Workshops

Saturday, Nov. 9th, 2024

1. “What is Safety?“: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://whatissafety.sites.northeastern.edu/

Organizers:

Ashley Marie Walker Trust & Safety Research, Google, New York, New York, United States, amwalker@google.com
Michael Ann DeVito Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, m.devito@northeastern.edu
Karla Badillo-Urquiola Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States
Rosanna Bellini Cornell Tech, New York City, New York, United States, rfb242@cornell.edu
Stevie Chancellor Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Jes Feuston Meta, Menlo Park, California, United States
Kathryn Henne Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dr Patrick Gage Kelley Google, New York City, New York, United States, patrickgage@acm.org
Shalaleh Rismani McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Renee Shelby Google Research, San Francisco, California, United States, reneeshelby@google.com
Renwen Zhang Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Description: Safety is a frequently discussed and increasingly important topic in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and one historically well-represented at CSCW. However, CSCW is a diverse community that engages multiple fields and perspectives; therefore, the community employs multiple, sometimes contradictory, definitions of technologically-mediated “safety” both at the conference and in the field overall. While different concepts of safety may have clear meaning within a computing subfield, the overall importance of safety as a topic to HCI and the need to communicate clearly across subfields and to other disciplines underscores the importance of exploring how differing approaches to defining and operationalizing safety compare and potentially build on/communicate with each other. Moreover, by comparing, contrasting, and synthesizing CSCW’s multiple approaches to safety, we can better understand and account for safety as a whole. A core goal of this workshop is to make progress towards a collective understanding of safety. Without clarity on such an important concept, there will be wasted efforts in intervention design for mitigating harms for impacted users and communities, and we squander the potential for effective, academic collaboration. In this workshop, we take the first step towards initiating a conversation between different HCI perspectives on safety.

Submission deadline: September 15th, 2024

2. From Stem to Stern: Contestable AI Along AI Value Chains

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://aspiring-steed-7fc.notion.site/From-Stem-to-Stern-Contestability-Along-AI-Value-Chains-1b4e5bf6ac694c6dbb6145cd13709cda
Organizers:

Agathe Balayn Software Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, a.m.a.balayn@tudelft.nl
Yulu Pi University of Warwick , COVENTRY, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, yulu.pi@warwick.ac.uk
Mr. David Gray Widder Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Kars Alfrink Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Mireia Yurrita Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Sohini Upadhyay Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Naveena Karusala Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, naveenak@seas.harvard.edu
Henrietta Lyons University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Cagatay Turkay Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Coventry, -, United Kingdom
Christelle Tessono University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Blair Attard-Frost University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ujwal Gadiraju Web Information Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

Description: This workshop will grow and consolidate a community of interdisciplinary CSCW researchers focusing on the topic of contestable AI. As an outcome of the workshop, we will synthesize the most pressing opportunities and challenges for contestability along AI value chains in the form of a research roadmap. This roadmap will help shape and inspire imminent work in this field. Considering the length and breadth of AI value chains, it will especially spur discussions around the contestability of AI systems along various sites of such chains. The workshop will serve as a platform for dialogue and demonstrations of concrete, successful and unsuccessful examples of AI systems that (could or should) have been contested, to identify requirements, obstacles, and opportunities for designing and deploying contestable AI in various contexts. This will be held primarily as an in-person workshop. The first day will consist of individual presentations and group activities to stimulate ideation and inspire broad reflections on the field of contestable AI. Building on participants’ interests, the group activities will be centered around their primary concerns for contestable AI. The second day will be used to deepen insights and synthesize them into a research article presenting a roadmap for contestable AI.

Submission deadline: September 15th, 2024

3. Worker Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/worker-data-collectives
Organizers:

JANE HSIEH, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANGIE ZHANG, University of Texas at Austin, USA
SEYUN KIM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
VARUN NAGARAJ RAO, Princeton University, USA
SAMANTHA DALAL, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
ALEXANDRA MATEESCU, Data & Society, USA
RAFAEL DO NASCIMENTO GROHMANN, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
MOTAHHARE ESLAMI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
MIN KYUNG LEE, University of Texas at Austin, USA
HAIYI ZHU, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Description: Platform-based laborers face unprecedented challenges and working conditions that result from algorithmic opacity, insufficient data transparency, and unclear policies and regulations. The CSCW and HCI communities increasingly turn to worker data collectives as a means to advance related policy and regulation, hold platforms accountable for data transparency and disclosure, and empower the collective worker voice. However, fundamental questions remain for designing, governing and sustaining such data infrastructures. In this workshop, we leverage frameworks such as data feminism to design sustainable and power-aware data collectives that tackle challenges present in various types of online labor platforms (e.g., ridesharing, freelancing, crowdwork, carework). While data collectives aim to support worker collectives and complement relevant policy initiatives, the goal of this workshop is to encourage their designers to consider topics of governance, privacy, trust, and transparency. In this one-day session, we convene research and advocacy community members to reflect on critical platform work issues (e.g., worker surveillance, discrimination, wage theft, insufficient platform accountability) as well as to collaborate on codesigning data collectives that ethically and equitably address these concerns by supporting working collectivism and informing policy development.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

4. Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging human-AI Interactions to Support Healthcare in the Global South

Format: In-person
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/emerging-tech-health-lac/
Organizers:

Carolina Fuentes School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Iyubanit Rodríguez Computer Science, Universidad de Costa Rica, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Gabriela Cajamarca Computer Science, Universidad Yachay Tech, Imbabura, Ecuador
Dr. Laura Cabrera-Quiros Electronics Engineering, Costa Rican Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica
Andrés Lucero Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Valeria Herskovic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, vherskov@ing.puc.cl
Dr. Kenton O’Hara Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Description: Advances in AI and emerging technologies offer opportunities to deliver societal benefits in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that would contribute to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. AI systems in healthcare may contribute to develop assistive technologies, bridging the digital divide, improving the quality of life through effective health systems, and developing more personalised and precise medicine. Given the imbalanced research on emerging healthcare technologies across Global North and Global South, there is a strong imperative to develop a larger corpus of understanding of human-centred AI design practices in healthcare and the particularities of the region. This understanding is crucial for the successful adoption of innovative solutions offered by emerging technologies in LMICs. In this workshop, we aim to engage in a thorough discussion with researchers and practitioners about barriers of development, adoption, interaction and envisioned benefits of developing collaborative emerging technologies to support the healthcare context in the Latin-American and Caribbean region. In this collocated workshop We want to unpack the sociotechnical challenges of AI systems in healthcare and what good practices would be critical for human-AI collaboration.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

5. HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis

Format: In-person
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climatemigrationcscw/
Organizers:

Louisa Kayah Williams School of Information, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan, United States, louisakw@umich.edu
Rayan Awad Alim Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, rayan.alim@mail.utoronto.ca
Reem Talhouk School of Design, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Marisol Wong-Villacres Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Lynn Kirabo Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States
Carleen Maitland College of Information Sciences & Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Tajanae Harris Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Vishal Sharma School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dipto Das Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States, dipto.das@colorado.edu
Bryan Semaan Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Soden Computer Science & School of the Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Description: This 1-day in-person workshop will invite together scholars from the CSCW community with expertise in immigration and displacement, climate change and sustainability, and/or mobility justice to consider the challenge of climate migration and how we, as a community, might respond. We will draw from previous workshops on migration and displacement in CSCW and HCI, as well as draw in researchers from other related areas, e.g., ICTD, development scholarship, and sustainability sciences. In this workshop, participants will engage in an array of activities such as concept mapping, archival creation, research proposal ideation and presentations. Outcomes will include the development of a community of scholars working at the nexus of these crises, common understanding of relevant concepts and themes, and a shared research agenda to guide future work.

Submission deadline: August 16th, 2024

6. The Work of AI: Mapping Human Labor in the AI Pipeline

Format: In-person
Website: https://globaltechandsociety.red
Organizers:

Airi Lampinen Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, airi@dsv.su.se
Rob Comber Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Srravya Chandhiramowuli Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, srravya.c@ed.ac.uk
Naja Holten Møller Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Alex S Taylor Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Description: This one-day workshop invites researchers and practitioners to map the human labor, in its sites, categories, and characteristics, in the infrastructuring of AI and algorithmic systems. Our concern is with the broadening of the terms with which we articulate and account for human labor in the AI pipeline, not only to see the privileged bodies in the production of AI or the harmed bodies in the witnessing and moderation of its harms, but the constellation of mundane labors that make AI systems work the way they work. We consider this labor across sites – from labelling datasets, to red teaming, to the (inevitable) public perception management – and across categories of work – from knowledge work to emotion work, from bodily work to organisational work. Approaching the AI pipeline both as a site of empirical study and critical scrutiny, this workshop promotes a CSCW perspective into the inquiry of the humans, work practices, and politics in the AI pipeline. Taking a reflective turn, the workshop also invites us to consider what we as CSCW researchers – one group of humans active at various parts of the AI pipeline – can do and get challenged by in engaging with AI production.

