New Challenges for Participation in Participatory Design
in Family, Clinical, and Other Asymmetrical Non-Work settings

1-day Workshop, Monday, 24 August 2009, Uppsala, Sweden.
As part of INTERACT 2009

Organized by

Olav W. Bertelsen, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Per-Olof Hedvall, CERTEC, Sweden.

Call For Participation

Participatory design has taken as its point of view that designers and users should engage in an equal language game. It has been the ambition that by making certain conditions for the design activities equality in design was possible. Whether or not this ideal has ever been achieved is a big question, but when we take PD to operate in contexts where some of the involved users are weak, ill, or have disabilities, we are clearly confronted with a situation where this assumed equality is no longer an ideal that can be reached.

Read the full description of the workshop theme HERE

About the Workshop

The workshop explores participatory design in non-work settings with heterogeneous user constellations (e.g. patients, doctors nurses, relatives), and asymmetrical relations between users and designers and among users. The workshop will be organized as a mix between presentations, discussions and various breakout activities, on established, as well as novel theories, methods and techniques that can accommodate for the new design challenges.

How To Participate

Participants will be selected based on the review of the submissions by a program committee. Submissions can be either workshop papers or position statements. Accepted submissions will be published in the printed workshop proceedings.

Workshop papers can be max 8 pages and should present a clear idea.

Position statements can be max 2 pages and should state the participants interest in the workshop.

Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS format and submitted in PDF format to olavb@cs.au.dk

Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2009.

At least one author of accepted papers needs to register for the workshop and for the conference itself.

Program Committee

The Program Committee is currently being finalized