The next Student Interaction Design Research conference (SIDeR 2011) will be held next year at the Danish Technical University.
SIDeR is a chance for students to use their own design projects and reflections on design thinking from coursework in theory and the practice of design as a basis for an academic paper. The event will be an occasion for generating dialogue with students from other universities, for building networks, sharing perspectives on design and critically reflecting on design practice.
The conference theme this year is Engaging Interaction in Design. Design processes comprise of a range of activities in which interaction among a host of actors as well as between people, objects and methods may play a role. Engaging in interaction in design may open up to new perspectives, bridging understandings, or emerging interrelations that may be incorporated into the tasks of design.
The theme refers to how interaction designers frame, manage, support and/or derive impetus from such engagements. Designers are increasingly facing the task of engaging users and user insight through participation, thinking with things in design, and facilitating organizational interaction through design methods. Conversely, objects and methods, such as design games and IT-mediated approaches, may frame, manage or support the design process in unexpected ways.
Examples of design research themes:
- interaction design process and design for interaction
- engaging fieldwork and ethnographic insights into design processes
- engaging actors and users in participatory design and innovation, design games
- tangible and skilled interaction
- tangible business models, exploring and channeling opportunities for innovation through design
- interactional dimensions of design methods
- practices of organizational interaction in design
- workspace design and eco-design
How to participate
Submit a 4-page paper (~2000 words) by February 18, 2011 to yosh at man.dtu.dk, with the subject header "SIDER submission". Your contribution should be made following the standard ACM format, and must meet the following two requirements:
1. The paper must contribute with knowledge about design, relating to relevant literature in design research and/or methods appropriate to the study of design. This is not a conference for simply presenting high quality design concepts, though product designs can be part of your argument.
2. The paper should be empirically based. The analysis could deal with experiments in actual design projects, studies of design projects or design practice in companies. The material may be on video recorded design sessions, design documents and mockups, as well as observations and interviews.
A conference website will be launched and include further information about practical details such as travel and accommodation, as well as program, and guest speakers as the date approaches.
Paper selection
Papers will be reviewed by faculty, and the results sent out by March 18, 2011. All accepted papers will be printed in a conference binder.