Call for Papers
The 13th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC)
in Windhoek, Namibia
(6.– 10. October 2014)
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Join us in Windhoek, Namibia in 2014 to celebrate the 13thParticipatory 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
Full papers 28 February 2014
Short papers 10 March 2014
Workshop proposals 10 March 2014
Tutorials 10 March 2014
Doctorial Consortium 10 March 2014
Industry Cases 10 March 2014
pArt Installations 10 March 2014
Nomination to the Artful Integrators Award 10 March 2014 Acceptance
Notification 13 June 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. Enrollment 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 thePDC 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.
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