[Commlist] CFP: 'Technologies that touch: towards an experience-driven paradigm'. Eurohaptics & DIS

Calling on theorists, designers, engineers, social scientists, anyone 
with an interest in technologies that touch…

With a team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and UCL, 
we’re co-organizing two workshops on similar topics close to each other 
– (1) half-day workshop Eurohaptics (Lille, France, 30 June) and (2) 
whole-day workshop ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 24) 
(Copenhagen, 1-5 July).

*1) Eurohaptics half-day workshop *(website here 
<https://sites.google.com/view/eurohaptics-2024-workshop/home>). 
Deadline: 20 May.**

‘Towards an Experience-Driven Touch-Based Paradigm for Robots and 
Technologies in Assistive and Intimate Interactions’  involves a panel 
with talks from experts and another panel with interactive demos, along 
with time for discussion.

Touch-based interaction design, especially the features of soft robotic 
based actuators has shown increasing potential to be applied to 
healthcare and domestic settings, especially in care and intimate 
interaction contexts. However, current haptic devices are still very 
limited in developing richer and more fine-grained haptic sensations for 
users. The key to unlock these potentials depends on whether the 
technology can touch well, i.e. whether the experiential quality or 
affordance matches the expectation for intended use cases. The workshop 
intends to gather insights from a cross-disciplinary community including 
(but not limited to): design, engineering, science, psychology, the 
healthcare professions, and art practitioners, and aims to discuss how 
to map the experiential qualities of touch in different contexts and the 
technical parameters to achieve these qualities, with useful tools and 
datasets.

Interested participants please submit a short bio and a brief 
motivational note via this form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelmDbNc3R82YCj--WEkcnhKqGQsfrzKr0ZWRMEQDISXxXPpg/viewform?usp=sf_link> 
by May 20. The workshop hosts a maximum of 25 participants. Submissions 
will be selected according to relevance, diversity of opinions, and 
probability of creating dynamic discussion. We plan to send out 
notifications before 25th May 2024. Any questions or technical issue 
regarding submission please contact the principal organizer, Caroline 
Yan Zheng (cyzheng /at/ kth.se) <mailto:(cyzheng /at/ kth.se)>

*2) ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 24)* (website here 
<https://sites.google.com/view/touch-well-dis-2024/call-for-participation>)

Towards Robot and Technologies that Touch Well – Shaping an 
Experience-driven Design Paradigm

Deadline for submission: 27th May. Notification of acceptance: 31st May.

Touch plays a vital role in social communication, bonding, and 
maintaining physical and emotional well-being. Advances in robotics 
alongside novel haptic technologies  provide opportunities for tactile 
technology design that supports remote and robotic care, physical and 
mental well-being, social bonding, and novel sensory experiences. 
However, the key to unlocking these potentials depends on whether a 
technology can ‘touch well’. Current haptic devices are still very 
limited in the range and nuances of sensations that they can deliver, 
and there is still the bottleneck of developing richer and finer-grained 
sensations that encompass those of human social touch. Currently, we 
have a limited understanding of the design parameters associated with 
the quality and nuance of touch, and to develop knowledge in this area 
requires cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Given these challenges, we propose the formulation of a novel 
experience-driven design paradigm that brings together parameters from 
the expressive, affective, experiential and soma-aesthetic qualities of 
touch, as well as technical realizations and ethical dimensions.

This one-day workshop invites participants from diverse disciplinary 
fields or subfields to offer interventions in this area. After short 
papers and demonstrations, substantive time is devoted to generative 
discussions based around concepts, technologies, and emerging themes 
around touch and design. Contributions are welcome from those whose 
research interests and practices intersect with touch or haptics in some 
way, including design, material and bodily practices, social sciences, 
healthcare, and artistic practices.

Please submit a short position paper, pictorial or demonstration paper 
(1~4 pages) in PDF format involves one of the three aspects listed 
below. In the submission link we also ask for a short bio of the 
attending author(s) of the paper.

  * Reflections on principles, assumptions, and conceptual tools that
    lie behind an experience-centered approach to touch design
  * Demonstrations of examples, tools, methods and process for mapping
    design parameters to experiential qualities of touch
  * Illustrate challenges that arise within specific contexts where
    haptic or robotic technologies must provide particular experiential
    qualities to the user or operator

/Please submit via this //link/ 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCq6cxAoYKscg7vjsYVBC8QDqf1CRMj1-DvmRhawPEwgkDVw/viewform?usp=sf_link>/. 
/For questions or technical issues please contact: (cyzheng /at/ kth.se) 
<mailto:(cyzheng /at/ kth.se)>.

*Organizing committee for both workshops:*

Caroline Y. Zheng, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, _cyzheng@kth.se_

Georgios Andrikopoulos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 
(_geoand /at/ kth.se) <mailto:(geoand /at/ kth.se)>_
Mark Paterson, University of Pittsburgh, (_paterson /at/ pitt.edu) 
<mailto:(paterson /at/ pitt.edu)>
_Nadia Berthouze, University College London, (_nadia.berthouze /at/ ucl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(nadia.berthouze /at/ ucl.ac.uk)>_

Minna Nygren, University College London,(_minna.nygren /at/ ucl.ac).uk_
Yoav Luft, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, (_luft /at/ kth.se) 
<mailto:(luft /at/ kth.se)>_
Madeline Balaam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, (_balaam /at/ kth.se) 
<mailto:(balaam /at/ kth.se)>_


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