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Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Workshop at ACM CHI 2015 Conference, Seoul, Korea
Submission deadline: 5th January 2015
Notifications: 6th February 2015
Full details: http://www.skillsforwellbeing.org
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Exploring the potential of digital technology to support emotional
wellbeing has become an important research topic across HCI over the
last decade, motivated by the essential role that emotional wellbeing
plays in people’s health and quality of life. Maintaining and achieving
wellbeing requires a set of well-developed social and emotional skills,
and the possibility for personal growth and development. However, the
research on how digital technology can scaffold the learning of such
skills, or promote individuals’ self-development more generally, is
still in its early stages. This workshop aims to develop a richer
conceptual and practical understanding of this context, with the view to
support and shape agenda for future research.
We invite authors to submit 2-4 page position papers (in the ACM
Extended Abstract Format) describing research and design ideas as well
as strategies for supporting peoples’ wellbeing through the development
of personal and social skills.
We welcome submissions on subjects including, but not limited to:
- Descriptive and reflective accounts of research/designs supporting
personal and social skills development in the context of wellbeing;
- Analysis of strategies by which existing systems, perhaps implicitly,
support the learning of social and emotional skills;
- Position papers suggesting a well-argued research agenda for HCI in
this space, including novel connections to domains other than HCI.
We especially invite submissions considering work in one of the
following three topic areas:
(1) Social and emotional learning in primary/secondary education (as a
field with a long history of skills training for general and at-risk
populations);
(2) Facilitating development of skills for carers of people experiencing
irreversible loss of mental or physical capacity;
(3) Supporting skills training as part of therapeutic treatment,
particularly building on positive psychology.
Position papers should be submitted to our Easychair site (link via
http://www.skillsforwellbeing.org ). They will be reviewed by a
committee of experts in the aforementioned topics according to their
significance, quality of presentation, as well as their potential to
stimulate discussion. At least one author of each accepted submission
must register for the workshop and at least one day of the main
conference. For more information, please visit
http://www.skillsforwellbeing.org .
Organisers:
Petr Slovak, Vienna University of Technology
Greg Wadley, University of Melbourne
David Coyle, University of Bristol
Anja Thieme, Newcastle University
Naomi Yamashita, NTT Communication Science Labs
Reeva Lederman, University of Melbourne
Stefan Schutt, Victoria University
Mia Doces, Committee for Children
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Petr Slovak, PhD Candidate
HCI group, Vienna University of Technology
http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/index.php/people/petr-slovak
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