[ecrea] PDC16 Workshop: Empowering People with Impairments

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PDC16 Workshop: Empowering People with Impairments

Empowering people with impairments: How participatory methods can inform 
the design of empowering artifacts

A workshop at the Participatory Design Conference 2016<https://pdc2016.org/>
On tue 16 Aug 2016, in Aarhus, Denmark

For more information and the full workshop proposal visit: 
https://igw.tuwien.ac.at/pdc16-empowering/

Workshop Goal
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Participatory Design has developed methods that empower people with 
impairments to actively take part in the design process. Many designed 
artifacts intended for the same target group likewise aim to empower 
their users in daily life. In this workshop we share and relate best 
practices of both empowering methods and empowering designs. What works 
to empower people in the design process, may in fact inform the way 
artifacts can empower persons with impairments in everyday life.
Participants are invited to bring along cases of designing for- and with 
people with sensory-, cognitive- or social impairments. Our one-day 
workshop has three parts:
1. Foregrounding empowering elements in PD methods using method stories, 
containing the backstory of a method put into practice in a shareable 
format.
2. Reflecting on technological artifacts, exploring the empowering 
qualities of person-artifact-context interaction.
3. Constructing a critical synopsis of the various relationships between 
empowering products and -methods.

Important Dates
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*   Submission Deadline 28 June 2016
*   Notifications of acceptance July 5th 2016
*   Camera ready: July 12th 2016
*   Workshop: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Aarhus, Denmark.

At least one author of an accepted submission is required to attend the 
workshop, and participants must register for both the workshop and at 
least one day of the main conference.

Call for Submissions
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You can apply by sumbitting either a method story, or a description of 
an technological artefact.
A method story represents the making process of a method that you used 
for involving people with cognitive or sensory impairments in a design 
project. The submission format is open and we encourage you to carefully 
consider the most suitable format for your method story (e.g. written 
stories, videos, collages, audio stories, interviews, ...). More 
information about method stories, including examples, can be found on 
the method stories page of this website, which also includes suggestions 
for elements to include in your method story.
The description of a technological artefact can also take any suitable 
form. You can submit text, portfolios, video, even actual artefacts (we 
certainly encourage you to bring the artefact to the workshop, if 
possible). In the description, we would like authors to engage in a 
critical reflection on how the artefact is empowering and how these 
features were designed into the artefact.
Preferrably, submissions are digitally transferrable and sharable. Your 
method story or description should include those aspects of your 
methodological approach that are relevant to share with other 
researchers and designers and we encourage you to address personal 
reflection, trial-and-error experiences and adaptations to existing 
methodologies or artefacts.
Submissions should also come with a short description of authors and 
their backgrounds, what authors see as their contribution to the 
workshop and what they hope to get out of participating.

Please email jelle.vandijk@utwente <mailto:(jelle.vandijk /at/ utwente.nl)> 
your submission to the workshop organisers before the following 
deadline: 26 June 2016. If you have large files, please contact us so 
that we can send you a link to online storage space. The selection 
process will ensure that high quality contributions from a range of 
different perspectives are invited to participate.

Organizers:
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Jelle van Dijk, Niels Hendriks, Christopher Frauenberger, Fenne 
Verhoeven, Karin Slegers, Eva Brandt, Rita Maldonado
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