The workshop will be organized as an online workshop, on Monday October 26th 2020, at 10:00–15:00 Tallinn time.
The zoom link will be provided to the participants.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM, NordiCHI 2020, 26.10.2020 (online) at 10-15 Tallinn time:

10:00-10:30 Opening and introductions

10:30-11:00 Invited talk 1 – Melanie Sarantou: Local stories: context mapping for culturally sensitive design in tourism

11:10-11:30 Iiris Kestilä: ”The ontological turn” and the ethics of difference

11:30 – 11:50 Linnea Öhlund: Online harassment a social justice challenge?

11:50 – 12:30 Break

12:30 – 12:50 Hanna Nordin: Designing for User Understanding (and Acting Upon) Sensitivity

12:50 – 13:20 Mari Suoheimo, Caglar Genc and Jonna Häkkilä: Design Sensibilities in an Exhibition Design Process in Indigenous Context

13:20-13:50 Interactive task 1

13:50-14:20 Invited talk 2 – Asley Colley: HCI research examples in sensitive design contexts

14:20-14:50 Interactive task 2

14:50-15:00 Closing

PRESENTATIONS:

  • Melanie Sarantou (Invited talk): Local stories: context mapping for culturally sensitive design in tourism
  • Iiris Kestilä: ”The ontological turn” and the ethics of difference
  • Linnea Öhlund: Online harassment a social justice challenge?
  • Hanna Nordin: Designing for User Understanding (and Acting Upon) Sensitivity
  • Mari Suoheimo, Caglar Genc and Jonna Häkkilä: Design Sensibilities in an Exhibition Design Process in Indigenous Context

The workshop addresses the cultural sensitivities when designing interactive systems. The challenges in culturally sensitive design can arise e.g. from historical, ideological, or ethical factors, and needs to be taken into account when conducting HCI research e.g. with cultural heritage, under-represented user groups, topics of cultural rituals, or in cross-cultural interfaces.

The aim of the workshop is to gather together researchers, designers and practitioners that are working with cultural sensitive topics. The workshop aims to be a forum to present different viewpoints, challenges and lessons learnt, and offer a stage where these questions can be discussed with peers and new colleagues with similar interests. We encourage multi-disciplinary participation, and wish provide an opportunity to network. The workshop works towards recognizing the culturally sensitive contexts, topics and issues, and distributing the knowledge of best practices and experiences to prevent conflicts when designing for culturally sensitive topics.

The workshop will support online participation. More information about the details will be announced later. This would be aligned with the message what the chairs communicated in the notification. It seems evident, that we have to at least support the online mode:

“NordiCHI 2020 will happen! As uncertainty about the evolution and impact of COVID-19 remains and the organizers do not want to rush into a fully online conference, they are delaying the decision on format as much as possible. A decision will be announced by mid-August. As of now, we can assure you that the conference will be either hybrid or fully online, why we ask you to prepare a workshop format to fit these circumstances.”

Important Dates:

September 1st, 2020 (Extended)
September 10th, 2020
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline
September 15th, 2020
Notification of Acceptance
October 25/26th, 2020
Workshop Day

AREAS OF INTEREST:

The workshop invites researchers and practitioners with a background in, but not limited to, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), design, memory organizations, cultural studies, and indigenous cultural heritage. The workshop invites submissions of case studies, applications, methodological notes, as well as position papers, related to HCI and design for topics such as

  • indigenous communities
  • under-represented cultural groups and emerging sub-cultures
  • culturally sensitive heritage, sacred sites, and religion
  • using historical artifacts, contexts, and materials for design
  • death, remembrance, and rituals
  • political and ideological tension
  • cross-cultural contexts, and differences in symbolism, semantics, and UI design
  • ethics, participatory, and cross-generation approaches to cultural sensitivity
  • cybercultures and online etiquette
  • ethics with cultural sensitivities

SUBMISSION:

We invite interested candidates to submit a short paper in ACM Submission Format (up to 4 pages in single-column format, excluding references).

Online submission:
EasyChair – CulturalS-2020

ORGANIZERS:

 

 

 

Jonna Häkkilä

is professor at University of Lapland, Finland, Faculty of Art and Design. She conducts research on various aspects of user centric design, and has interests on designing with cultural heritage, death and mourning. Currently, she leads an Interreg Nord research project Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives.

Mikael Wiberg

is a full professor in informatics at Umea University, Sweden. Wiberg’s main work is within the areas of interactivity, mobility, materiality, and architecture. He is a co-editor in chief of ACM Interactions, and his most recently published book is The Materiality of Interaction: Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design (2018).

Nils Johan Eira

works in The National Archives of Norway, Sámi archives department. He has a master degree in indigenous journalism at the Sámi University of Applied Science. He is a Sámi, has worked as a reindeer herder, television, news journalist, and for Sámi youths for Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK Sápmi.

Tapio Seppänen

is a professor at the University of Oulu, Finland, in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. He has a long background in information technologies such as digital humanities, multimedia data analysis, machine learning and biomedical engineering.

Ilkka Juuso

is a post doctoral researcher in computer science at University of Oulu, and has an extensive background in cross-disciplinary research projects involving the use of large-scale cultural heritage materials from, for example, the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) in the USA and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) in Europe.

Maija Mäkikalli

is a lecturer for art and culture history at University of Lapland. Her research interests include how archives and museum face the challenges and opportunities when combining historical content and the digital era.

Katrin Wolf

is a professor for Human-Computer Interaction at Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, and conducts research on the user-centric design of new technologies, including AR/MR/VR, smart objects, and haptic interfaces.

Contact us:
Jonna.Hakkila[at]ulapland.fi

This workshop is funded by “Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives” (Interreg Nord – European Regional Development Fund).