[spectre] CFP: CoPDA 2024 - 8th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age (co-located with AVI 2024)

Wed Feb 7 10:21:26 CET 2024

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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

https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2024/
June 3rd or 4th, 2024 - Arenzano (Genoa), Italy
In conjunction with AVI 2024 (https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/home)

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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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Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper using the 1-column 
CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An 
Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at 
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
The papers can be submitted at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2024
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)

For any further information, please contact copda2024 at easychair.org
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Prof. Antonio Piccinno
/Presidente Centro Servizi Informatici (CSI)
Delegato del Rettore ai temi della digitalizzazione presso CRUI
Delegato servizi informatici del Dipartimento di Informatica
/ Dipartimento di Informatica - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy
Personal Home Page <ivu.di.uniba.it/people/piccinno.htm?>
Tel. +39 080 5442535 / Fax. +39 080 5443300
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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

https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2024/

June 3rd or 4th, 2024 - Arenzano (Genoa), Italy

In conjunction with AVI 2024 (https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/home)

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Overview

--------

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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Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt

The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2024

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.

---------------

Important dates

---------------

- 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)

For any further information, please contact copda2024 at easychair.org