PPIG 18: Psychology of Programming The Art Workers' Guild London, UK, September 4-7, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.ppig.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppig18 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 1, 2018 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2018 |
PPIG has always been founded on a dualism: we take as much interest in the psychology of the act of programming as in the computational aspects of psychology. Our special theme for 2018, “craft in programming”, doubles down on this duality - we are as interested in submissions arguing for or against the craft status of programming, as we are in explorations of how programming may interact harmoniously or injuriously with traditional crafts.
Papers received to recent PPIG workshops have already broken this ground - exploring connections between software and maker culture, distinctions between the craft of artists and amateurs, and whether making software could qualify as a craft at all, beyond being an unreliable activity which requires skill and insight to achieve desirable results.
This year we would like to take these issues further, and particularly welcome submissions that explore the contradictions between the working practices and assumptions of workers in tangible and intangible media, as well as proposals for refounding our disciplines so that such contradictions could be healed. For example, a recent focus of organisations such as the Heritage Crafts Association has been the curation of what is termed “Intangible Cultural Heritage” - the invisible transmission of knowledge and skills associated with traditional artisanry. But here we have a contradiction, since although programming is famously comfortable manipulating the abstract, it is equally famously uncomfortable dealing with the unquantifiable and indefinable. What assistance could a future programming offer to such struggling traditions?
Submission Guidelines
We will welcome the following categories of submissions:
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Full Papers: Up to 10 pages long.
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Work In Progress reports: Up to 4 pages long.
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System demonstrations and reflections: an abstract, video, or artwork outlining what you will present. Crashes are desirable. Up to 2.5 days long.
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Doctoral consortium submissions: Up to 2 pages long.
List of Topics
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As always, we are excited to receive papers touching on any of PPIG’s traditional interests, including:
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Music(al) programming
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Liveness and interactivity in programming
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Programming education and craft skill acquisition
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Human centered design and evaluation of programming languages, tools and infrastructure
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Programming and human cognition
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Team/co-operative work in programming
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End user programming
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Distributed programming, programming distribution
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Gender, age, culture and programming
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New paradigms in programming
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Code quality, readability, productivity and re-use
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Mistakes, bugs and errors
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Notational design
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Unconventional interactions and quasi-programming
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Non-human programming
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Technology support for creativity
Venue
The Art Workers' Guild
6 Queen Square
Bloomsbury
London
C1N 3AT
UK
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to luke@church.name