Call for Papers
2VT: Visions, Technologies, and Visions of Technologies for Understanding Human Scale Spaces
Part of the CHI 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
May 8-9, 2021
Online
https://crowdcomputing.net/2vt-workshop
Submission deadline: February 19, 2021
Interested in spatial experiences, urban environments, technology speculation, and HCI? We bring you a multi-disciplinary workshop to be held at CHI 2021 and we are looking for your submissions! Please find more info below.
DESCRIPTION
The workshop provides an international agora for practitioners from various backgrounds to exchange information, stimulate discussion, and explore issues that attend to human scale spaces in the smart city, explicit and implicit forms of play facilitated by the smart city, and the possibilities provided by new technologies.
Our main objectives are as follows:
- Multidisciplinary discussion to elucidate common cross-disciplinary and distinctive discipline-specific spatial features to build shared understanding on the actual lived, human scale spatial environment. We aim to arch understanding of attributes over disciplines and viewpoints, for example from forming new possibilities for play in smart cities or inspecting realism enhancing attributes needed in VR development into capturing the “digital soul of a space” in creative arts.
- Speculative design of future technologies, approaches, and methods enable the capture and collection of identified features in a machine-storable format. Such a format is needed for the features to be better usable as a building block in the context of HCI and digital solutions
- Sketch out a road map with short and long term objectives for future research of human scale spatial understanding and mapping out potential implications of such increased understanding of spatial experience for future disruptive technologies, such as XR, smart cities, Digital Twins, Smartphone Applications, crowdsourcing solutions, locative games etc.
At the end of the workshop, we will summarize our findings and design speculations on this website. Further, we plan to publish a joint article on the results from the workshop, in a relevant multidisciplinary journal.
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
For further reading, please see our workshop proposal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: February 19, 2021
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2021
Workshop Date: JST: 8 May 2200 – 9 May 0200 / EDT: 8 May 0900-1300 / CEST: 8 May 1500-1900
SUBMISSIONS
There are two types of submissions we encourage:
- a “traditional” paper providing a scientific contribution with empirical results, or
- a “reflection” to propose visions or concepts and to reflect on how human scale spatial experience affects technological or creative solutions.
More information on the submissions can be found at the workshop website: https://crowdcomputing.net/2vt-workshop
ORGANIZERS
Ville Paananen, University of Oulu
Piia Markkanen, University of Oulu
Jonas Oppenlaender, University of Oulu
Lik Hang Lee, KAIST; University of Oulu
Haider Ali Akmal, Lancaster University
Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, University College London
John Dunham, Rochester Institute of Technology
Konstantinos Papangelis, Rochester Institute of Technology
Nicholas James LaLone, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Niels van Berkel, Aalborg University; University College London
Jorge Goncalves, The University of Melbourne
Simo Hosio, University of Oulu