[ecrea] CFP Special Issue of CoDesign: CoDesign with People Living with Cognitive and Sensory Impairments

*2nd CFP Special Issue of CoDesign: CoDesign with People Living with 
Cognitive and Sensory Impairments*

*CoDesign with people living with cognitive and sensory impairments
*
The main focus of this special issue is on methods and techniques for 
codesign with people living with cognitive or sensory impairments. The 
issue will collect a number of high-quality papers describing how 
existing methods/techniques were adjusted for people living with 
impairments, or how dedicated methods/techniques were developed.

*Focus & topics:*
The special issue aims to go beyond collecting case studies. Moreover, 
it will identify commonalities in current practices to determine main 
principles behind adjustments made to codesign techniques (or behind 
developing new techniques) for users with cognitive or sensory 
impairments. The focus of the individual papers should therefore be 
methodological, answering the main question of how the research approach 
has been different from an approach for codesign with users without 
impairments.

*Specific topics to be dealt with may include: *
- Specific methods/techniques for codesign that were adapted or 
developed for use with people living with cognitive or sensory impairments
- Sensory stimuli/tools/etc. that were used in codesign sessions with 
people living with cognitive or sensory impairments
- Ethical issues when doing codesign with people living with cognitive 
or sensory impairments
- The role in the codesign process of both people living with cognitive 
or sensory impairments as well as caregivers
- The process of translation and interpretation of data and insights 
towards concepts and designs
- Personal interaction with people living with cognitive or sensory 
impairments (including issues such as vocabulary, instruction material, 
use of language, interpreters, etc.)
- Dealing with the fact that you as a researcher/designer are not an 
expert in the area of the specific impairment of your target group
- Flexibility with respect to the codesign approach
- Collaboration with people with whom it is difficult to relate and 
whose world of experience is very different from that of the 
researcher/designer

*Important deadlines:*
Submission of intentions to contribute should be submitted by October 
18, 2013. Notifications of relevance (and thus invitations to write a 
full paper) will be sent by November 29. 2013. Full papers are due by 
March 28, 2014. The special issue will be published in the spring of 2015.

*Further information:*
For the full call for papers, go to: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/ncdncfp3.pdf

Potential authors should contact Karin Slegers 
((karin.slegers /at/ soc.kuleuven.be) <mailto:(karin.slegers /at/ soc.kuleuven.be)>) 
with any questions about the Special Issue.