Submission deadline: TBD

7. Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/care-work/home
Organizers:

Yiying Wu School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Jung-Joo Lee Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Ajit G. Pillai Affective Interactions Lab, The university of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Janghee Cho Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
MS Thida Sachathep School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, thida.sachathep@gmail.com
Dr Naseem Ahmadpour Affective Interactions lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Virpi Roto School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Jiashuo Liu Edinburgh College of Arts, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mouna Sawan The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, mouna.sawan@sydney.edu.au
Dongjin Song Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Martina Caic Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, martina.caic@aalto.fi
Lucas Cheng The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Renxuan Liu Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Dr Sarah Kettley School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Luis Lourenço Soares Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian , United Kingdom
Dr Kazjon Grace Design Lab, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Professor Thomas Astell-Burt The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Description: Care work, encompassing physical, emotional, and developmental support, is essential yet often undervalued reproductive labour within capitalist systems. Advancements in automation, robotics, AI, and mixed reality are poised to alter care work, raising questions to explore their roles in reshaping caregiving practice, the workforce, workplaces, and ecological care systems. This workshop aims to challenge three dominant narratives surrounding emerging technology and future care work: technology as a solution to the care crisis, aggressive technology investment in the growing care economy, and the overlook of the ‘end of (care) jobs’ in the post-work discourse. Drawing on CSCW and HCI research, the workshop investigates the complex sociotechnical ecologies of care, envisioning future scenarios through participatory speculative design. By fostering dialogue among diverse participants, the workshop aims to explore the potential impacts of emerging technologies on care work, with a focus on holistic employee wellbeing, worker rights, equity, ethical integration, and socio-economic dynamics.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

8. Practicing Inclusivity in AI: Stakeholder Engagement Policy in Action

Format: In-person
Website: https://sites.google.com/partnershiponai.org/practicing-inclusivity-in-ai/home
Organizers:

Dr. Tina M. Park Partnership on AI, San Francisco, California, United States, tina@partnershiponai.org
Jiyoo Chang Partnership on AI, San Francisco, California, United States
Adriana Alvarado Garcia Responsible Tech Research, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, adriana.ag@ibm.com
Mr. Bill A Curtis-Davidson, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT), Arlington, Virginia, United States
Remi Denton Google, New York, New York, United States
Lara Groves Ada Lovelace Institute, London, United Kingdom
Jerremy Holland Apple, Cupertino, California, United States
Kenneth Holstein Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, kjholste@andrew.cmu.edu
Tamara Kneese Data & Society Research Institute , New York , California, United States
Dr. Jacob Metcalf AIGI, Data & Society Research Institute, New York, New York, United States
Emanuel Moss Intel Labs, New York, New York, United States
Wilneida Negron Coworker.org, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, wilneida@coworker.org
‪Juana Catalina Becerra Sandoval Responsible & Inclusive Technology, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, juana.becerra.sandoval@ibm.com
Lauren Wilcox eBay, San Jose, California, United States

Description: Despite growing demand for participatory approaches for AI development, there are challenges of ensuring ethical and inclusive stakeholder engagement and preventing “participant-washing” and perpetuating harm to marginalized communities. To help support AI-developing teams and practitioners more ethically and responsibly work with communities and the public, the Partnership on AI’s Global Task Force for Inclusive AI proposed specific guidance and resources. This one-day workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to co-create context-specific stakeholder engagement strategies using these draft guidelines. The workshop will provide a platform to acquire new understandings of stakeholder engagement practices and exchange ideas and experiences with implementing stakeholder engagements. Through hands-on application and feedback, the workshop aims to develop participants’ practical expertise in ethical stakeholder engagement and refine the guidelines to ensure its applicability in real-world contexts. We aspire to build an active community that supports inclusive AI-driven solutions based on more equitable relationships between developers and the communities who are impacted by the technologies created.

Submission deadline: TBD

Sunday, Nov. 10th, 2024

9. The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/thehumanfactorinairedteaming/
Organizers:

Alice Qian Zhang Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Ryland Shaw Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research, New York City, New York, United States, v-rylandshaw@microsoft.com
Jacy Reese Anthis University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, anthis@uchicago.edu
Ashlee Milton GroupLens, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, milto064@umn.edu
Emily Tseng Information Science, Cornell Tech, New York, New York, United States, et397@cornell.edu
Jina Suh Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States
Lama Ahmad OpenAI, San Francisco, California, United States, lama@openai.com
Ram Shankar Siva Kumar Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States, ram.shankar@microsoft.com
Julian Posada Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Benjamin Shestakofsky University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sarah T. Roberts Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, ram.shankar@microsoft.com
Mary Gray Microsoft Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Description: Rapid progress in general-purpose AI has sparked significant interest in “red teaming”, a practice of adversarial testing originating in military and cybersecurity applications. AI red teaming raises many questions about the human factor, such as how red teamers are selected, biases and blindspots in how tests are conducted, and harmful content’s psychological effects on red teamers. A growing body of HCI and CSCW literature examines related practices—including data labeling, content moderation, and algorithmic auditing. However, few, if any, have investigated red teaming itself. This workshop seeks to consider the conceptual and empirical challenges associated with this practice, often rendered opaque by non-disclosure agreements. Future studies may explore topics ranging from fairness to mental health and other areas of potential harm. We aim to facilitate a community of researchers and practitioners who can begin to meet these challenges with creativity, innovation, and thoughtful reflection.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

