>Dr.
Andy Dearden<BR>Communications and Computing Research Centre, Faculty of
Arts,<BR>Computing, Engineering and Science, Sheffield University,
England:<BR><A
href="http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/aces/amd/">http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/aces/amd/</A><BR><BR><BR>Please
visit: <A
href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html=">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/paperchaste/dpd/index.html=</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>NordiCHI
Conference: <A
href="http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/">http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/</A><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>End
of CSCW-SIG Digest - 28 Jun 2006 to 1 Jul 2006
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