Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication (July 2013, Lisbon)

Dates: 8-12 July 2013
Location: ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon
Website: sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt
Deadline for Applications: 1 April 2013

STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability as background.

STTF2013 is intended for Master and PhD students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Product and Service Design, Social Sciences and Humanities, Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Media, Environmental Studies, Economics and Management, Computer Sciences, and others.

WikiSym, the 9th Intl Symp on Wikis and Open Collaboration and OpenSym, the 2013 Intl Symp on Open Collaboration (August 2013, Hong Kong)

Dates: 5-7 August 2013
Location: Hong Kong, China
Website: http://www.wikisym.org/email/ and http://www.opensym.org/email/
Deadline for submissions: 17 March 2013

The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym + OpenSym 2013) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, including wikis and social media, Wikipedia, free, libre, and open source software, open access, open data and open government research. WikiSym is in its 9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new conference on open collaboration research and an adjunct to the successful WikiSym conference series.

WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is the first conference to bring together the different strands of open collaboration research, seeking to create synergies and inspire new research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing the world.

WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held in Hong Kong, China, on August 5-7, 2013. WikiSym is in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and OpenSym is in-cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT.

10th Conf of the European Academy of Design (April 2013, Gothenburg Sweden)

Dates: April 17-19 2013
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Website: http://www.craftingthefuture.se
Deadline for submission of intention to submit: May 15, 2012

The theme of the conference is designer’s practice knowledge. How can the specific knowledge of designers be brought forward, articulated, made visible and be understood and used in contexts like innovation, business developmente and social change?

VisualCol 2012: Intl Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (May 2012, Denver)

Dates: 21-25 May 2012
Location: The Westin Westminster Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA
Workshop website: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-17-visualcol
Submission Deadline: February 05, 2012

This workshop is being run in Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP, as part of The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012).

This workshop on Visualization and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) – will focus on visualization and its role in collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for interactive visualization in a collaborative environment. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization specialty.

Intl J Prod Devel: Special Issue: International Engineering Operations (Dec 2011)

An invitation for high-quality submissions for a forthcoming special issue on “International Engineering Operations” to appear in the International Journal of Product Development. The Full call can be found at http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1692
Deadline for submissions: 5 Dec 2011.

Articles will be processed as received, and submitters will be notified promptly if they do not fit this special issue. Full review of an article will be accomplished by one of the Guest Editors and two reviewers.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). Please submit your manuscript directly via email to either Yufeng Zhang or Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, deadline for submissions is 5th December 2011. Please direct questions to either Yufeng Zhang via zhangys@bham.ac.uk or Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen via sakr@man.dtu.dk

WikiSym 2011: 7th Intl Symp on Wikis and Open Collaboration (Oct 2011, California)

Dates: October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California
Website: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011
Submission Deadline: 1 April 2011

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley.

Workshop 07- CHCI&ID: Intl W/S on Collaboration: Human-Centered Issues & Interactivity Design (May 2011, Philadelphia)

As part of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011) http://cts2011.cisedu.info
Dates: May 23 – 27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Submission Deadline:  January 21, 2011

The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011) is targeted “to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaboration enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, applications, and their impact.”

The 2011 International Workshop on Collaboration:  Human-Centered Issues &  Interactivity Design (CHCI&ID 2011) focuses specifically on the human-centered issues connected to collaboration technologies and systems.  We are especially interested in the contexts of how human-computer interaction (HCI) and interactivity design are implicated in collaboration.  The human-centered issues include the social implications of technologies and systems for collaboration, the sustainability implications, ethics, privacy, diversity and social inclusion, health, and other concerns at the nexus of human collaboration needs and practices and the mediation of collaborations by technologies and systems.

Hacking, Tinkering, Crafts & Inventive Leisure Practices (March 2011, China)

Hacking, Tinkering, Crafts & Inventive Leisure Practices
A workshop at CSCW 2011, Hangzhou, China, March 19-23 2011.
http://hackingworkshop.com
Deadline for submission: 19 December 2010

Hacking, tinkering, crafts and Inventive Leisure Practices (ILP) are a growing source of innovation and creativity, and are increasingly important sites of technological collaboration.  These practices take many forms: hacking commoditized products, building electronics, knitting, crafting, carpentry, writing open-source software and much, much more.

IJHCS Special Issue: Supporting Shared Representations in Collaborative Activities (Jan 2011)

International Journal of Human Computer Studies
Special issue on supporting shared representations in collaborative activities
Deadline: 15 January 2011
Guest editors: Jean-François BOUJUT (G-SCOP, Grenoble Institute of Technology),
Stefania CASTELLANI, Frédéric ROULLAND and Jutta WILLAMOWSKI, (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

We are pleased to invite you to submit your work to this IJHCS special issue. This special issue will focus on investigating the dimensions related to mediation that should be considered when designing new collaborative systems involving representations of shared objects.

Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations (Mar 2011, Huddersfield UK)

A two-day conversational* conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation
University of Huddersfield, UK, March 10th-11th 2011
1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010
Website: http://www.hohlwelt.com/en/conferences/visible.html

In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and abstract clear and visual, others focus on the aesthetic quality of the experience. What many of the works have in common is being the outcome of collaboration across disciplines.

This event seeks not only to contribute to the debate around data visualisation but also to a better understanding of what makes interdisciplinary collaborations successful. We wish to provide a platform for open dialogue and discussion across disciplinary cultures and seek a better understanding of the critical requirements for interdisciplinary collaboration. We ask what are the most fruitful conditions for interdisciplinary collaboration? How can trans-disciplinary understanding be best facilitated?