fail.design 2017: 1st Workshop on Learning from Failure: Designing for Complex Sociotechnical Systems |
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Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faildesign2017 |
Submission deadline | July 10, 2017 |
CALL FOR PAPERS:
1st Workshop on Learning from Failure: Designing for Complex Sociotechnical Systems (fail.design 2017)
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Co-located with UbiComp2017
September 11 or 12, 2017, Maui, Hawaii, USA
Paper Submission Deadline (extended): July 10th, 2017
The road to success is seldomly straight and a lot can be learned from the wrong turns we take while walking it. Unfortunately, once we reach our goals, we focus our reports almost entirely on the right choices we made. This makes others miss out on the lessons from our intermittent or even ultimate failures.
As soon as one combines a range of Ubicomp devices, and a variety of users, each with a different roles, the result is a complex sociotechnical system with unexpected interactions and emergent properties both desired and undesired. We see failure stories about the development and deployment of Ubicomp systems as a key opportunity to rethink how we evaluate the design of complex sociotechnical systems. We believe that combining insights from human-centered design and failure stories will improve understanding of specific sociotechnical challenges that characterize modern and complex Ubicomp solutions.
Topics
This workshop expects submission of reports on failed attempts in terms of design, development and/or large-scale deployment of Ubicomp systems that are aimed at addressing complex sociotechnical challenges. Papers should report upon the unexpected nature of the encountered problem(s) as well as elucidate on the steps that were taken to move towards a working system. This workshops calls for papers dealing with (but not exclusive to):
- Collections of design failures along with according messages, e.g.
- Surprising human behavior in response to technology
- Biased results due to early decisions on how to collect, analyze or report data
- Modifications of or new design methods motivated by past failure
- Emergent properties created by large amounts of interacting devices and users
- Challenges to identify or get “buy-in” from all relevant stakeholders
- Non-linear causal relations and non-independence of elements
While the topic of the workshop are complex sociotechnical systems, submissions will not be judged by the size of the deployment or the number of components but the resulting unexpected behavior and/or the lessons drawn from the reported failures.
Paper Submission
The workshop calls for non-anonymized papers of 2-6 pages in CHI extended abstract format. Please submit to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faildesign2017 by July 10th.
Submissions will be selected by their potential to stimulate discussions in the workshop. Submissions may explicitly contain already published material, i.e. we encourage authors to report on failures they experienced in the progress of planning and conducting ultimately successful and subsequently published research. This also explicitly includes collections of failures with a common message.
Please note: We plan to include all accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library within the adjunct proceedings of the main conference. However, due to the deadline extension, this can not be guaranteed. As an alternative, papers will be published in online workshop proceedings.
Personal presentation of the papers by one of the authors at the workshop is expected.
For further questions please contact failure-workshop@ucsd.edu.