2018 Themes / Submissions

2018 themes: design for health?

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners across the areas of design and health in order to develop new dialogues and offer different perspectives. Given that our focus is very much on designing with people, we encourage submissions from individuals using services and products, and the sharing of real-life experiences.

With increasing pressure to rethink our healthcare systems and set against complex and interconnected global challenges, we particularly welcome contributions that interrogate meanings and assumptions relating to the terms ‘design’ and ‘health’, and offer the following words / terms as provocations:

Design?           Health?           Care?

Taboo?            Value?             Success?

Risk?                Technology?    Change?

Submissions

There are three submission types in Design4Health2018:

Paper presentations

These should aim to give a brief summary of a piece of research or a project, either completed or still in progress. These may be from the perspective of researchers or of participants in the research.

Initial submission: Abstracts for submissions of this kind should be a maximum of 300 words (including all text) and may include up to 3 images. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts will submit full papers before the conference.
Full papers: Full papers of 3000 words should describe the work in more depth, and may be accompanied by up to 7 images.

Artefact-led presentations

Recognizing that healthcare and the lived experiences of illness are enacted and shaped through everyday objects (instruments, devices, dress, furniture), we offer an opportunity for presenters to use these (actual or photographs) as the basis of their presentation. The object / artefact may be the outcome of the research (a resulting product or design), the method (the practice through which the research was undertaken) or be the stimulus for the research (reflecting a real-world challenge).

Initial submission: 1 PDF document of maximum 3 pages A4 landscape, including a maximum of 300 words (including all text e.g. title, captions). The text can be incorporated with the images for a more visual format. See the Call for Papers for full details. Proposals will be peer reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit visual essays before the conference.
Visual Essays should be no more than 1000 words and use a template to be provided.

Posters

Poster submissions are invited in the form of a brief (150 word) abstract plus an A4 or A3 text / visual representation of your work in pdf format.  On acceptance, presenters are requested to produce a visually engaging poster using a template which will be provided. The finished poster should not contain extensive amounts of detailed text but may provide further detail through links and/or associated A4 or A5 handouts. Templates and guidance relating to the posters will be provided on the conference website. If accepted, you will be allocated time to present your poster at specified times during the conference.

General information on submissions

All submissions will be reviewed by a peer review panel.

All papers for the conference should adhere to the style guide outlined in the Call for Papers.

Accepted papers and essays will be published in the online conference proceedings of Design4Health (with ISBN).

Selected authors will be invited to submit extended papers for consideration for the Design for Health Journal (Taylor & Francis).

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