Innovation 2009 - Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation

Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation
September 15-18, 2009
Schloss Dagstuhl
Saarland University, Germany
http://cosy.ted.unipi.gr/idSpace_Workshop_Dagstuhl...

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Scope

Innovative design is characterised by an intense, collaborative process
of generating and exploring ideas meant to contribute to the solution of
particular problems. Innovators go through cycles of divergence, in
which new ideas are generated and explored, and convergence, in which
new ideas are valued and detailed. These cycles rely on knowledge
elicitation and knowledge sharing. Innovators need appropriate methods
and supportive tools to generate ideas, reuse them, take them apart,
criticise them, or even reject them.
To move the discussion on the validation and dissemination of useful
methods and tools for innovative design a step ahead, a workshop will be
organised that seeks to bring together experts from R&D groups that work
in the area of distributed collaborative product innovation. The
workshop aims to tackle the topic of distributed collaborative product
innovation from a variety of vantage points, from pedagogical to
business sciences, from theoretical underpinnings to practical effects,
etc. More specifically, participants of the workshop may:
?concentrate on the methods and strategies that help distributed group
members collaborate for developing innovative products (e.g. SCAMPER,
Six Hats, Jigsaw)
?analyse the functionality of tools for supporting the distributed
collaborative product innovation process; hese tools could be
appropriate for specific domains, such as the aerospace industry, or for
specific devices; attention should be given to whether and how the
functionality of tools from a specific æ??ontext?can be re-used in
another context
?identify sound theoretical foundations for collaborative product
innovation processes, by looking at research in related disciplines,
e.g., psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, or communication
sciences; they should address the question of how known æ??atterns?in
human behaviours, as well as cognitive principles and guidelines of
interaction design, can be interpreted and formulated in terms of
recommendations for designers of appropriate tools/systems.

Topics

Parties interested in participating in the workshop are invited to
submit a paper with theoretical and practical ideas of how to better
support the distributed collaborative product innovation process.

Papers should address one or more of the following relevant topics:
?Methods and strategies for fostering collaborative product innovation
?Tools and groupware systems that support collaborative product
innovation process
?Case studies or experiences from the use of methods, strategies and
tools in the domain of collaborative product innovation
?Cognitive foundations of collaborative product innovation
?Interaction design patterns for specific user needs and æ??ontexts?
(i.e., devices or situations of use) in the domain of collaborative
product innovation

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the international program
committee in order to decide on acceptance. Acceptance of a paper is
also contingent upon the author抯 willingness to present his or her
paper at workshop in person in order to guarantee a fruitful and
challenging discussion.
Accepted papers will be published in a special volume of the workshop
proceedings. The workshop organizers are in contact with international
publishing houses to create an edited book based on the workshop
outcomes (soon to be announced).


Important Dates

submission Deadline: June 15, 2009.
Papers should be submitted to .
Papers should be maximum 6 pages long and formatted according to LNCS
format (templates can be found at Springer-Verlag LNCS Authors?
Instructions).
otification of acceptance: July 6, 2009
inal camera ready versions due: July 20, 2009
workshop: September 16 - 18, 2009. Delegates arrival is foreseen on
Wednesday September 15th, departure either in the afternoon of Friday
18th or in the morning of Saturday 19th.

Venue

?Schloss Dagstuhl is located in a rural part of Germany, close to Trier
in the south-west of Germany. It offers a stimulating environment for
intense and fruitful collaboration. Dagstuhl can be reached from the
airports of Frankfurt and Luxemburg [http://www.dagstuhl.de/]. From the
website: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics (German:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH) is the world's
premier venue for informatics. It enables the international elite,
promising young researchers and practicians alike to gather together to
discuss their views and research findings.

Organisers

?Prof. dr. Peter B. Sloep, Programme Director Research & Development
Technology Enhanced Learning at the Centre for Learning Sciences and
Technologies of the Open University of the Netherlands.
?Dr. Symeon Retalis, Assistant professor at the University of Piraeus
The workshop is organised as part of the idSpace project on Tooling and
Training for collaborative product innovation
[http://idspace-project.org]. It is funded in part by the European
Commission FP7-IST-2007-1-41, project number 216799. The idSpace project
designs, builds and pilots a web-based environment which, ultimately,
will offer an integrated suite of knowledge eliciting and sharing tools,
and create a collective, sharable memory of the entire design process.
It should form the substrate for the emergence of a productive and
lasting community of practice and learning that will maximally foster
innovation


Programme committee
?Dr. M.E. Bitter-Rijpkema, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
?Dr. Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
?Prof. Dr. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
?Prof. Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
?Dr. Petros Georgiakakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
?Prof. Dr. Peter Goodyear, Co-Director of CoCo Research Centre,
University of Sydney, Australia
?Dr. Wolfgang Greller, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
?Prof. Dr. Markus Peschl, University of Vienna, Austria
?Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
?Dr. Aimilia Tzanavari, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
?Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weinberg, Hasso-Plattner-Institute GmbH and
University of Potsdam, Germany