<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">***** Deadline this Friday, May 1*****</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=======================================</div><div class=""><br class="">CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop - Call<br class="">for Participation!<br class=""><br class="">=======================================<br class=""><br class="">Does your research explore culture, technology design and communities?<br class=""><br class="">If so, join us at the “CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology<br class="">Design” Workshop! CulTech2015 will be held at the 7th international<br class="">Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on<br class="">June 27, 2015. Website here: <a href="https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/" class="">https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/</a><br class=""><br class="">---- IMPORTANT DATES ----<br class="">Workshop submissions due: May 1, 2015<br class="">Feedback to authors: May 15, 2015<br class="">Camera-ready papers due: June 17, 2015<br class="">Workshop at C&T 2015: June 27, 2015<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ----<br class="">With globalization and technological advances, people are increasingly<br class="">coming into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds,<br class="">particularly in place-based and virtual communities. Yet, cultural<br class="">diversity – the diversity of community members’ cultural backgrounds –<br class="">offers both significant benefits and challenges in the design, usage<br class="">and evaluation of technologies. In this one-day workshop, we explore<br class="">the role of cultural diversity in potentially informing, supporting,<br class="">challenging or impacting the design of Information and Communications<br class="">Technology (ICT) within community contexts. We welcome workshop<br class="">submissions that:<br class=""><br class="">1) Engage broadly with the role of culture within technology design<br class="">and usage for, with and by communities,<br class=""><br class="">2) Proposals for approaches, tools, conceptual and methodological<br class="">frameworks, case studies and best practices in community-based design<br class="">that exploit cultural diversity as an asset and seek to facilitate<br class="">intercultural interactions.<br class=""><br class="">Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners from<br class="">different domains such as computer science, urban design, interactive<br class="">art, anthropology and social sciences who share a common interest in<br class="">exploring the design space of ICTs, culture and communities.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- WORKSHOP THEMES ----<br class="">To stimulate discussion and exploration, we welcome initial idea<br class="">explorations, as well as ongoing or completed projects relating (but<br class="">not exclusive) to the following themes:<br class=""><br class="">- Theoretical and reflective engagements with the role of culture and<br class="">cultural difference in community-based (participatory) design and<br class="">technology appropriation across cultures<br class=""><br class="">- Frameworks, tools, and conceptual engagements tackling inclusion in<br class="">(participatory) design; The role of technology and technology design<br class="">in mediating or supporting societal inclusion<br class=""><br class="">- Means (methods, tools, frameworks) for cross-cultural<br class="">transferability of design and design processes<br class=""><br class="">- Limits of transferability and situated, emergent design<br class="">practices in community contexts<br class=""><br class="">- Localization and culturally adaptive interfaces<br class=""><br class="">- Empirical studies exploring cultural difference in<br class="">technology usage and formulating design implications<br class=""><br class="">- Metrics, tools, and frameworks for examining cultural<br class="">differences in technology usage<br class=""><br class="">- Conceptual papers that problematize design, re-framing<br class="">design processes from cultural studies and intercultural communication<br class="">frameworks (e.g. design as a process of encoding values and meaning in<br class="">artifacts)<br class=""><br class="">- Uses, benefits and limitations of ethnography and<br class="">data-intensive research methods in community-based design<br class=""><br class="">- Inherent value tensions or clashes between local and<br class="">academic/scientific knowledge<br class=""><br class="">- Local knowledge management, knowledge conversion and the<br class="">challenges posed by structuring fluid knowledge episodes to generate<br class="">design requirements<br class=""><br class="">- Cultural pathways for community engagement and the<br class="">localization of participatory practices<br class=""><br class="">- Aligning intentions in multicultural design projects<br class=""><br class="">- Bridging differences in culturally diverse design teams<br class=""><br class="">- Case studies, approaches and best practices in<br class="">community-based design that explore or engage with issues of<br class="">connectedness and community cohesion, facilitating intercultural<br class="">awareness, communication and collaboration, and stimulating<br class="">intercultural interactions across diverse cultural groups<br class=""><br class="">---- CONTRIBUTION TYPES ---<br class="">We welcome the following contribution types:<br class="">- Novel technologies or interaction paradigms<br class="">- Design or evaluation methods<br class="">- Case studies on existing applications and systems<br class="">- Evaluation studies<br class="">- Theoretical frameworks<br class="">- Controversial or thought-provoking ideas of issues relating<br class="">to communities, culture and ICTs<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ----<br class="">Interested candidates are asked to submit either a position paper<br class="">(min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) or a video submission<br class="">about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes.<br class="">Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings<br class="">available from the workshop website. Please submit to:<br class=""><a href="mailto:cultech2015@gmail.com" class="">cultech2015@gmail.com</a>.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND TECHNOLOGY DESIGN ----<br class="">The organizers will invite authors of selected workshop papers to<br class="">submit an extended version to a peer-reviewed Special Issue on<br class="">“Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” to be published by the<br class="">Journal of Community Informatics.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- ORGANIZERS ----<br class="">Helen Ai He, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class=""><br class="">Nemanja Memarovic, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class=""><br class="">Amalia Sabiescu, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK<br class=""><br class="">Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---- CONTACT INFO ----<br class="">Website: <a href="https://cultech2015.wordpress.com" class="">https://cultech2015.wordpress.com</a><br class=""><br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:cultech2015@gmail.com" class="">cultech2015@gmail.com</a></div></body></html>