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Call for Papers
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Workshop EDTPD 2017 - Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and
Participatory Design
http://mips.di.unimi.it/pages/view/embracing-diversity
June 27th, 2017 - Troyes, France
In conjunction with C&T 2017 (http://comtech.community/)
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Overview
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The use of technology, both new and well established, combined with a
participatory approach to design might represent an important way to
embrace diversity. This workshop is aimed at establishing a discussion
forum on assessing the challenges in design for disability,
neurodiversity, and more in general for people with special needs by
applying participatory design. Designing for usability, accessibility
and inclusion not only means focusing on user interfaces and ergonomic
aspects but also consider factors such as acceptability and
appropriation. Bodily, cognitive, and emotional appropriation should be
regarded as fundamental to the success of a design process that is truly
open to the diversity of users. To identify the right stakeholders is of
primary importance for correctly informing the design process and to
support the culture of participation in everyday life. However, this can
be quite hard especially in cases where multiple individuals and
organizations are involved. In most cases the end users, their family
members, homecare caregivers, healthcare professionals, nursing homes,
and organizations have to collaborate towards a common goal. In such
perspective, a participatory approach to design may be of great help to
implement usable, accessible, and inclusive technological solutions that
put the end users and their needs at the center. Still it is complicated
to decide under which circumstances a design process can be considered
participative and/or has participatory results (for example when users
participate in the design but don’t recognize in the results their
contribution). Moreover, new technologies, recent evolution of virtual
and augmented reality, and Internet of Things allow to design more
flexible and advanced interaction tools and systems while at the same
time may raise new challenges related to the difficulties of use that
impairments can imply.
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Submissions
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Prospective participants are invited to submit a 2-4 pages position
paper formatted according to the ACM Recommended Templates
(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
The papers can be submitted at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edtpd2017 All papers will be
peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
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Important dates
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Submission deadline: 18 April 2017
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2017
Early-bird registration deadline: 5 May 2017
Camera ready deadline: 20 May 2017
Workshop: 27 June 2017
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Organizers
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Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes (France)
For any questions, please contact: [log in to unmask]
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Barbara Rita Barricelli, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
http://www.barricelli.net
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