Timeline

• Submission of Abstracts: 16th May 2008
• Advice on feasibility of abstracts: 13th June 2008
• Submission of Full Papers: 1st August 2008
• Notification of Accepted Papers: 15th September 2008
• Deadline for Inclusion in Proceedings: 3rd October 2008
• Deadline for Registration: 30th October 2008
• Workshop: 6th & 7th November 2008

Program

Thursday, November 6th

11.00 Registration (please bring registration fee in cash).

12.00 Informal lunch (drinks & snacks)

Welcome and Opening
13.00 – 13.30
Bernd Kracke, President, HfG Offenbach
Peter Eckart, Dean Product Design Dept., HfG Offenbach
Steven Kyffin, Philips Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Martina Hessler, Product Design faculty, HfG Offenbach

Plenary Lecture
Chair: Martina Heßler
13.30 – 14.15
Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Of Signs and Things. Some Reflections on Meaning, Mediation and Morality

14.15 – 14.30 Coffee break

Poster & Demo Presentation
Chair: Steven Kyffin
14.30 – 15.00
Tom Djajadiningrat, Philips Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands
MindSpheres

Paper Presentations
Chair: Steven Kyffin

15.00 – 15.30
Stella Böß, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Meaning in product use: which terms do designers use in their work?

15.30 – 16.00
Rebecca Lawson / Ian Storer, Loughborough Universtiy, United Kingdom
“Styling-In” Semantics

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break

Excursion
16.15 Departure
Braun collection, Kronberg im Taunus

20.00 Dinner: Hafen 2, Offenbach


Friday, November 7th

Plenary Lecture
Chair: Frank Zebner
9. 00 – 9.45
Klemens Rossnagel, Audi Group Design, Munich, Germany
Beyond the Product

9.45 – 10.15 Coffee break

Paper Presentations
Chair: Frank Zebner

10.15 – 10.45
Marina-Elena Wachs, Höpers Kamp 08, 21614 Buxtehude, Germany
Material Codes and Material Narration

10.45 – 11.15
David Teubner, California State University, Long Beach, USA
Form Generation through Styling Cue Synthesis

11.15 – 11.45
Melanie Kurz, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
On the benefit of moving images for the evaluation of form in virtual space. Reflections in model theory

11.45 – 12.00 Coffee break

Paper Presentations
Chair: Robert Young

12.00 – 12.30
Myriam Guedey, HfG Offenbach, Germany
Artful Systems – an aesthetic approach to interaction design in HCI

12.30 – 13.00
Shang-Feng Yang / Yung-Chin Tsao, University of Tatung, Taipei, Taiwan
Image Cognition and Preference Study Pertinent to Interactive Design of Public Art

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch break at the HfG Cafete

Paper Presentations
Chair: Loe Feijs

14.15 – 14.45
Christine Kiefer, North Carolina State University, USA
The Effect of Worldview and Culture on Industrial Design

14.45 – 15.15
Ching-Chih Liao / Yung-Chin Tsao, University of Tatung, Taipei, Taiwan
Research on the Characteristics of Regional Culture and Transformational Design

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break

Paper Presentations
Chair: Georg-Christof Bertsch

15.45 – 16.15
Kai Rosenstein, Zürcher Hochschule für Gestaltung, Switzerland
Event, ceremony and trash. About the production and avoidance of semiotic pollution by design

16.15 – 16.45
Thilo Schwer, Institut für Kunst- und Design-
wissenschaften, Universität Duisburg Essen, Germany
Black box consumption?

16.45 – 17.00 Coffee break

Plenary Lecture
Chair: Steven Kyffin
17.00 – 18.00
Klaus Krippendorff, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Diversity of Meanings of Cultural Artifacts and Human-Centered Design

18.00 Farewell, Announcement of the next DeSForM Workshop