Dear all,

I'm sending a reminder since less than a month left for submitting to the
FICTIONAL, SPECULATIVE
AND CRITICAL FUTURES TRACK at Academic Mindtrek 2023 in Tampere, Finland
which is chaired by Jeffrey Bardzell, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Ahmet
Börütecene and Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk.

Find the call for papers below.



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DEADLINE: June 8, 2023, 23:59 (AoE)



INDICATION OF INTEREST FORM: https://forms.gle/YhmHiCLSECAwbgzF7



With recent rapid developments in human-computer interaction, we are now
facing emerging technologies which will have major impacts on humanity,
potentially dramatically altering our ways of living. Technologies that
once were the domain of science fiction, such as brain-machine interfaces,
body augmentations, mind upload, the habitation of space and robotic
companions, are now here, or on the proximate horizon. These emerging
technologies promise exciting opportunities for humankind, but they come
with many challenges and might lead to massive societal, cultural and
individual paradigm shifts. Understanding the impacts of these emerging
technologies is remarkably challenging with conventional HCI methods such
as user tests, interviews or quantitative analysis. Because these
technologies are still emerging it is not possible to directly observe
their impacts on society.



Design Fiction, Speculative Design or Critical Design have emerged as
methods to explore possible futures and grapple with social, cultural,
political and environmental challenges of emerging technologies. These
methods create fictional and speculative worlds oriented around proximate
futures of technology allowing researchers to contemplate the consequences
and possibilities of new technologies. Speculative methods allow us to
better understand the opportunities, pitfalls, and dangers of new
technologies, and discuss what futures we want. Speculative and critical
methods help us to think rigorously and systematically about possible
futures, but also playfully. Therefore, our aim with this track is to
create a venue for research projects which adopt less conventional methods
including design fiction, pastiche scenarios, speculative research or
critical design and in the long term become a frontier publication avenue
for such research projects.



All papers that will be submitted to this track should have relevance to
methods such as design fiction, speculative or critical design. Thus,
although submissions may include a variety of methods, they MUST include a
section that critically engages with the related research by methods,
approaches and tools such as fictional abstracts, fictional prototypes,
speculative design proposals, diegetic prototypes, experiential futures, or
pastiche scenarios. Accordingly, we do not have a clear boundary on the
topics we accept, however, to give an example, some of the topics that are
of relevance to this track include:



-             Body-integrated Technologies

-             Brain-Computer Interfaces

-             Techno-Spiritual Studies

-             Alternative Forms/Conceptions of Intelligence

-             Afrofuturism, Black Futuring, Feminist Science Fiction

-             Indigenous Futurism

-             Posthuman Subjectivities

-             Dystopia and Utopia Studies

-             Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Ability in Imagined
Futures

-             Altered States of Consciousness

-             Transhuman and Posthuman Technologies

-             Robotic Agents & Artificial Intelligence

-             Habitation of Space

-             Solarpunk, Steampunk, Cyberpunk



If you are unfamiliar with the methods mentioned in this track but still
would like to submit your research, we recommend a few readings that can
lead to a successful submission to this track. Moreover, these methods can
help researchers to form novel perspectives to engage with their topics.
Therefore, we expect submissions from all fields and encourage authors to
engage with the fictitious, speculative and critical design methods.

If you have questions, please contact [log in to unmask]



-- IMPORTANT DATES (all in 23:59 AoE)

Deadline for Full Paper and Workshop Submissions: June 8, 2023

Notification of Acceptance for Full Papers and Workshops: August 10, 2023

Deadline for Poster and Demonstration Submissions: August 17, 2023

Notification of Acceptance for Posters and Demonstrations: August 26, 2023

Camera-Ready Deadline for All Submissions: September 5, 2023

Conference Dates: October 3-6, 2023





--SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All full-paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and anonymous. Therefore,
please remove any information that could give an indication of the
authorship. The papers should contain 8-16 pages in the single-column ACM
template, excluding the list of references.



We also accept workshop submissions (4-6 pages, deadline: June 8), poster
and demonstration submissions (4-6 pages, deadline: August 17). Please see
the full Call for Papers for details: https://bit.ly/mindtrek2023cfp



Please use the templates provided on the style guidelines site. A template
for Word documents and LaTeX guidelines can be found on
https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions.



Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all
authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. The copyright form would be
sent through an automated system only for accepted papers





-- CONTACT AND STAY INFORMED



We would be very happy if you can fill this notification of interest form
if you plan to submit: https://forms.gle/YhmHiCLSECAwbgzF7



More details about the other full-paper tracks and submission types please
visit the Academic Mindtrek 2023 website:
https://www.mindtrek.org/2023/academic-2023/





-- TRACK CHAIRS

Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk, Tampere University, [log in to unmask]

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design,
[log in to unmask]

Ahmet Börütecene, Linköping University, [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey Bardzell, Penn State University, [log in to unmask]





-- READINGS:

Blythe, M. (2014, April). Research through design fiction: narrative in
real and imaginary abstracts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on
human factors in computing systems (pp. 703-712).



Baumer, E. P., Blythe, M., & Tanenbaum, T. J. (2020, July). Evaluating
Design Fiction: The Right Tool for the Job. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1901-1913).



Tanenbaum, T. J., Tanenbaum, K., & Wakkary, R. (2012, May). Steampunk as
design fiction. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (pp. 1583-1592).



Bardzell, J., & Bardzell, S. (2013, April). What is" critical" about
critical design?. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors
in computing systems (pp. 3297-3306).



Muller, M., Bardzell, J., Cheon, E., Su, N. M., Baumer, E. P., Fiesler, C.,
... & Blythe, M. (2020, April). Understanding the past, present, and future
of design fictions. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8).



Lindtner, S., Bardzell, S., & Bardzell, J. (2016, May). Reconstituting the
utopian vision of making: HCI after technosolutionism. In Proceedings of
the 2016 chi conference on human factors in computing systems (pp.
1390-1402).



Sturdee, M., Coulton, P., Lindley, J. G., Stead, M., Ali, H., &
Hudson-Smith, A. (2016, May). Design fiction: How to build a Voight-Kampff
machine. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on
Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 375-386).



Noortman, R., Schulte, B. F., Marshall, P., Bakker, S., & Cox, A. L. (2019,
May). HawkEye-Deploying a Design Fiction Probe. In Proceedings of the 2019
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14).



Baumer, E. P., Ahn, J., Bie, M., Bonsignore, E. M., Börütecene, A., Buruk,
O. T., ... & Guha, M. L. (2014). CHI 2039: speculative research visions. In
CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp.
761-770).



Buruk, O. O., Özcan, O., Baykal, G. E., Göksun, T., Acar, S., Akduman, G.,
... & Genç, H. U. (2020, April). Children in 2077: Designing Children's
Technologies in the Age of Transhumanism. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14).



Börütecene, A., & Buruk, O. (2019, November). Otherworld: Ouija Board as a
Resource for Design. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium
2019 (pp. 1-4). (pp. 1-12).

Thibault, M., Buruk, O. O., Buruk, S. S., & Hamari, J. (2020, July).
Transurbanism: Smart Cities for Transhumans. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1915-1928).



Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and
social dreaming. MIT press.



Lawson, S., Kirman, B., Linehan, C., Feltwell, T., & Hopkins, L. (2015,
April). Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the
case of quantified cats and dogs. In Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM
conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 2663-2672).



Börütecene, A., & Buruk, O, O. (2022, February). The spirit of scientific
communication. Retrieved from
https://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/spirit-of-scientific-communication.



Sandjar Kozubaev, Chris Elsden, Noura Howell, Marie Louise Juul
Søndergaard, Nick Merrill, Britta Schulte, and Richmond Y. Wong. 2020.
Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring. In Proceedings of the
2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376526



Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard and Lone Koefoed Hansen. 2018. Intimate
Futures: Staying with the Trouble of Digital Personal Assistants through
Design Fiction. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems
Conference (DIS '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY,
USA, 869–880. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196766



Noura Howell, Britta F. Schulte, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Rocío Fatás Arana,
Sumita Sharma, and Grace Eden. 2021. Calling for a Plurality of
Perspectives on Design Futuring: An Un-Manifesto. In Extended Abstracts of
the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '21).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3450364



Christina N. Harrington, Shamika Klassen, and Yolanda A. Rankin. 2022. "All
that You Touch, You Change": Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design
Towards Black Futuring. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing
Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 450, 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502118



Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, and Lone Koefoed Hansen. 2015. Immodest
Proposals: Research Through Design and Knowledge. In Proceedings of the
33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2093–2102.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702400


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