AEUFEDF 2014 - Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design Futures

This one-day workshop will be held as part of the CHI 2014 annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Science, held in Toronto, Canada between the 26th April and 1st May 2014.
Inspired by recent high profile discussions of the productive relationship between fiction and design, this challenging, interactive and playful workshop will explore design fiction as a means for engaging HCI researchers and practitioners in critical reflection on the potentially complex long-term consequences of their work. Attendees will work collaboratively to write “alternate endings” for well-known HCI scenarios and papers. The workshop aims to bring together interested academics from HCI, computer science, design and humanities research communities. The intention is to engage not only those already interested in critical approaches to design, but to engage mainstream HCI researchers in more critical considerations of their work.
We will accept submissions in two forms. Option 1 is a standard 2-4 page ACM extended abstract format position paper, where authors discuss how design fiction relates to their own practice. Option 2 uses a similar format but for contributions that, themselves, are short works of design fiction. Authors are particularly encouraged to explore the long-term consequences of their own research projects.
Please indicate how many authors will attend the workshop, as places are limited and we may need to place a cap on the number of attendees per accepted paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and for at least one day of the main conference.
Format: 2-4 pages, in ACM extended abstract format
Submit: by email to clinehan-AT-lincoln.ac.uk
Deadline: January 7th 2014
Notification: February 10th 2014
Workshop: April 26th 2014
Organising committee:
Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman; University of Lincoln, UK
Mark Blythe; Northumbria University, UK
Stuart Reeves; University of Nottingham, UK
Audrey Desjardins, Josh Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary; Simon Fraser University, Canada
Programme Committee:
Shaun Lawson; University of Lincoln
Luke Robert Mason; Birmingham City University / Director of Virtual Futures
Dan O’Hara; Birmingham City University / Co-editor of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with JG Ballard 1967-2008
Madeline Ashbey; practicing science fiction writer, Toronto, Canada
Murray Goulden, University of Nottingham
Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia
Submissions should be sent in .pdf format
Papers will be reviewed by a committee of experts in the aforementioned topics according to their potential to stimulate discussion.
At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the workshop and at least one day of the main conference. For an early indication on prices, please visit last year’s workshop & conference:http://chi2013.acm.org/attending/registration/