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

Fri May 03 20:21:42 GMT 2024





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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