The Student Consortium Day
Tuesday June 13th, 2023, 09:00 – 13:00h CEST
Students will present their ongoing work and discuss it with other students and seniors in the field.
Location: OFFIS Building, Room F02
Alberta Ansah – Technologies to Support Remote Work for Collaborative Groups
Alina Lushnikova – Awareness Tools for Psychological Well-Being in Collaborative Work Environments
Anna Lieb – US-German Collaboration on Human-Automation Interaction for the Future of Work
Elahi Hossain – Supporting Healthy Social Media Breaks Through the Design of a Digital Emotion Regulation Tool
Emily Doherty – Use of Physiological Signals for Equitable Human-AI Interaction
Grace Douglas – Human-vehicle interaction in multimodal environments
Jacob Breen – Expanding My Horizons With CHIWORK
Jiayuan (Jia) Dong – Understanding the Effects of Emotions and Reliability on Trust Towards an Intelligent Agent in Automated Driving
Qing Xia – Supporting Peer Learning ’On the Job’ for Complex Software
Quan (Connie) Gu – Exploring Facilitator and Adolescent Participant Experiences in Design Workshops on Digital Wellbeing
Romain Toebosch – Improving collaboration through self-tracking in data-enabled environments
Roy van den Heuvel – Design for Office Vitality
Shashank Ahire – Can Voice User Interface Assist Knowledge Workers for Health and Well-being?
Teshan Bunwaree – A multi-disciplinary assessment of Bossware and its future
Toshali Goel – Preparing Future Designers for Human-AI Collaboration in Persona Creation
Workshop Day
Tuesday June 13th, 2023, 14:00 – 18:00h CEST
- Collective Collaboration Mapping’ towards Knowledge Commons:
Organizers: Karin van den Driesche (independent researcher at KADEN DESIGN agency, The Netherlands) and Åsa Cajander (Uppsala University, Sweden) Participation mode: on-site only; 25 participants maximum; informed consent needed to participate.
Location: OFFIS Building, Room D21 (Rooftop level of the building) - Rethinking Hybrid Events in the Future of Work: A Hybrid Workshop for Creating a Better Hybrid World Organizers: Alberta A. Ansah (University of New Hampshire, United States), Sailin Zhong (University of Fribourg, Switzerland and MIT Media Lab, United States), Marios Constantinides (Nokia Bell Labs, United Kingdom), Himanshu Verma (TU Delft, The Netherlands), Abdallah El Ali (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands), Hamed S. Alavi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Alina Lushnikova (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Sean Rintel (Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom), Andrew L. Kun (University of New Hampshire, United States)
Location: OFFIS Building, Room E02/E03 Participation mode: onsite and remote.
Main Conference
Wednesday and Thursday, June 14 and June 15, 2023, 09:00 until 17:00 CEST
The main conference will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. The program will offer a keynote, the full paper presentations as well as posters and demos. Please find the overview and the individual sessions below.
| Wednesday | Thursday | |
| 09:00 CEST | Opening Keynote by m.c. schraefel Session Chair: Anna Cox | Paper Session Home, Office or Hybrid? Session Chair: Anna Rudnicka |
| 10:30 CEST | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Paper Session Remote Engagement | Demos and Posters Session Chairs: Marios Constantinidis and Anna Rudnicka |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Paper Session AI & Work Session Chair: Horia Alexandru Maior | Paper Session Gig Work Session Chair: Sandy Gould |
| 14:30 | Coffee | Coffee |
| 15:00 | Paper Session Tracking Work Session Chair: Carine Lallemand | Keynote by Jannik Wiggers-von Staa Session Chair: Susanne Boll 16:00 Closing remarks and hand over to 2024 |
| 16:30-18:00 | Lab Tours Tour by Susanne Boll and Team | Walk to CORE for a nice after conference social event Online social event- Who2chat |
| 19:00 | Social Event at Bestial Oldenburg Online social event – Who2chat |
Opening Keynote
mc schraefel, University of Southampton
“m.c. also believes a path to joy is pull ups and is committed to helping anyone get their first one”
“Our Body of Work – How Design Work to Align with How we Thrive – an Inbodied Interaction Approach“
ABSTRACT: What if our Work was something that supported, built, and sustained our own health and wellbeing – what our lab calls our wellth – out of the box, rather than work being something from which we all need to recover? This presentation is an invitation to I to radically reconsider the shape of work itself.
