Call for Papers
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CoPDA 2024 - 8th International Workshop on Cultures of
Participation in the Digital Age: Differentiating and Deepening
the Concept of "End User" in the Digital Age
June 3rd or 4th, 2024 - Arenzano (Genoa), Italy
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Overview
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Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
meta-design challenge the understanding of the concept of “end
user”.
The 8th edition of this workshop aims to critically
differentiate, dissect, and deepen the roles, experiences, and
demands of end users by inviting contributions from different
perspectives.
The workshop invites contributions to explore the following
fundamental issues:
- Re-conceptualizing the multi-faceted roles that end users
can play.
- Investigating how end users are evolving into active
participants in the design and development through frameworks
(such as meta-design) that encourage creation, modification, and
evolution in individual and group activities.
- Understanding the skills and literacies (e.g.,
computational fluency) that end users need to acquire to be
successful contributors (e.g., education, after-school clubs,
etc.).
- Envisioning future scenarios and possibilities for end user
roles and experiences in the context of emerging technologies
and cultural changes.
- Understanding the design trade-offs associated with
balancing the potential value of end-user contributions with the
necessary effort to ensure that end users will be motivated to
contribute over long periods of time.
Participants from academia, industry, and user communities
are invited to share their ideas, insights, and experiences to
increase our collective understanding and approach towards end
users in the digital age.
Topics of discussion may include (but will not be limited
to):
- Analysis of the use and historical development of the
concept of “end user”
- Can meta-design frameworks facilitate and empower end users
in becoming designers, shaping and adapting systems to their
needs?
- What are the major responsibilities for end users in
"end-user development” and/versus "end-user software
engineering"?
- If computational fluency is widely achieved by humans in
the digital age — how will this change the concept of "end user"
and “learning with digital tools”?
- How can the division between professional developers and
end users be designed and supported as collaborative
interactions rather than a rigid separation?
- How do we scale up user participation from individuals to
groups to communities?
- In which contexts are end users the drivers of the
innovation?
- Which other frameworks and environments in AI exist in
addition to Large Language Models (LLMs) for supporting end
users?
- How does the role of end users change in the era of LLMs?
- Which additional learning demands occur that empower end
users to assess LLM possibilities and limits?
- Success stories and failures (e.g., empirical studies)
involving or analyzing end users as active participants in
sociotechnical systems in different domains (education,
workplace, at home, leisure, etc.).
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Submissions
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All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of
the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be collected and submitted for
publication on CEUR-WS proceedings.
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Important dates
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- Apr 3rd, 2024: Submission deadline for position papers
- Apr 23rd, 2024: Notification of acceptance
- May 10th, 2024: Camera ready
- Jun 3rd or 4th, 2024: CoPDA 2024 workshop
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Organizing Committee
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Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia,
Italy)
Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)
Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway)
Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)