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Special Issue on
Participatory Design meets Artificial
Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies
and designing with AI tools
Call for Papers ->
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to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
https://ixdea.org/
https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000
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Guest Editors:
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• Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway
• Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway
• Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway
• Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway
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Important dates:
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• Deadline:
September 10th, 2025
• Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025
• Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026
• Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively)
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Overview
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Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD)
obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of
considerable social significance—in healthcare, education,
employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate
safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same
time, there is a growing interest in using participatory
approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI
systems across industries, academia and the public sector.
Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools
for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the
design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to
collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a
better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for
co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI
solutions.
Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer
technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to
impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to
work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to
workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD
approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential
for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up
for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology
during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI
and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or
co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively
envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and
its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue
that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to
negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized
societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to
navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology,
evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use”
and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose
participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action
that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders
to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality.
As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our
proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and
professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD
and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and
co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a
workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this
special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions
from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the
discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged
in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute
with and share their own visions.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited to:
• Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and
explainable AI solutions.
• Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI.
• Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions
• Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI
tools.
• Combinations of the above.
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Submission guidelines and procedure
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All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be
original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in
.rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two
reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-30 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A
authors' guidelines
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https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/
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Authors' guidelines
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Paper submission page:
->
link
(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page.
When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
"SI: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence")
More information on the submission procedure and on
the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the
IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility
of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.
For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A
scientific editor marking the subject as:
SI: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence
• susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no
• klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no
• joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no
• tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no
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