[Air-L] CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010

[Jose Abdelnour-Nocera]

9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and
Systems
www.iwips2010.org 
London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 
to be held in Thames Valley University.

IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of
localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme:
Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to
focus on the impact of international design teams on the design,
evaluation, and development of products and systems.  IWIPS invites
several types of submissions, including papers, case studies,
research-in-progress and tutorials.  All submissions are due 15 February
2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except
tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings.

Suggested Topics for Submissions 
As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases
for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for
supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both
business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest
for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following:

       
      Cross-cultural issues in IT design
       
	User centric strategies for economic and community development
IT 	projects 
      
	Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and
distributed 	resources
       
	Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks 
      
	Methods for software localization / globalization 
       
	Designing for trust 
      
	Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design
      
	The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across
cultural 	boundaries 
      
	Interactions between culture and user-centred design
      
	Managing geographically dispersed  multicultural design
communities
      
	Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering
techniques 

Submission Types

Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a
modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10
pages in the proceedings format. 

Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons
learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or
systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4
to 8 pages in the proceedings format. 

Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a
description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated
results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or
applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the
Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings
format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on
their theses or dissertations.) 

Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive
and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation
skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and
applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3
to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings
format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the
proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010.


Important Dates

Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs 
Submission deadline 15 February 2010 
Notification to authors 15 March 2010 
Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010 

Tutorials
Initial proposal 15 January 2010 
Final submissions 15 April 2010

More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html