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23 Mar 2020


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Subject: 	[WI] [CfP] ECSCW 2020 Workshop on Fostering Accessibility at 
the Workplace through CBPR: **Deadline Approaching**
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 14^th , 2020, Siegen, Germany
https://cbprar.wordpress.com/
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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-...), 
ECSCW 2020 is still planned to happen between 13^th and 17^th 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.
************ IMPORTANT DATES ************
* Submission deadline: April 5^th , 2020
* Notification of acceptance: April 24^th , 2020
* Camera-ready: May 10^th , 2020
* Workshop day: June 14^th , 2020
Workshop themes
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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
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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
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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
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Position papers must be submitted directly to the workshop organisers 
through the e-mail: cbprar@googlegroups.com mailto:cbprar@googlegroups.com
Review process
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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
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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
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E-Mail: cbprar@googlegroups.com mailto:nomadic-culture-ws@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)
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