DEAP 2019: Designing for Aging People Paphos, Cyprus, September 2-3, 2019 |
Conference website | http://avcd.aalto.fi/deap2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deap2019 |
DEAP 2019 – Designing for Aging People
INTERACT 2019 Workshop
3 September 2019 – Paphos, Cyprus
avcd.aalto.fi/deap2019/
About the Workshop
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Most existing design practices either do not specifically target the needs of aging people, or only consider their needs from a negative perspective, often as design “problems” that need to be “solved”. However, with the ever-increasing aging world population, it is becoming even more important to better design for older people, taking their wants, needs, desires, and expectations into account as the underlying basis for design.
Amongst other issues that need to be addressed, this also requires modifying current design practices, including commonly used design methodologies, to make them more effective for targeting aging user populations.
Therefore, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, designers, and developers interested in the design, development, evaluation, and deployment of digital products, technologies, tool, and services for aging people. The workshop will provide a venue for sharing experiences from different perspectives through presentations, discussions, and a hands-on design activity to provide innovative ideas for future directions in designing for aging people.
This workshop follows on from a successful previous workshop (DEAP 2018), which was held as part of the IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2018). We have now broadened the scope of this workshop to include all aspects of designing for aging people.
Call for Participation
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We invite design researchers and practitioners from related backgrounds to submit their papers reporting their contributions to the topics of the workshop. Topics of interest cover the processes of ideation, design, prototyping, development, evaluation, and deployment of digital products, technologies, tool, and services. We seek submissions related to the following areas, as well as others:
- Critical, speculative, participatory, or any other novel approaches to design.
- Innovative approaches to the design, development, evaluation, and deployment.
- Examples and case studies of deployment and use.
- Acceptability and adoption.
- Community- and user-led innovations.
- Design without agism.
- Design and ethics.
Workshop papers should be no more than 6 pages long, and prepared according to the Springer format for the CS Proceedings and other Multiauthor Volumes (templates at http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Workshop submissions should be made via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deap2019).
The workshop program committee will review the submitted papers, and select around 10 papers for presentation at the workshop based on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics.
Depending on space availability, other interested attendees of the INTERACT conference without a position paper would also be welcome to join the workshop.
Workshop Structure
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This workshop is structured to be engaging, practical, hands-on, and participatory in its approach. It will include plenty of time for interactions, discussions and exchanges of ideas — leading to concrete outcomes for its participants. The workshop will achieve this through the inclusion of:
- Short presentations of the accepted papers.
- A follow-up interactive session to allow further discussions.
- A collaborative design activity to explore novel approaches to design ideation.
- Creation of a short video for the INTERACT conference to showcase the experience of taking part in this collaborative design activity.
- Concluding discussions and planning of future directions and outcomes.
Expected Outcome and Dissemination
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The accepted workshop papers will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings of INTERACT 2019. In addition, through a planned discussion session at the workshop, we will investigate potential future outcomes. These may include a special issue of an international journal and/or a co-authored report for dissemination of the workshop findings. We will also use the workshop website for publicizing its aims and objectives, as well as disseminating its outcomes.
Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 14 April 2019 28 April 2019 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2019
Camera-ready version: 2 June 2019
Workshop date: 3 September 2019
Workshop Organizers
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Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Paula Alexandra Silva, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
Program Committee
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Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)
Leah Burns, Aalto University (Finland)
Elena Comincioli, Aalto University (Finland)
Dohee Lee, Aalto University (Finland)
Eugène Loos, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Óscar Mealha, Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)
Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer – AICOS (Portugal)
Thomas Rist, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (Germany)
Rita Santos, Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)
Paula Alexandra Silva, Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)
Telmo Silva, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
Ana Vasconcelos, Fraunhofer – AICOS (Portugal)
Ana Veloso, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)