[Announcements] Call for Position Papers - CHI 2018 Workshop on "Exploring Participatory Design Methods to Engage with Arab Communities"

[Mohamed Khamis]

CHI 2018 Workshop on "Exploring Participatory Design Methods to Engage 
with Arab Communities"


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Call for Papers

Looking forward to your submissions before 12 Feb.
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
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This one-day workshop will be organised as part of the ACM CHI 2018 
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Montréal, 
Canada between 21 and 26 April 2018 - https://chi2018.acm.org

Important Dates:
* Submission Deadline: 12 February 2018
* Final Notification: 22 February 2018
* Camera-Ready Deadline: 22 March 2018
* Workshop day: Sunday 22 April 2018

ArabHCI is an initiative inaugurated in CHI'17 SIG Meeting that brought 
together HCI researchers/practitioners from the Arab World with those 
who are conducting/interested in research in this context. The goal was 
to start a community that explores challenges and unique opportunities 
for future research in Arab countries and with Arab participants. This 
workshop focuses on one of the themes that derived our community 
discussions, the extent to which participatory approaches in the Arab 
context are culturally and methodologically challenged. We invite 
researchers/practitioners who had success or failure stories designing 
“with” Arab communities to share their experiences and learned lessons 
around applying participatory approaches. The workshop will result in 
developing a research agenda specific to HCI participatory methods in 
the Arab world. We suggest that submissions cover the following:

* Give sufficient background information about your participants; i.e. 
culture, traditions, recruitment, etc.
* Describe the design process including: the experienced cultural and 
contextual challenges, any innovative methods used
* Explain how you approached these challenges, what worked for you (or 
not) and any future recommendations

Submitted position papers must not exceed 4 pages in the CHI Extended 
Abstract Format (https://chi2018.acm.org/chi-proceedings-format 
<https://chi2018.acm.org/chi-proceedings-format/>). The submissions 
should be sent in PDF format to (arabhci at gmail.com 
<mailto:arabhci at gmail.com>) and without the CHI copyright statement on 
the first page. Position papers will be selected based on the 
contribution to the workshop theme, quality of presentation, and 
potential to stimulate discussion. Upon acceptance, at least one of the 
authors must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of 
the main conference.


Organizers:
Ebtisam Alabdulqader – Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK / College of 
Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University
Shaimaa Lazem – Informatics Research Institute, SRTA-city, Egypt
Mohamed Khamis – Ubiquitous Interactive Systems Group, LMU, Munich, Germany
Susan Dray – Dray & Associates, USA


For more information about the workshop programme and the invited 
panelists, please go to https://arabhci.org/2017/10/chi18-workshop 
<https://arabhci.org/2017/10/chi18-workshop/> or contact us at the email 
address above with any queries.

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