For example, we take as normal that a job, for the majority of working people, means doing largely one thing, repetitively, usually in one space, for x hours a day, in one kind of enclosed space, from a call centre to a delivery van to an open office, to an operating theatre. If we were to ask the question: what of this highly specialised or at least singular type of work is wellthful or not, how would we make such an assessment? How would we imagine its redesign to be wellthful?
Towards engaging these questions, i’ll offer an inbodied interaction model as a way to explore the design and evaluation of work as wellthful out of the box. Inbodied interaction is an approach that frames our designs relative to how we ourselves work – that is, how we are wired and function as physiological, anatomical, electro-chemical, neurological, visceral complex organic systems – what we call our inbodied selves.
An invitation and outcome to test from this presentation will be, when we start with our health and wellbeing as a first principle and align our design of work to support that principle, we get all the other attributes we desire from work, as side effects: creativity, innovation, insight, compassion, engagement, interaction, without killing ourselves to get there – quite the opposite. Wouldn’t it be awesome to be part of a study that tested the hypothesis that work that supported health and wellbeing first leads to even more remarkable outcomes, including less stress, kinder, smarter, happier us, and more useful interaction innovations? Looking forward to your thoughts on these ideas
BIO: m.c. holds the post professor of computer science and human performance at the University of Southampton, UK (https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mc). m.c. also directs the WellthLab (https://wellthalb.ac.uk) where the mission is to explore how interactive technology can help #makeNormalBetter for all @scale. Collaboration is always welcome.
Closing Keynote
Jan Wiggers-von Staa, Managing Director CORE
“2 Years CORE Oldenburg – From Vision to Implementation”.
Our society is changing more than ever. We see this as an opportunity – for the city, for companies, but above all for its people. In the middle of Oldenburg’s city center, the change has been tangible – for a year now: On more than 2500 square meters, we have brought to life CORE, a bold concept that bundles the region’s strengths and redefines community. CORE is an ecosystem for the ideas of the future. We create the right climate for networking and creativity through a variety of uses. CORE is an interface for research and business, a coworking workspace, a meeting place for teams and start-ups, a public marketplace with a grandstand and urban gastronomy. Open to all – every day, from morning to night. It is and remains an agile, colorful place. Through inspiration and interdisciplinary exchange, innovative projects and collaborations are born – crucial factors we want to see in shaping our future.
The topic of innovation belongs in the center of the city, because an urban environment is the breeding ground for modern work and life. It is precisely here, in Oldenburg’s city center, that CORE makes renewal processes accessible without thresholds. We want to be open, offer space, dare new things, make them possible and empower them. Therefore, CORE is also to be understood as a showcase for universities, established and new companies as well as cultural offerings. It is a public place in a central location that creates supraregional visibility and strengthens Oldenburg as a regional center of excellence in the field of innovation and digitization. At the same time, it also serves as a blueprint for other medium-sized cities in Germany. This talk will present the vision and the implementation of CORE in Oldenburg over more than two years.
Paper Sessions
| SESSION: Remote Engagement – June 14th 11:00 CEST | |
| Experiences of Novice Design Facilitators in a Remote Participatory Workshop | Quan Gu (Wellesley College, United States), Catherine Delcourt (Wellesley College, United States) and Linda Charmaraman (Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, Wellesley Centers for Women, United States) |
| Hear We Are: Spatial Audio Benefits Perceptions of Turn-Taking and Social Presence in Video Meetings | Kate Nowak, Lev Tankelevitch, John Tang and Sean Rintel (Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge-United Kingdom, Redmond-United States) |
| SESSION: AI & Work – June 14th 13:00 CEST | |
| Rebalancing Worker Initiative and AI Initiative in Future Work: Four Task Dimensions | Jessica He, David Piorkowski, Michael Muller, Kristina Brimijoin, Stephanie Houde and Justin Weisz (IBM Research Seattle, Yorktown Heights, Cambridge, United States) |
| Preparing Future Designers for Responsible Human-AI Collaboration in Persona Creation | Toshali Goel, Orit Shaer, Catherine Delcourt, Quan Gu and Angel Cooper (Wellesley College, United States) |
| SESSION: Tracking Work – June 14th 15:30 CEST | |
| Tracking to Success? A Critical Reflection on Quantified-Self Technologies from a Humanistic Perspective | Cornelia Gerdenitsch (Austrian Institute of technology, Austria), Till Bieg (Austrian Institute of technology, Austria), Myriam Gaitsch (University of Vienna, Austria), Philip Schörpf (University of Vienna, Austria) and Simone Kriglstein (Austrian Institute of technology, Austria) |
| Personal Informatics at the Office: User-Driven, Situated Sensor Kits in the Workplace | Roy van den Heuvel (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Carine Lallemand (TU Eindhoven, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| Focus Time: Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Protected Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers | Koustuv Saha (Microsoft Research Montreal, Canada) and Shamsi Iqbal (Microsoft Research, Redmond, United States) |
| SESSION: Home, Office or Hybrid? – June 15th 9:00 CEST | |
| Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity | Tianna Xu (Tide), Advait Sarkar and Sean Rintel (Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge-United Kingdom) |
| How Much HomE Office is Optimal? A Multi-Perspective Algorithm | Mark Colley (Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University, Germany and Cornell Tech, USA), Pascal Jansen (Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University, Germany), Jennifer Matthiesen, Hanne Hoberg, Carmen Regerand and Isabel Thiermann (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany) |
| Adapting to Telerehabilitation Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Future is Hybrid | Adegboyega Akinsiku, Frances Watson, Tobi Majekodunmi, Kelly Daley, Preeti Raghavan and Helena Mentis (University of Maryland, United States) |
| SESSION: Gig Work – June 15th 13:00 CEST | |
| Many Futures of Work and Skill: Heterogeneity in Skill Building Experiences on Digital Labor Platforms | Pyeonghwa Kim and Steve Sawyer (Syracuse University, United States) |
| Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots | Advait Sarkar (Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| Designing Individualized Policy and Technology Interventions to Improve Gig Work Conditions | Jane Hsieh, Oluwatobi Adisa, Sachi Bafna and Haiyi Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University, United States) |
WiP & Demos
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 13th, June 14 and June 15, 2023
WiP posters & Demos will be held during two dedicated slots on Wednesday and Thursday, 13th and 14th. WiP & Demos authors are welcome to set up their posters & demos on Tuesday 13th, or before the main conference kicks off on Wednesday 14th.
Accepted WiP & Demos
- Make it Implicit!: Investigating Actions as Implicit Triggers in Unstructured Projection-Assisted Workspaces [poster]
- How to Alleviate the Peer Review Crisis: Insights from an interview study [poster]
- Toward Understanding Camera Configurations in Online Meetings From YouTube Video Recordings [poster]
- A Playbook To Be Proud Of: LGBTQ+ Inclusive User Accounts [poster]
- Habilyzer: A User-Driven Open-Ended Sensor Kit for Office Workers [demo]
In-person: A dedicated area to host posters/demos
Remote: A dedicated zoom will be set up for remote presenters to join, and in-person participants to engage with the poster/demo
Lab Tour
June 14, 2023
For those that stay until Friday, we can offer additional lab tours at the OFFIS Institute for IT.