[AISWorld] CfP: Workshop on EUD for Supporting Sustainability in Maker Communities, co-located with IS-EUD 2013
Alexander Boden
bogenfreund at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 09:30:00 EST 2013
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
International Workshop on EUD for Supporting Sustainability in Maker
Communities
In conjunction with IS EUD 2013, June 11-13, 2013
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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There has been a recent proliferation of Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
communities that can broadly be included under the maker movement
umbrella. Many of these groups are engaged in DIY projects in areas that
relate to sustainable living, such as urban gardening groups engaged in
growing their own food in urban areas, home energy monitoring
communities interested in improving their homes to support a more energy
efficient living, and textile crafts people who engage in home
production, as well as in the recycling and upcycling of textiles.
Spurred by the possibilities of digital fabrication and the Internet,
the maker movement has a great potential to support sustainable living
by fostering related innovations, supporting their appropriation and
propagating their practical use. However, technology-driven maker
communities associated with FabLabs or Hackerspaces are often perceived
as places for tech-savvy people and have difficulties to instantiate a
sustainable dialogue with the society at large. Hence, attracting wider
categories of public, as well as sharing innovations created by users,
are still seen as challenges.
End User Development (EUD) as research field focuses on methods,
techniques, and tools that allow non-professionals to create, modify and
extend technologies. Tools for EUD include for example visual
programming environments, mash-up editors and service orchestration
tools. EUD concepts can play a big role in supporting sustainability in
maker communities by facilitating sustainable access to digital
fabrication, in order to support user innovation and leverage knowledge
sharing across communities.
In particular, we believe that EUD research could contribute at several
different levels:
* At a technical level, EUD concepts can help to support the
appropriation of DIY by making it easier for non-professionals to
create, modify or extend digital and material artefacts in DIY projects.
* At a social level, EUD approaches can contribute to popularize DIY
with the help of social media in order to make local DIY initiatives
more visible, provide new opportunities for lurking and legitimate
peripheral participation and support knowledge exchange and
appropriation of related innovations, technologies and ideas.
* At an empirical level, EUD oriented ethnographic studies can
contribute to understanding and analyzing practices of DIY/maker
communities in minute detail to get a better understanding of their
practical needs and opportunities for innovation.
In the workshop, we want to discuss examples of DIY activities that are
of interest in the context of sustainability and End User Development.
Related questions include, but are not limited to:
* What are good examples of EUD and DIY tools that support sustainable
innovation or could be adapted in this respect?
* How can EUD principles be leveraged to include a more diverse user
group, particularly across generations, cultural backgrounds and among
people with different levels of technical knowledge?
* How can more citizens become aware and be attracted to use digital
fabrication technologies for projects that address their own needs? What
are the tools and infrastructure needed to do so?
* How can domestic activities be a trigger to establish a sustainable
use of personal fabrication technologies? What are the potentials to
attract new user groups in order to reach inclusive participation and
foster broad discussion and evaluation of potential and challenges?
* How can traditional crafts be integrated in the context of maker
communities? How can knowledge about crafts and traditional techniques
be included, given that the people holding it are not amongst the usual
participants?
* What tools are needed to anchor digital fabrication as a widely
accepted possible extension to current fabrication and making routines?
* What are the new production and consumption patterns developed through
sharing and collaboration of diverse groups of makers on a local and
global scale? How can these be extended to the context of repairing,
extending the life-cycle of existing products, recycling and upcycling?
* How can practitioners be supported in documenting their work in order
to allow knowledge sharing and diffusion of innovation? How could
creative forms of documenting be established to better fit the maker
culture?
SUBMISSIONS
We are interested in papers from researchers who are actively engaged in
studies of EUD in DIY contexts, but also in experience reports from DIY
enthusiasts and members of maker communities. At least one of the
authors will have to attend the workshop. Papers can be 4-6 pages long,
formatted according to Springer LNCS style. Submissions can be sent as
PDF files to alexander.boden at uni-siegen.de.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 14, 2013
Acceptance notification: March 21, 2013
Registration: [according to IS-EUD 2013 registration policy]
Workshop: June 11, 2013 (one-day workshop)
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Alexander Boden, University of Siegen
Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick
Irene Posch, TU Vienna
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, TU Vienna
For more information, please visit
eudforsustainability.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de
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