Saturday, May 8, 2010

FW: Design Society eNews, May 2010

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*** WARNING: BOGUS IASDR CONFERENCE WEB SITE ***
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Please note that there is a bogus web site for an IASDR conference in 2010.
The website is:

http://iasdr2010.blogspot.com/2010/02/about-iasdr2010.html

The false site includes many aspects of a perfectly normal conference
website. But it is suspected that anyone submitting papers to it might be
asked for a fee!

The IASDR is the International Association of Societies of Design Research –
the Design Society is a member society. The next IASDR conference *will* be
in Delft, but in 2011. Its web site is at

http://www.tudelft.nl/iasdr2011

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*** DESIGN CALLS ***
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Thanks to Fil Salustri for a great blog for posting announcements of calls
for papers for design-oriented journals and conferences:

http://designcalls.wordpress.com/

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*** WORKSHOP ON DESIGN COMMUNICATION, 10 July 2010, Stuttgart ***
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You are invited to a workshop aimed at discussing the challenges in
understanding and supporting communication in design to be held on July 10th
from 9-12.30pm in Stuttgart, Germany in conjunction with the Design
Computing and Cognition 2010 (DCC10) conference. Submission of short
position papers to kick-off the discussion is open until May 14th.

The aim of the workshop is to identify the intellectual traditions that have
informed communication research to date and those that could offer a real
potential in identifying how existing and future research can complement and
built on each other.

In specific, the workshop discussion could encompass the following topics:
* Interface communication (between a product and a designer, between
designers, between design teams, between companies, between designers and
society as a whole)
* Using artefacts, such as drawings and prototypes as media in the design
process
* The nature of informal and formal communication in the design process
* Understanding and supporting information requirements of a design engineer
* Understanding and supporting communication of remote and co-located teams

Workshop format:
Emphasis will be on exchange of promising ideas, rather than showcasing
finished work. Accordingly, presentations by participants on the basis of
their submissions are intended to be short with contributors making
statements, proposing ideas and research questions and perhaps tentative
results, leaving ample room for discussion.

The workshop will conclude with a thought-exercise of various combinations
of the words design and communication by the chairs. This is intended to
encourage participants to position their research as well as perhaps
stimulate questioning that very attempt given the ever-changing nature of
the work environment of a design engineer.

Submission information:
Papers up to 4 pages, using the DCC template, will be accepted for
presentation based on the reviews of the program committee. Accepted
submissions will be collated as workshop proceedings. The DCC template is
at:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/

The papers should include
a) your current focus area and research questions within design
communication and
b) a statement describing your disciplinary angle(s) and nature of research
(e.g. empirical, conceptual, theoretical, or speculative).

Please submit your paper to the workshop chair as a PDF file. The paper
format is available as PDF and RTF files. Papers and inquiries should be
emailed to the workshop chair at the following address:

Anja Maier, Department of Management Engineering, amai@man.dtu.dk

The workshop chairs are co-editing an AIEDAM special issue on Studying and
Supporting Design Communication.

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*** CIRP CONFERENCE ON LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING (LCE) 2011 & CIRP CONFERENCE
ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS (IPS²) 2011 ***
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The CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering 2011 (the 18th in this series)
will be held on May 02-04, 2011 in Braunschweig, Germany. In conjunction
with this conference the CIRP Conference on Industrial Product Service
Systems 2011 (the 3rd in this series) will be held on May 05-06, 2011 in
Braunschweig, Germany as well. Authors wishing to submit papers are asked to
send an abstract (maximum 300 words) by September 10th, 2010. Full paper
submissions are due by November 15th, 2010.

For further information visit http://www.lce2011.de or
http://www.ips2-2011.de Conference secretariat: info@lce2011.de or
info@ips2-2011.de

Chris McMahon
8 May 2010

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