Pre-conference program overview

For more detailed information about pre-conference events, please visit the Tutorials webpage, Workshops webpage, and Doctoral consortium webpage.

Saturday, October 3

Time Session
8:30-9:30 Registration

9:30-13:00

(coffee break
at 11:00-11:30)

Tutorials:

– Teaching AI literacy: Hands-on introduction to AI literacy and to co-designing teaching resources enhancing AI literacy in K-12 education

Workshops:

HCAI4IDS: Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking

The Purposeful Deployment of Humanoid Service Robots in the Real-World: A Human-Centric Co-Creation Workshop

Navigating Design Spaces and Guidelines for Human Augmentation in Industry and Craftsmanship

Workshops (full day, continue after lunch):

Soul Sync: Exploring Technological Resonance in Religious and Spiritual Energy

Spatial Interaction Design: A Field-Based Workshop for Observing and Designing in Everyday Social Environments

Designing Multi-Reality Futures: Speculative Explorations of Seamless and Meaningful XR Experiences

The Many Facets of Eudaimonia: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Design Perspectives

The Dissonance Workshop: Live Performance and Generative Friction with AI

Taking Your Students for a Walk: Art Interventions and Critical Techniques in HCI Design Pedagogy

Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings

Design Without Goal: Listening, Silence, and Emergence in Practice

Shifting Stories of Human-Centered Computing Research: Exploring Narratives Through the Lens of Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Understanding Intermediaries’ Role in Public Service Design

Doctoral Consortium (full day, continues after lunch)

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30
(coffee break
at 15:30-16:00)

Tutorials:

Planetary Persona Chatbots for Planetary Crisis

Workshops:

Robots as Welfare Technologies and Actors within Future Home- and Healthcare Services: Co-Designing an Integration Model through Story-Dialogue Method ROBOWELL

When Design Becomes Visible: Structural Awareness and Reimagination in Playable Systems

Empowering Users in Public Procurement – User Involvement, Work Environment, and AI in Practice

Workshops (full day, start in the morning):

Soul Sync: Exploring Technological Resonance in Religious and Spiritual Energy

Spatial Interaction Design: A Field-Based Workshop for Observing and Designing in Everyday Social Environments

Designing Multi-Reality Futures: Speculative Explorations of Seamless and Meaningful XR Experiences

The Many Facets of Eudaimonia: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Design Perspectives

The Dissonance Workshop: Live Performance and Generative Friction with AI

Taking Your Students for a Walk: Art Interventions and Critical Techniques in HCI Design Pedagogy

Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings

Design Without Goal: Listening, Silence, and Emergence in Practice

Shifting Stories of Human-Centered Computing Research: Exploring Narratives Through the Lens of Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Understanding Intermediaries’ Role in Public Service Design

Doctoral Consortium (starts in the morning)

tba Neural Sync – Human Club Interaction (tickets sold at door)

Sunday, October 4

Time Session
8:30-9:30 Registration

9:30-13:00

(coffee break
at 11:00-11:30)

Tutorials:

The Journey of Journal Submission: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Publishing Your Journal Article and Improving Your Probability of Success

The Three Bodies Framework: A Hands-On Method for Gesture Analysis in HCI

Workshops:

Challenges & Tactics of Navigating Long-term Researcher-Participant Relationships

Design for Calibrated Trust in AI: Exploring Opportunities to Support Appropriate Mental Models When Interacting with Conversational AI

Keeping Up: IxD Education in the Age of GenAI

Broken Design and Maintenance of Technology: Thinking of Repair as a World-Making Practice Through Design and Philosophy

Workshops (full day, continue after lunch):

A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI

Jokaisenoikeudet in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Participatory Co-Design and Solarpunk Narratives in HCI

Emancipatory HCI: Exploring the Energy of Transformation in Participatory Approaches

Human-Computer Intimacy: Mapping and Manifesto-ing Technologies and Politics of Intimacy

Designing for the Democratic Pulse: Engagement, Silence, Friction, and Storytelling

Regulation by Design: Exploring the Role of Nordic HCI in EU Technology Regulation

Designing for Children’s Participation in Everyday Life: Bridging HCI and Occupational Therapy Through Roles and Contexts

Rethinking the Datafied Human: Critical Data Literacy in HCI

Post-growth Sandbox: Designing (in) a Post-growth World

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30
(coffee break
at 15:30-16:00)

Tutorials:

Dark Patterns: Between Persuasion and Manipulation

Workshops:

Designing for Early Parenthood Together: Exploring Collaborative Technologies for Parents and Their Wider Care Ecosystems

From Participation to Transformation: Children Shaping AI Futures

The Second Workshop on Designing with AI

The Last Mile of HCI: From Participatory Design to Community Impact

Speculative AI Futures Workshop

Workshops (full day, start in the morning):

A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI

Jokaisenoikeudet in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Participatory Co-Design and Solarpunk Narratives in HCI

Emancipatory HCI: Exploring the Energy of Transformation in Participatory Approaches

Human-Computer Intimacy: Mapping and Manifesto-ing Technologies and Politics of Intimacy

Designing for the Democratic Pulse: Engagement, Silence, Friction, and Storytelling

Regulation by Design: Exploring the Role of Nordic HCI in EU Technology Regulation

Designing for Children’s Participation in Everyday Life: Bridging HCI and Occupational Therapy Through Roles and Contexts

Rethinking the Datafied Human: Critical Data Literacy in HCI

Post-growth Sandbox: Designing (in) a Post-growth World

tba Ghost Walk (registration required)