CSCW 2014 Workshop: Designing with Users for Domestic environments: Methods – Challenges – Lessons Learned

February 15, 2014 – Baltimore, MD, US

WORKSHOP AIMS AND TOPICS:

The workshop wishes to identify a variety of practical challenges of applied methods, collaboration with users and lessons learned from user involvement for ICT design in different domestic contexts. Best practices should be discussed and a roadmap for sustainable relationships for design with users developed.

For this purpose, the workshop wishes to gather research on ICT design for domestic contexts from a wide variety and from different perspectives in methodologies, study design and underlying research paradigms used:

– Home entertainment, also concerned with the design of value-added applications, services and devices

– ICT support for the aging society regarding social support, health, care, etc.

– Supporting family management, housework and child care

– Social media for social support, such as online communities with special support for domestic and cross

-generational communication between disperse households

– Measuring energy consumption in households, also concerned with visualizing strategies on different devices and interests in raising awareness of users consumption

– Other technologies such as smart environments, intelligent interior design and games supporting social interactions

– Other domestic areas are welcome

SUBMISSIONS:

Position papers (3-5 pages SIGCHI Extended Abstract Format) and short information on the background of the authors should be submitted to the workshop organizers (mail@designing-with-users.org), no later than November 15, 2013. The program committee and organisers will review submissions based on quality, relevance and diversity. Accepted position papers will be published on the workshop website in January 2014. Prior to the workshop, each participant will be asked to prepare a short talk based on the position paper, as a starting point on the morning of the workshop. If a position paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will be expected to attend the workshop. As a follow up to the workshop, a special issue in a selected journal is planned to provide a platform to publish the outcomes of this workshop in an extended form.

IMPORTANT DATES:

– Deadline for workshop submissions: November 15, 2013

– Notification of acceptance of workshop submissions: December 10, 2013

– Workshop at CSCW 2014: February 15, 2014

More information here.