Submitting workshop papers

Deadline: March 3, 2008

Workshops are a chance for members of a community with common interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. They are an opportunity to move the field forward and build community. This year, three pre-conference workshops (two half-day and one full day) will be held on June 11th, the day before the main IDC conference begins, in addition to the day-long Doctoral Consortium. Attendees of the workshops must also register for the main conference, but the cost of workshop attendance is only $50 additional.

Workshop on Designing for Children with Special Needs
Workshop Chairs: Andrea Tartaro (Northwestern University) & Gillian R. Hayes (University of California, Irvine)

The workshop on "Designing for Children with Special Needs" will be a full-day pre-conference workshop. The goals of the session are to:

Position papers submission should be made electronically in PDF format, and may be up to 4 pages formatted according to our anonymous extended abstract template. Position papers from the workshop will be published in the IDC conference proceedings, and at the ACM digital library.

Position papers should be submitted no later than 3 March 2008 (6:00pm PST) and must be submitted directly to the organizers, and not to IDC. Submissions arriving after the deadline or with improper formatting or anonymization will not be considered. For more details, see the Special Needs Workshop Page.

Workshop on Marginalized Young People: Inclusion Through ICT
Workshop Chairs: Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) & Heidi Schelhowe (University of Bremen, Germany)

This event will take place in the afternoon of June 11, 2008.

Poverty, not belonging to the mainstream culture and language, lack of competences, and lack of motivation are some of the main factors for exclusion of young people from full participation in Western societies. As several empirical studies show, all young people tend to use digital technologies increasingly, but big differences exist in how they are using digital media. At the individual level and, more and more, at the social level, many young people today live in both worlds: the physical world, and the virtual world that ICT makes accessible anytime, anywhere. As this trend continues, It becomes crucial to explore these new kind of digital divide that is arising among young generations, which does not result from having no or limited access to ICT, but is produced by remaining only a user vs. becoming a critical actor who can exploit virtual experiences in order to increase his or her cultural, social and even economic capital. The workshop aims at bringing together technologists, empirical researchers, designers, educators, sociologists, or decision-makers in any domain involving young people, to explore together some of the following issues:

Papers submission should be made electronically in PDF format, and may be up to 4 pages formatted according to our anonymous extended abstract template. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will be published in the ACM IDC08 proceedings and at the ACM digital library, and will be presented during the main conference.

Position papers should be submitted not later than 3 March 2008 (6:00pm PST) and must be submitted directly to workshop organizers:

Franca Garzotto <garzotto@elet.polimi.it>
Heidi Schelhowe <schelhow@informatik.uni-bremen.de>

Submissions with improper formatting or anonymization will not be considered. For more information on the workshop, please see the Marginalized Young People Page.