[Air-L] 2n CFP Special Issue of CoDesign: CoDesign with People Living with Cognitive and Sensory Impairments

[Niels Hendriks]

*CoDesign with people living with cognitive and sensory impairments
*

The main focus of this special issue is on methods and techniques for
codesign with people living with cognitive or sensory impairments. The
issue will collect a number of high-quality papers describing how existing
methods/techniques were adjusted for people living with impairments, or how
dedicated methods/techniques were developed.

*Focus & topics:*
The special issue aims to go beyond collecting case studies. Moreover, it
will identify commonalities in current practices to determine main
principles behind adjustments made to codesign techniques (or behind
developing new techniques) for users with cognitive or sensory impairments.
The focus of the individual papers should therefore be methodological,
answering the main question of how the research approach has been different
from an approach for codesign with users without impairments.

*Specific topics to be dealt with may include:  *
- Specific methods/techniques for codesign that were adapted or developed
for use with people living with cognitive or sensory impairments
- Sensory stimuli/tools/etc. that were used in codesign sessions with
people living with cognitive or sensory impairments
- Ethical issues when doing codesign with people living with cognitive or
sensory impairments
- The role in the codesign process of both people living with cognitive or
sensory impairments as well as caregivers
- The process of translation and interpretation of data and insights
towards concepts and designs
- Personal interaction with people living with cognitive or sensory
impairments (including issues such as vocabulary, instruction material, use
of language, interpreters, etc.)
- Dealing with the fact that you as a researcher/designer are not an expert
in the area of the specific impairment of your target group
- Flexibility with respect to the codesign approach
- Collaboration with people with whom it is difficult to relate and whose
world of experience is very different from that of the researcher/designer

*Important deadlines:*
Submission of intentions to contribute should be submitted by October 18,
2013. Notifications of relevance (and thus invitations to write a full
paper) will be sent by November 29. 2013. Full papers are due by March 28,
2014. The special issue will be published in the spring of 2015.

*Further information:*
For the full call for papers, go to:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/ncdncfp3.pdf

Potential authors should contact Karin Slegers (
karin.slegers at soc.kuleuven.be) with any questions about the Special Issue.