INNOVATION 2009 - Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation

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Category INNOVATION 2009

Deadline: June 15, 2009 | Date: September 15, 2009

Venue/Country: Dagstuhl, Germany

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

September 15-18, 2009

Schloss Dagstuhl

Saarland University, Germany

http://cosy.ted.unipi.gr/idSpace_Workshop_Dagstuhl/

Scope

Innovative design is characterised by an intense, collaborative process

of generating and exploring ideas meant to contribute to the solution of

particular problems. Innovators go through cycles of divergence, in

which new ideas are generated and explored, and convergence, in which

new ideas are valued and detailed. These cycles rely on knowledge

elicitation and knowledge sharing. Innovators need appropriate methods

and supportive tools to generate ideas, reuse them, take them apart,

criticise them, or even reject them.

To move the discussion on the validation and dissemination of useful

methods and tools for innovative design a step ahead, a workshop will be

organised that seeks to bring together experts from R&D groups that work

in the area of distributed collaborative product innovation. The

workshop aims to tackle the topic of distributed collaborative product

innovation from a variety of vantage points, from pedagogical to

business sciences, from theoretical underpinnings to practical effects,

etc. More specifically, participants of the workshop may:

?concentrate on the methods and strategies that help distributed group

members collaborate for developing innovative products (e.g. SCAMPER,

Six Hats, Jigsaw)

?analyse the functionality of tools for supporting the distributed

collaborative product innovation process; hese tools could be

appropriate for specific domains, such as the aerospace industry, or for

specific devices; attention should be given to whether and how the

functionality of tools from a specific æ??ontext?can be re-used in

another context

?identify sound theoretical foundations for collaborative product

innovation processes, by looking at research in related disciplines,

e.g., psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, or communication

sciences; they should address the question of how known æ??atterns?in

human behaviours, as well as cognitive principles and guidelines of

interaction design, can be interpreted and formulated in terms of

recommendations for designers of appropriate tools/systems.

Topics

Parties interested in participating in the workshop are invited to

submit a paper with theoretical and practical ideas of how to better

support the distributed collaborative product innovation process.

Papers should address one or more of the following relevant topics:

?Methods and strategies for fostering collaborative product innovation

?Tools and groupware systems that support collaborative product

innovation process

?Case studies or experiences from the use of methods, strategies and

tools in the domain of collaborative product innovation

?Cognitive foundations of collaborative product innovation

?Interaction design patterns for specific user needs and æ??ontexts?

(i.e., devices or situations of use) in the domain of collaborative

product innovation

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the international program

committee in order to decide on acceptance. Acceptance of a paper is

also contingent upon the author抯 willingness to present his or her

paper at workshop in person in order to guarantee a fruitful and

challenging discussion.

Accepted papers will be published in a special volume of the workshop

proceedings. The workshop organizers are in contact with international

publishing houses to create an edited book based on the workshop

outcomes (soon to be announced).

Important Dates

submission Deadline: June 15, 2009.

Papers should be submitted to unipi.gr>.

Papers should be maximum 6 pages long and formatted according to LNCS

format (templates can be found at Springer-Verlag LNCS Authors?

Instructions).

otification of acceptance: July 6, 2009

inal camera ready versions due: July 20, 2009

workshop: September 16 - 18, 2009. Delegates arrival is foreseen on

Wednesday September 15th, departure either in the afternoon of Friday

18th or in the morning of Saturday 19th.

Venue

?Schloss Dagstuhl is located in a rural part of Germany, close to Trier

in the south-west of Germany. It offers a stimulating environment for

intense and fruitful collaboration. Dagstuhl can be reached from the

airports of Frankfurt and Luxemburg [http://www.dagstuhl.de/]. From the

website: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics (German:

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH) is the world's

premier venue for informatics. It enables the international elite,

promising young researchers and practicians alike to gather together to

discuss their views and research findings.

Organisers

?Prof. dr. Peter B. Sloep, Programme Director Research & Development

Technology Enhanced Learning at the Centre for Learning Sciences and

Technologies of the Open University of the Netherlands.

?Dr. Symeon Retalis, Assistant professor at the University of Piraeus

The workshop is organised as part of the idSpace project on Tooling and

Training for collaborative product innovation

[http://idspace-project.org]. It is funded in part by the European

Commission FP7-IST-2007-1-41, project number 216799. The idSpace project

designs, builds and pilots a web-based environment which, ultimately,

will offer an integrated suite of knowledge eliciting and sharing tools,

and create a collective, sharable memory of the entire design process.

It should form the substrate for the emergence of a productive and

lasting community of practice and learning that will maximally foster

innovation

Programme committee

?Dr. M.E. Bitter-Rijpkema, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

?Dr. Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

?Prof. Dr. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain

?Prof. Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada

?Dr. Petros Georgiakakis, University of Piraeus, Greece

?Prof. Dr. Peter Goodyear, Co-Director of CoCo Research Centre,

University of Sydney, Australia

?Dr. Wolfgang Greller, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

?Prof. Dr. Markus Peschl, University of Vienna, Austria

?Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany

?Dr. Aimilia Tzanavari, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

?Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weinberg, Hasso-Plattner-Institute GmbH and

University of Potsdam, Germany