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[S. Gold]

Women in Games Conference
University of Warwick, UK
10-12th September 2008
 
Call for papers and participation
 
The Women In Games conference encourages research and seeks to promote
careers for women within the games industry. If games are to become a true
sibling medium to music and cinema, the industry needs greater balance in
its audience and its workforce. The Women In Games conference welcomes
participants from both industry and academia, providing a forum for
presentation and discussion of issues relating to all aspects of women's
involvement in games, including game development, game playing and women as
portrayed within games.
 
Although this conference is concerned with women and games please note that
men are also very welcome to participate! The industry needs a meaningful
dialogue between the sexes as it moves forward.
 
Further details of the conference and this year's themes are available at
the conference website: www.womeningames.com <http://www.womeningames.com>
 
 
You are invited to participate in the conference in the following ways
 
-         Attending the conference (registration is now open at
www.womeningames.com <http://www.womeningames.com> ).
 
-         Speaking or presenting a panel - see below.
 
-         Exploring options within your organisation for sponsoring the
conference. Sponsorship ideas which support the conference and provide
publicity for your organisation can be found on the website:
www.womeningames.com <http://www.womeningames.com> . Please draw this to the
attention of the relevant contact in your organisation.
 
 
Presenting at the conference
==============================
We welcome proposals for presentations, panels, posters and workshops from
both industrial and academic participants. The main conference themes are
detailed on the website and submissions related to these and other relevant
issues are invited.
 
Industrial participation
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Industrial participants who do not wish to write a paper are invited to
submit a 250 word abstract outlining your proposed contribution.
 
Academic papers
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Full paper: (abstract 1200 words max)
Short papers: (abstract 600 words max)
Other types of submission: see website.
 
Student forum
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Student paper: (abstract 1000 words)
 
Important dates for all categories:
  Submission of abstracts         31st May 2008
  Notification of acceptance     15th July 2008
  Women in Games 2008         10-12th September 2008
 
Submission procedure
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All submissions should be sent to nicola at womeningames.com and will be
anonymously peer-reviewed by the Women in Games steering committee.
 
 
For further details see www.womeningames.com <http://www.womeningames.com>
or contact nicola at womeningames.com
 



Call for Papers Workshop: IT in Design (ITiD)
DCC08 will be the third international conference on design computing and
cognition, held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, USA on
23-25 June 2008 preceded by Workshops 21-22 June 2008
This biennial conference series
(http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/) provides an international
forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and
cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence,
cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference
proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition
research. The conference will be preceded by a series of half-day workshops
on specialist topics in design computing and cognition.

1. Workshop aim

The motivation for this workshop is the lack of IT support in design
processes. While often perceived as an attribute of a final product, design
is in essence a process of interdisciplinary cooperation. There are many
tools and platforms to support communication and documentation, but few
actually address the process itself. Specifically, the workshop will deal
with the notion of the non-intrusive documentation of steps within the
process to enable the analysis of activities executed and conclusions drawn,
hence allowing for revisions and recoveries.

This workshop honors design as a process of interdisciplinary cooperation
and engages the participants in discussions on the expedient integration of
IT into such design processes. Within these processes, easy access to and
sharing of information, managing physical and virtual artifacts, and support
for ad-hoc activities are vital for user acceptance of IT solutions. Based
on these requirements and the experiences of the participants, this workshop
provides a reality-check and refinement of these requirements.

2. Workshop format

This half-day workshop shall bring experts from the fields of design and IT
together to discuss the usefulness of existing solutions and prototype new
approaches that are desirable, feasible, and marketable. Both analysis and
prototyping will be achieved using a multidisciplinary design thinking
process. A short but obligatory online preparation will precede the
workshop.

3. Workshop scope

The workshop will use CSCW (computer supported cooperative work) in design
as a starting point and focus on IT support of design processes. Our topics
of interest include but are not limited to:

* requirements for suitable design process support by IT
* transfer of knowledge between design contributors
* best practices and experiences from practitioners
* analog-digital transition and divide
* ad-hoc collaboration processes
* human factors in design
* 
* virtual design spaces
* 
* internet of things
4. Workshop participation

Targeted participants are design experts and information technology
engineers both from academia and industry. People with experience in design
projects and an open mind towards new and innovative solutions from
different disciplines are invited to the workshop as well.

Contributions to the workshop should be submitted in the form of brief
position papers or extended abstracts, approximately 1000 words long;
however longer contributions will be welcome. Figures as appropriate and
full references should be included. These papers will be assessed by the
workshop committee for inclusion in the workshop. These position papers
should outline a research project, present a summary of a theoretical
analysis, or contain a succinct review of the state of the art of some
aspect of relevant research. Participants are expected to prepare for the
session with online materials they will receive prior to the workshop.

Please submit your workshop position paper in PDF format to
itid-dcc08 at hpi.uni-potsdam.de, formatted according to the DCC08 paper
guidelines.

5. Important Dates

* Monday, 4 May: Submissions due
* Monday, 12 May: Notification of acceptance
* Monday, 9 June: Distribution workshop preparation material
* 
* Sunday, 22 June: Workshop
6. Workshop Chairs

* Larry Leifer (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University)
* Ulrich Weinberg (HPI School of Design Thinking, University of Potsdam)
* Mathias Weske (Business Process Technology at Hasso Plattner Institute,
University of Potsdam)
* Terry Winograd (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University)
We hope to see you in Atlanta!

Ahmet Emre Acar
contact: itid-dcc08 at hpi.uni-potsdam.de


-- 
Susan Gold
goldfile at gmail.com

³In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!² - J. G. Ballard

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