riander@PacBell.COM (Richard I Anderson) (03/07/91)
Posted at Michael's request: (yes, tis a little late, but perhaps that fact will impact Michael if you desire to participate and March 7 has come and gone) -- Call for Participation: -- CHI'91 Workshop -- Participatory Design: Practical Stories and Stories of Practice DESCRIPTION: Participatory design work tends to be informal, difficult to assess, and highly contextualized and situated. Results are sometimes difficult to report or publish. This leads to a pattern of geographically local sharing of experiences through informal information exchanges. This workshop provides an opportunity for participatory design practitioners to share their experiences, with the two goals of (a) developing a taxonomy of participatory design techniques, including a preliminary analysis of appropriate settings and applications, and (b) developing a more global network of practitioners. The form of the workshop and of preparations for the workshop will encourage the desired information exchange. The workshop will be held on Monday 29 April at the CHI'91 meeting in New Orleans LA, at the Sheraton New Orleans. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Participation will be by invitation only. To apply, please submit THREE copies each of the following TWO types of materials: 1. A position paper describing your applied work in participatory design. This need not be formal or "research." What is important is that the work tells a story about how participatory design techniques were used, and what you learned from their use. What would be of value to tell other practitioners? Limit: 2000 words. 2. One or more questions that you would like to propose to other workshop participations about their use of participatory design. All members of the workshop committee will review all submissions. PREPARATION FOR THE WORKSHOP: All invited participants will receive the position papers and questions submitted by other participants. Each participant will be expected to make a brief presentation of her or his own work, directed in part toward answering one or more of the questions submitted by those other participants. We anticipate the use of overheads, slides, and VHS videotapes as optional parts of peoples' presentations. DATES: Submissions are due by 7 March 1991. Notifications and materials will be mailed out by 18 March 1991. WHERE TO SEND YOUR SUBMISSION: Michael J. Muller Bellcore Room RRC-1H229 444 Hoes Lane Piscataway NJ 08854 US +1 908 699 4892 +1 908 699 0992 (fax) michael@bellcore.com