10. Caring for reproductive justice: design in response to adversity

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cscw24-repro-justice/home
Organizers:

Benedetta Lusi Department of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, b.lusi@utwente.nl
Adrian Petterson University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States, kamala.pt@psu.edu
Michaela Krawczyk Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States, mikrawcz@iu.edu
Emily Tseng Information Science, Cornell Tech, New York, New York, United States, et397@cornell.edu
Lara Reime Business IT, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, lata@itu.dk
Madeline Balaam KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Katie A. Siek Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Cristina Zaga Human-Centred Design, University of Twente, Enschede, NY, Netherlands, c.zaga@utwente.nl

Description: Access to reproductive care, shaped by legal, socio-economic, political, and identity-based factors, is unevenly distributed and increasingly precarious. This one-day workshop builds on previous CSCW workshops to address the pressing need to confront issues at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), design research, and reproductive justice in the face of global conservatism and escalating challenges to human rights. Through speculative design, the workshop invites researchers and practitioners to address challenges in this design space, such as, but not limited to, information distribution, privacy issues, identity-based barriers, and design for care. By pulling on the threads of designed artifacts central to reproductive care and ideating on novel designs and anti-designs, participants will collaborate to formulate design and design research’s role in reproductive justice futures. The workshop aims to produce provocative ideas around the messy realities of reproductive justice. We contribute critical discussions and reflections on HCI’s role in promoting change and combating the oppressive forces that affect reproductive justice.

Submission deadline: August 1st, 2024, and August 20th, 2024

11. Fostering Latin American-Centric CSCW Research and Practice

Format: In-person, hybrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cscw-latam-2024
Organizers:

Francisco J. Gutierrez, University of Chile, chile, frgutier@dcc.uchile.cl
Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo, Universidad de Colima, Mexico, laura@ucol.mx
Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, gustavo.lopezherrera@ucr.ac.cr
Heloisa Candello, IBM Research, Brazil, hcandello@br.ibm.com
Adriana S. Vivacqua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, avivacqua@ic.ufrj.br
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Equador, lvillacr@espol.edu.ec
Carla F. Griggio, Aalborg University, Denmark, cfg@cs.aau.dk
Luis A. Castro, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Mexivo,luis.castro@acm.org
Saiph Savage, Northeastern University & Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, USA & Mexico, s.savage@northeastern.edu
Claudia Lopez, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile, claudia@inf.utfsm.cl
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, cleidson.desouza@acm.org

Description: This year, CSCW is coming to Latin America for the first time. In this workshop, we aim to position the region as a common context that brings together students, academics, and industry researchers and practitioners interested in studying, designing, developing, or deploying CSCW and social computing technology, addressing challenges either emerging from or impacting Latin America. Previous initiatives have explored or highlighted the potential of Latin America for CSCW research, and this one-day workshop seeks to build on that foundation. Our objectives are to: (1) Bring together researchers, practitioners, and students interested in engaging with Latin America through their research and practice; (2) Discuss the opportunities and challenges of conducting CSCW research centered on Latin America; (3) Collaboratively mentor emerging projects focused on Latin America; (4) Advance 5-year collaborative research agendas among existing CSCW Latin America research groups; and (5) Increase the visibility of Latin American research projects within the broader international CSCW community. We will invite senior CSCW researchers from Latin America and other regions to discuss the work presented at the event. This workshop seeks to enrich the global conversation on CSCW and highlight and strengthen Latin America’s unique contributions in this field.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

12. Towards a Unified Framework for Responsible Social Computing Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Format: In-person
Website: https://sites.google.com/pitt.edu/social-computing-framework
Organizers:

Angela E.B. StewartDepartment of Informatics and Networked Systems, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, angelaebstewart@gmail.com
Rosta Farzan School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Catherine Delcourt Computer Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

Description: Social computing education is gaining traction across computer science and information science disciplines, yet lacks a standardized pedagogical framework for topics to teach, as well as strategies for engaging students. This workshop aims to convene experts in CSCW to develop a cohesive framework for undergraduate and graduate social computing courses. Emphasizing ethical and cultural considerations, the workshop will explore core topics spanning sociological, psychological, technical, and design aspects of social computing. Through interactive sessions, attendees will collaboratively shape a curricular framework that is responsive to diverse country contexts and ethical imperatives. At the conclusion of the workshop, we anticipate we will publish a framework for topics and pedagogical approaches to social computing, as well as a repository of existing courses.

