From m.foth at qut.edu.au  Wed Nov 18 04:07:39 2015
From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:07:39 +0000
Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] CfP: Collective Intelligence 2016
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Message-ID: <D74EA764-B74D-4B6E-BBB5-22476B1B4030@qut.edu.au>

FYI

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Professor Marcus Foth

Research Leader, School of Design
Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
m.foth at qut.edu.au – @UrbanInf – www.urbaninformatics.net

CRICOS No. 00213J


ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16)
Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org

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> From: Paul Resnick <presnick at UMICH.EDU>
> Date: 18 November 2015 at 8:42:00 AM AEST
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> Subject: CFP: Collective Intelligence 2016
> 
> Call For Papers
> 
> 
> *Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts)*
> ------------------------------
> 
> 
> *Collective Intelligence 2016
> <https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/home>*
> 
> 
> 
> *June 1-3, 2016*
> *New York University, New York, NY*
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> The annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers
> from the academy, businesses, non-profits, governments and the world at
> large to share insights and ideas from a variety of fields relevant to
> understanding and designing collective intelligence in its many forms.
> 
> Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> 
>   - human computation
>   - social computing
>   - crowdsourcing
>   - crowdfunding
>   - wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
>   - group memory and extended cognition
>   - collective decision making and problem-solving
>   - participatory and deliberative democracy
>   - animal collective behavior
>   - organizational design and strategy
>   - public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)
>   - ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops")
>   - computational models of group search and optimization
>   - emergence and evolution of intelligence
>   - new technologies for making groups smarter
> 
> 
> Submissions of two types are invited:
> 
>   - Reports of original results
>   - Demonstrations of tools/technology
> 
> 
> All submissions should be formatted as four-page extended abstracts (up to
> 3 pages for content and 1 page for references).
> 
>   - LaTex template: ci2016-sample-latex
>   <https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/ci2016-sample-latex.zip?attredirects=0>
>   - Word template: ci2016-sample-word
>   <https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/ci2016-sample-word.zip?attredirects=0>
> 
> All submission should be converted to PDF at the time of submission. Please
> click here to submit your the document:
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ci20160
> <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ci20160>
> 
> 
> In order to encourage a diversity of innovative ideas from a variety of
> fields, submissions may refer to work that is recently published, under
> review elsewhere, or in preparation, and may link to up to one publicly
> accessible paper for the purpose of describing the work in detail. However,
> submissions will be evaluated solely on the submitted abstract, which must
> therefore comprise an entirely self-contained description of the work.
> 
> After review by the Program Committee, a subset of submitted abstracts will
> be invited for oral presentation with additional presentation as posters
> and/or demos. A second subset will also be invited exclusively for
> presentation as posters and/or demos.
> 
> Authors will not receive detailed feedback from the review process, just an
> accept/reject decision. The main criteria will be: 1) whether the subject
> matter is a good fit for the Collective Intelligence conference; 2) whether
> there are interesting claims made with a promise to present evidence or
> non-obvious arguments in support of them. The review committee will not
> assess the validity of the evidence or arguments.
> 
> Accepted submissions will be compiled into a single report which will be
> made available to conference participants. We emphasize that abstracts that
> are distributed to conference participants are not intended to be
> considered archival publications or to preclude submission of the reported
> work to archival journals; however, we cannot guarantee that certain
> journals do not have policies precluding the distribution of extended
> abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be included as submitted (i.e.,
> submissions should be camera-ready).
> 
> If your abstract is accepted for presentation or poster session, at least
> one author has to commit to attending the conference.
> 
> 
> Please check out prior programs and proceedings to learn more about the
> Collective Intelligence conference and academic community:
> 
>   - Collective Intelligence Conference Proceedings, MIT, 2012
>   <http://arxiv.org/html/1204.2991>
>   - Collective Intelligence Conference Proceedings, MIT, 2014
>   <http://collective.mech.northwestern.edu/?page_id=217>
>   - Collective Intelligence Conference Program, Santa Clara, 2015
>   <https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/collectiveintelligence/schedule/>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> *DEADLINES*
> 
> *Abstract submission deadline  |  February 8, 2016 Midnight PST*
> *Program Announcement  |  March 1st, 2016*
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> *Conference Chair *
> Natalia Levina <http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/natalia-levina> (NYU
> Stern School of Business)
> 
> *Program Chairs *
> Karim Lakhani <http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=240491>
> (Harvard
> Business School)
> Paul Resnick <https://www.si.umich.edu/people/paul-resnick> (University of
> Michigan)
> 
> *Program Committee Members*
> Anita Woolley
> <http://tepper.cmu.edu/our-faculty-and-research/about-our-faculty/faculty-profiles/awoolley/williams-woolley-anita>
> (Carnegie
> Mellon University)
> Siobhan O’Mahony
> <http://questromapps.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/O%27MahonySiobhan.html> (Boston
> University)
> Walter Lasecki <http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wlasecki/index.html> (University
> of Michigan)
> Yiling Chen <http://yiling.seas.harvard.edu/> (Harvard University)
> Emmanouil Gkeredakis
> <http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/emmanouil-gkeredakis> (Warwick Business
> School)
> Sinan Aral <https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=19289>
> (Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology)
> Lada Adamic
> <https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1471283266479125/lada-adamic/>
> (Facebook)
> Christopher Chabris <http://www.chabris.com/> (Union College)
> Iain Couzin <http://icouzin.princeton.edu/> (Princeton University)
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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Mon Nov 23 14:26:48 2015
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:26:48 -0800
Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: [Pdworld] [REMINDER] Call for Papers -
	Special Issue "Exploring Participatory Design as a strategy
	to act within the city" - SDRJ
References: <5652C562.2010700@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20C7559E-C960-424F-9424-060EE0DC60B4@publicsphereproject.org>

