From m.foth at qut.edu.au Fri May 1 21:32:50 2015 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 04:32:50 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_Digital_Cities_9_=E2=80=93_Univ?= =?utf-8?q?ersity_of_Limerick=2C_Ireland=2C_27_June_2015?= Message-ID: <04CB9E2A-0A9D-4C05-AF1C-E04C3FF394BD@qut.edu.au> Digital Cities 9 – Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change 27 June 2015, University of Limerick, Ireland in conjunction with the Communities & Technologies (C&T) Conference 2015 http://themobilecity.nl/dc9/ SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL 8 MAY 2015 – NEW DATES: Abstract submission deadline 08 May 2015 Notification of selected papers 22 May 2015 Full Papers Due 17 June 2015 Workshop 27 June 2015 The Digital Cities workshop series started in 1999, and is the longest running academic workshop series that has followed the intertwined development of cities and digital technologies. Earlier years have seen papers presented at Digital Cities to appear as the basis of key anthologies within the field of urban informatics, smart & social cities and civic media. This year again we are part of the C&T event to further discuss these relevant themes, gain new insights and work collaboratively towards a new publication, and explore opportunities for cooperation in research programs for instance in the H2020-framework. ABSTRACT The DC9 workshop takes place on June 27, 2015 in Limerick, Ireland and is titled “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change”. The notion of “hacking” originates from the world of media technologies but is increasingly often being used for creative ideals and practices of city making. “City hacking” evokes more participatory, inclusive, decentralized, playful and subversive alternatives to often top-down ICT implementations in smart city making. However, these discourses about “hacking the city” are used ambiguously and are loaded with various ideological presumptions, which makes the term also problematic. For some “urban hacking” is about empowering citizens to organize around communal issues and perform aesthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of “city hacks” should be encouraged or not, and who decides? Can city hacking be curated? For yet others, trendy participatory buzzwords like these are masquerades for deeply libertarian neoliberal values. Furthermore, a question is how “city hacking” may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities 9 workshop welcomes papers that explore the idea of “hackable city making” in constructive and critical ways. CALL FOR PAPERS The Digital Cities workshop invites papers that explore the relation between digital media technologies and everyday urban life, planning and governance. We especially welcome papers within this year’s theme: “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change.” “Hacking” has long been part and parcel of the world of media technologies. From HAM radio amateurs to US west-coast computer culture, users have been figured as active creators, shapers, and benders of media technologies and the relationships mediated through them (Levy 2010; Roszak 1986; Von Hippel 2005). In general what the term refers to is the process of clever or playful appropriation of existing technologies or infrastructures, or bending the logic of a particular system beyond its intended purposes or restrictions to serve one’s personal or communal goals. Whereas the term was mainly used to refer to practices in the sphere of computer hardware and software, more recently “hacking” has been used to refer to creative practices and ideals of city making: spanning across spatial, social, cultural, and institutional domains, various practices of “city hacking” can be seen in urban planning, city management, and tactical urban interventions. Worldwide, we have seen various artistic and political movements making use of digital media to appropriate urban places as the locus for theatrical interventions, often politically charged. A prominent book on the future of “smart cities” makes an appeal for “civic hackers” (Townsend 2013). Urban governments around the world have embraced “hackathons” as a new way for the development of urban services. Numerous events with titles like “Hack Your City” (e.g. Sheffield) or similar, have been organized. Municipalities have opened up datasets and created urban APIs or SDKs that allow clever hackers to build apps and services. What these examples have in common is that the term “hacking” is used to evoke a participatory alternative to top-down ICT implementations in cities. The term “hacking” suggests a novel logic to organize urban society through social media platforms. It suggests a move away from centralized urban planning towards more inclusive process of “city making”, creating new types of public spaces. This logic of “hacking” is touted as slightly subversive, innovative, and is associated with collaboration, openness and participation. As such it is applied to various domains of urban life. The term can be used to highlight critical or contrarian tactics, to point to new collaborative practices amongst citizens mediated through social media, or to describe a changing vision on the relation between governments and their citizens. Discourses about “hacking the city” are not unproblematic. While the term suggests cities have embraced a new “hacker ethic” of decentralized organization, reputation-based meritocracy and playfulness, at the very same time many “smart city” policies reinstate modernist ideals of centralized overview and pervasive control. As the notion is ported from the field of software development to civic life and organization, it is used ambiguously, loaded with various ideological presumptions. For some, “urban hacking” is about empowering citizens to organize themselves around communal issues and empowering them to perform aesthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of “city hacks” should be encouraged and which ones are unwelcome, and who decides about that? Can city hacking be curated? For yet another group it is a masquerade for neoliberal politics in which libertarian values appear in the discursive sheep’s clothing of participatory buzzwords like “Web 2.0”, “collective intelligence”, “crowdsourcing”, “open source ethics”, or “sharing economy”. Furthermore, a key question that remains largely unanswered is how “city hacking” may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities Workshop explores welcomes papers that explore the notion of hackable city making both in a constructive as in a critical way. We also welcome the discussion of related concepts that address the relationship between bottom-up city making and issues of governance and urban management. We prioritize papers that address this overall theme, but works connecting to adjacent themes may also come into consideration. Contact the DC9 chair if you want to discuss before submitting. