LIMITS 2024

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 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 envision and submit research on Hypothetical Systems, i.e., proposals for hypothetical computing system or artifact (either software, hardware, or some combination) that embodies LIMITS thinking. Who would use this system? Who might benefit from engaging with the system? Who might be harmed? How are the premises (conceptual or concrete) upon which the system is built different from our current computing systems? How does the LIMITS-informed system enact a different world or ways of being in the world?

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

Paper submission deadline: March 29 April 2nd, 2024, 11:59pm AOE
Paper reviews available: April 26, 2024
Camera ready deadline: May 31, 2024
LIMITS Workshop: June 18-19, 2024

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.
• You achieve this by using

  samples/sample-sigconf.tex

  from the downloaded archive as a base for your paper, and modify the header as follows:

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  %% values in them; it is your responsibility as an author to replace
  %% the commands and values with those provided to you when you
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  \setcopyright{none}
  \settopmatter{printacmref=false}
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  %% These commands are for a PROCEEDINGS abstract or paper.
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  18--19, 2024}{Online}
                    

  You can further remove the CCS concepts from your submission by commenting out the CCSXML and \ccsdesc lines.
• 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.