Call for Papers:
The 13th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Windhoek, Namibia.
6. – 10. October 2014
www.pdc2014.org
Join us in Windhoek, Namibia in 2014 to celebrate the 13th Participatory Design
Conference (PDC). The conference theme of the PDC 2014 is “Reflecting
connectedness”. We are currently experiencing a technologically pushed trend in
‘being always connected’. This is manifested in a number of designed artifacts,
such as smart-phones, social networks, computer supported cooperative work and
distributed working tools. By ‘reflecting connectedness’ in PD, we acknowledge
influential relations across continents, societies, people, disciplines and
time, beyond the direct involvement of stakeholders. While PD has evolved as a
discipline on its own, we should continuously reflect on interrelations of
theories and practices within and across the field and thereby enriching PD
within a wider context. We must further engage in critical debates of what it
means to design within and for a multilayered network, such as the on-line
world versus off-line interactions, the blurring distinction of designers and
users, researchers and artists, design and research ‘in the wild’, designing
for social justice, inclusiveness, and sustainability. We invite authors to
deliberate on these relations within and beyond the field of PD, which affect
its conceptualization and practices all over.
The 2014 PDC seeks to attract submissions from different disciplines,
academics, practitioners and artists in form of tutorials, workshops, doctorial
consortiums, participatory art encounters, papers, and industry cases.
Important dates:
Conference dates: 6. – 10. October 2014
Research Papers due: 15. January 2014
Short Papers due: 31. January 2014
Interactive workshops due: 1. March 2014
Tutorials due: 1. March 2014
Industry Cases due: 1. March 2014
Participatory Art Installations due: 1. March 2014
Doctorial Consortium due: 1. March 2014
Nomination to the Artful Integrators Award due: 1. March 2014
Notification to authors: 1. May 2014
PDC’14 invites submissions in the following categories:
Research papers: (full papers - maximum 10 pages). Research papers should
report on original research which advances Participatory Design (PD) and
reflect on state of the art themes in our field. As a single track conference,
and the only one exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC Research papers have a broad
impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices. Research
papers will be published in the ACM International Conference series. Each
submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Each
submission will be managed by a meta-reviewer to ensure that feedback is
relevant, the learning experience significant and the process fair. Please make
sure your submission is correctly anonymized. Accepted papers should be revised
according to the review reports and the language should be checked by a native
English speaker.
Short papers: (short papers – maximum 4 pages). Short papers should present
original, unpublished ideas and research that advances the field of
Participatory Design (PD) and reflect on its potential future developments. As
discussed in parallel, thematic sessions, PDC Short Papers can benefit from a
clear scope and are expected to contribute to the emergence of new
possibilities for PD. Compared to Research Papers, Short Papers may offer a
more limited discussion of related work, or they may, for example, provide a
novel design, method or theoretical concepts, without a full evaluation or with
less detailed explanation. Short Papers are reviewed to the same standard of
scientific quality as Research Papers, but the contribution is more focused and
clear-cut. Each submitted short paper will be double blind reviewed by at least
3 reviewers. Please make sure submissions are anonymous. Accepted papers should
be revised according to the review reports and the language should be checked
by a native English speaker.
Interactive Workshops:(maximum 2 pages) The workshop proposal should describe
half day or full day sessions on topics that include methods, practices, and
other areas of interest related to Participatory Design (PD). They should
support an interactive format wherein active participation is possible, beyond
a presentation format. These formats could include a mapping of a problem
definition, small discussion groups, etc. The proposal must be written in a
format that can be used for recruitment via the web. It should justify the need
for the workshop and should contain a title, goals, format, method or
technique, its relevance to PD and a schedule. Intended participants and how
they will be recruited should also be described. In the recruitment procedure
important dates should be clearly communicated to the participants (see
timing). Also, it should be clear to the organizers and the participants what
the maximum amount of participants is for the workshop and what the workshop
duration is (half day or full day). Finally, the workshop proposal should
include a clear statement about the expected outcomes of the workshop (e.g.
journal publication, research proposal, exhibition, etc.).
Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions for teaching
conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel approaches in
Participatory Design (PD). The proposal should contain a title, goals, method
or technique, relevance to PD and a schedule. Please describe in the proposal
any handouts that you intend to make available.
Industry Cases:(2-4 page case description) should report on the use of
participatory methods, tools, and/or practices within commercial, non-profit,
or governmental organizations. We are interested in a broad range of
submissions that explore what a participatory approach means to different
practitioners and audiences and may include ideas, approaches, projects,
experimentations or reflections on participation. We encourage submissions from
practitioners who might not ordinarily attend the Participatory Design (PD)
conference but who are grappling with the complexities of participation or who
are experimenting with novel approaches. Cases should highlight the benefits,
challenges, and outcomes from the application of participatory approaches and
should provide concrete lessons for others who are interested in applying PD in
their organizations. Each submitted case will be peer reviewed for
applicability to the PD community.
Doctoral consortium: (4 page proposal) The doctoral consortium is a full-day
session intended for PhD students working within the field of Participatory
Design (PD). It will provide students with an opportunity to discuss issues of
concern to them in their studies and receive extensive feedback from the
session co-chairs and other student participants. Enrolment is limited and
selection will be based on the quality of application submissions, taking into
account how the research is related to PD. The aim will be to include a spread
of students with different disciplinary emphases, at different stages of study,
and coming from different cultural backgrounds. The proposal should give an
overview of the PhD project, including research motivations, questions,
methods, status of current work, major findings and plans for further research.
Accepted applicants will be asked to provide a revised and elaborated research
summary (4 pages), and to participate in some pre-workshop on-line discussions.
Art installations: (2 page proposal) Interdisciplinary collaborations have
often yielded surprising yet astonishing results, leading both research and
knowledge to new heights. PDC has a long history of incorporating participatory
art installations to inspire and innovate. Artists and designers working with
any form of interactive participatory methods are invited to submit their
projects. The works can take inspiration from visual and digital media,
performance arts, installations, communication technologies, touch, sound and
any other genres that allow participants to take part or become part of the art
piece. Projects should address/explore the theme ‘reflecting connectedness’.
Please submit a 2 page proposal of the art work, in which the project is
described (incl. sketch/design), the relation to PD, and specific requirements
for display. Alternatively artists can submit audio or video files describing
the project.
The Artful Integrators’ Award: We welcome nominations for the sixth Artful
Integrators’ Award, to be presented at PDC 14 in Namibia. The Award is intended
to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of participatory design of
information and communications technologies. Where traditional design awards
have gone to individual designers and/or singular objects, the Artful
Integrator’s Award emphasizes the importance of collaborative participation in
design, and a view of good design as the effective alignment of diverse
collections of people, practices and artefacts.
Submission and formatting guidelines
The submissions in all categories are subject to double-blind peer review. For
previous PDC conferences, the acceptance rate for research papers has been
about 25% and for the other submission categories about 50%. All submissions
should follow the PDC paper template to be found on the conference website
(www.pdc2014.org).
The PDC 2014 proceedings will be published as part of the International
Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM and available online from the
ACM Digital Library. Accepted research papers will comprise Volume I of the
Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference. Volume II of the
proceedings will comprise the accepted papers in the other submission
categories. Authors of accepted papers will need to complete the ACM copyright
form as a condition of inclusion in the proceedings. Only PDF files (.pdf) may
be submitted and submissions are only accepted through the PDC conference
management system.
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Vincenzo D'Andrea & Ole Sejer Iversen PDC’14
chairs.
Douglas Schuler
doug...@publicsphereproject.org
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