The 2nd International Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS 2010) took successfully place in Aarhus on August 17. We thank all participants for the interesting presentations and lively discussions.
The workshop proceedings are published as volume 7 issue 2 of the International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) (ISSN 1861-4280).
9:00 Opening Session
9:45 Session I: Talks
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session II: Group Work & Discussions
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Session III: Talks
13:45 Session IV: Group Work & Discussions
14:40 Session V: Talk
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Session VI: Talk
15:50 Session VII: Group Work & Discussions
16:45 Closing Session
17:00 End of Workshop
Active user communities can have an enormous creative potential for the development of interactive products. This becomes particularly obvious by recent achievements in the areas of digital and social media. Some examples for new forms of design collaboration are websites for customer-company exchange such as Get Satisfaction and RedesignMe or the appropriation of social networking platforms such as Facebook or MySpace to support user-designer communities. Examples are also the myriads of mashups, apps, and plugins that have been built by user communities in order to enrich the interactive experience with digital products and that sometimes even become inherent parts of the products themselves.
However, empowering user communities to engage in the development and evolution of interactive products and environments is usually a complex task that requires a deep understanding of the underlying socio-technical processes and interaction principles. Open Design Spaces address this challenge and frame the growing research in this area. Open Design Spaces (ODS) are environments for co-creation that encourage a continuous dialog between users and developers with the goal of transforming the traditionally separated spheres of design and use. User communities are regarded as co-designers who carry different interests and cultural backgrounds into the development of interactive products.
The concept of Open Design Spaces is related to Participatory Design, Meta-Design, Living Labs, and End-User Development but in particular addresses social aspects of distributed and community-driven co-design in interactive environments. Open Design Spaces are characterized by transparency, ad-hoc collaboration, self-organization, social feedback, evolving ideas, and evolutionary development. The aims of Open Design Spaces are to foster the generation of novel ideas and the sharing of creative solutions to the benefit of the interactive product, its user community, and perceived experiences, having regard to the fact that participants are usually highly distributed and are sometimes even hard to anticipate in advance.
The workshop focuses specifically on the social aspects of Open Design Spaces. It addresses concepts and principles for successful co-design in online environments, the activation of large- and small-scale user communities and their integration in distributed design processes. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Full papers (8-12 pages), position papers (2-4 pages), tool demonstrations and case studies (2-4 pages) are equally welcome as workshop submissions. Contributions should be formatted according to the ECSCW template and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair. All accepted papers will be published as a volume of the International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) (ISSN 1861-4280) after the workshop.
Organizers:
Program Committee:
Please direct all emails to:
ods-organizer[at]open-design-spaces.de
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