ServDes

Want to plan your visit to ServDes? The full schedule and programme are now both available online:

Thank you to everyone who registered in the past few months. We’re really looking forward to seeing you all at the conference! Got any questions for us? Contact us on twitter – #servdes14.

We have finally the conference draft programme available online with all the abstracts of the selected papers and workshops. We hope you will like the mix!

The early bird deadline for booking has been extended until February 25th to allow you to look at the programme (which will be available in the next week or two) before booking.

After reading all 182 reviews, the conference team have finally selected the papers for ServDes2014. Overall, we accepted 34 long papers, 15 short papers and 11 workshop proposals. The team were highly impressed with the overall quality of the reviews; also the quality of papers submitted has considerably improved from previous conference editions. In essence, […]

ServDes 2014 submission is now closed. We have more than 90 papers from authors of many nationalities spanning Asia, America, Europe and Scandinavia. We also have 13 workshops. Our 50+ reviewers will now be considering them so that a final selection can be made for an exciting conference programme.

You can now view the ServDes 2012 papers in the archive by following the link to the 2012 conference and clicking on proceedings.

The deadline for submission of papers has been extended until Friday 15th November

Pam Hearne has joined the ServDes 2014 team as the Conference Operations Manager. Based at Lancaster University she will be working on Tuesdays and Thursdays and can be contacted via the info@servdes.org e-mail.

ServDes2014 conference is approaching and more detailed planning is happening! The Conference Organizers have started to create a blueprint of the conference preparation and development from now until the event. We have created a blueprint that we are going to update and develop to create a more accurate action plan. The Conference Committee are looking forward to our conference operations […]

Dominic Campbell is a digital government specialist and social innovator with a background in government policy, communications and technology-led change. He is an experienced organisational change agent with senior management experience in implementing successful change initiatives within the local government sector, with a primary interest in emerging uses of new media, design and “social” strategies to […]

Pelle Ehn, is professor at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. He has for four decades (!) been involved in the research field of participatory design and in bridging design and information technology. Research projects include DEMOS from the seventies on information technology and work place democracy, UTOPIA from the eighties on […]