New Sociotechnical Insights in Interaction Design Call for Papers Workshop on sociotechnical insights in interaction design (Sociotech-ID'08) May 30th in BCS Offices in London, United Kingdom http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id08 A joint event of the BCS Interaction and Sociotechnical groups Aims and goals of the workshop Diverse areas of the social sciences explore and conceptualize the relation between people, society and technology under the rubric of 'sociotechnical', which can bring interesting insights into interaction design. Organizational studies of technology adoption have a well defined conceptual framework known as sociotechnical systems theory with established principles. However, the situation is not the same for interaction design research, which gives diverse uses to the term 'sociotechnical' when involving social methods and theories. Methodological perspectives like ethnography, ethnomethodology and activity theory have had a clear impact in interaction design, but the potential contribution of other areas of the social sciences has not become so clear and uniform despite the increased development of the pervasive and social proxy - mediating and mediated -- characters of interactive systems. This workshop will bring together good examples of research in interaction design that refer to the term 'sociotechnical'. The challenge is to achieve some level of 'translation' despite differences between disciplines whose main interest is understanding social phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of interactive systems. It is hoped the workshop will identify opportunities for a sociotechnical knowledge framework in interaction design. Submissions are welcome in, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Actionable recommendations and guidelines for the conception design and evaluation of interactive systems as 'social proxies' * Improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of sociotechnical requirements for interaction design * Social Interaction Design and Web 2.0 * Socially responsible policies for interaction design * Participatory design as a sociotechnical endeavour * Sociotechnical dynamics of multidisciplinary teams in the context of novel user-centred development methodologies. * Culture and interaction design Submission The following types of submission are solicited: long paper submissions of up to 5,000 words, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work; short paper submissions of up to 2,000 words, describing work in progress. All papers must be written and presented in English and will be peer reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0), including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word for Windows format. Papers should be submitted to http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/journal Important dates: - January, 15th , 2008: Submission of long and short papers - February, 15th, 2008 : Notification of acceptance - March 14th , 2008: camera-ready copies of accepted papers due - May 30th , 2008: workshop Publication Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, accessible through http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/journal. Two journal special issues on the same topic are being planned and it is hoped that some of the submissions in this workshop will be developed to contribute to these publications. One issue will appear in the new 'International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development'. Another issue is planned to appear in a renowned HCI journal (venue to be confirmed). Workshop Co-Chair(s): Jose Abdelnour-Nocera , Thames Valley University, UK Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK Lynne Dunckley, Thames Valley University, UK Ken Eason, The Bayswater Institute, UK Workshop Programme Committee: Paola Amaldi, Middlesex University, UK Fiona Concannon, National University of Ireland, Ireland Elisa del Galdo, Human Factor International, UK/US Joy Goodman, University of Cambridge, UK Susan Dray, Dray Associates, US Rogerio DePaula, Intel, Brazil Bob Fields, Middlesex University, UK Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Elise van den Hoven, Technological University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ann Light, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stephan Lukosch, University of Hagen, Germany Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium Ian MacColl, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, France Daniel Pargman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrike Pfeil, City University, UK Suzana Sukovic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Christian Sturm, Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Mexico Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK