[ecrea] CHI 2018 workshop: Reshaping Touch Communication

Submissions are invited for “Reshaping Touch Communication: An 
Interdisciplinary Research Agenda”. This one-day workshop brings 
together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and designers to 
examine new forms of touch communication enabled by digital touch 
technologies, address critical questions and challenges for HCI, reshape 
future research agendas, and build a cross disciplinary community that 
fosters subsequent collaboration.

Through group discussion the workshop will explore three key themes: 
touch and sensory embodiment; affective communication; and ethical and 
methodological challenges in HCI design to explore digital touch in 
different contexts (e.g. health, wellbeing, personal relationships, work 
and leisure). It will provide opportunities to share ongoing work, with 
a view towards setting an interdisciplinary research agenda for digital 
touch communication that effectively integrates technology progression 
with robust interrogation of societal implications of digital touch.

Submission details

2-4 page position papers in CHI Extended Abstract 
format (https://chi2018.acm.org/chi-proceedings-format/) should be sent 
to (intouchucl /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(intouchucl /at/ gmail.com)> by 2 February 
2018. Papers must outline authors’ research or technical development 
around digital touch communication, together with key research 
questions, methodological and/or ethical challenges that arise in their 
work. Submissions should go beyond touch screens to include other forms 
of sensory interfaces.

Selection criteria

Submissions will be selected on overall quality and relevance to the 
themes, innovativeness, ethical and/or methodological reflexivity, and 
where possible from a range of disciplines, technologies and/or user 
contexts. (Notifications: 22 February 2018)

Additional requirements

All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and at 
least one day of main CHI 2018 conference. Position papers will be 
published on intouchchi.wordpress.com <http://intouchchi.wordpress.com> 
in advance of the workshop.


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