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• Elena Parmiggiani (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
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*Important dates:*
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• Deadline: *August 27, 2018 (extended)*
• Notification to the authors: October 10, 2018
• Camera ready paper: October 25, 2018
• Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2018
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*Overview*
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This focus section aims to promote a critical reflection of research
methods to study modern Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT). For decades, several disciplines from the human sciences (e.g.,
philosophy, economics, management sciences, semiotics, sociology,
anthropology, and psychology) have demonstrated the complexity of the
interactions between uses, social activities, and technical
developments. Researchers from these disciplines have brought on the
field the rigor of their intrinsic questioning, their methods, and their
own histories. To grasp the interplay among all elements, reflexivity is
a powerful tool drawn from the social sciences tradition to understand
the relationship between the researcher, the surrounding context, and
the research process. This notion recognizes and highlights that the
researcher is part of the world that she is studying. As such,
reflexivity invites the researcher to explicitly elaborate on the way
different social, political, and theoretical aspects ‘are woven together
in the process of knowledge development, during which empirical material
is constructed, interpreted and written.’ As their methods of inquiry
are today appropriated and accepted by design researchers, however, the
consequences of applying methods that were originally designed to study
specific aspects – for example social aspects – to the study and the
design of technology remain largely unquestioned. It is however
important to reflect on the consequences of our methodological choices
(e.g., what we leave untold, invisible) and their generative potential.
Questioning the construction of the research methods has indeed
political meaning, because of its analytical consequences, such as
allowing researchers to investigate how design can empower (or silence)
specific categories of stakeholders, even non-human ones.
The objective of this Focus Session is to propose a discussion on the
methodological posture of studies of collaborative and interactive
design prototyping. We invite contributions inquiring into “the way we
inquire”, promoting a reflexive practice onto the way we apply our
research methodologies to inform, understand, and/or support the design
of technologies.
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*Topics of Interest*
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Possible research questions addressed by articles in the focus section
include (but are not limited to):
• What does it mean to promote a reflexive practice?
• What are the ethics and the epistemology of reflexive practices?
• How can we reflexively select and craft a research method to study the
design of systems?
• How do we reflect upon the emerging constraints, needs, and expectations?
• How can we combine qualitative and quantitative methods in a reflexive
fashion?
• How can we leverage the potential of reflexive inquiry to scale up our
inquiring methods to study distributed and/or long-term technologies?
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The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.
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Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
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Guest Editors: Gerrit van der Veer, Achim Ebert, Nahum Gershon, Peter
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