[Air-L] PDC '18 Workshop - Participatory Design Manifesto for AI Futures

[Chris Wolf]

Call for Participation

The *Participatory Design Manifesto for Artificial Intelligence Futures*
workshop, part of the 2018 Participatory Design Conference
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focuses
on the implications surrounding the design, development and deployment of
artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Through this workshop, practitioners
and researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds will come together to
discuss and reflect on the cultural, ethical, political and social
implications surrounding the design, development and deployment of
intelligent systems. Through a series of hands-on activities, participants
will explore participatory design approaches, tools and guidelines that
should ground the design of intelligent systems.

*Key Dates*

May 15, 2018: position papers due!!!

May 25, 2018: notification of acceptance to participants

August 2018: workshop takes place at PDC2018.



Workshop’s rationale: https://pdaiworkshop.wordpress.com/about/
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Key themes: https://pdaiworkshop.wordpress.com/themes/
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Submission details: https://pdaiworkshop.wordpress.com/submit/
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PDC18 dates: *20 – 24 August 2018 *

PDC18 location: Hasselt and Genk, Belgium

PDC18 URL: https://pdc2018.org
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*Organizers*

*Daria Loi (PhD)* is Principal Engineer in Intel Labs. Her work focuses on
the design and user experience of intelligent systems; multimodal, tangible
and ambient computing; and smart spaces – with a specific passion for
spaces that foster social connectedness.

*Thomas Lodato (PhD)* is Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of
Technology in the Institute for People and Technology (IPAT) and the Center
for Urban Innovation. His research focuses on the future of work and smart
cities as well as civic technology.

*Christine T. Wolf (PhD)* is a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden
Research Center. Primarily ethnographic in nature, her current work focuses
on the incorporation of data analytics into organizational work practices.

*Raphael Arar (MFA)* is a Designer & Researcher at IBM Research, Adjunct
Faculty at San Jose State University and Board Member of Leonardo/The
International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. His work
focuses on the complexities of human-machine relationships.

*Jeanette Blomberg (PhD)* is Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM
Almaden Research Center and Adjunct Professor at Roskilde University. Her
research focuses on organizational analytics and the linkages between human
action, digital data production, data analytics, and business or societal
outcomes.