======================================= CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop - Call for Participation! ======================================= Does your research explore culture, technology design and communities? If so, join us at the “CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” Workshop! CulTech2015 will be held at the 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on June 27, 2015. Website here: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ ---- IMPORTANT DATES ---- Workshop submissions due: May 1, 2015 Feedback to authors: May 15, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: June 17, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015: June 27, 2015 ---- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ---- With globalization and technological advances, people are increasingly coming into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds, particularly in place-based and virtual communities. Yet, cultural diversity – the diversity of community members’ cultural backgrounds – offers both significant benefits and challenges in the design, usage and evaluation of technologies. In this one-day workshop, we explore the role of cultural diversity in potentially informing, supporting, challenging or impacting the design of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within community contexts. We welcome workshop submissions that: 1) Engage broadly with the role of culture within technology design and usage for, with and by communities, 2) Proposals for approaches, tools, conceptual and methodological frameworks, case studies and best practices in community-based design that exploit cultural diversity as an asset and seek to facilitate intercultural interactions. Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners from different domains such as computer science, urban design, interactive art, anthropology and social sciences who share a common interest in exploring the design space of ICTs, culture and communities. ---- WORKSHOP THEMES ---- To stimulate discussion and exploration, we welcome initial idea explorations, as well as ongoing or completed projects relating (but not exclusive) to the following themes: - Theoretical and reflective engagements with the role of culture and cultural difference in community-based (participatory) design and technology appropriation across cultures - Frameworks, tools, and conceptual engagements tackling inclusion in (participatory) design; The role of technology and technology design in mediating or supporting societal inclusion - Means (methods, tools, frameworks) for cross-cultural transferability of design and design processes - Limits of transferability and situated, emergent design practices in community contexts - Localization and culturally adaptive interfaces - Empirical studies exploring cultural difference in technology usage and formulating design implications - Metrics, tools, and frameworks for examining cultural differences in technology usage - Conceptual papers that problematize design, re-framing design processes from cultural studies and intercultural communication frameworks (e.g. design as a process of encoding values and meaning in artifacts) - Uses, benefits and limitations of ethnography and data-intensive research methods in community-based design - Inherent value tensions or clashes between local and academic/scientific knowledge - Local knowledge management, knowledge conversion and the challenges posed by structuring fluid knowledge episodes to generate design requirements - Cultural pathways for community engagement and the localization of participatory practices - Aligning intentions in multicultural design projects - Bridging differences in culturally diverse design teams - Case studies, approaches and best practices in community-based design that explore or engage with issues of connectedness and community cohesion, facilitating intercultural awareness, communication and collaboration, and stimulating intercultural interactions across diverse cultural groups ---- CONTRIBUTION TYPES --- We welcome the following contribution types: - Novel technologies or interaction paradigms - Design or evaluation methods - Case studies on existing applications and systems - Evaluation studies - Theoretical frameworks - Controversial or thought-provoking ideas of issues relating to communities, culture and ICTs ---- WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ---- Interested candidates are asked to submit either a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) or a video submission about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: [log in to unmask] ---- SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND TECHNOLOGY DESIGN ---- The organizers will invite authors of selected workshop papers to submit an extended version to a peer-reviewed Special Issue on “Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” to be published by the Journal of Community Informatics. ---- ORGANIZERS ---- Helen Ai He, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Nemanja Memarovic, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Amalia Sabiescu, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands ---- CONTACT INFO ---- Website: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com Email: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------