[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS workshop enGendering Technologies

Alicia García Holgado aliciagh at usal.es
Wed Feb 3 11:30:21 EST 2016


Workshop: EnGendering Technologies

14th September 2016, Salamanca, Spain

http://interaccion2016.usal.es

DESCRIPTION

EnGendering technologies aims at exploring equal participation in education, design, production and use of technologies, especially in ICT, but also demanding innovative and more inclusive research, innovation and products.

Technology and society complement each other: symbolic and cultural meanings guide the process of constructing technologies and, in reverse, they delineate new cultural images and practices. Values, social relations, and world visions become inscribed in technologies, and shape and maintain gender ideologies and identities, reproducing the idea that women are strange to the world of technology which is false. Changing the discourses, practices and values in the process of design and educational system should be the key to redefine the traditional gendered relations with technology. The aim is to achieve better ICT practices and products in order to promote positive gender impact. Gendering that creative process means participating in the design of a better common future.

A large body of research has traditionally focused on women’s exclusion from the fields of science and technology. This research points to several barriers and challenges that make women’s access to knowledge difficult, as well as jobs and a full participation of women in current technological development. However, some research has turned its attention to gender inclusion processes and its impacts. In this sense, motivations, actions and mechanisms that helped the inclusion of women in technological fields have been explored. Similarly, the impacts of gender awareness and gender inclusion in the design, development and use of new technologies have been highlighted. An increasing body of research is exploring how gender and technologies are mutually shaped in a fluid and dynamic manner. Results show that both challenges and opportunities for gender and technological transformations are difficult to understand without a multidisciplinary approach.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

As Engendering Technologies at Interacción 2014 and 2015, this workshop is focused on all the gender aspects of the technology domain. Main topics of interest include but are not limited to:

       Gender & Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
       Design for women, designing by women
       Gender & software engineering
       Gender issues in technology design
       Women inclusion in technologies
       Gender digital divide
       Gender & video games
       Gender & Information Technology
       Gender & Science and Technology
       Cultural & symbolic dimensions of ICT
       Changing relations between people and ICT
       Gender & user-centered design methodologies
       Gendered innovations in ICT
       Women, technology and power
       Best practices on Gender and ICT
       Mentoring and experiences for attracting women to ICT studies and professions
       Gender & Digital Security and risks
       Gender & IT inclusion policies and actions 
IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline:  April 25

Author Notification: May 23

Camera-ready papers due: June 13

Date of the workshop: Sep 14, 2016 

SUBMISSIONS

All paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Authors are kindly requested to send the paper without any reference to any of the authors. So, please, remove the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Papers not satisfying these conditions will be rejected without reviews. All contributions will be written following the ACM template (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html). The first anonymous version must be submitted in PDF.

Authors should submit an original paper in any of the following submission categories:

Full Papers: full papers should describe original work that have not previously been published and provide significant results of scientific research. Presentation time for full papers will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. These papers are assigned a 8-page limit in the conference proceedings.
Short Papers: short papers should describe innovative work in progress, without significant results yet, that contribute to well-founded research. Presentation time for short papers will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. These papers are assigned a 4-page limit in the conference proceedings.
All contributions will be written in Spanish or English taking into account that:

·       Accepted full and short papers written in English will be published entirely in the ACM Digital Library. ACM will be glad to publish the English proceedings of Interacción 2016 in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series. Those accepted papers written in English will have to submit a 2-pages extended abstract in Spanish to be published in the Salamanca University Press.

·       Accepted full and short papers written in Spanish will be published in the Salamanca University Press. Those accepted papers written in Spanish will have to submit a 2-pages extended abstract in English to be published in the ACM Digital Library.

A selection of best papers from EnGendering Technology will be proposed to be submitted as an extended version for a special issue of an international journal indexed by ISI Thomson’s journal Citation Report (JCR) to be specified later.

SUBMISSION SYSTEM

Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair web based submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interaccion2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interaccion2016>). Inside the EasyChair the topic “Workshop EnGendering Technologies” must be selected.

COMMITTEE

Alex Hache (Colectivo Donestech)

Alicia García Holgado (University of Salamanca)

Ana María González Ramos (GENTIC, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, IN3, Open University of Catalonia)

Barbara Biglia (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) 

Carina González (Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of La Laguna)

Celia Paola Sarango Lapo (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)

Cristina Manresa-Yee (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Balearic Islands)

Eva Cerezo (Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza)

Eva Cruells (Asociación Alia)

Elisenda Espino (Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of La Laguna)

Felicidad García Sánchez (University of Salamanca)

Inmaculada Perdomo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, IUEM, University of La Laguna)

Laura Briz Ponce (University of Salamanca)

Laura Icela González Pérez (Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, México)

Lourdes Moreno (Computer Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid)

M. Antonia Huertas Sánchez (Department of IT, Multimedia and Telecommunication, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Mireia Ribera (Universitat de Barcelona)

Norena Martin-Dorta (Dept. of Techniques and Projects in Engineering & Architecture, University of La Laguna)

Núria Vergés Bosch (Copolis, University of Barcelona)

Patricia Paderewski (Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, University of Granada)

Sandra Baldassarri (Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza) 


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