This looks relevant to CI4CG.

—  Doug



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> From: Giacomo Poderi <giacomo.poderi at gmail.com>
> To: <pdworld at listserv.uni-siegen.de>
> Date: November 22, 2015 at 11:50:58 PM PST
> Cc: Chiara Del Gaudio <chiara.delgaudio.d at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Pdworld] [REMINDER] Call for Papers - Special Issue "Exploring Participatory Design as a strategy to act within the city" - SDRJ
> Reply-To: <giacomo.poderi at unitn.it>
> 
> [apologies for cross-posting]
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> this is just a reminder on the Call for Papers for the Special Issue: "Exploring Participatory Design as a strategy to act within the city" - Strategic Design Research Journal.
> 
> Deadline for submission is: January 31st, 2016
> Find below the full text of the call, the time schedule and the information/links for the submission.
> 
> We look forward receiving your contributions!
> 
> Best regards,
> Giacomo and Chiara
> 
> On 02/09/2015 20:59, Giacomo Poderi wrote:
>> Call for papers – Special Issue
>> Guest editors: Chiara Del Gaudio and Giacomo Poderi
>> http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/call <http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/call>
>> Exploring Participatory Design as a strategy to act within the city
>> 
>> During the last decades, design has been changing: a system-oriented design practice has emerged and opened design's field of action to several different contexts which relate to human activities –both individual and collective (Manzini, 2014).On one hand, the design object extended itself from products to services and then to systems, made by tangible and nontangible elements. On the other hand, design has started to concern not only about the industry and commerce, but also about other areas such as health, energy, education and transport systems, urban planning and development, and well-being. In this sense, design is often considered to act within the public sphere and in those areas that aim at improving one or more aspects of people's life, particularly urban and suburban contexts transformation.
>> 
>> Among the main reasons of this evolution are the widespread scepticisms, fears and resistances against the predominant governance systems and the institutions’ ability to deal with contemporary societal challenges that call for greater and different efforts for greater and innovative efforts for tackling them. Moreover, they prompt society for the need for a change in the approaches and methodologies used for pursuing them. Simplistic, monologic or unidirectional solutions seem no longer efficient and hardly pursued. New configurations of actors, open solutions and a constant dialogue are necessary to change and foster a more sustainable society in an ecosystemic perspective. In this sense, a Strategic Design approach to problem setting and solving (Manzini, 2014) combined with the tradition and practices of Participatory Design (PD) appears as a fruitful path to follow. Actually, the main pillar of the former is to enable a strategic dialogue among different actors that can inspire and guide their diverse perspectives towards the construction of a shared and plural vision. Its core interest is the constant articulation of the ensemble of relationships existing and developing in the ecosystems made of different organizations such as consultancy, firms, institutions, governments, territories and associations. At the same time, the activities and techniques of the latter are able to regenerate “the local”, to rise interest around conflictual topics, and to point out different ways to conceive and to solve them by initiating and supporting human endeavours that are highly characterized by collaborative, open and participatory processes.
>> 
>> Ecosystemic, participatory and strategic approaches acquire an astonishing relevance in the public and urban sphere, where the paradigm of open-innovation and collaborative ecosystems is becoming a consolidated frame for attempting to tackle a very heterogeneous set of issues which can range, for instance, from public transportation to environmental challenges, from elderly care to education and integration of marginalized groups. In fact, co-design practices and services that are implemented in these collaborative ecosystems and that involve local population, enable and foster a dialog among local forces and resources, and urban governance mechanisms (Rizzo et al., 2015). Urban Living Lab and Human Smart City increasing initiatives are, for instance, an example of the promising interplay among the three approaches that consider issues intertwined, putting into action a great variety of actors at the centre of the process and solutions.
>> 
>> In this frame and in practical terms, the designer’s aim turns out to be promoting democratic spaces where different and conflicting voices and perspectives may be expressed, and where activities and institutions are implemented to mediate, mitigate and solve controversies (Björgvinsson et al., 2012). These spaces are social spaces. This means that they are both physical and abstract: they can be squares, streets, neighbourhoods, as well as intangible gathering places that work as arenas for questions and possibilities. This way, designers contribute to a resilient society in which diversity, redundancy, and experimentation make society itself able to cope with challenges without collapsing (Manzini and Till, 2015).
>> 
