[JoPP-Public] CFP: CHI2014 Workshop: Perspectives on Gender and Product Design: Are We Living in a "Man-Made" World?

[Shaowen Bardzell]

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CFP: CHI2014 Workshop: Perspectives on Gender and Product Design: Are We
Living in a "Man-Made" World?



https://sites.google.com/site/technologydesignperspectives/home



This one-day workshop will be held as part of the CHI 2014
<http://chi2014.acm.org/> annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Science, held in Toronto, Canada  26 April - 1 May.



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Submission Deadline: *January 17th, 2014*

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: *February 10th, 2014*

Workshop Date & Location: *Saturday April 26th 2013*, Toronto, Canada

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Interactive technologies have a profound mediating effect on the way we
obtain and contribute to knowledge, relate to each other and contribute to
society. Often, "gender" is not a factor that is explicitly considered in
the design of these technologies. When gender is considered, products are
often designed with idealised models of gendered "users"–designed for men,
designed for women, designed for boys, designed for girls, or designed for
the "average user" who could be male or female. However, the ways in which
gender-bias or gender-neutrality are constructed in the design process and
the resulting effect on the interactive artifacts that are produced is not
well understood. Further, research within the HCI arena has only begun to
scratch the surface of how perceived "gender" influences interactive
product use by users of any gender.


Given the impact and potential ramifications of technological products on
society, it is imperative that we more deeply understand the tacit and
explicit models of gendered practice that underlie design choices and
product uptake. We need to inclusively accommodate and integrate different
perspectives in shaping our modern day technologies.


This workshop focuses on the bringing to the fore different perspectives of
how gender affects technology design, adoption, appropriation, and possibly
resistance. We will address what is missing from the discussion, and why.
We will consider what, if anything, needs to change in design methods and
perspectives. We will try to elaborate and account for possible gender
differences in perceived product value and in actual and perceived ease of
use. We will consider whether there are gender-related differences in the
creation and experience of delightful engagement with interactive
technologies. Examples of issues to be discussed and arenas of potential
change are:


* increasing research and understanding of gender impact on technology
design and use


* consideration of how to increase representation of nuanced gender
perspectives within design processes in the technology sector and within
fields related to technology production, including computer science and
engineering, and also design, design research, and related fields


* discussing what would constitute gender-agnostic or gender inclusive
design/development environments, including consideration of design biases
in software tools and in digital and/or physical collaborative
design/development settings


* addressing the lack of discussion regarding gender impact in the fields
related to technology design, including the field of Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) whose very charter is to be "user-centric" and inclusive


* reflecting on the low grant support for academic research which looks at
the representation of gendered perspectives in our current discourse, which
in turn leads to a lack of reliable, informative and actionable technology
& gender research


This workshop will address these issues with respect to the tools,
technologies, and processes we experience and design, both in industry and
academia, and with the aim of producing some actionable steps forward.



Please submit a position paper (maximum of 4 pages) detailing your
background, and interest and experience in this topic. Participants will be
selected on the basis of their potential to contribute to the overall
discussion and the workshop goals. To participate in this workshop,
position papers must be submitted by January 17th 2014. Please use the CHI
Extended Abstracts format. Submissions should be sent to
technology.design.perspectives at gmail.com




-- 
Shaowen Bardzell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

The Cultural Research in Technology (CRIT) Group
http://crit.soic.indiana.edu/
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