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Call for Papers
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CoPDA 2014
2nd International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital
Age: Social Computing for Working, Learning and Living
http://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2014/
May 27, 2014 - Como, Italy
In conjunction with AVI 2014 (http://hoc12.elet.polimi.it/avi2014/)
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Overview
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Digital age requires end-user development and new design environments
which are key components of Cultures of participation. Cultures of
participation are oriented towards providing end users with the means to
actively participate in problems that are personally meaningfully to
them . An overall aim is to apply collective knowledge to address major
problems that our societies are facing today. Although cultures of
participation are not a novelty at this point, their maturity is still
far away. On the one hand, there exist relevant problem-solving
activities in which cultures of participation have been barely
supported; on the other hand, in those domains in which cultures of
participation are a reality, e.g. OSS development or Wiki-based
environments, it is possible to identify a set of weaknesses, such as
accumulation of irrelevant information, lack of coherent voices, or
under/over consideration of some aspects of the problem (as an example,
usability aspects in free software) to be solved, that hampers the
achievement of suitable solutions. Therefore, a fundamental challenge
for supporting cultures of participation should be to conceptualize and
create socio-technical environments that not only support participation
but also promise quality solutions and valuable contributions oriented
to achieve common goals.
The rapid development of the Internet, mobile computing, as well as the
capabilities for global and unique identification of objects, makes it
possible to sense, identify, locate, and connect people, machines,
devices, equipment and other resources.
COPDA workshop aims to gather people to address work-in-progress and to
study new capabilities for bringing forth emerging concepts such as the
Internet of Things (IoT), the Web of Things (WoT), and Learning
Communities (LC), whereby distributed collaboration and learning can
take place from anywhere and anytime. The purpose of the workshop is to
explore how to integrate things, information systems and mainly people
(through their participation) for supporting cultures of participation
in different domains (working, learning, and living).
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Topics and Keywords
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Topics included are (but not limited to):
- Cultures of participation theory, concepts, methods and techniques,
and their practical applications;
- Cultures of participation motivated approaches to information systems;
- Tools supporting cultures of participation;
- Pragmatic web and context-aware approaches and applications;
- Levels of end-users participation (e.g. consumers, contributors,
collaborators, conductors, etc.) in designing interactive systems;
- Techniques and methods supporting activities of cultures of participation;
- Methodologies for information systems and social participation design
and implementation;
- Web of Things, People and Information Systems: theory, methods, and
techniques for design and applications;
- Semantic and Semiotic engineering in web of things, people and
information systems;
- Human-things interaction models and paradigms;
- Impacts of Cultures of participation on business, organizations,
health, and education
- Socio-technical environment for the integration of Web of Things and
traditional information systems;
- Cultures of participation for fostering collaborative problem-solving
activities;
- Cooperative aspects in cultures of participation;
- Empirical studies of people interacting in Cultures of participation
(e.g. working, learning and living);
- Models and methodologies fostering collective intelligence and citizen
Keywords:
Cultures of participation, End-User Development, Internet of Things,
Socio-technical systems, Eco-systems, Collaborative work, Meta-design,
Collective intelligence, Citizen science, CSCW.
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Submissions
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Perspective participants are invited to submit a position paper up to
two pages long in ACM SIGCHI format:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
The papers can be submitted at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2014
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program
Committee.
At most 2 best papers will be nominated for inclusion in the ACM
proceedings of the AVI conference.
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Important dates
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Position paper submission deadline: March 12, 2014
Notification to Authors: March 24, 2014
Early Registration: April 10, 2014
Camera ready (for the best papers): April 10, 2014
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Organizing Committee
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Ali Gheitasy (University of West London, UK) [log in to unmask]
Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) [log in to unmask]
Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy) [log in to unmask]
Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) [log in to unmask]
For any questions please contact the Scientific Secretariat
Barbara Rita Barricelli: [log in to unmask]
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Antonio Piccinno
Dipartimento di Informatica - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy
Personal Home Page: http://www.di.uniba.it/~piccinno/
Tel. +39 080 544 2535 / Fax. +39 080 544 3300
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