Participatory Design Conference-Advance Program

[Barbara Katzenberg <barbk -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM>]

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         The Third Biennial Conference on Participatory Design
                      October 27-28, 1994
                      Chapel Hill, NC USA
     Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
                 In cooperation with SIG-CHI
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In the last decade, participatory approaches to design have gained
adherents around the world. These approaches have at their core the
involvement of users in the design and development of new technologies
and work practices.  CPSR's Third Conference on Participatory Design
will be attended by an international community of researchers and
practitioners, and is being held immediately following and in the same
location as CSCW (The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work).  We encourage those who are using participatory approaches and
those who may be interested in trying these approaches to attend.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Opening Keynote by Morten Kyng, Aarhus University, Denmark

Paper Session 1: Scandinavian Participatory Design: From trade
unions to organizations; 1) User participation - A strategy for work life
democracy?, Gro Bjerknes & Tone Bratteteig, 2) Creating conditions
for participation - conflicts and resources in systems design, Susanne
Boedker, 3) Participatory analysis of flexibility: Some experiences,
Arne Kjaer & Kim Halskov Madsen

Panel Session 1: Does PD have a role in software package
development? Moderator: Erran Carmel

Paper Session 2: Power relations: structures and dynamics; 1)
Systems as intermediaries - Political frameworks of design and
participation, Johannes Gaertner, Ina Wagner, 3) Take users
seriously, but take a deeper look: - Organizational and technical
effects from designing with an intervention and ethnographically
inspired approach, Jesper Simonsen and Finn Kensing, 4) Dilemmas
in cooperative design, Randi Markussen

Panel Session 2: PD Education 1) On participatory design and
user involvement as topics in computing education: A contribution to
a curriculum debate, Karlheinz Kautz, 2) Teaching PD, Moderator:
Terry Winograd

Paper Session 3: Designers meeting users: conversations and
representations 1) Voices in design: The dynamics of participatory
information system design, Toomas Timpka & Cecilia Sjoberg, 2)
Representations of work: Bringing designers and users together,
Patricia Swenton-Wall & Andrea Mosher: 3) Reflections on work-oriented
design, Jeanette Blomberg, Lucy Suchman and Randall Trigg

Panel Session 3: PD in complex organizations, Moderators: Gro
Bjerknes & Markku Nurminen

Evening Keynote: Bjorg Aase Sorensen, Oslo Work Research Institute

Artifacts Session:  Prototypes, products, and representations of
work practices used with clients or resulting from PD processes.

Workshops: 1). Leigh Snelling & Cath Jolly : A work mapping
Technique, 2). Albert Selvin, Angelika Kindermann, Maarten Sierhuis
and Rob van der Spek, A framework for participatory work
system design, 3). Barbara Andrews, David Hakken , Tone Bratteteig,
Karlheinz  Kautz, Kari Thoresen: Promoting user involvment through
training and education: An examination of practice in Norway and
the United  States, 4)  Elizabeth Bauer-Nilsen Sanders: Velcro-
modeling and projective  expressions: Participatory design methods
for product development, 5) Werner Beuschel, Reinhard Keil-
Slawik, Susanne Boedker, Scott Minneman: On the role of
representations in distributed design - The social and technical
organization of design  practices, 6) Sarah Kuhn, Charley
Richardson, Marian Williams: Meeting of the Mmnds: The challenge of
interdisciplinary and inter-occupational  communication, 7) Brigitte
Jordan & Melissa Cefkin: Embedding expertise in the  workplace:
The use of video-based Interaction analysis in the workplace.

Paper Session 4: Lessons from the field: Three case studies 1)
HIV and AIDS awareness and education poster project; a study in
participatory graphic design, Leslie Patricia Tergast, 2) Enabling
school teachers to participate in the design of educational software,
Marian G. Williams, 3) Specific cooperative analysis and design in
general hypermedia development, Kaj Groenbaek & Preben
Mogensen

Panel Session 4: The Limits of PD? Contingent jobs, Contingent
pay, Moderator: Joan Greenbaum,

Closing Discussion: PD: Politics and prospects; Session
moderator: Andrew Clement, Opening speaker: David Noble

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ON-LINE INFORMATION
Conference information is also available via the World Wide Web
at  http://cpsr.org/cpsr/conferences/pdc94 or via anonymous ftp
at  ftp.cpsr.org in the /cpsr/conferences/pdc94 directory.

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REGISTRATION
For registration information contact:
email: suchman -at- ncsu -dot- edu
tel: 919-942-9773,
Information Fountain, 46 Oakwood Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, 27514.

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CONFERENCE FEES

                        Before 9/23/94          After 9/23/94
CPSR/SIG-CHI Member     $120.00                 $170.00
Non-member               170.00                  220.00
Low-income                60.00                   75.00


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HOTEL RATES for the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and
Conference Center, Chapel Hill NC

Regular Hotel           Single $83.00           Double  $83.00
Towers                  Single $108.00          Double $123.00

Please make your own reservations with the hotel; rooms are being held
until 9/26/94. Hotel phone number: (919-941-5050) Be sure to mention
PDC'94 to get group rates

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SPECIAL AIR FARES
Special fares are available from American Airlines. Call or have your
travel agent call the American Airlines Meeting Services Desk at
1-800-433-1790; specify STAR file #S2904MP.

Travel agents must add 5H-AN2904MP at the first line of the remarks of
the passenger name record.

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