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

– Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings

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

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

– Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings

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

Doctoral Consortium (starts in the morning)

22:00 – 03:30 Neural Sync – Human Club Interaction (tickets sold at door and in advance through kide.app)

Sunday, October 4

Time Session
8:30-9:30 Registration

9:30-13:00

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

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

– 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

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

– 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

19:00 – 20:00 (arrive at the latest 18:55) Ghost Walk (registration required)