Hi.  I thought this might be of interes to some of you or other folks with
whom you've worked.

Scott




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>Subject: PDC 2002 CFP (short, plain text)
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>Hi Scott, this might be interesting to you in terms of participating with
>disabled users. I am on the conference committee. Please post as you feel
>appropriate. David and I will write to you with more personal news about us
>and response to your sad email soon.
>Many hugs
>Debra
>
>
>................................CALL FOR PAPERS
>.................PDC 2002 — the Participatory Design Conference
>......................http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2002
>
>......................PARTICIPATION AND DESIGN
>........INQUIRING INTO THE POLITICS, CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES
>..................OF COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WORK
>
>............June 23. ­ 25. 2002 ­ School of Art and Communication
>......................Malmö University, Malmö,  Sweden
>
>....Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
>........In cooperation with IFIP WG 9.1, Computers and Work
>
>CONFERENCE THEME:
>******************
>With the theme Participation and Design, the Participatory Design
>Conference 2002 invites researchers, designers and other practitioners
>to present inquiries into the politics, contexts and practices of
>collaborative design work. We invite contributions from all design
>fields such as architecture, urban planning, engineering, interaction
>design and others (such as the fine arts) with a focus on understanding
>collaborative design work.
>
>IMPORTANT DATES
>****************
>1 February     Due date for all submissions
>18 March       Acceptance notification to authors
>1 May          Due date for Final Proceedings version for written submissions
>
>TYPES OF SESSIONS
>******************
>Papers,
>Work-in-progress presentations,
>Country, regional reports
>Artifacts, posters, interactive demonstrations
>Workshops about methods, practices and other areas of interest
>Tutorials  (Tutorials will take place on the morning of June 23 only)
>
>Submission requirements are available at the conference website
>http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2002
>or by writing to [log in to unmask]
>
>MORE ON THE CONFERENCE THEME
>*****************************
>Since 1990, the Participatory Design Conferences have brought together
>researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and work
>traditions, probing the social scope and practices of design of
>technology. A core concern has been to understand how collaborative
>design processes can be based on participation of the people affected by
>the technology designed.
>
>The involvement of users and the focus on human-centered design,
>addressing the design of technology ’through the interface’, were
>pioneered by contributions to the Participatory Design Conferences.
>Debates within the participatory design community have contributed to
>the development of a new  IT design field emphasizing simultanously the
>need for thorough studies of the context of use, the relevance of an

>open and participatory design process, and concern for the political
>aspects of the technology in use.
>
>Today the collaborative nature of the design process and the need to
>involve a large variety of stakeholders has gained wider acceptance. At
>the same time a fundamental uncertainty concerning the scope and
>directions for the design of technology has created a growing interest
>in innovative approaches to participation and design.
>
>With the theme Participation and Design, the Participatory Design
>Conference 2002 invites researchers, designers and other practitioners
>to present inquiries into the politics, contexts and practices of
>collaborative design work. We invite contributions from all design
>fields such as architecture, urban planning, engineering, interaction
>design and others (such as the fine arts) with a focus on understanding
>collaborative design work.
>
>Inquiring into the contexts of use is becoming increasingly important as
>part of design work. Ethnographic approaches to field studies are
>producing valuable insights into existing and emerging practices of use,
>but the transition from what we learn from studies of work practices and
>social interactions to the design of a system, application or other
>design products remains poorly explored. Despite a well established
>literature on such approaches as contextual inquiry, focus groups and
>cooperative prototyping, the potential of participatory approaches to
>design oriented practice studies is often neglected in ethnographic
>approaches.
>
>Altogether, collaborative design practices, although widespread, are
>still not well understood. Design processes that are open to a large and
>varied group of participants are lacking a firm grounding in analysis of
>empirical studies and action research. How can the organisation of
>design processes in time and space accomodate participation? What roles
>do coordinating artifacts play in collaboration? How do design artifacts
>serve as bridges or barriers to diverse uesrs, including users with
>disabilities? What are the effects of distributed design processes on
>patterns of participation?What kinds of dialogues are possible between
>distributed design practices vs. local design practices and national or
>regional cultures? How does the local design process relate to the
>potential global outreach of the design?
>
>The politics of design must address questions about what can be and what
>should be designed. In a user-centered design process the distinction
>between the designed artifact, the context of use and the process of
>design may become blurred . Where does the design practice end, and the
>practice of use begin? When the technology is becoming tailorable in
>use, what is it then relevant to design for? How does participatory
>design work allow for redesign and participation in use over time?
>
>
>ALSO OF INTEREST
>****************
>DIS 2002, Designing Interactive Systems, in London, June 26-28,
>http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/dis2002/
>
>ISCRAT, International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory
>(Activity Theory Congress) in Amsterdam, June 18-22. See

>http://www.psy.vu.nl/iscrat2002/
>
>CPSR Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 16-19, 2002, Shaping the
>Network Society:
>Patterns for Participation, Action Change,
>http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02
>
>CSCW 2002 in New Orleans, 16-20 November, 2002.
>See http://www.fxpal.com/conferencesworkshops/cscw2002/
>
>SUBMISSION INQUIRIES
>*********************
>Write to [log in to unmask]
>or to Thomas Binder, Judith Gregory or Ina Wagner.
>
>Thomas Binder. PDC 2002 Conference Chair
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>Telephone: +46 40 6657 103
>Fax: +46 40 6657 360
>
>Judith Gregory, PDC 2000 Program Co-chair
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>Telephone: +47 2285 2897
>Fax: +47 2285 2401
>
>Ina Wagner, PDC 2002 Program Co-chair
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Phone: +43 1 58801 18711
>Fax: +43 1 58801 18799
>  thomas.binder30.vcf 
> 

Scott Feldman
The University of Illinois at Chicago
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