[Olpc-za] Call for papers: ACM DIS 2008

[Antoine van Gelder]

ACM DIS 2008: The Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

DIS 2008 is the first main SIGCHI conference to be held in Africa. It is 
being held in Cape Town in
conjunction with the annual African design conference – Design Indaba – 
from 25th to 27th of February
2008. The conference aims to bring together creative people from all 
over the globe.
Scope of the Conference

DIS 2008 welcomes papers on all varieties of interactive systems – 
digital books, e-commerce
websites, home entertainment systems, hand-held shopping appliances, 
geographic information
systems, immersive games and other environments, medical and health-care 
systems, networked
communities, etc.

DIS 2008 welcomes papers on design analysis, design representations, 
design methods, design
rationale capture, presentation and use, on innovation in design, and on 
tools and environments for
designing interactive systems.

DIS 2008 welcomes empirical studies of design practices, including 
comparative studies, experience-
based studies and lessons learned from design projects, investigations 
and development of formal
notations and models, and new theoretical perspectives.

DIS 2008 welcomes papers exploring, defining, and developing the science 
of design.

Researchers, designers, educators, and students from all relevant 
disciplines are invited to participate,
including anthropology, art and architecture, business, cognitive 
science, communication studies,
computer science, ergonomics, design studies, education, graphic design, 
information systems,
industrial engineering, interaction design, journalism, law, linguistics 
and semiotics, psychology,
requirements engineering, sociology, software engineering, technical 
communication, and user
experience design.

Submission Categories

DIS 2008 will accept research papers, workshop proposals, tutorial 
proposals, exhibition proposals
and doctorial consortium submissions. All submissions are handled 
electronically via the website.

Research Paper Categories

DIS 2008 accepts 6 categories of research papers. The categories are 
intended to assist reviewers in
understanding the kind of contribution an author is trying to describe. 
Authors should carefully
categorize their submissions according to the following categories:.

- Design case studies: Accounts of the design (rationale, process, 
outcomes and evaluation) of an
   interactive product or system.
- Methods and tools: New theories, methods, and processes for use in 
designing and developing
   interactive products and systems.
- Reflective analyses: Thought-provoking, well substantiated analyses of 
issues related to all aspects of
   design.
- Fieldwork and ethnography: Findings, guidelines, etc. from studies of 
real world settings, with clear
   relevance to the design and deployment of interactive systems.
- Laboratory studies: Findings, techniques, methods, etc. from 
controlled studies of products, systems,
   and other phenomena relevant to designing interactive systems.
- Educational Issues: related to design education supporting the design 
of interactive systems.

Benefit statement

In all cases, a paper must break new ground and its contribution must 
offer a clear benefit. Authors
should develop a 30-word statement of benefit for papers they submit. 
This statement will be used by
reviewers to understand the scope and depth of a paper’s contribution.

Paper format

All submissions should follow the ACM format: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Papers must be no longer than ten pages, including all additional 
material such as references,
appendices, and figures. Full papers must include a title, sufficient 
space for the author names, contact
information and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. 
The abstract must be 150
words or less and must be included in the paper; it must clearly state 
the paper’s contribution to
designing interactive systems. All references must be complete, accurate 
and accessible to the public,
formatted in the prescribed ACM format style.

Submissions for workshop proposals, tutorial proposals, exhibition 
proposals and doctorial
consortium submissions should be no longer than 3 pages.

Paper Submission
Contributions to all categories will be submitted electronically 
following a procedure to be
posted on the conference website (http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008)

Submission deadline is July 31st.