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: • What are interesting examples of aesthetic and/or political event-based appropriations of public space making use of digital media technologies? • What kind of tools or processes are empowering citizens in the processes of city making? • What can we learn about this from empirical case studies or research by design projects? • How can digital media open up existing urban infrastructures for appropriation by citizens? • What are innovative examples of citizens taking ownership in and management of public interest issues? • How have or could governments make room for ‘hackable city making’? What are the societal risks of such an approach? • In what way can (and should) bottom-up city-making be curated? The call is also open to other relevant submissions outside the theme of hacking, but relevant to citizens making the digital city, such as studies on civic media, smart citizens, urban informatics, open data, etc., Maximum number of participants: We have room for 20-25 people. A selection of applications is made by the workshop organizers based on the proposal’s quality, thematic relevance, and overall complementarity. SUBMISSIONS Please submit your 300-500 word proposal through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dc9 CHAIRS Michiel de Lange (Utrecht University, The Mobile City) Nanna Verhoeff (Utrecht University) Martijn de Waal (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Mobile City) Marcus Foth (Urban Informatics Research Lab, Queensland University of Technology) Martin Brynskov (Aarhus University) CONTACT Martijn de Waal & Michiel de Lange PUBLICATIONS The works presented at the Digital Cities workshop series have been formative to a diverse set of emerging fields, e.g. urban informatics, smart cities, pervasive computing, internet of things, media architecture and urban interaction design. Apart from the workshops’ inviting nature towards interdisciplinary discussions, the fact that the resulting publications have helped articulate and position issues within this heterogeneous domain is an important reason for the longevity of the Digital Cities biannual gathering. This year, a publication of a peer reviewed edited volume by an established academic publisher is again one of the options we are pursuing at the moment to continue this rich tradition. Past Digital Cities workshops have produced high quality publications containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions: Digital Cities 7 & 8 (C&T 2011, Brisbane, and C&T 2013, Munich) Foth, M., Brynskov, M., & Ojala, T. (Eds.) (2016, forthcoming). Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Interaction Design for Participatory Urbanism and Open Innovation. Singapore: Springer. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/78107/ Digital Cities 6 (C&T 2009, PennState) Foth, M., Forlano, L., Satchell, C., & Gibbs, M. (Eds.) (2011). From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/59160/ Digital Cities 5 (C&T 2007, Michigan) Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/13308/ Digital Cities 4 (C&T 2005, Milan) Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.) (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 (C&T 2003, Amsterdam) Van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.) (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 (Kyoto 2001) Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.) (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany, Springer. Digital Cities 1 (Kyoto 1999) Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany, Springer. -- Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Interactive & Visual Design, School of Design Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @UrbanInf – www.urbaninformatics.net CRICOS No. 00213J From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue May 5 20:03:22 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 20:03:22 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good ~~~ The actually FINAL FINAL CALL Message-ID: <2929FE1F-999F-4CE0-A577-F2DF2481D94B@publicsphereproject.org> The actually FINAL FINAL CALL ~~~ Submissions Due May 9th ~~ The actually FINAL FINAL CALL Because the other workshops extended their deadline... :-) ===== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ====== Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? ======================================= Are you interested in new approaches for promoting the common good? Join us at our workshop! 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference Limerick, Ireland June 28, 2015 More information: http://ci4cg.org/C&T2015Workshop/ ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ May 1, 2015 Workshop submissions due May 15, 2015 Feedback to authors June 17, 2015 Camera-ready papers due June 28, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015 ------ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ------ We define CI4CG as a distinctive type of collective intelligence, which emerges in civic contexts; it is aimed at generating societal good; improving civic engagement; enabling democratic decision making and deliberation; and producing, collectively built and owned, transformative solutions to complex societal challenges. In this workshop we will survey a variety of online tools and discuss what aspects of CI4CG they are intended to address and how they would be used by communities. We will consider how the developers could collaborate in the future and what future work, including collaborating with people outside of academia, will be needed. We are also interested in relevant methodologies, frameworks, approaches and non-technological complements to the technological side the workshop focuses on. An important part of the work will be identifying possible approaches towards integrating the tools technologically and socially. We will try to identify frameworks and mechanisms that various systems could leverage. The main output of the workshop will be a short report (white paper) that incorporates the general threads of the workshop into a document. This will be circulated for additional comments within several community and research networks including ones with which the organizers are linked. We also do want to keep the possibility of a special issue or book on the table and ideally an opportunity will be announced at the workshop. ------ SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ------ For this workshop we focus on socio-technological systems that aim at supporting the very social process of appropriation, understanding and application from a community of new technological platforms for the common good. These include (but are not limited to) systems for: * e-participation and e-democracy; * dialogue and argumentation in open communities; * participatory budgeting and participatory democracy; * large scale collective deliberation and decision making; * early warning, collective awareness, planning; * crowd voting, polling, petition and prediction markets; * crowdsourcing and crowdfunding; * argument mapping, knowledge mapping and collective sensemaking; * open source software and open data; * citizens’ observatories and collaboratories ------ NEW COMMUNITY / NETWORK ------ The proposers of this workshop have also co-founded a community / network devoted to this theme. These approaches may turn out to be particularly fortuitous since, in addition to timeless problems such as inequality and oppression, many of the new problems that the citizens of the world now face (climate change, for example) offer unprecedented challenges, and the creativity, dedication, values, and other resources that communities could potentially contribute are likely to be needed. We encourage people who are interested in Collective Intelligence for the Common Good to join our mailing list: http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce ------ WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ------ Interested candidates are asked to submit a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: douglas at publicsphereproject.org We envision a maximum of 20 participants for this workshop. This would allow a good diversity of viewpoints and experiences while still allowing participation among all participants. Potential attendees should submit a short position paper that includes the author's interest and experience in the topic, if there is a system to demonstrate (or other information to present) and whether there is interest in possible publications beyond the conference. Please also discuss relevant frameworks or other models that might be useful for characterizing the nature of this work including descriptors, dimensions, and process models. And, finally, while we expect an overall high level of interest and experience we are open to attendees with less extensive experience that have enthusiasm and interest. ------ CONTRIBUTIONS ------ The following topics are welcome insofar as they are relevant to the main goals and theme of the workshop: * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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URL: From memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch Thu May 7 01:54:58 2015 From: memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch (Nemanja Memarovic) Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:54:58 +0200 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?Deadline_Tomorrow=3A_CulTech_2015_--_C?= =?utf-8?q?ultural_Diversity_and_Technology_Design_-_Workshop_at_C=26T_?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZMTUsIChKdW5lIDI3KSwgTGltZXJpY2ssIElyZWxhbmQ=?= Message-ID: <46594FC7-1E73-4275-9DA2-F9E8D395DA92@ifi.uzh.ch> ***** Submission deadline is tomorrow, Friday May 8***** ======================================= CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop - Call for Participation! ======================================= Does your research explore culture, technology design and communities? If so, join us at the “CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” Workshop! CulTech2015 will be held at the 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on June 27, 2015. Website here: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ ---- IMPORTANT DATES ---- Workshop submissions due: May 8, 2015 Feedback to authors: May 22, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: June 17, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015: June 27, 2015 ---- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ---- With globalization and technological advances, people are increasingly coming into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds, particularly in place-based and virtual communities. Yet, cultural diversity – the diversity of community members’ cultural backgrounds – offers both significant benefits and challenges in the design, usage and evaluation of technologies. In this one-day workshop, we explore the role of cultural diversity in potentially informing, supporting, challenging or impacting the design of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within community contexts. We welcome workshop submissions that: 1) Engage broadly with the role of culture within technology design and usage for, with and by communities, 2) Proposals for approaches, tools, conceptual and methodological frameworks, case studies and best practices in community-based design that exploit cultural diversity as an asset and seek to facilitate intercultural interactions. Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners from different domains such as computer science, urban design, interactive art, anthropology and social sciences who share a common interest in exploring the design space of ICTs, culture and communities. ---- WORKSHOP THEMES ---- To stimulate discussion and exploration, we welcome initial idea explorations, as well as ongoing or completed projects relating (but not exclusive) to the following themes: - Theoretical and reflective engagements with the role of culture and cultural difference in community-based (participatory) design and technology appropriation across cultures - Frameworks, tools, and conceptual engagements tackling inclusion in (participatory) design; The role of technology and technology design in mediating or supporting societal inclusion - Means (methods, tools, frameworks) for cross-cultural transferability of design and design processes - Limits of transferability and situated, emergent design practices in community contexts - Localization and culturally adaptive interfaces - Empirical studies exploring cultural difference in technology usage and formulating design implications - Metrics, tools, and frameworks for examining cultural differences in technology usage - Conceptual papers that problematize design, re-framing design processes from cultural studies and intercultural communication frameworks (e.g. design as a process of encoding values and meaning in artifacts) - Uses, benefits and limitations of ethnography and data-intensive research methods in community-based design - Inherent value tensions or clashes between local and academic/scientific knowledge - Local knowledge management, knowledge conversion and the challenges posed by structuring fluid knowledge episodes to generate design requirements - Cultural pathways for community engagement and the localization of participatory practices - Aligning intentions in multicultural design projects - Bridging differences in culturally diverse design teams - Case studies, approaches and best practices in community-based design that explore or engage with issues of connectedness and community cohesion, facilitating intercultural awareness, communication and collaboration, and stimulating intercultural interactions across diverse cultural groups ---- CONTRIBUTION TYPES --- We welcome the following contribution types: - Novel technologies or interaction paradigms - Design or evaluation methods - Case studies on existing applications and systems - Evaluation studies - Theoretical frameworks - Controversial or thought-provoking ideas of issues relating to communities, culture and ICTs ---- WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ---- Interested candidates are asked to submit either a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) or a video submission about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: cultech2015 at gmail.com . ---- SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND TECHNOLOGY DESIGN ---- The organizers will invite authors of selected workshop papers to submit an extended version to a peer-reviewed Special Issue on “Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” to be published by the Journal of Community Informatics. ---- ORGANIZERS ---- Helen Ai He, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Nemanja Memarovic, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Amalia Sabiescu, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands ---- CONTACT INFO ---- Website: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com Email: cultech2015 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue May 12 09:13:51 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:13:51 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5BPdworld=5D_Reminder=3A_CfP?= =?utf-8?q?=3A_Aarhus_Workshop_on_=27Making_=E2=80=9CWorld_Machines?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9D=3A_Discourse=2C_Design_and_Global_Technologies?= =?utf-8?q?_for_Greater-than-self_Issues=27?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This seems right up our alley! I'd love to go but it doesn't seem likely. — Doug ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ann Light Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:47 AM Subject: [Pdworld] Reminder: CfP: Aarhus Workshop on 'Making “World Machines”: Discourse, Design and Global Technologies for Greater-than-self Issues' To: ann.light at sussex.ac.uk, Ann Light *Making “World Machines”: Discourse, Design and Global Technologies for Greater-than-self Issues - workshop in Aarhus, 17th August 2015* Call for Participation Workshop website: http://designforsharing.com/events-and-links/workshop-on-making-world-machines/ Tired of seeing sharing and caring monetized into apps and services? Tired of the limited visions for participation in much citizen science? Tired of feeling that technology can only worsen the problem, not offer creative solutions to resource management as well as citizen involvement for the benefit of the collective? Then come and experiment for the day at a workshop on ‘*Making “World Machines”: Discourse, Design and Global Technologies for Greater-than-self Issues’* at the Aarhus *Critical Alternatives* conference, August 2015. This one-day workshop introduces the concept of *world machines*—a new archetype for socio-technical systems, drawing together new computational powers with a social agenda of cross-world collaboration in resistance to dominant market rhetoric. Specifically, we consider opportunities to connect, sense and infer and apply these to crowd-sourcing public engagement with shared world issues. *World machines* give people access to the means to sample, test and report on their circumstances and what they find (or can sense with tools), as well as to locate each other, analyze the meanings of the data and link up for action upon what is found. They offer potential to scale and map the local and global, with shared tools and outcomes. They rely on a range of motivations for use, but no intrusive incentives, such as many sharing economy initiatives use (eg