All times are denoted in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is the local time at the conference location.
Thus, each day our sessions will start at 9 AM EDT, 2 PM in London, 3 PM in Berlin, and 6:30 PM in New Delhi. Keynotes will start at 11 AM EDT, 4 PM in London, 5 PM in Berlin, and 8:30 PM in New Delhi. See the event start time in your time zone by clicking on the following link: start time in your time zone.
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9 AM Opening
9:30 AM Paper Session 1 – Remote Work
Session chairs: Helena Mentis (online), Toby Li (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| The end of the active work break? Remote work, sedentariness and the role of technology in creating active break-taking norms | Anna Rudnicka, Dave Cook, Marta E. Cecchinato, Sandy J. J. Gould, Joseph W. Newbold and Anna L. Cox. |
| Two Birds with One Phone: The Role of Mobile Use in the Daily Practices of Remote Information Work | Vedant Das Swain, Shane Williams, Adam Fourney and Shamsi T. Iqbal. |
| Ubiquitous Work Assistant: Synchronizing a Stationary and a Wearable Conversational Agent to Assist Knowledge Work | Shashank Ahire, Michael Rohs and Simon Benjamin. |
10:30 AM Coffee
11 AM Opening Keynote: Dr. Neha Kumar
12 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Paper Session 2 – Virtual Meetings
Session chairs: Himanshu Verma (online), Marios Constantinides (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings | Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar and Sean Rintel. |
| How Do You Zoom?: A Survey Study of How Users Configure Video-Conference Tools for Online Meetings | Karolina Balogova and Duncan Brumby. |
| The Future of Hybrid Meetings | Marios Constantinides and Daniele Quercia. |
2:15 PM Coffee
2:45 PM Paper Session 3 – Avatars, Assistants, and Group Creativity
Session chairs: Naveena Karusala (online), Daniele Quercia (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| “I need to respond to this” – Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions | Alberta Ansah, Yilun Xing, Amudha Varshini Kamaraj, Diana Tosca, Linda Boyle, Shamsi Iqbal, Andrew L Kun, John D Lee, Michel Pahud and Orit Shaer. |
| All Together: Effect of Avatars in Mixed-Modality Conferencing Environments | Payod Panda, Molly Nicholas, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Kori Inkpen, Eyal Ofek, Ross Cutler, Ken Hinckley and Jaron Lanier. |
| A Bottom-Up End-User Intelligent Assistant Approach to Empower Gig Workers against AI Inequality | Toby Jia-Jun Li, Yuwen Lu, Jaylexia Clark, Meng Chen, Victor Cox, Meng Jiang, Yang Yang, Tamara Kay, Danielle Wood and Jay Brockman. |
3:45 PM Break
4 PM Paper Session 4 – Human-AI Collaboration
Session chairs: Zoe Jonassen (online), Wendy Ju (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| Extending a Human-AI Collaboration Framework with Dynamism and Sociality | Michael Muller and Justin Weisz. |
| Towards Brain Metrics for Improving Multi-Agent Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration: A Preliminary Study | Alicia Howell-Munson, Emily Doherty, Peter Gavriel, Claire Nicolas, Adam Norton, Rodica Neamtu, Holly Yanco, Yi-Ning Wu and Erin T. Solovey. |
| Design Opportunities for Freelancing Platforms: Online Freelancers’ Views on a Worker-Centred Design Fiction | Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato and John Rooksby. |
6 PM Dinner
Thursday, June 9
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9 AM Paper Session 5 – Worker Organizing
Session chairs: Neha Kumar (online), Steve Sawyer (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops | Janis Meissner, Nicolas Pretterhofer, Nadja Bergmann and Edeltraud Haselsteiner. |
| Organizing in the End of Employment: Information Sharing, Data Stewardship, and Digital Workerism | Dan Calacci. |
| Trash Work Futures: A Design Fiction | Sara Milkes Espinosa and Carl Disalvo. |
10 AM Coffee and work-in-progress posters
11 AM Closing Keynote: Dr. Wendy Ju
12 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Paper Session 6 – Ethical Concerns on Futures of Work
Session chairs: Horia Maior (online), Christine Bassem (in-person)
| Title | Authors |
| Role of Technology in Increasing Representation of Deaf Individuals in Future STEM Workplaces | Shruti Mahajan, Khulood Alkhudaidi, Rachel Boll, Jeanne Reis and Erin Solovey. |
| Understanding the Ethical Concerns for Neurotechnology in the Future of Work | Wendy Martinez, Max L. Wilson, Johann Benerradi, Serena Midha and Horia A. Maior. |
| New futures of work or continued marginalization? The rise of online freelance work and digital labor platforms | Isabel Munoz, Steve Sawyer and Michael Dunn. |
2:30 PM Coffee
3 PM Round table conversations (hybrid)
4 PM Closing