[Ci4cg-announce] Call for Design work proposals: DIS2016

[Jennifer Seevinck]

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::CALL FOR DESIGN WORKS:: ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems
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4-8 June 2016, Brisbane, Australia

The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, and systems engineers come together to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice.

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THE DESIGN WORKS TRACK OF THE 2016 ACM SIGCHI DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE IS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FROM PRACTICE AND DESIGN-LED RESEARCHERS WITH CREATIVE WORKS FOR EXHIBITION AND AN ACCOMPANYING ‘FRAMING TEXT’ ARTICULATING THE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH RELATIONSHIP.ACCEPTED WORKS WILL BE EXHIBITED IN A GALLERY SETTING AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING FRAMING TEXTS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE ACM DIS 2016 COMPANION PROCEEDINGS AS EXTENDED ABSTRACTS.

As Research through Design gains currency and design practices more broadly are integrated with other modes of research, there is a need to present new and emerging knowledge in the form of design itself. This is often the case where researchers express new design knowledge through the languages of design, and where works are interactive with an experiential dimension. Conversely, the ability to share knowledge through the presentation of the artefact alone is also problematic (Scrivener 2002). Very often the knowledge and lessons learnt in design work remains tacit in the practitioner or latent in the object. Research efforts, such as evaluations, theoretical framing and literary or contextual reviews do accompany much creative practice (Candy and Edmonds 2010) and such approaches, along with direct presentation of the artefact, can facilitate bridging the research-practice divide.

The essential aims of this stream at DIS 2016 are to facilitate this bridging and to present the locus of our discipline: the design outcome. The exhibition and publications are a forum for discussing the dual practice and research work and, in so doing, gain deeper insight into the relationships between creative work and knowledge. We seek to provide designers and artists who also conduct research with a platform to show non-traditional research outputs and share the accompanying knowledge outcomes. Submissions are expected to describe the proposed design work for installation (part 1) as well as a ‘framing text’ (part 2). The term ‘framing’ comes from Donald Schӧn’s The Reflective Practitioner (Schön 1983) and refers to the articulation of a question or theme that the work explores. The role of the framing text is to contextualise the creative work and articulate the knowledge or understandings generated, in order to share these with the community. Typically, the articulation of knowledge or understandings is through a theoretical analysis and critical framing of the work, or through evaluation studies. Design Works submissions accepted for exhibition at DIS 2016 will be published by the ACM in the Digital Library.

We welcome submissions for design and creative interactive works related to contemporary research issues in design of interactive systems as well as the conference theme of FUSE – research exploring the range of new possibilities along the human and technology spectrum – the blurring of any clear divides between analogue and digital, atoms and bits, materiality and virtuality, art and design, academy and industry. We encourage strong content and criticality in submitted works, conveyed through the use of advanced technologies and/or inclusive or socially aware design practices. Submissions are expected to be aesthetically-resolved exhibition-ready works of design that represent expressions of new design knowledge. The focus is your creative work.

IMPORTANT DATES
March 13, 2016: Design Works submissions due
March 27, 2016: Design Works author notifications
April 1, 2016: All camera ready papers due
May 8, 2016: Early bird registration deadline

Further instructions on how to prepare and submit Design Work proposals
can be found at:http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/exhibition/
For any questions please email exhibition at dis2016.org<mailto:exhibition at dis2016.org>

Please also consider the other DIS 2016 submission tracks:
Papers and Notes http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/
Pictorials http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/pictorials/
Workshop Proposals http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/workshops/
Provocations and Works-in-Progress
http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/provocations/
Demos http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/demos/
Doctoral Consortium http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/dc/

DIS 2016 will be held in the beautiful, subtropical city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. DIS 2016 will be hosted by Queensland University of Technology surrounding one of the world’s largest digital interactive and learning environments in the new $230 million Science and Engineering Centre. There are three reasons to visit Australia in 2016 with DIS being held back to back with the Vivid Light, Music & Ideas Festival 2016 (vividsydney.com) and the Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) from 1-4 June 2016 in Sydney (mab16.org).

We look forward to seeing you at DIS’16. In the meantime, please follow us on Twitter @dis2016 and tell us you are coming on our Facebook event page:http://bit.ly/dis16

Jen Seevinck & Gavin Sade
Exhibition Design Works Chairs @DIS2016
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Dr Jen Seevinck
Lecturer Interactive & Visual Design, School of Design,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
jennifer.seevinck at qut.edu.au<mailto:jennifer.seevinck at qut.edu.au>   http://www.smArtnoise.net

ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) Brisbane, June 4-8.
http://www.dis2016.org/call-for-papers/exhibition/
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