Airbnb, Uber or Taskrabbit, which monetize help-giving) and they may also specifically embed a rhetoric of shared or greater-than-self issues. We will use the idea of *world* *machines* to take a critical approach and examine ‘what is wrong with current social reality, identify the actors to change it, and provide both clear norms for criticism and achievable practical goals for social transformation’ (as Horkheimer defined Critical Theory) in the context of developing and deploying networked technology. The day will combine theoretical aspects of *world machines*, such as considering what a political entity of this kind might seek to do, and practical exercises that focus on design and use, followed by a review of learning from our work, with a view to exploring viability and examining what a related research agenda might involve. Relevant workshop topics We would like to hear from those who are already constructing and maintaining *world machines* as well as those interested in their potential. Any empirical or discursive contribution, dealing with social, environmental, economic, cultural, spiritual, managerial or political aspects, will be relevant. People with backgrounds in HCI and Design may be joined by artists, technologists, political scientists and cultural theorists. Organisers’ interests include the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller, Brian Holmes, Jane Bennett, Félix Guattari and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa among others, and we would welcome further perspectives and reference points. In particular, we will be looking at ecological approaches in the broadest sense of design for linking up systems and inspiring awareness of our relations in the world. What to do now? Prospective participants should submit a position paper of up to 3 pages (using the SigCHI format here: http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-paper-format-2016/view), which focuses on theoretical or practical aspects (or both) and demonstrates a willingness to engage with both political discussion and hands-on making. Please send your papers to [designsharechi at gmail.com]. Important dates - Position papers due: May 20th - Results made known: May 31st - Camera ready papers for website: July 1st - Workshop: August 18th 2015, Aarhus Organisers *Ann Light, University of Sussex* *Jeffrey Bardzell, Indiana University* *Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University* *Geoff Cox, Aarhus University* *Jonas Fritsch, IT University Copenhagen* *Lone Koefoed Hansen, Aarhus University* Please contact us at [designsharechi at gmail.com] if you have any questions about the workshop and/or to send your submissions. _______________________________________________ Pdworld mailing list Pdworld at listserv.uni-siegen.de https://listserv.uni-siegen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdworld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They aim to introduce new methods to broaden the scope of involved citizens as well as to encourage those previously less eager to participate, such as younger generations. In governing urban development, participation has been long encouraged and organized especially related to urban planning. Especially in that field, the penetration of mobile and wearable devices with their manifold features to interact with real-world surroundings provides new opportunities to collect citizen input directly from particular sites and on the go. The 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Participation (PerPart 2015) seeks to discuss the various requirements, opportunities, challenges and impact of novel concepts for advanced citizen e-participation based on the pervasive computing paradigm utilizing latest mobile technology such as feature-rich smartphones and wearables and appliances embedded in today's technically enriched urban surroundings. PerPart aims to provide an extensive outlook on relevant concepts, innovations and research issues in the field of advanced technology-mediated citizen participation. Thus, we plan to examine Pervasive Participation from various angles and to uncover the interdisciplinary challenges of creating feasible, efficient, and user-accepted Pervasive Participation methods. -------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------- We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to - Novel pervasive and mobile e-participation concepts and prototypes - Innovative user interfaces and interaction techniques facilitating Pervasive Participation - Exploitation of social media platforms on pervasive devices for citizen e-participation - Approaches to attract and encourage different citizen groups to take part in decision-making processes using pervasive technology - Privacy and security issues in Pervasive Participation and approaches to overcome them - Integration of Pervasive Participation in traditional decision-making processes - Methodologies for evaluating novel pervasive forms of citizen e-participation or assessing their impact - Experiences from planning, conducting, and evaluating field trials and living labs in the fields of mobile and pervasive citizen e-participation -------------------- Submission -------------------- Workshop candidates are invited to submit position papers up to 6 pages in the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format by June 10th, 2015 by Email to: perpart2015 at tech-experience.at> The program committee will select participants based on the quality and relevance of their submitted papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- - Deadline for workshop papers: June 10th, 2015 - Workshop paper notification: June 19th, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 3rd, 2015 - Workshop: September 8th, 2015 -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- - Peter Fröhlich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology - Matthias Baldauf, Vienna University of Technology - Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg - Sampo Ruoppila, University of Turku - Florian Alt, University of Munich DR. 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