ABOUT LIMITS 2023
The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world of limits*. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, we seek to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits in general, and climate- and climate justice-related limits in particular. LIMITS 2023 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
* For example, limits of extractive logics, limits to a biosphere’s ability to recover, limits to our knowledge, or limits to technological “solutions”.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are investigating and/or (re)designing computing systems that engage with pressing ecological and social issues. We also invite works that build on previous LIMITS work, such as provocations from earlier LIMITS gatherings (e.g., Unplanned Obsolescence, LIMITS 2017), that broadens the understanding of LIMITS (e.g., Age of Consequences, LIMITS 2015), that explores our own limits (e.g., Computing within Psychological Limits, LIMITS 2015), that explores strategies for working in a LIMITed world (e.g., Limits-aware computing, LIMITS 2015), or that design and/or build transitional systems (e.g., Solar-powered website, LIMITS 2021). Transitional systems attempt to (re) design, implement, and/or evaluate a real-world or hypothetical socio-technical computing system in response to “implications for design” raised by earlier LIMITS papers or LIMITS-related scholarship in the areas of computing and sustainability, computing and climate-justice.
We also encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify through their work. As Costanza-Chock reminds us, “Stories have power”. They ask us to consider, “(…) what stories are told about design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcomes? Who gets to tell these stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?” (Costanza-Chock 2020 p. 134)
KEY DATES
Abstract registration deadline: March 17, 2023, 11:59pm AOE
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2023, 11:59pm AOE
Paper reviews available: April 28, 2023
Camera ready deadline: May 26, 2023
LIMITS Workshop: June 14-15, 2023
In 2023, LIMITS will be a virtual, distributed workshop. We welcome participants to organize local gatherings or “LIMITS-hubs” that encourage community-building and sharing of infrastructure. Reach out to Jan Tobias Mühlberg (jan.tobias.muehlberg@ulb.be) if interested.
SUBMISSIONS
Register and submit papers at this site. (If you have any issues with the submission site, please email kheimerl@cs.washington.edu.)
Papers should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Papers should be in ACM double-column format, using the most recent template, but without ACM copyright information.
- The main body text should use 9pt font.
- The body of the paper should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages, with an unlimited number of pages allowed for references.
Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names.
All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website. Copyright will remain with the authors.
ORGANIZERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, christoph.becker@utoronto.ca
Roy Bendor, Delft University of Technology, r.bendor@tudelft.nl
Eli Blevis, Indiana University, eblevis@indiana.edu
Alan Borning, University of Washington, borning@cs.washington.edu
Miriam Börjesson Rivera, Uppsala University, miriam.borjesson.rivera@it.uu.se
Jay Chen, ICSI, jchen@icsi.berkeley.edu
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, tessy@dsv.su.se
Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, elina@kth.se (co-chair)
Shaddi Hasan, Virginia Tech, shaddi@vt.edu
Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington, kheimerl@cs.washington.edu (co-chair)
Jan Tobias Mühlberg, Université libre de Bruxelles, jan.tobias.muehlberg@ulb.be
Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia, lisa.nathan@ubc.ca (steering committee)
Vineet Pandey, MIT, vineetpa@mit.edu
Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, pargman@kth.se
Birgit Penzenstadler, University of Gothenburg, Chalmers, birgitp@chalmers.se
Barath Raghavan, USC, barath.raghavan@usc.edu (steering committee)
June Salou, Delft University of Technology, J.Sallou@tudelft.nl
