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New Submission deadline: *** April 1, 2012 ***

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In conjunction with the International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems - COOP 2012
www.coopsys.org

3rd International Workshop
Fostering Social Interactions in the Ageing Society: Designing for Inter/Generational Communities
http://fosible.eu/coop2012-workshop/

29 Mai, Marseille, France

New workshop submission deadline: 1 April 2012

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Ageing societies call for innovative and sustainable concepts to enable elderly adults to manage their everyday life in a highly self-determined and independent way. Research from different fields, such as CSCW, HCI, and AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), has recognized the big challenges for this field, especially in the domain of medical and care oriented support systems. Thus, a lot of innovative products have emerged that aim to support or improve health-related problems in an ageing society. However, what has been somewhat neglected so far, is what we would call the 'social side' of health and well-being - and with this a perspective on the socio-technical embedding of assistive and communication technologies. That's why this workshop takes on a community-oriented perspective to designing ICT for elderly adults.

This workshop will be a follow-up activity on two previous workshops at ECSCW 2009 and ECSCW 2011. The workshop is aimed at researchers involved in previous workshops, but also other researchers interested in socio-technical ICT design for the elderly. The previous workshops focused on fostering social interaction and on reconsidering common research methodologies, technological solutions and research paradigms. A first roadmap for future ICT research on fostering social interactions for an ageing society has been started. The aim of the following COOP'12 workshop is to continue with a focus on designing for inter/generational communities.

The workshop aims at gathering research on ICT for inter/generational communities  from different perspectives:
- Social/ Interactive TV, also concerned with the design of innovative input devices for elderly persons. Here, the bandwidth is from easy-to-use remote controls over intelligent furniture to other interactive devices in the home, such as interactive picture frames.
- Social media for social support, such as online communities with special focus on social support for the elderly.
- Social technologies supporting awareness as well as other technologies such as smart environments, playful interaction technologies as well as games supporting social interaction.

Contributions are welcomed on such topics as:
- Analysis and design of community systems fostering social interactions in an ageing society.
- Ethnographic studies on people at home in an ageing society.
- Analysis and design of technology-supported environments at home such as Social TV systems, SmartHomes and SmartFurnitures.
- Approaches to playful experiences and games for elderly or in inter-generational environments.
- Design and evaluation of awareness support.
- Studies on appropriation within communities and home environments.
- Design of software contributing to formulate virtual inter/generational communities.
- Living Lab and real-life, longitudinal oriented approaches to designing and evaluating social systems.
- Usage studies of home-based social media applications by elderly people.

Submission and proceedings
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Potential participants are requested to submit workshop papers (as either 2 page position papers or 6 page full papers) and short information on the background of the authors (not more than 100 words).

Accepted full papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, an issue of the International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI).
http://www.iisi.de/international-reports-on-socio-informatics-irsi/

Participants will be selected on the basis of the quality and relevance of their papers, and the extent (and diversity) of their backgrounds in design to foster an interdisciplinary participation (designers, developers, psychologists, ethnographers, etc.) from both industry and academia.

Submissions should be in DOC or RTF format based on the IRSI Reports / ECSCW template accompanied by a PDF version and should be send to
COOP2012-Workshop@fosible.eu

After the workshop, a Special Issue of an international journal is planned for long and updated versions of selected papers from both this year and last years'workshop(s) (ECSCW 2009 and 2011). More information on this special issue will be given during the workshop.

Important Dates
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1st April 2012: Submission Deadline
17th April: Notification of acceptance
3rd May 2012: Camera-Ready Papers due

29th May 2012: Full day Workshop at Marseille, France

Further information
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Website: http://fosible.eu/coop2012-workshop/
Contact: COOP2012-Workshop@fosible.eu

Workshop organizers
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Steffen Budweg, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France
Claudia Mueller, University of Siegen, Germany
 

 

Claudia Mueller M.A.

Information Systems and New Media

University of Siegen

Hoelderlinstr. 3

57068 Siegen

fon:  +49 271 740 4076

fax:  +49 271 740 3384

email: claudia.mueller@uni-siegen.de  

www.inclusive-aging.de