Call for Papers and Demos

The scope of the conference is the design of products, systems and services with a focus on the meanings conveyed by their forms and behaviors. After four successful workshops in the Europe, DeSForM 2009 comes to Asia and creates an international platform where researchers and practitioners across different cultures can share findings and insights about the aesthetics and meanings of human-object interactions.

There will be room for 20 full paper and 20 demo proposals. Full papers are max 20 pages, demo proposals are max 5 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published both online and in print. Accepted demos will be exhibited on the conference site and in an online gallery.

Themes and Topics

DeSForM 2009 invites contributions fall within the following themes and topics:

  1. Methods and tools:
      * Active forms
      * Theatre and choreography
      * Sketching in space and time
      * Aesthetics and notation of motion
      * Editing and scripting of movements
  2. Theoretical developments:
      * Meaning and perception
      * Conditions of applicability
      * Ambient versus interactive movement
      * Structuring mechanisms and linguistics
      * Gestalt theory and compositionality of meaning
  3. Practice-based research and case studies:
      * Using movement as a mediator
      * Appropriation of the everyday
      * Effects of context on meanings
      * New typologies and ecologies of objects
      * Dependencies between form and movement

Important Timeline of Submission:

  * Full Papers Due: May 1, 2009
  * Notification of Accepted Papers: August 1, 2009
  * Demo Proposals Due: August 15, 2009
  * Notification of Accepted Demo Proposals: September 1, 2009
  * Deadline for Final Version of Papers: September 15, 2009
  * Conference: October 26-27, 2009

Submit all manuscripts and proposals online at: www.desform.org/submissions

http://desform2009.dt.ntust.edu.tw/calls.html