From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Mar 14 21:02:59 2017 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:02:59 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: [ciresearchers] CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Nemer Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:21 PM Subject: [ciresearchers] CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017 To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, aoir Apologies for cross-posting! I participated in this Symposium next year, and I highly recomment it. --- *Call for Proposals* HCI Across Borders Symposium in Denver (CO, USA) at CHI 2017 6th-7th May, 2017 *About the Workshop* The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community at CHI is increasingly embracing research being performed on topics and in regions that have been understudied in the past. To promote these efforts, the Development Consortium Workshop titled *HCI Across Borders* was held at CHI 2016 in San Jose. With support from SIGCHI and in collaboration with Facebook and Google, it was attended by 70+ researchers from 20 countries across the globe, with some of these countries being represented at CHI for the first time. The goal of this Consortium was to build community and invite collaborations *across borders* on themes of interest to the participants – those actively involved in international HCI projects, with most of them conducting research in understudied areas and with underrepresented individuals and communities across the world. This year marks another milestone as this event has grown to be a CHI Symposium. Our goal is to build on the efforts from the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and to grow the community working in the area of HCI Across Borders (HCIxB), by providing an opportunity for interested researchers to come together as a community, improve the visibility of their work, and to bring greater awareness to the challenges that plague international research, particularly research that takes place in resource-constrained settings, to the larger HCI community. *Participation* We solicit participation from HCI researchers and practitioners across the globe who work with underserved, underrepresented, and/or under-resourced communities. We particularly invite participants who are keen to explore collaborations across borders. “Borders”, in this context, include geographic boundaries, but also boundaries of other kinds, such as disciplines, methodologies, ideologies, and more. Research areas of focus can be diverse, including but not limited to learning, global health, crisis informatics, civic engagement, mobile banking, etc. While this is no exhaustive list, examples of topics/themes of submission might include: - Leveraging participatory design and co-design approaches - Factoring cultural sensitivities in the design of new technologies and/or HCI methods - Designing to accommodate power differentials in communities - Devising innovative techniques for engaging new technology users - Designing for sustainability - Studying the intersection of HCI and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - And more! These are examples of projects that our Symposium might include, as the Consortium did last year : - Emotional Wellbeing: Technology for Mental Health in Developing Countries - HCI, Forced Migration & Refugees: Collaborations across Borders and Fields - ICT Intervention for Agricultural Development: Exploring Prospects for Pakistani Farmers - Cuba Intercambio: Cultural and Information Exchange for Cuba - Online Learning Across Diverse Low-Resource Indian Contexts - Cognitive Modeling for Illiteracy Eradication - Mobile Technology-Based Supports for Prenatal Care Among the Ngäbe in Panama *Submissions* Please submit a proposal (3-5 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format) *starting now *and before *April 15th, 2017*. We would appreciate early submissions. You will receive a decision within 15 days of submitting so you can plan your registration and travels accordingly. All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and a program committee. They will be selected in accordance with their potential to contribute to the Symposium and to foster discussion. Accepted submissions will be available on our website before the conference. Authors of accepted submissions will also be invited to present posters of their proposals at CHI (although not mandatory). Please submit your PDFs at https://hcixb17.hotcrp.com/. Please note that we will accept contributions until the number of available attendees is reached, which may be before the ultimate deadline. *Bursaries* We are working on obtaining funding to pay travel expenses (or at least a portion thereof) for attendees in need. Please note that CHI guidelines require at least one author of each accepted submission to attend and be registered for the Symposium. *Organizers* Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech (USA) Susan Dray, Dray & Associates (USA) Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Nithya Sambasivan, Google (USA) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, University of Colima (Mexico) Leonel Morales, Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala) Negin Dahya, University of Washington (USA) Nova Ahmed, North South University (Bangladesh) *Contact* For updates, please check: http://hcixb.org Email us your questions at: admin at hcixb.org To unsubscribe (subscribe) send an email to: sympa at vcn.bc.ca with the message unsub (sub) ciresearchers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- To unsubscribe (subscribe) send an email to: sympa at vcn.bc.ca with the message unsub (sub) ciresearchers From davies at stanford.edu Wed Mar 15 20:22:57 2017 From: davies at stanford.edu (Todd Davies) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 03:22:57 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Deadline extended: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech (DDM 2017) Message-ID: Full paper submission deadline extended to March 30, 2017 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making (DDM 