Dear academics, researchers and colleagues,

The deadline has been extended until 30/8

WS13: Human Work Interaction Design for Pervasive and Smart Workplaces

Pedro F. Campos, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute; Arminda Lopes,
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute and Escola Superior de
Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco; Torkil Clemmensen,
Copenhagen Business School; Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London

27 October 2014, Helsinki, Finland
Workshop website <https://sites.google.com/site/hwid2014>

*Workshop in short*

Pervasive and smart technologies have pushed workplace configuration beyond
linear logic and physical boundaries. As a result, workers’ experience is
increasingly pervasive, and their agency constantly reconfigured. While
this in certain areas of work is not new (e.g., technology mediation and
decision support in air traffic control), more recent developments in other
domains such as healthcare (e.g., Augmented Reality in Computer Aided
Surgery) have raised challenging issues for HCI researchers and
practitioners. The question now is: how to improve the quality of workers’
experience and outputs?

This workshop focuses on answering this question to support professionals,
academia, national labs, and industry engaged in human work analysis and
interaction design for the workplace. Conversely, tools, procedures, and
professional competences for designing human-centered technologies for
pervasive and smart workplaces will be discussed.

Objectives:

This workshop’s overall objective is to provide the HCI field with sound
tools, procedures, and professional competencies for designing
human-centered technologies for pervasive and smart workplaces. This
includes the following objectives:

   - Learning from participants’ experiences in different work domains when
   applying work analysis to support the interaction design of pervasive and
   smart workplaces;
   - Exploring how work analysis and interaction design have evolved, have
   to evolve, and can be made to co-evolve in order to support workers in
   pervasive and smart workplaces;
   - Identify novel ideas, principles, and techniques for how interaction
   design for pervasive and smart workplaces can ensure high quality usability
   and user experience for workers.
   - Addressing the sociotechnical gap in work analysis and interaction
   design, specifically the little understood gap between social requirements
   and technical designs. We know that artifacts such as requirements analysis
   reports, design models, or prototypes help bridge the gap, but we do not
   know if, how, and why this helps;
   - Designing simple interactions for complex work domains. How to be
   heedful of other agents’ intentions and plan, and how to align one’s own
   with those of others and with technologies in simple ways within complex
   work domains? Display and monitoring are traditional activities to support
   coordination, but this is not enough, and we need to know more about to
   humans can manage the workers’ user experiences in pervasive and smart work
   places.

Schedules:

   - August 30th 2014 Submissions for position papers (23:59 GMT) Extended
   - October 27th 2014: Workshop day (9-17)

The detailed schedule of the workshop day and the attendees’ presentations
will be updated later.

Position paper submission:

Please submit a position paper of 2-6 pages in length (ACM Extended
Abstract Format,http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform), addressing
the research questions or themes of the workshop. The paper should
contribute directly or indirectly to at least one of the workshop
objectives.

The papers are non-anonymized and will be reviewed by at least two program
committee members and/or organizers.

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Workshop website <https://sites.google.com/site/hwid2014>


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