[Air-L] CHI’23 Workshop, CfP: Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts

Fri Feb 10 06:09:16 PST 2023

Hi all,

Please consider participating our hybrid workshop, we could still fit in a few papers!

Deadline of extended abstracts: Feb 19, 2023 (23:59 AoE)

Kind regards,

Johanna

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Call for Papers

CHI’23 Workshop

Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/urbanai/conducting-hybrid-pd<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Furbanai%2Fconducting-hybrid-pd&data=05%7C01%7Cylipulj1%40aaltofi.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7Cdb4821b2043643c7f6be08daf94a7036%7Cae1a772440414462a6dc538cb199707e%7C1%7C0%7C638096396812329430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Pu4vnkE1mCUH1yCQTVoDZL5nB7vh%2FHH7IBXnC4Clo3k%3D&reserved=0>

CHI conference website: https://chi2023.acm.org/

In this hybrid workshop, we explore the opportunities of conducting multi- site participatory design (PD) and research through hybrid present-telepresent participatory methods, and share issues, challenges, methods, and empirical examples pertaining to this as a goal.

PD must increasingly be able to address and serve various global contexts. Overall, then, there is a fundamental need to raise previously unheard global voices in technology design and development, and to bring various stakeholders together. The bread and butter of participatory methodology has been physically co-located creative work with participants, with the aim to immerse the practitioners in the use context, and to learn about the practices, needs and values relevant for the stakeholders in this context. This embedded, hands-on work is crucial and arguably forms the basis of PD practice. Often, this has also meant that PD research teams have been mostly physically co-located, at least for the duration of the PD process. This approach has fundamental validity, as PD requires an in-depth understanding of the cultural context in which it is performed.

Nevertheless, this approach also has its drawbacks, as collocated work means both geographical and financial limitations to the type of work that can be accomplished. Conducting multi-site co-located work may be prohibitively time-consuming and expensive, and may also require extensive physical capabilities from both practitioners and participants, leaving many voices unheard. Furthermore, the rapid adoption of various synchronous and asynchronous communication methods through online collaborative tools offer opportunities for more continuous, more dispersed, and more diverse PD research settings and processes.

During the world-wide social distancing efforts of 2020–2022, an enormous leap forward was made seemingly overnight in adopting novel modalities of participation and collaboration. As we have since moved into a post social distancing world, it is important and timely to both seize the lessons learned from the pandemic-induced forced hybridization of PD, and to keep developing the potentialities that emerged from the experience. However, this opportunity also raises several questions, including: How can we enable various global stakeholders to take part in global hybrid PD? How can PD practitioners work across cultural spheres in distant settings, and how can we perform culturally aware and sensitive work without ‘being there’? What can a partly technology-mediated PD process consist of, what knowledge can it produce, and what limitations does it have? What novel challenges and opportunities pertaining to accessibility emerge in a technology-mediated PD process? What values, competences and awareness do PD practitioners need when conducting PD work in culturally diverse hybrid settings? What PD processes or methods are not suited to hybrid work and best left for the “nonline” world? What theories, methods and lessons from other fields of research, e,g, from remote ethnography or Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, could be applied?

We invite those interested to submit a position paper (3–4 pages) in the SIGCHI Single column paper format (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx).

These contributions may address, for example:

  *   Theoretical considerations: e.g., utilising key theoretical concepts from various fields to build understanding of how to conduct hybrid participatory design and research in various global contexts
  *   Case studies: empirical works that analyze experiences of hybrid participatory design and research in various global contexts
  *   Design-based explorations in real-world settings: e.g. implementation of participatory design and research approaches in different global contexts in hybrid environments
  *   Methods: Methodologies that can contribute towards better implementation of participation in various global contexts and in hybrid environments
  *   Thematic issues; e.g. ethical issues; various user or stakeholder groups, various areas of design, global perspectives, etc. pertaining to conducting hybrid PD in multi-side, multi- cultural contexts

Extended Deadline: Feb 19, 2023 (23:59 AoE)

Notifications: Mar 1, 2023 (23:59 AoE)

Workshop Duration: one day

Date & place: Sunday April 23, Hybrid workshop (Hamburg, Germany / online)

Papers should be sent to: aale.luusua(at)oulu.fi<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Foulu.fi%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cylipulj1%40aaltofi.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7Cdb4821b2043643c7f6be08daf94a7036%7Cae1a772440414462a6dc538cb199707e%7C1%7C0%7C638096396812329430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FgTkaPJPuWjjRt%2BgXJ5bZ3CACB6ROzNUgZC84ox5voU%3D&reserved=0> AND johanna.ylipulli(at)aalto.fi<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faalto.fi%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cylipulj1%40aaltofi.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7Cdb4821b2043643c7f6be08daf94a7036%7Cae1a772440414462a6dc538cb199707e%7C1%7C0%7C638096396812329430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7jRRFB5yBUTQjvwzX%2Bg%2FrOJX2aPFRwXhLlwrF3baPXc%3D&reserved=0>
Organizers:

  *   Aale Luusua, University of Oulu, Finland
  *   Johanna Ylipulli, Aalto University, Finland
  *   Dani K. Raju, Studio Hasi, India
  *   Emilia Rönkkö, University of Oulu, Finland

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Johanna Ylipulli
Dr., Docent/Adjunct professor
Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Information networks, Department of Computer Science
Aalto University

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