DIS

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2014 or DIS'14. DIS is a biennial international conference that has long established itself as the venue to explore convergent, emergent, and innovative trends and ideas at the intersection of people, design, and technologies. In DIS'14 we highlight the idea that the design of interactive systems is entering a new socio-technical paradigm around the idea of craft. The theme of the conference is "Crafting Design". We see the confluence of phenomena that may constitute new approaches and new foci in HCI and interaction design.

We received 402 submissions from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. The program committee accepted 107 papers and notes that cover a range of topics relevant to the DIS community. This included work on craft and making, critical design, design practice, design methods, games and entertainment, health and wellness, sustainability, and the design of innovative systems. The technical program includes three parallel tracks with a total of 25 different paper sessions at the conference. For the first time DIS is featuring a new submission type called Pictorials, which are archival publications where authors are encouraged to express and unpack their design practices and processes in rich and primarily visual ways. In addition, the conference also features Provocations & Work-In-Progress papers, Demonstrations, Workshops, and Doctoral Consortium papers.

We also encourage attendees to attend the keynote and invited talk presentations that provide valuable insights and perspectives on our research and practice:

• Opening Plenary: On Icarus' Wings: Craftsmanship and The Art of Living with Technology by Peter- Paul Verbeek, University of Twente

• Closing Plenary: CityStudio: Collaborative City Making by Janet Moore and Duane Elverum, CityStudio Vancouver

• Plenary Panel: Honoring Protocol: Design by, for and with Aboriginal Peoples organized by our Panel Chairs, Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, and Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia.