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2nd Call for papers
This IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and
Citizen Participation will take place preceding INTERACT2023, in
York, UK, on 28 or 29 August 2023 (TBC). Online attendance will be
allowed.
https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/
Motivation
This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can
contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and
participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the
optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation
platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can contribute to the
development of new trends in Political Science, such as
e-democracy. The practice of designing digital platforms for
citizen participation and democracy could benefit greatly from a
multidisciplinary sociotechnical approach that incorporates into
design reflection on issues of democratic theory and practice,
legal and political science. Researchers have sought to articulate
design patterns and evaluation tools for these platforms with
general perspectives on the democraticity of the processes they
sustain. But citizen participation systems give rise to specific
problems related to usability and user experience. The user is
both the institution, company, formal, and informal collective, as
well as the subjects that interact with these platforms. This
workshop proposes a multidisciplinary exploration and discussion
about design of digital platforms for citizen participation and
democracy, including issues such as the necessary digital and
technological resources, typology of tools that allow
communication (to share knowledge), create community (to find and
integrate individuals into a collective) and cooperation between
individuals (to achieve common community goals), legality of the
decisions taken in these platforms or subjective trust in their
general function.
The target audience for this workshop includes researchers and
practitioners from different disciplines working on topics related
to Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation in HCI. Early-stage
researchers and PhD students are also encouraged to submit
work-in-progress papers.
Topics of Interest
We look for position papers trying to answer one or more of the
following questions:
How can different approaches towards sociotechnical and
interaction design pro-mote or undermine democratic participation?
What are the best design patterns and requirements that lead to
effective platforms for Digital Democracy and Participation?
How can digital democracy platforms be evaluated?
What are the best tools and methods to support communication,
community formation and deliberation in democratic processes?
Design thinking and innovation: how the design process should be
led by democratic requirements and not by technology affordances?
How to identify forms of democracy and associated practices
through the presenta-tion of relevant case studies.
How to identify and assess the nature and type of citizen
participation in the pro-cess of design of these platforms.
Workshop Objectives
In this workshop, we understand the above issues as sociotechnical
in nature and aim to trace the cultural and political dynamics
that drive the design of this type of platforms. More concretely,
we solicit position papers that help us fulfil the following
objectives:
To help develop a framework of HCI to be applied in e-democracy
and participatory processes.
Collect examples and experiences of digital democracy platforms.
Collecting examples and experiences that show that the field of
HCI can be beneficial in the design and development of digital
platforms for citizen decision processes
Formulate a research agenda for future work on digital democracy
research on HCI.
Expected Outcomes
The workshop will produce a research agenda for studying the
optimum development of digital platforms for e-democracy processes
through a HCI lens, and how best to understand and analyze them.
The aim with this research agenda is to stimulate further research
interest and provide direction for critical research on HCI apply
to design digital participatory platforms. In addition, extended
versions of the workshop papers will be published by Springer in
the LNCS series as a volume collecting papers from the INTERACT
2023 workshops and in a special issue in the Interacting with
Computers journal.
Submission Procedure
Please submit your position paper of four pages in the INTERACT
2021 proceedings format to Jose Abdelnour-Nocera at
abdejos[at]uwl.ac.uk
Deadline: 31st of May 2023
Notification of Acceptance: 8th of June 2023
Each submission will be reviewed by two reviewers from the larger
IFIP TC13.8 community. Participation in the workshop requires an
accepted position paper.
Organizing Committee
The workshop is organized by IFIP TC13 WG13.8 – Interaction Design
for International Development. The organizers are:
José Abdelnour Nocera is professor in Sociotechnical Design and
Head of the Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User
Experience at the University of West London. He is the current
Chair for IFIP TC13 WG13.8 and the British Computer Society
Sociotechnical Specialist Group. His interests lie in the
sociotechnical and cultural aspects of stakeholder diversity in
systems design.
Estela Peralta is Senior Lecture in Design Engineering at the
University of Sevilla (Spain). Her research focuses on development
smart environment and products adapted to the human factor,
considering biomechanical, cognitive, and environmental aspects,
for any type of population, including people with special needs
Lene Nielsen is associate professor at IT university Copenhagen
(Denmark). She current research democratically owned enterprises,
their use of technology, and the way they govern the business. As
member of Forum on IT and Cooperative Governance (FITCG) she
researched democratic entrepreneurship for the Danish Parliament
that resulted in suggestions for new legislation to further
cooperatives in Denmark.
Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez is Lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory
at the University of Sevilla (Spain). His research focuses on art
and politics, including critical urban theory, cultural policies,
the high and the low in art and hegemony.
Professor José Abdelnour Nocera
School of Computing and Engineering
Head of Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience
University of West London
St Mary’s Road, Ealing – London W5 5RF
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