Submissions are not required for this workshop. Interested attendees are welcomed to sign up in the registration system (when available in August).

13. Challenges and Opportunities of LLM-Based Synthetic Personae and Data in HCI

Format: In-person
Website: https://llmsyntheticdata.weebly.com/
Organizers:

Mirjana Prpa Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Giovanni M Troiano Arts, Media, and Design, Northeastern University, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, g.troiano@northeastern.edu
Bingsheng Yao CAMD, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Toby Jia-Jun Li Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
Dakuo Wang Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, b.yao@northeastern.edu
Hansu Gu Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United States

Description: Synthetic personae and data powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging in many HCI areas, including education and training, gaming, and piloting research studies. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for synthetic AI personae, experimenting with human and social simulacra and producing synthetic data. This presents challenges and opportunities for extending HCI research via LLMs and AI. In this proposed workshop, we engage HCI researchers interested in working with LLMs, synthetic personae, and synthetic data through speculative design and producing visions, desiderata, and requirements for future HCI research engaging with synthetic personae/data. The outcomes of this workshop may be disseminated to the HCI community through scientific publications or special issues to facilitate continued discussion and advance knowledge on a timely HCI topic.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

14. Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing

Format: In-person
Website: https://positech-cscw-2024.github.io/
Organizers:

JaeWon Kim Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, jaewonk@uw.edu
Lindsay Popowski Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, popowski@stanford.edu
Anna Fang Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Cassidy Pyle School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Guo Freeman School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Ryan M. Kelly School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, ryan.kelly@rmit.edu.au
Angela Y Lee Communication, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Fannie Liu JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, New York, United States, fannie.liu@jpmchase.com
Angela D. R. Smith School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
Dr. Alexandra To Art + Design and Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, a.to@northeastern.edu
Amy X. Zhang CSE, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States

Description: Social technology research today largely focuses on mitigating the negative impacts of technology and, therefore, often misses the potential of technology to enhance human connections and well-being. However, we see a potential to shift towards a holistic view of social technology’s impact on human flourishing. We introduce \textbf{\textit{Positive Social Technology (Positech)}}, a framework that shifts emphasis toward leveraging social technologies to support and augment human flourishing. This workshop is organized around three themes relevant to Positech: 1) “Exploring Relevant and Adjacent Research” to define and widen the Positech scope with insights from related fields, 2) “Projecting the Landscape of Positech” for participants to outline the domain’s key aspects and 3) “Envisioning the Future of Positech,” anchored around strategic planning towards a sustainable research community. Ultimately, this workshop will serve as a platform to shift the narrative of social technology research towards a more positive, human-centric approach. It will foster research that not only fixes technologies and protects or prevents humans from technology’s faults but also enriches human experiences and connections through technology.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

15. Labor, Visibility, and Technology: Weaving Together Academic Insights and On-Ground Realities

Format: In-person
Website: https://bit.ly/labor-visibility-tech-cscw
Organizers:

Joy Ming Information Science, Cornell, Ithaca, New York, United States, jming@infosci.cornell.edu
Lucy Pei Department of Informatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States
Rama Adithya Varanasi Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, New York, United States, varanasi.r@nyu.edu
Anna Kawakami Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, akawakam@andrew.cmu.edu
Dr Nervo Verdezoto School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
EunJeong Cheon School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States

Description: Artificial intelligence and technology are transforming work and worker experiences, creating and shifting invisible and unacknowledged work and altering the visibility of workers and their work—especially impacting workers who were in already vulnerable positions. Our one day, in-person workshop aims to discuss some of these novel challenges around visibility and labor induced by technology by weaving together academic insights and on-ground realities. We will start with lightning talks from local experts from labor organizations, nonprofits, and universities in Costa Rica, recounting their experiences and challenges with technology and its impacts on local workers and communities. Then, workshop attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and ideate with the local experts on some of the topics that arose, contributing their international and academic experiences. Finally, at the end of the workshop, we will report back the key points to the local experts and to the broader academic community.

Submission deadline: August 20th, 2024

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Cleidson de Souza (UFPA)
Jina Huh-Yoo (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey)

workshops2024@cscw.acm.org