CHI 2025 WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!
Yokohama, Japan and Online - April 26th - May 1st 2025
Despite a growing public awareness of technology’s accelerating capacity to capture, process and exploit personal data, this has not been matched by efforts to promote understanding of the myriad ways in which our information is harvested. Children and young people in particular are increasingly exposed to risks through their use of apparently innocuous toys and devices that can generate data from everyday interactions. What methods are being used across CHI to understand this? What steps can we as a community take to ensure children are kept safe and yet have agency over their data?
The goals of this workshop are:
- to create an explorative visual mapping of the methods and mindsets currently used by the CHI community around children and personal data and in which contexts.
- to understand where and how children are being included in research and design which concerns itself with their personal data.
- to converge on a set of principles or a manifesto for the design community to follow on best practice in such contexts.
This full-day workshop will be delivered in hybrid format to enable remote participation. Potential participants are asked to submit a 4-page position paper (excluding references, in CHI submission format) to the lead author via email, addressing the following as a mini case study:
- An overview of the context currently being explored (age of children, context of fieldwork e.g. schools/homes)
- Methodologies employed
- Some key examples / vignettes / images / data snippets
- Reflections on key challenges and opportunities in research around children and personal data
- One question I would like to ask other workshop participants working on this critical topic
- One question I would like to ask children about the topic of their personal data
Participants will be selected on the basis of their position paper suitability and on ensuring diversity of attendance from participants across fields, career stages, and experience. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website, hosted at www.de.ed.ac.uk/grasping-data-chi-workshop. It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. Submissions are due by Friday 7th February 2025 midnight (Anywhere on Earth time).
To submit your proposal, please send by email to cara.wilson@ed.ac.uk , ensuring that you also copy in megan.j.baker@ed.ac.uk who will be managing submissions. If Megan is not copied, there may be a delay in reviewing your submission.
The exact date of the workshop is yet to be confirmed by conference organisers but we will let you know when it is announced.
We hope to see you there!
Warm regards,
The Workshop Committee
Cara Wilson, Andrew Manches, Ayca Atabey, Uta Hinrichs, Steve Brewster, Bernd Ploderer, and Ge Wang.