[Sigtis-l] CFP: Values and Design in HCI Education CHI workshop

[Adam Worrall]

A call for position papers has been posted for a workshop on Values and
Design in HCI Education, to be held April 27th, 2014 at CHI in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Position papers are due January 17th; they should be 2-4
pages in length and describe prospective participants’ interests in and
experiences with values and design in educational environments. Position
papers should be e-mailed to Jes Koepfler (koepfler at umd.edu). More details
are included below, or are available in the full call at the following URL:

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/projects/nissenbaum/vid/chi2014.html

Good luck to all who submit!

Adam Worrall
Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI
Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University
School of Library and Information Studies
College of Communication and Information - Florida's iSchool
apw06 at my.fsu.edu  adam at adamworrall.org
http://www.adamworrall.org

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*CHI 2014 Workshop on Values & Design in HCI Education: Call for
Participation*

*Organizers*
Jes A. Koepfler, University of Maryland, US
Luke Stark, New York University, USA
Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA
Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University, USA
Katie Shilton, University of Maryland, USA

*Key Dates*
January 17, 2014 – Position papers due in CHI Extended Abstracts format
February 10, 2014 – Notifications go out to potential participants
April 27, 2014 – Meet in Toronto, ON, for the Values & Design in HCI
Education workshop

*Workshop Summary*

How do we teach future engineers, designers, and citizens to understand
values issues that arise in the design of technologies, and to identify and
embody specific values in design? This one-day workshop, on Sunday, April
27, 2014, will bring together researchers and practitioners in
human-computer interaction (HCI), information science, product design, the
learning sciences, educational technology, and related fields to share and
develop research, strategies, and tools for teaching about values and
design in HCI. We will consider learning environments from classrooms to
conference workshops, industry events and more. Through group discussion
and exercises, participants will develop solutions to the challenges of
theorizing, describing, and teaching about values and design.

*Topics*

Together, workshop participants will explore:

   - Ways of discussing values with learners in a design context
   - Tools, approaches, and core questions related to values and design
   - Best practices and material approaches to values and design
   - Gaps in existing pedagogy and intersections with other approaches in
   HCI education

*Participants*

The intended workshop size is 15-20 people. Interested participants should
submit a 2 - 4 page position paper that describes their interests and
experiences in the workshop topic using the CHI Extended Abstracts format.
Submissions should be sent to koepfler at umd.edu by January 17, 2014.
Successful submissions will report on experiences teaching or exploring
values and design, and report on successes, limitations, or both of
particular approaches. At least one author of each accepted position paper
must attend the workshop and all participants must register for the
workshop and at least one day of the conference. Submission notifications
will be sent by February 10, 2014.

*Workshop Plan*

Pre-workshop (2-4 weeks prior): The organizers will facilitate a
pre-workshop discussion via email on what “values and design” means to the
participants. Each participant will briefly describe his/her framing of
values, design, and the relationship between the two, along with 2-3 key
references. The goal of this exercise is not to come to consensus on a
unified definition of either values or design, but to identify the
complexity of the topic and illuminate how that complex nature might affect
approaches to teaching about values in HCI education.

Warm up (30 mins): To start the workshop, the organizers will provide a
synthesis of participant responses from the pre-workshop discussion and set
out the goals and agenda for the workshop.

Share (60 mins): Participants will form small groups and share examples of
approaches they have used to teach values in design, emphasizing both
successes and failures of the approach.

Report (30 mins): Groups will be asked to synthesize their findings from
the sharing session and describe best practices and lessons learned across
approaches.

Practice & Critique (60 mins): Best practices and lessons learned from the
groups will be used as a framework for evaluating specific approaches to
teaching values and design, including Envisioning Cards, Values-at-Play,
values levers, and design workbooks. Each organizer will take on the role
of instructor and guide a small group through an exercise using a
technique. Group members, in the role of learners, will use the framework
from the morning session to critique the approaches. Together the groups
will refine new ways to use those methods for engaging students,
practitioners, and other researchers.

Report (30 mins): After lunch, groups will report on their new approaches
to using techniques for teaching about values and design.

Create (90 mins): With a set of criteria and best practices in place, new
groups will form to apply lessons from the day into new tools for teaching
values and design. Groups may choose to co-create a course syllabus,
conference workshop, begin a report or publication for the SIGCHI Bulletin
or interactions, or engage in another tangible deliverable related to
values and design in HCI education.

Report & Synthesize (60 mins): The workshop will end with a roundup of
insights and opportunities for future work, including outlining an article
for interactions magazine about compelling practices for addressing values
and design in HCI education.

Ongoing: Throughout the day, the organizers will document conversations and
artifacts of the groups’ efforts, and participants will leave with a set of
vetted approaches and tools for teaching values and design.

Post-workshop: Workshop participants and organizers will collaboratively
create a poster based on the results of the workshop to be presented at the
CHI 2014 workshop poster session. Papers and projects presented at and
created during the workshop, will be collected and added to an existing
online repository to further support dissemination of the group’s effort
through other outlets such as the SIGCHI Bulletin, interactions, or other
appropriate journals/scholarly magazines.
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