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DEADLINE EXTENSION -> October 8th 2025 (new
hard deadline)
Special Issue on
Participatory Design meets Artificial
Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies
and designing with AI tools
Call for Papers -> link
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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• Extended Deadline: October 8th, 2025
• Notification to the authors: December 20th, 2025
• Camera ready paper: January 15th, 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
->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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