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Participatory Design Conference

October 27-28, 1994
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

CPSR News Volume 12, Number 3: Summer 1994

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In the last decade, participatory approaches to design have gained adherents around the world. These approaches have at their core the involvement of users in the design and development of new technologies and work practices. CPSR's Third Conference on Participatory Design will be attended by an international community of researchers and practitioners. We encourage those who are using participatory approaches and those who may be interested in trying such approaches to attend.

Program Overview

Opening Keynote by Morten Kyng, Aarhus University, Denmark

Paper Session 1: Scandinavian participatory design: From trade unions to organizations. Papers on 1) User participation: A strategy for work-life democracy; 2) Creating conditions for participation, conflicts and resources in systems design; 3) Participatory analysis of flexibility.

Panel Session 1: Does PD have a role in software package development?

Paper Session 2: Power relations: structures and dynamics. Papers on 1) Systems as intermediaries: Political frameworks of design and participation; 2) Organizational and technical effects from designing with an intervention and ethnographically inspired approach; 3) Dilemmas in cooperative design.

Panel Session 2: PD Education and curricula.

Paper Session 3: Designers meeting users: Conversations and representations. Papers on 1) The dynamics of participatory information system design; 2) Representations of work: Bringing designers and users together; 3) Reflections on work-oriented design.

Panel Session 3: PD in complex organizations.

Evening Keynote. Bjorg Aase Sorensen, Oslo Work Research Institute

Artifacts Session: Prototypes. products, and representations of work practices used with clients or resulting from PD processes. Closing Discussion: PD: Politics and prospects.

Registration Information

Early Registration Fees (by 9/23/94)

CPSR Member $120.00 Nonmember $ 170.00 Low-Income $60.00

Late Registration (on or after 9/24/94)

CPSR Member $ 170.00 Nonmember $220.00 Low-income $75.00

For more information contact: PDC c/o Information Foundation, 46 Oakwood Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Voice: (919) 942-9773 or email: suchman@ncsu.edu.

Conference information is also available via the WorldWide Web at http://cpsr.org/cpsr/conferences/pdc94/pdc94.html or via anonymous FTP at ftp.cpsr.org in the /cpsr/conferences/pdc94 directory.

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