1AD: First International Conference on Appliance Design - Bristol

We are entering an era when a coherent approach to the design of new media, information appliances, and the systems they are embedded within, will become a paramount concern to the broadcasting, entertainment, computing and telecommunications industries, among others. To maximise the value of appliances, products from many vendors will need to work together harmoniously in the hands of the individual user in new and unexpected ways, requiring cross-industry collaboration to discover and realize that value.

A rich stream of advances in fundamental technology will open up new categories of products, and as many of the existing technologies become commoditized, so business opportunities will emerge from multidisciplinary innovation in usage, business models, services and brand. As a consequence, a new discipline of appliance design is required to blend all the perspectives of physical, functional, interactive, graphical, and information design.

The First International Conference on Appliance Design (1AD), is the first international forum for the discussion of the new design discipline that will reach across historical and discipline boundaries. The aim of 1AD is to encourage a dialogue between disciplines – including product and industrial design, information design, interaction design, technology innovation and research in human-centered studies – which will help those traditional disciplines re-establish themselves in the new context, and so drive forward the an industry where users will increasingly assert their demand for products that fit into their daily lifestyles.

Contributions
Researchers, designers and strategists in appliance design and contributing design, marketing and technology disciplines are encouraged to submit contributions to 1AD.

We recognise that contributions from designers may take the form of concept designs, prototypes or works-in-progress, and that contributions from academic researchers may take the form of working systems or more traditional research papers.

Contributions of all types will be subject to international independent peer-review, and the final programme will assembled to feature the most outstanding international submissions. Contributions will be published in a variety of forms: by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, in the international journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and in a special issue of Appliance Design, which will also form the conference handbook. Subscriptions to both of these journals are included with conference registration.

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