2017) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech June 23-24, 2017 Singapore The 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making (DDM 2017) will bring together researchers and practitioners who focus on deliberation and decision making – in individuals, groups, organizations, communities, governments, and machines. For historical, institutional, and other reasons, deliberation and decision making researchers have been separated into different academic enclaves, sometimes debating but often talking past each other across disciplinary divide, with different definitions, assumptions, and methodologies getting in the way of knowledge accumulation and mutual understanding. This has not served the world of practice very well, and DDM 2017 aims to address these divisions by calling together researchers and practitioners from interdisciplinary perspectives in one conference, to explore, analyze and reflect on these perspectives and to find common ground. The conference aims to discuss specific theoretical and practical advances from a number of disciplinary perspectives (such as behaviour science, communication, computer science, decision science, human-computer interaction, information science, political science, policy studies, and more). It is organized by key experts in the field and is supported by an interdisciplinary programme committee. The conference organizers hope to produce a series of DDM conferences in the coming years. For this first one, we have chosen to focus on Civic Tech, which is technology that opens up government or is used for community action. Online Deliberation was one of the earliest visions of using ICTs towards civic ends. As ICTs developed over years, efforts to promote civic engagement through technologies have been broadened to many other non-deliberation based activities, which can be grouped under the concept of Civic Tech. These developments challenge the presumptions of what online deliberation is about and contribute to innovations in the field. DDM 2017 follows in a line of previous high-level scientific conferences that have focused on Online Deliberation, but with the intention of broadening the focus to explicitly include decision making, and specifically, Civic Tech that supports DDM. The DDM 2017 conference focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics: – Links between theories of collective decision making (such as deliberative democracy, behavior sciences, decision sciences) and technologies (such as crowdsourcing, argument visualization, and big data); – Current research on civic techs that enable deliberation and decision making both online and face to face; research challenges posed for researchers, governments, communities and citizens in applying technologies for civic purposes; – Civic tech interventions using novel settings, modes or approaches; and descriptions of tools and techniques that are already being tested or fielded; case studies in applying and evaluating civic tech in various formal and informal engagement domains Guidelines for papers and other submissions The conference allows for four distinct types of submissions: 1. Research papers 2. Exploratory papers on ongoing research and innovative projects 3. Technology demonstrators 4. Panels on pertinent issues Research papers These papers should have a strong focus on scientific rigour and may be a maximum of 20 pages (excluding references, tables/figures, and appendix). Papers in this track will be peer reviewed for rigour, relevance, originality and clarity of presentation. Abstracts or incomplete papers will not be accepted. Exploratory papers  These papers describe novel concepts, works-in-progress, reflections, manifestos or other ideas and issues that are not currently suitable for a complete research paper. They may be a maximum of 5 pages. Papers in this section will also be peer reviewed, but the focus is on relevance more than scientific rigour. For both research papers and exploratory papers, please follow the publisher Springer’s guidelines for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. [https://images.springer.com/cda/content/image/cda_displayimage.jpg?SGWID=0-0-16-2208184-0] Conference Proceedings guidelines - springer.com www.springer.com Below you will find Springer's guidelines and technical instructions for the preparation of contributions to be published in one of the Please use the following templates: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip (latex) ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/word/splnproc1110.zip (Word) http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1/Microsoft+Word+2003+Proceedings+Templates (old Word template) Submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ddm2017 Technology demonstrators  Proposals for technology demonstrators (two pages) should include a description of the demo, objectives, examples of testing and application and, if possible, a URL where the technology can be viewed. Panels Proposals for panels (two pages) should include motivation, objectives, expected outcomes, approach to audience interaction and panel members. Panels are currently planned to be 1.5 hours long. Panels proposal will also be peer reviewed. All submissions must be made via the conference submission system web site. Submissions should be written in English and non-English speakers are encouraged to have their submissions reviewed for language prior to submission. Submissions should be formatted using 12 point Times-Roman font on A4 sized paper. Accepted research and exploratory papers should be revised according to reviewer comments and resubmitted by the deadline. Publication options Option 1: Both research papers and exploratory papers are eligible for inclusion in a conference proceeding (published by Springer). Option 2: Research papers are eligible for inclusion in a journal special issue (a credible journal in the field of deliberation). A further selection process will be implemented. Sponsored by: Ministry of Education of Singapore through National University of Singapore Tokyo Technical University, Japan University of Warsaw, Poland Stanford University, USA Syracuse University, USA