NEW CHALLENGES FOR PARTICIPATION IN PARTICIPATORY DESIGN IN FAMILY, CLINICAL, AND OTHER ASYMMETRICAL NON-WORK SETTINGS

MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009

NEW CHALLENGES FOR PARTICIPATION IN PARTICIPATORY DESIGN IN FAMILY, CLINICAL, AND OTHER ASYMMETRICAL NON-WORK SETTINGS

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Equal language game between users and designers was the traditional ideal of participatory design (PD). When PD operates in contexts with users who are weak, ill, or have impairments, this assumed equality is no longer the ideal. The workshop explores participatory design in non-work settings with heterogeneous user constellations (e.g. patients, doctors nurses, relatives), and asymmetrical relations between users and designers and among users.,

The workshop will be organized as a mix between presentations, discussions and various breakout activities, on established, as well as novel theories, methods and techniques that can accommodate for the new design challenges.

Participants will be elected based on the review of the submissions by a program committee. Submissions can be either workshop papers or position statements. Accepted submissions will be published in the printed workshop proceedings.

Workshop papers can be max 8 pages and should present a clear idea.

Position statements can be max 2 pages and should state the participant’s interest in the workshop.

Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS format and submitted in PDF format to [email protected]

Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2009.

At least one author of accepted papers needs to register for the workshop and for the conference itself.

Organizers:

Olav W. Bertelsen, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Per-Olof Hedvall, CERTEC, Sweden.

More information about the workshop can be found at: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~olavb/NewPD