Call for Papers

HabiTech: Inhabiting Buildings, Data & Technology.

A workshop at CHI2020. 26th of April 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA.

Submission deadline: February 11th, 2020 (CHI Extended Abstract format).

Contact & submission points: Ruth Dalton & Jakub Krukar.

We invite submissions for a one-day workshop to help define a new research area – the building-level counterpoint to digital civics - how do new technologies enable and empower the inhabitants of a multi- occupancy buildings? This workshop will gather interdisciplinary experts in HCI, design, architecture, data ethics, and cognitive science to reflect on the role of HCI in cultivating digital civics inside buildings. Papers should be 2-4 pages long in the CHI Extended Abstract format and may address any subjects related to the topic including but not limited to:

• Making the ongoing logging of user-behavior transparent, opt-in, and voluntary.
• Data interfaces embedded in architectural space.
• Encouraging the emergence of communities among building users.
• User-driven building design, building management, and facility maintenance.
• Ethics of building-based personal data.
• Maintaining data privacy inside buildings, including privacy-by-design.

Please see the table for a preliminary mapping of relevant concepts against those already established in digital civics. Submissions should refer to one or more of these concepts.

The due date for submissions is (on or before) February 11th, 2020.

The submission site can be found at answersonapostcardplease.com. Participants will be selected based on the quality and clarity of their submissions as they reflect the interests of the workshop. Participants notified of acceptance: (on or before) February 28th, 2020. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop, and all participants must register for both the workshop and at least one day of the conference. Participants will be selected based on their prior experience, expressed interest in the workshop and the quality of their submissions. We will focus on recruiting from a diverse group of participants.

Organizers: Ruth Dalton (University of Lancaster), Christoph Hölscher (ETH Zurich and Singapore-ETH Future Cities Laboratory), Jakub Krukar (University of Muenster), Nick Dalton (University of Northumbria), Mikael Wiberg (Umea University), Christian Veddeler (Architect, Amsterdam).

Digital Civics	HabiTech
The city	The building
Citizen	Building User
Citizenship	Building occupancy, residency, ‘usership’
Community	Do "building communities" exist or is it always about individual users? Who would constitute a "building community"? People who routinely share space/tasks?
Democratic engagement	Democratic engagement
Digital technologies	Digital technologies
Citizen-driven city design	User-driven building design
Ethics	Ethics
Citizen rights	Building user rights
Privacy in public space (e.g., right not to be tracked)	Privacy in buildings (e.g. right not to have one's access logs recorded?)
Equal rights to access and use public parts of the city	Equal rights to access and use public parts of the building?
Rights to healthy environments	Rights to (mentally?) healthy buildings
(Citizen) voice	(User or inhabitant’s) voice
Community-driven digital technologies	(Building) user-driven digital technologies
Community-driven digital services	(Building) user-driven digital services
Action	Building user action
City activism (offline: guerrilla gardening / digital: citizen-built public transit apps)	building activism (offline: flexibly self-rearranging space/furniture / digital: community building)
Civic potentials of digital life	Building user potentials of digital tools
volunteered geo-information	volunteered building-level information (sensors?), reporting of faults/building repairs
city data from sensors (not always volunteered)	building data from sensors (not always volunteered)

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