Time, Temporality, & Slowness: Future Directions for Design Research
Workshop at ACM Designing Interactive Systems in Hong Kong | June 10 2018
IMPORTANT DATES
• May 5 , 2018: submissions due
• May 8, 2018: participants notified
• June 10, 2018: Workshop held in Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design
Submissions may be sent via email to workshop organizers at: [log in to unmask]
Workshop Website: https://willodom.com/time_temporality_slowness/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Temporality—the state of existing within time—shapes virtually all aspects of how we experience and construct the world around us. Time touches on many core aspects of research and practice in the design and HCI communities. Interaction and graphical user interfaces are fundamentally temporal; time is the medium through which an interactive dialogue between a human and computer begins, unfolds, and resolves. As focus in HCI expanded outside of the workplace and into the many contexts of everyday life, the need to develop a multiplicity and diversity of ways to engage with and inquire into time, temporality, and slowness have steadily emerged.
We invite researchers and practitioners in HCI and design investigating time, temporality, and/or slowness in their work to participate in a hands-on workshop at DIS 2018. The core goals of this one-day workshop are to (i) bring together researchers and practitioners to critically reflect on conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practice-based insights and issues that have emerged through our respective works and (ii) to develop an agenda for future HCI work on temporality, time, and slowness that reflects the diversity and needs of research and practitioners working in this space. A broader goal beyond this workshop is to strengthen and sustain an international network of HCI researchers and practitioners investigating topics of time, temporality, and slowness. Possible workshop themes for submissions include, but are certainly not limited to:
*Process and insights into practice– What kinds of concepts, methods, and/or approaches have productively supported designers and researchers in making new artifacts, technologies, or systems that deviate from enacting normative conceptions of time? How is the ‘long-term’ conceptualized and attended to in the design process? What are the practical, ethical, and/or moral issues of creating systems intended to outlive (and be maintained) beyond the lives of those that design them?
*Social or cultural constructions of time – What are appropriate and viable ways of studying how time is socially or culturally constructed? How can such insights be incorporated into the design of new technologies? What tensions are potentially entangled with pursing these research initiatives?
*Expressions, representations, and materiality of time – How are alternative representations of time and temporal expressions manifested through the design of new artifact, technologies, or systems? What are the relations (and possible tensions) among time, speed, and pacing in these examples? How do the material aspects of a design artifact shape the experience of interacting and living with it over time?
*Methodological matters – What kinds of methods, tactics, and approaches are needed to study and/or design technologies that embody alternative temporal forms? Where have methodological or practical struggles emerged and how have they been addressed? What is the biggest challenge to researching and designing for time and temporality?
Interested participants are invited to submit a temporal artifact to this workshop. We use the term temporal artifact to cover a wide range of topic and outcomes of research related to time, temporality, and slowness (e.g., (auto)ethnographic account, design artifact or system, digital artwork, critical essay, speculative design workbook, etc.). This should include a position paper in DIS extended abstract format (maximum 4 pages) describing the temporal artifact, and digital documentation of the artifact itself (e.g., image, video, website, software application). This written portion consists of a short, 1-4 page submission formatted using the ACM SIGCHI 2018 extended abstracts format template that responds to our overarching goal to develop concise, concrete examples of outcomes and struggles of conducting temporal HCI research. In addition, participants are asked to submit a brief (200 word) personal biography. Submissions will be accepted based on quality and interest and will represent a spectrum of practices, materials, backgrounds, and concerns.
Submissions may be sent via email to workshop organizers at: [log in to unmask]
At least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the ACM DIS conference. Workshop outcomes will be communicated via our website, which will be maintained beyond the workshop itself, as well as through an edited special issue of a journal (e.g., TOCHI, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing) mapping contemporary issues and opportunities for HCI research engaging with time, temporality, and slowness. For more information, please visit our website: https://willodom.com/time_temporality_slowness/
ORGANIZERS
William Odom, Simon Fraser University
Sian Lindley, Microsoft Research
Larissa Pschetz, Edinburgh University
Vasiliki Tsaknaki, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Anna Vallgarda, ITU Copenhagen
Mikael Wiberg, Umea University
Daisy Yoo, University of Washington
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