Call for Papers NEW SOCIOTECHNICAL INSIGHTS IN INTERACTION DESIGN 2009 bridging social requirements and design 25th of August 2009, Uppsala , Sweden http://Itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/~jabdelno/sociotechid09 Workshop at INTERACT 2009 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction www.interact2009.org About the Workshop One of the biggest challenges for HCI and CSCW is addressing the ongoing tensions created by the gap between social requirements and the affordances of technical design (Ackerman, 2000). The translation of social knowledge into design decisions is not a simple problem, but one that requires a redefinition of disciplinary boundaries and the subject and object of interaction design. Addressing this socio-technical gap requires a fresh look at how diverse areas of the social sciences explore and conceptualize the relation between people, society and technology under the rubric of 'sociotechnical'. While organizational studies of technology adoption have a well-defined conceptual framework known as sociotechnical systems theory with established principles (e.g.Mumford, 1993), the situation is not the same for interaction design research. The latter includes examples that give diverse meanings to the term 'sociotechnical' when involving social methods and theories (e.g. Hansen, 2006, Sommerville and Dewsbury, 2007). While perspectives like ethnography, ethnomethodology (Dourish and Button, 1998) and activity theory (Kaptelinin & Nardi, 2006) have had a clear impact in the design of interactive systems, the potential contribution of other social science perspectives such as American pragmatism (e.g Barnes, 2002; Mørch, 2009) or the Sociology of Technology (e.g. Bijker, 1995, Abdelnour-Nocera et al., 2007) have 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 addresses Interact's conference theme by looking for useful connections between social science research and interaction design practice. The workshop will bring together good examples of research in interaction design that refers to the term 'socio-technical'. It is hoped the workshop will identify opportunities for a socio-technical knowledge/conceptual framework in interaction design. This workshop is the second in a series of workshops that started in London in 2008 as an event jointly organized by the Interactions and Sociotechnical specialist groups of the British Computer Society. The workshop led to some of its best papers being developed into a special issue in the international journal of sociotechnology and knowledge development (Abdelnour-Nocera et al., 2009). Topics The workshop aims to continue enabling new translations from the social sciences to interaction design. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: overview of related work in HCI and CSCW; critiques of earlier approaches to design; related work on sociotechnical design (e.g. participatory design, organizational informatics); actionable recommendations and guidelines for the conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems as 'social proxies'; improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of 'social requirements'; identifying socially responsible policies for interaction design; interaction design for web technology and social networking (e.g. web 2.0); appropriation of theories from the social sciences to inform interaction design; understanding participatory design as a sociotechnical endeavour in software engineering (e.g. agile methods; end-user development). Submissions Position paper submissions of up to 3,000 words are invited reporting on research or experiences on any of the above topics. All papers must be written and presented in English and will be peer reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Submissions will be done through http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/journal . It is expected that the best papers presented at the workshop will be developed into an edited book in the workshop topic. Papers must be formatted according to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. For your convenience, a template for Microsoft Word is provided here for direct downloading: http://www.interact2009.org/sites/default/files/SpringerLNCS-word%20form at.zip Key Dates - 1st of May 2009: Submission of position papers - 15th of May 2009 : Notification of acceptance - 30th of June 2009: Final version of accepted papers due - 25th of August 2009: Workshop Co-chairs José Abdelnour-Nocera Centre for Internationalisation and Usability, Thames Valley University, London, UK, W5 5RF Jose.abdelnour-nocera (at) tvu.ac.uk Anders I. Mørch InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway anders.morch (at) intermedia.uio.no Programme Committee Sisse Finken, University of Oslo, Norway Andy Gorman, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Thomas Hermann, University of Bochum, Germany Victor Kaptelinin, Umeå University, Sweden Kenji Matsuura, University of Tokushima, Japan Liza Potts, Old Dominion University, USA Helen Sharp, Open University, UK José Abdelnour Nocera, PhD Senior Lecturer Head of Centre for Internationalisation and Usability School of Computing Thames Valley University St Mary's Road, Ealing - London W5 5RF http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/~jabdelno/