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<div>Call for Papers</div>
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<div>CoPDA 2024 - 8th International Workshop on Cultures of
Participation in the Digital Age: Differentiating and Deepening
the Concept of "End User" in the Digital Age</div>
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<div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2024/"
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<div>June 3rd or 4th, 2024 - Arenzano (Genoa), Italy</div>
<div>In conjunction with AVI 2024 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/home"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/home</a>)</div>
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<div>Overview</div>
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<div>Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
meta-design challenge the understanding of the concept of “end
user”. </div>
<div>The 8th edition of this workshop aims to critically
differentiate, dissect, and deepen the roles, experiences, and
demands of end users by inviting contributions from different
perspectives.</div>
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<div>The workshop invites contributions to explore the following
fundamental issues: </div>
<div>- Re-conceptualizing the multi-faceted roles that end users
can play. </div>
<div>- Investigating how end users are evolving into active
participants in the design and development through frameworks
(such as meta-design) that encourage creation, modification, and
evolution in individual and group activities.</div>
<div>- Understanding the skills and literacies (e.g.,
computational fluency) that end users need to acquire to be
successful contributors (e.g., education, after-school clubs,
etc.).</div>
<div>- Envisioning future scenarios and possibilities for end user
roles and experiences in the context of emerging technologies
and cultural changes.</div>
<div>- Understanding the design trade-offs associated with
balancing the potential value of end-user contributions with the
necessary effort to ensure that end users will be motivated to
contribute over long periods of time.</div>
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<div>Participants from academia, industry, and user communities
are invited to share their ideas, insights, and experiences to
increase our collective understanding and approach towards end
users in the digital age.</div>
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<div>Topics of discussion may include (but will not be limited
to):</div>
<div>- Analysis of the use and historical development of the
concept of “end user” </div>
<div>- Can meta-design frameworks facilitate and empower end users
in becoming designers, shaping and adapting systems to their
needs?</div>
<div>- What are the major responsibilities for end users in
"end-user development” and/versus "end-user software
engineering"?</div>
<div>- If computational fluency is widely achieved by humans in
the digital age — how will this change the concept of "end user"
and “learning with digital tools”?</div>
<div>- How can the division between professional developers and
end users be designed and supported as collaborative
interactions rather than a rigid separation?</div>
<div>- How do we scale up user participation from individuals to
groups to communities?</div>
<div>- In which contexts are end users the drivers of the
innovation?</div>
<div>- Which other frameworks and environments in AI exist in
addition to Large Language Models (LLMs) for supporting end
users? </div>
<div>- How does the role of end users change in the era of LLMs? </div>
<div>- Which additional learning demands occur that empower end
users to assess LLM possibilities and limits?</div>
<div>- Success stories and failures (e.g., empirical studies)
involving or analyzing end users as active participants in
sociotechnical systems in different domains (education,
workplace, at home, leisure, etc.).</div>
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<div>Submissions</div>
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<div>Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper using
the 1-column CEUR template available at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip</a>.
An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt</a></div>
<div>The papers can be submitted at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2024"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2024</a></div>
<div>All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of
the Program Committee.</div>
<div>Accepted papers will be collected and submitted for
publication on CEUR-WS proceedings.</div>
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<div>Important dates</div>
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<div>- Apr 3rd, 2024: Submission deadline for position papers</div>
<div>- Apr 23rd, 2024: Notification of acceptance</div>
<div>- May 10th, 2024: Camera ready</div>
<div>- Jun 3rd or 4th, 2024: CoPDA 2024 workshop</div>
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<div>Organizing Committee</div>
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<div>Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia,
Italy) </div>
<div>Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) </div>
<div>Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)</div>
<div>Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) </div>
<div>Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy) </div>
<div>Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)</div>
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<div>For any further information, please contact <a
href="mailto:copda2024@easychair.org" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">copda2024@easychair.org</a></div>
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Prof. Antonio Piccinno<br>
<i>Presidente Centro Servizi Informatici (CSI)<br>
Delegato del Rettore ai temi della digitalizzazione presso CRUI<br>
Delegato servizi informatici del Dipartimento di Informatica<br>
</i> Dipartimento di Informatica - Università degli Studi di Bari
"Aldo Moro"<br>
via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy<br>
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Tel. +39 080 5442535 / Fax. +39 080 5443300<br>
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