Local Chairs:  Weiyu Zhang, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore Simon Perrault, Yale-NUS, National University of Singapore Research Papers and Panels Chairs: Anna Przybylska, Center for Deliberation, University of Warsaw, Poland Todd Davies, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, USA Exploratory Papers and Technology Demonstrators Chairs: Lu Xiao, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA Tatsuro Sakano, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Technical University, Japan Contact Details: For further information please email: 2017ddm at gmail.com Conference Program Committee (in alphabetic order) Theo Araujo, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Or Biran, Columbia University, USA Laura Black, Ohio University, USA Dominique Cardon, Sciences Po, Médialab, Poland Michael Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Leanne Chang, Nottingham University Ningbo, China Hsuan Ting Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong Gregorio Convertino, Informatica, USA IIna Hellstern, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Veronika Karnowski, University of Munich, Germany Gyorgy Lengyel, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Hai Liang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Anna De Liddo, Open University, UK Joonsuk (Jon) Park, Williams College, USA Leszek Porębski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research, USA Agnes Sandor, Xerox Research European Center, France Douglas Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong Alice Siu, Stanford University, USA Marko Skoric, City University of Hong Kong Carol Soon, National University of Singapore Nina Springer, University of Munich, Germany Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece Submission site (open on January 1, 2017): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ddm2017 Important Dates January 1 2017 Submission system available March 15, 2017 – Extended to March 30, 2017 Research papers & panel proposals due March 30, 2017 Exploratory papers & technology demonstrators due April 30, 2017 Notices of acceptances May 1, 2017 Registration begins May 30, 2017 Revised research and exploratory papers due June 23 – 24, 2017 Conference -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Mar 28 21:36:18 2017 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:36:18 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] workshops at C&T Message-ID: These looks fantastic! (and I'm not just saying that because of #5...) Hope to see you all there! PS. I am now thinking that there should be a meta-workshop or other event at the end to see how these do and could all fit together. (from https://www.facebook.com/325661424302259/posts/679689288899469) 13 amazing workshops have been accepted!! Their description will be on the website soon. 1. 3D printing/digital fabrication for education and the common good 2. Ethics for the ‘Common Good’: Actionable Guidelines for Community-based Design Research 3. Digital Participation: Engaging Diverse and Marginalised Communities 4. Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and Participatory Design 5. Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World 6. Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring 7. Digital Cities 10: Towards a localised socio-technical understanding of the ‘real’ smart city 8. Designing for the Digital Fringe 9. Participatory Design, beyond the local 10.Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED) 11. Understanding and supporting emergent and temporary collaboration across and beyond community and organizational boundaries 12. Infrastructuring smartness and/or enhancing communities? A workshop for engaging the ‘smart’ vision critically 13. Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis (workshop accepted at CHI but hosted at C&T because of travel ban issue) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grazia.concilio at polimi.it Wed Mar 29 01:24:25 2017 From: grazia.concilio at polimi.it (Grazia Concilio) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:24:25 +0200 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] workshops at C&T In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0737A212-BC1B-4488-AF65-6BE24B7E0E86@polimi.it> GREAT! G __________________________________ Grazia Concilio, Prof. Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 26, 20133 Milano, Italy tel. +39.02.23995473, mob: +39.339.7005146 skype: gconcilio e-mail:grazia.concilio at polimi.it > Il giorno 29 mar 2017, alle ore 06:36, Doug Schuler ha scritto: > > These looks fantastic! (and I'm not just saying that because of #5...) > > Hope to see you all there! > > PS. I am now thinking that there should be a meta-workshop or other event at the end to see how these do and could all fit together. > > (from https://www.facebook.com/325661424302259/posts/679689288899469 ) > > 13 amazing workshops have been accepted!! > Their description will be on the website soon. > > 1. 3D printing/digital fabrication for education and the common good > 2. Ethics for the ‘Common Good’: Actionable Guidelines for Community-based Design Research > 3. Digital Participation: Engaging Diverse and Marginalised Communities > 4. Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and Participatory Design > 5. Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World > 6. Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring > 7. Digital Cities 10: Towards a localised socio-technical understanding of the ‘real’ smart city > 8. Designing for the Digital Fringe > 9. Participatory Design, beyond the local > 10.Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED) > 11. Understanding and supporting emergent and temporary collaboration across and beyond community and organizational boundaries > 12. Infrastructuring smartness and/or enhancing communities? A workshop for engaging the ‘smart’ vision critically > 13. Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis (workshop accepted at CHI but hosted at C&T because of travel ban issue) > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 10766 bytes Desc: not available URL: