Workshop Dates: Tuesday, June 13 and Friday, June 16, 2023, in Oldenburg
Message from WS organizers
CHIWORK 2023 invites workshop proposals addressing a range of topics (shown below) related to the future of work. Workshops are a good opportunity to bring the attendees together to share, reflect, develop new research agendas. Workshops may be half-day or full-day sessions. They might result in journal special issues, blogs, or new collaborations.
We encourage accepted workshop organizers to create web-based resources (e.g., website, Slack, etc.) for their workshops so that advertising and organization can be handled online. We might propose modifications and augmentations, such as suggesting to combine the workshops where appropriate. We encourage workshop organizers to consider open participation in the workshops to the conference attendees, or issuing a lightweight call for participation: e.g. in a form of motivation to participate or a brief position paper (1 page; 200-500 words).
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Tools for remote work: working from home, working while commuting, and meetings with remote participants
- New ways of getting work done: techniques for interleaving work; easy resumption, engagement, and disengagement; and incorporating well-being needs in productivity tools
- Working and trust with AI and automation: techniques for cooperation and collaboration with AI agents, new tools for task automation, working in and with automated environments and entities including cars, drones, and robots; designing for fairness, transparency and dignity.
- Technologies for the future of work: networking, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable devices, human-robot collaboration, and generative AI tools (text, image, audio, and/or video generation)
- Supporting worker well-being and health: maintaining work-life boundaries, supporting physical movement, and facilitating work attachment and detachment, exploring how systems support or privilege well-being of workers in gendered, race-, caste- and class-informed ways
- Designing for digital tools: preparing the grounds for professional development and an adaptation to and development of individual skills
- Matching and developing worker skills for job opportunities: assessing worker skills, matching existing skills to new job opportunities, platforms and peer-networks for learning new skills
- Inclusion and accessibility: technology that is built for equality and technology that supports all abilities
- Security and privacy: protecting work infrastructure from malicious actors and maintaining privacy while providing personalized support for work and well-being
- Novel ways of measuring outcome: rewarding performance so that it takes into account an individual’s unique needs, incorporating well-being as an integral part of productivity, fostering and measuring creativity and innovation, and supporting self-reflection by workers
- Tools and platforms for hiring and managing workers: new models for hiring, onboarding, and management; understanding and supporting freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, and gig work.
- Societal impact: supporting decision-making for policy and regulation, integrating perspectives of workers, firms, governments, and communities; addressing the economics and resilience of individuals, communities, and society.
Selection process
The workshop proposals will be single-blind reviewed by the Workshop Chairs and members of the CHIWORK Program Committee. The selection will be based on the relevancy of the proposed topic and the maturity of its development in the proposal, and on the experience of the organizer(s).
Submission
All dates below are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Submission deadline: April 28th, 2023 May 11th, 2023
Notification to the authors: May 5th, 2023 May 12th, 2023
Final formatted proposal: May 12th, 2023 May 19th, 2023
Workshops: June 13th, 2023 in Oldenburg (or online). Additional potential date: June 16th, 2023.
- Prepare your proposal in the single-column ACM SIGCHI format.
- Submissions can be 6-8 content pages (excluding references), but should not be longer than 8 pages.
- It should include:
- Background for the workshop: rationale for conducting it, relevance for CHIWORK community, objectives and outcomes of the workshop
- Organizer(s): information about the organizers, contact details, research interests and relevance to the workshop topic
- Website or other form of communication (e.g., Slack environment) – can remain TBD until acceptance
- Timetable of the workshop: activities, breaks
- Plans for pre- and post-workshop engagement
- Specify whether you plan a remote, hybrid or fully in-person workshop and how you would achieve that format
- Specify how you would ensure participation in your workshop: throughout a call for papers or open participation, and in the latter case how you would ensure relevancy of participants’ profiles
- Specify what kind of equipment you would need and whether you would provide it
- Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their proposals, including adding figure descriptions.
Submit your proposal to: workshops2023@chiwork.org
Additional Instructions
- Authors are limited to being on one workshop proposal.
- Organizers and participants may only attend one workshop scheduled at a time, even if held all-virtually.
- All authors must be listed on the initial submission. After initial submission, authors can be removed but not added.
- If you plan for virtual participation, please be explicit in how this will be organized and what requirements will result in a successful session. Unless clearly mentioned, our assumption will be that the workshop would take place on-site at the CHIWORK conference.
- The conference provides basic supplies such as pens and large paper pads, moderation materials etc. for workshops during the in-person conference. Workshop organizers are responsible for supplying all additional materials needed but may request equipment or special room needs. Requests for any special arrangements / logistics planning must be approved by the Workshop Chairs ahead of time (e.g., something beyond a standard room). The venue restrictions vary (e.g. sometimes you cannot post or hang anything on the walls so may need to request easels).
Workshops Chairs
Alina Lushnikova – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Abdallah El Ali – Centrum Wiksunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam