[AISWorld] CFP: Cultural Impact on User Experience Design and Evaluation, Workshop at NordiCHI 2012

[Netta Iivari]

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 Cultural Impact on User Experience Design and Evaluation
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 Workshop at NordiCHI 2012  ( http://nordichi2012.org/ )
 Workshop Website:  http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/

 The objective of the Cultural Impact workshop at NordiCHI 2012 is to
 share our experiences, identify themes, and examine unexplored topics
 about cultural impact on User Experience (UX) design and evaluation
 methods. The expected result is an establishment of an international
 community on this topic for collective learning.

 By accumulating knowledge through the international community,
 ultimately the workshop and the community will contribute to emerging
 demands to understand UX in services and products design domains
 internationally.

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 [Themes and goals] http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/themes-goals/

 This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging dialogue
 between researchers and practitioners who are interested in the issues
 regarding cultural impact on User Experience design and evaluation
 methods.

 This workshop aims at extending our understandings and lead to
 practical recommendations for people applying User Experience methods.

 The workshop has six goals;
 1. Share each other’s current findings and experiences to open up an
 international dialogue of design and User Experience Methods in
 different cultural settings.
 2. Discuss the variety of culture conceptions relied on in the existing
 HCI research and their implications on the assumed cultural impact in
 the methods.
 3. Explore UX methods’ specific adaptability
 + Which UX methods can be transferred from one context to another?
 + Which UX methods have to be localized largely?
 + Which UX methods can hardly be adapted in other social contexts?
 + What does it entail to localize a UX method to fit a cultural context
 in question?
 + What does it mean to enculturate a UX method in a specific cultural
 context; how has it been or how will it be modified or interpreted in
 practice?
 4. Examine unexplored topics on cultural impacts on User Experience
 design and evaluation methods;
 + What could be interesting to investigate?
 + What is beneficial to investigate in multiple cultural settings?
 5. Establish an international network and community.
 6. Create a shortlist that can be basis for a proposal for a special
 issue, e.g., CSCW journal or other design related journals.

 [Structure] http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/workshop-structure/
 The one-day Cultural Impact Workshop NordiCHI consists of two sections,
 half a day for each. The first section is presentation and the other is
 forum theatre workshop.

 1. Case presentations from all participants and discussions. (Half day)
 2.Workshop on new methods and cultural impacts and fit. (Half day)
 This workshop will use the forum theatre method. Forum theatre is a
 type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner
 Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his “Theatre of the Oppressed.”
 [1, 2]. This part of the session will be facilitated by professional
 actors.

 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre
 [2] http://www.ccdc.in/

 [Participation] http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/participate/
 To participate in the workshop, please send a 2-4 page position paper
 with your original experiences, cases or interests to the themes of the
 workshop to Mika Yasuoka myj at itu.dk and Netta Iivari
 netta.iivari at oulu.fi, include “Cultural Impact Workshop NordiCHI,
 submission“ as subject heading.

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 August 17th, 2012 – Submission deadline of workshop papers
 August 24th, 2012 – Notification of acceptance sent to the first author
 September 16th, 2012 – End of early registration
 October 14th, 2012 – Workshop at NordiCHI 2012
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 Accepted participants must register for the workshop, for more
 information visit: www.nordichi2012.org<http://www.nordichi2012.org>

 Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings at
 CEUR-WS.org.

 [Workshop Organisers]
 Mika Yasuoka, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
 Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland
 Momoko Nakatani, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan

 For further information contact: myj at itu.dk
 Workshop Website http://yasuoka.dk/cfp/
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