| Subject: | [WI] [CfP] ECSCW 2020 Workshop on Fostering Accessibility at the Workplace through CBPR: **Deadline Approaching** |
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| Date: | Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:58:41 +0000 |
| From: | Pinatti, Fabiano, Dr. <Fabiano.Pinatti@uni-siegen.de> |
| Reply-To: | Pinatti, Fabiano, Dr. <Fabiano.Pinatti@uni-siegen.de> |
| To: | wi@lists.kit.edu <wi@lists.kit.edu> |
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ECSCW 2020
Workshop on Fostering Accessibility at the Workplace through
Community-based Participatory Research
June 14th,
2020, Siegen, Germany
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******* NOTE
ON COVID-19 (CORONA) ********
As per the
official note from the ECSCW 2020 organisation (https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/index.php/information-on-the-current-status-of-covid-19-corona-virus/),
ECSCW 2020 is still planned to happen between 13th
and 17th June in Siegen, Germany. We are
sensitive to the situation and are monitoring it.
Nevertheless, we believe and hope that the situation will be
under control by then, so that the conference can take
place. Therefore, we warmly invite submissions to our
workshop. Should the conference be cancelled, the workshop
organisers will devise a sensible alternative for the
implementation of and participation in the workshop. We are
keen to make this happen and will find a safe and
appropriate way to do so, as we are really looking forward
to the envisaged exchanges.
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IMPORTANT DATES ************
* Submission
deadline: April 5th, 2020
*
Notification of acceptance: April 24th, 2020
*
Camera-ready: May 10th, 2020
* Workshop
day: June 14th, 2020
Workshop
themes
*********************
This
workshop addresses how community-based participatory
research (CBPR) can support unravelling needs of people with
disability from a socio-informatics perspective, so to
develop a concept to sensitise society to the relevance of
investing in highly accessible solutions at the workplace.
Therefore, the workshop addresses issues of inclusion of
people with disability in the job market. It targets
contributions showing how different approaches have been
used in current and past accessibility research and aims at
reflecting on the lessons learned from it. In particular, it
aims at generating an understanding of the strengths and
weaknesses of current approaches, so to inform how CBPR can
better support future accessibility research.
The workshop
pays special attention to work contexts, seeking
contributions that demonstrate the relevance of CBPR on the
design and development of accessible digital solutions for
the workplace. Contributors may wish to address a range of
issues, including, but not restricted to:
* The
adoption of CBPR to investigate and foster accessibility at
the workplace;
* The use of
alternative methodologies to bring different stakeholders,
as for example, people with disability, companies, service
providers, researchers and policy makers together in
changing organisational, technological and personal
circumstances;
*
Methodological innovations in the study of accessibility at
the workplace;
* Accounts
of accessibility initiatives as emerging from novel spatial
and organisational contexts;
* The range
of organisational aspects, motivational factors, personal
values and expectations underling the investment in
accessible solutions for the workplace;
* An
examination of how we might identify those forces, contexts
and dynamics that hinder, resist or work against the
momentum of accessibility at the workplace;
* The role
of assistive technologies in empowering people with
disability, but also in creating a potential range of
problems/issues to be dealt with;
* The role
of accessible technology as discourse in socially,
culturally and ideologically shaping an ‘accessibility
culture’;
* The
technological, cultural, political and economic
rationalities that underpin and legitimise contemporary
enactments of accessibility research and foster the
establishment of an accessibility culture;
*
Explorations of what present and future accessibility
culture might look like, and of the challenges and issues we
will be addressing for the next ten years.
Interdisciplinary
participation from people with and without disability,
companies, designers, developers, policy makers,
sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, and other
interested people is highly appreciated. In this way, the
workshop will provide an important opportunity for different
sectors of the society to share ideas and possibly
coordinate their efforts.
Types of
contribution
*********************
Participants
who wants to support fostering the workshop discussions will
be invited to contribute to the workshop with either posters
illustrating their ideas, samples of data collected during
fieldwork, or demos/prototypes developed as a result of
their research and/or development initiatives. These
materials will be the main subject of the discussion.
Workshop
dynamics
*********************
During the
workshop, conversations between the participants will be
facilitated by moving away from traditional presentations.
Presentation sessions will be followed by more focused short
discussions on specific questions/issues, and practical
brainstorming exercises to highlight new methodological
directions concerning CBPR for accessibility research at the
workplace.
Submission
format
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Participants
interested in contributing with the workshop should send a
position paper (max 5 pages, including references)
introducing the material, ideas or artefacts they would like
to address in the workshop. The submission must contain a
brief overview of the key ideas and arguments of the
contribution and some information on the occupational
background of the authors. Additionally, contributors can
submit videos, links or any other relevant artefacts of the
system they would like to demonstrate during the workshop.
Submissions
must adhere to the IRSI series Format:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6e8wtrxsv9t35u3/irsi_template.doc
Submission
process
***********************
Position
papers must be submitted directly to the workshop organisers
through the e-mail:
cbprar@googlegroups.com
Review
process
******************
Contributions
will be reviewed by the workshop organisers and selected on
the basis of their quality, compliance with the workshop
theme, and the extent (and diversity) of their backgrounds
in terms of fieldwork, design, and technology.
Publication
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Position
papers accepted and presented in the workshop will be
published in the workshop proceedings, which will be edited
by the workshop organisers. The proceedings will include the
final versions of all accepted contributions, adjusted to
satisfy reviewers’ recommendations. It will be published as
an issue of the International Reports of Social-Informatics
(IIRSI) series from the International Institute of
Socio-Informatics (IISI) in Bonn, Germany.
Organisers
*************
Aparecido
Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, University of Siegen
Sven
Bittenbinder, University of Siegen
Claudia
Müller, University of Siegen
Nadia
David, Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Hamburg e.V.
Bente
Hansen, Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Hamburg e.V.
Volker Wulf,
University of Siegen
Contact
*********
E-Mail:
cbprar@googlegroups.com
More
information can be found at
https://cbprar.wordpress.com/
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Fabiano Pinatti, PhD, MSc
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Neue Medien
Universität Siegen, Fakultät III
Kohlbettstraße 15
57072 Siegen
Raum: US-E 117 (Campus Unteres Schloss)