>> The mediation among different and conflicting voices, the experimental and on-going trait of these spaces move the designer’s focus of action. Designers have to set up, to enable and to nurture them: designers have to focus more on the process than the project. This means focus on infrastructuring (Karasti, 2014): the ongoing and open process involving the anticipation of future scenarios and the alignment of heterogeneous socio-technical elements, which shall support the emergence of such scenarios. Focusing on the process that allows a context change through different projects leads to the idea of having a metadesign approach. Actually, even if metadesign is a concept subjected to several different interpretations that are welcome in this call, we focus here on one of its most commonly shared features: the idea of developing a design process of the design process itself.
>> 
>> Considering the core interest of Strategic Design Research Journal, in this special issue, we welcome contributions – conceptual analysis, case studies or empirical findings – that critically engage with one (or more) of the provocative questions raised here:
>> 
>> How do Strategic Design, Participatory Design and infrastructuring relate to each other in conceptual or practical terms?
>> 
>> How does the infrastructuring process, as defined above, critically challenge the scope of Strategic Design?
>> 
>> If metadesign suggests “to defer some design and participation until after the design project, and opens up for use as design, design at use time or ‘design-after-design’” (Ehn, 2008), then how does the design process change the implications of its actions and the level in which it operate? At what level does the designer think and act? What is the relation between metadesign and infrastructuring?
>> 
>> In relationship to the key attention that Participatory Design and open design projects pay to the relational dimension, how does infrastructuring enter, contribute to or benefit from metadesign?
>> 
>> Which kind of interactions among citizens, local forces and public institutions does the designer stimulate to promote and feed collaborative ecosystems that support public democratic spaces? Which are the challenges and how could they be minimized by specific applications of the Strategic and Participatory Design approaches?
>> 
>> References
>> 
>> BJÖRGVISSON, E.; EHN, P.; HILLGREN, P.A. 2012. Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges. Design Issues, 28(3):101-116.
>> 
>> DISALVO, C. 2010. Design, democracy and agonistic pluralism. In: Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference, Montreal University, Montreal. Proceedings. Available at: http://www.drs2010.umontreal.ca/data/PDF/031.pdf <http://www.drs2010.umontreal.ca/data/PDF/031.pdf>
>> EHN, P. 2008 Participation in Design Things. In: Participatory Design Conference, 2008, Bloomington, Indiana. Proceedings. Bloomington, ACM Press, p. 92-101.
>> 
>> MANZINI, E. 2014. Design in a changing, connected world. Strategic Design Research Journal, 7(2):95-99.Available at: http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/issue/view/487 <http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/issue/view/487>
>> MANZINI, E.; TILL, J. (eds.). 2015. The cultures of resilience base text. In: E. MANZINI; J. TILL, Cultures of Resilience. Ideas. A Project from across the University of the Arts London. London, Hato Press. p. 11-13. Available at:http://www.culturesofresilience.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CoR-Booklet-forHomePrinting.pdf <http://www.culturesofresilience.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CoR-Booklet-forHomePrinting.pdf>
>> RIZZO, F.; DESERTI, A.; COBANLI, O. 2015. Design and social innovation for the development of Huma Smart Cities. In: Nordes 2015, Stockholm, 2015. Proceedings. Nordes, p. 1-8. Available at: http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/383/362 <http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/383/362>
>> Schedule
>> 
>> Full Paper Due: January 31st, 2016
>> Notification of Review Results: March 31st, 2016
>> Final Version of Paper Due: May 31st, 2016
>> Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2016
>> Special Issue Publication Date: August 31st, 2016
>> 
>> 
>> Submission of Papers
>> 
>> Manuscripts must be prepared using the guidelines found at the Submission page ( <http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions>http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions <http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions>).
>> 
>> For this special issue, the manuscript must be written in English.
>> 
>> Previously published articles will not be accepted. Submitted articles must not be under consideration for publication anywhere else. The publication of the article is subjected to the previous approval of the journal's Editorial Board, as well as to peer review made by, at least, two ad hoc reviewers using the double blind review process.
>> 
>> Manuscripts must be sent through the online submission system. You have to register in order to send your article:  <http://revistas.unisinos.br/sdrj>http://revistas.unisinos.br/sdrj <http://revistas.unisinos.br/sdrj>
>> If you have questions, contact us:  <mailto:periodicos at unisinos.br> <mailto:periodicos at unisinos.br>periodicos at unisinos.br <mailto:periodicos at unisinos.br>
>> 
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From j.donovan at qut.edu.au  Sun Nov 29 23:00:29 2015
From: j.donovan at qut.edu.au (Jared Donovan)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:00:29 +0000
Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] DIS 2016 Call for workshops
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(Apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested colleagues)

