Call: Embarrassing Interactions: A CHI 2015 Workshop
No matter whether mobile devices, ubiquitous computing,
intercultural human-computer interaction (HCI), public interfaces, interactive
art, experimental games, social computing, or robots and virtual agents:
wherever new technologies disturb or merge situational norms and audiences,
embarrassment is likely. Thus, (fear of) embarrassment presents a fundamental
hurdle to adoption and engagement for any interactive system, but also a design
space for experimental interfaces.
This one-day workshop, co-located with CHI 2015 in Seoul,
convenes researchers, designers, and artists to share and advance the current
state of knowledge on embarrassment in HCI, and chart an agenda for future
work. We especially invite participants across cultures to enable
cross-cultural debate, and work that can be engaged with on site.
TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:
- Forms, causes, conditions, processes of embarrassment in HCI
- Cultural differences in embarrassment; embarrassment in intercultural HCI and interactive systems crossing cultures
- Design for reducing embarrassment as an undesired experience and hurdle to adoption and engagement
- Design for embarrassment as a desired experience in art, education, activism
SUBMISSION:
Interested authors should submit a 3-4 page position paper
in the CHI extended abstract format together with a 50-word biography to http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=embarassing15.
Practitioners can alternatively submit a presentation. We also invite
researchers, artists, and designers to submit works that relate to
embarrassment and can be engaged with during the workshop. The organizing
committee will review submissions and select up to 20 based on relevance,
quality, and diversity of inputs. Papers, presentations, work descriptions, and
biographies will be published on the workshop site. See
embarrassinginteractions.org for details.
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 2, 2015: Submission deadline
February 2, 2015: Notification of acceptance
April 18/19, 2015 (tbd.): Workshop
February 2, 2015: Notification of acceptance
April 18/19, 2015 (tbd.): Workshop
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Sebastian Deterding (contact), Adrian Cheok, Jussi
Holopainen, Andrés Lucero, Chulhong Min, Annika Waern, Steffen P. Walz
