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 [email protected].)
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:
%% Rights management information. This information is sent to you
%% when you complete the rights form. These commands have SAMPLE
%% values in them; it is your responsibility as an author to replace
%% the commands and values with those provided to you when you
%% complete the rights form.
\setcopyright{none}
\settopmatter{printacmref=false}
\acmDOI{}
\acmISBN{}
%% These commands are for a PROCEEDINGS abstract or paper.
\acmConference[LIMITS '24]{Tenth Workshop on Computing within Limits}{June
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.