== Call for Workshops: DIS 2016 ==

ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems, 4-8 June 2016, Brisbane, Australia

    https://youtu.be/xE9nxU7Zfl0

We invite proposals for workshops that engage with central themes in designing interactive systems for people. Workshops are unique opportunities to collect together a diverse group of practitioners and researchers to spend focused time on important topics. A workshop format is ideal for getting things accomplished, generating outcomes (rather than reporting on them) and actively working together on open, unresolved or controversial issues in the field. Workshops should be designed to generate interaction between participants, foster community-building and attract broad interdisciplinary interest within the field. We encourage proposals that allow for participants to engage in “doing”: in design, in prototyping or hacking, in new methods, in analysis, in theorizing or in the application of emerging theories.

== Workshop Formats ==

DIS 2016 workshops will be held on the first two days of the conference (4th and 5th June 2016); proposals for workshops may be for half-day, whole day, or two days. We also invite proposals for a new “embedded” workshop format we are trialling, where a workshop that runs as a session before the conference continues in short (approx. one hour) instalments over the next three days, embedded in the regular conference program. Plan for 6 working hours per day, with morning, afternoon and lunch breaks. Reserving unhurried time for socializing is important. Workshops should aim to attract between 10-25 participants.

== Themes ==

Proposals should be ambitious: we encourage innovative, boundary crossing and experimental proposals that relate to the topics in the DIS 2016 call for papers:

Design Theory, Methods, and Critical Perspectives: Methods, tools, and techniques for engaging people; researching, designing, and co-designing interactive systems; the use of critical and cultural theory to understand, critique, and reflect on design products and contexts as well as design practices.
Experience: Places, temporality, people, communities, events, phenomena, aesthetics, user experience, usability, engagement, empowerment, wellbeing, designing things that matter, diversity, participation, materiality, making, etc.
Application Domains: Health, ICT4D, children-computer interaction, sustainability, games/entertainment computing, digital arts, etc.
Technological Innovation (systems, tools, and/or artefact designs): Sensors and actuators, mobile devices, multi touch and touchless interaction, social media, personal, community, and public displays

== Important Dates ==

* 10 January 2016: Workshop proposals due; submission via PCS submission system
* 10 February 2016: Notification to workshop organisers
* 15 February 2016: CfP released by workshop organisers
* 7 March 2016: Workshop participant submission deadline
* 1 April 2016: Notification to workshop participants
* 21 April 2016: Camera ready deadline
* 8 May 2016: Early bird registration deadline
* DIS 2016 workshop days: Saturday 4 June and Sunday 5 June 2016

== Submission Details ==

Workshop proposals should be 2-4 pages in length including references in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts Format (2016), submitted via the PCS submission system. Proposals should contain:

* Title and proposed duration
* Organisers’ names and institutional addresses (proposals are not anonymised for review)
* Workshop theme and goals, background and motivation
* Intended audience and recruitment strategy
* Schedule and description of activities planned
* Intended outcomes of the workshop, their benefits and significance
* Required facilities
* A plan for how the results of the workshop will be disseminated beyond DIS 2016
* Short biographies of the organisers (including photos)
* A draft 250-word call for participation for your workshop

The draft 250-word call for participation should be included in a separate document, which will be posted on the DIS 2016 conference website. This should contain information on how potential participants should submit to you.

== Selection Process ==

All proposals will be reviewed by the workshop chairs. Successful proposals should describe how the workshop format will be leveraged to generate clear outcomes and to make constructive and valuable use of the participants’ collective expertise. Social, active and engaging workshop concepts with clear collaborative outcomes will be preferred, as will workshops that have strong potential to generate cross-disciplinary interest.

For first time workshop organisers, proposals from previous DIS conferences are a helpful indication of appropriate content and style:
    http://dis2014.iat.sfu.ca/index.php/workshops
    http://www.dis2012.org/workshops.php

== Workshops Chairs ==

Jared Donovan
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Ben Matthews
University of Queensland, Australia

workshops at dis2016.org<mailto:workshops at dis2016.org>


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