---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [GI-FB5-L] ECSCW 2001 Workshop on Participatory Design Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 23:10:12 +0200 From: Bettina Toerpel bettina.toerpel@gmd.de To: Mailingliste FB Wirtschaftsinformatik gi-fb5-l@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen, auf die folgende Veranstaltung möchte ich Sie aufmerksam machen. Herzliche Grüße, Bettina Törpel (Bitte entschuldigen Sie, falls Sie die Ankündigung mehrfach erhalten!)
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Participatory Design of Collaborative Systems- new Challenges? Workshop at the ECSCW 2001 Conference, September 16-20 in Bonn, Germany
Besselaar, Peter van den, University of Amsterdam Mambrey, Peter, GMD-FIT Törpel, Bettina, GMD-FIT
Please also visit the workshop websites: http://orgwis.gmd.de/~mambrey/WS-PD-ECSCW.html http://ecscw2001.gmd.de/W1.html
Important dates: July 1, 2001 Written statements due July 15, 2001 Acceptance notification September 16, 2001 Workshop at the ECSCW Conference in Bonn
Participatory Design (PD) is a set of diverse ways of thinking, planning, and acting by means of which people make their work, technologies, and social institutions more responsive to human needs. Since 1990, the Participatory Design conferences have brought together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers, designers, practitioners, users and managers. Even though this community has made significant contributions to the enhancement of democracy and workers' quality of life, a great deal remains to be done. The socio-technical design of digital environments is a dynamic project based on the social inclusion and active participation of the users. In this workshop we will focus on new challenges and possible solutions. Organizations, work practices and collaborative structures - at the immediate interpersonal level as well as at the societal level - have undergone significant changes. New collaborative practices (including design practices), structures and technologies are required. One important goal of PD has been to bridge the gap between design and use. In the past it seemed that design professionals had to change their attitudes and practice in favor of more inclusion. Currently, PD seems to have become widely accepted by designers, and the challenges to a successful PD practice are rather posed by trends on a superordinate level: - Technological trends: shorter innovation cycles of hardware and software reduce the time for thorough development. Designing systems often means to adapt existing systems to organizational goals. - Organizational trends: working relationships and cooperative settings have become more transient; the dimensions of time, location and spatial extension have lost significance. - Post-industrial trends: networked formations have replaced fordistic structures; the traditional meaning of the "poles" of capital and labor cannot grasp the fragmented interests and relations of power; the influence of unions and their members as stakeholders for the users in design has dramatically decreased. - Social trends: individuals have become focal points for a multiplicity of interests, tasks and activities in a process of forced individualization; this reduces the identification of users with a specific task or enterprise. - Trends towards new media spaces: with the possibilities provided by new media new settings and communities have evolved; areas of activity - like work, leisure, political activism and education - have become less separated than they used to be; the new communities of media users and their communicative and collaborative practices require new methods and tools for participation. These trends are new challenges for PD in a double sense: on the one hand they suggest sticking to old role patterns for the sake of technological accuracy, organizational effectiveness or individual satisfaction; on the other hand they set a new stage for participatively integrating a variety of use and design perspectives. In any case, all this has enhanced the freedom to (re-) design work settings and collaborative digital environments. Currently the focus of analysis has shifted from the present to the future: from detecting or identifying an existing work practice to creating or evoking future work practices. This requires new methods and tools. The development of computer applications appropriately supporting the - individual and collaborative - work of the future requires users and designers to extensively articulate, communicate and negotiate their goals, objectives and especially future realities. A major task for PD will be to provide the respective methods and procedures.
Workshop content and organization The focus of this workshop will be on exploring and discussing key questions for Participatory Design of collaborative systems posed by the recent transformation of work. Before the workshop takes place all written statements of the participants will be made available to the participants in a shared workspace. After the workshop the statements and discussion results will be available to the public. According to the topics of the written statements the workshop organizers will divide the plenary into smaller groups during the morning session which will focus on special topics on a more detailed level. In the afternoon session we will integrate the results into a more general perspective. Selected persons will present their ideas, concepts and results for fostering discussion.
Participation requirements All participants need to submit a written statement (1-3 pages) on Participatory Design of collaborative systems in the face of new challenges. Focus might be on aspects like the following: - Theoretical concepts about changing realities in work practice and design - Possible PD strategies in the face of these challenges - New roles for users and designers - Empirical findings from practical work (case studies etc.) - New approaches, techniques and tools for evoking the future of work practice - Reports on projects and experiences
-- Bettina Toerpel phone: +49 2241 14 2762 GMD FIT fax: +49 2241 14 2084 Schloss Birlinghoven mail: Bettina.Toerpel@gmd.de 53754 Sankt Augustin www: http://orgwis.gmd.de/ Germany
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