[Announcements] CHI 2020 Workshop on Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations – Addressing Global Challenges

[Sayan Sarcar]

CHI 2020 Workshop on Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations –
Addressing Global Challenges (
https://olderadultsmobileinterfaces.wordpress.com/chi-2020/)

* Submission Deadline: February 11, 2020

* One full-day workshop held at CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sunday, April
26, 2020

* Organizers:  Sayan Sarcar, Cosmin Munteanu, Jussi Jokinen, Neil Charness,
Mark Dunlop, Xiangshi Ren, Jenny Waycott

* Highlights:
·  Invited speakers from gerontology and accessibility
·  Panel discussion
·  Madness session
·  Interactive Demonstrations
·  Many possible collaboration opportunities! e.g., with the CREATE group
and AGE-WELL community

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This workshop discusses the principles and strategies to design and
evaluate the UIs of digital devices for the ageing population. The topic is
timely, as the Internet-of-Things device has become the most widely used
computer terminal and at the same time the number of older people will soon
exceed the number of children worldwide. However, most HCI research
addresses younger adults and has had little impact on older adults. The
workshop has three goals: (i) to map the state-of-art, (ii) to build a
community gathering experts from related areas, and (iii) to raise
awareness within the SIGCHI community.

We invite contributions in one or more of four threads: empirical (e.g.,
evaluation), theoretical (e.g. theoretical insights from accessibility,
gerontology, etc.), design (e.g., interface design), and evaluation.
Details are on the workshop website: http://chi.olderadults.mobi. The
contributions are expected to align with the overall workshop theme of
“Ageing across borders” by particularly reflecting on what is specific to
the regional/cultural context of the research described in the position
paper (and where possible, contextualizing it through comparison to other
regions/cultures).


We welcome all HCI topics related to older adults and digital devices. The
topics include, but are not limited to:
-  Effects of decline in perceptual, cognitive, and motor performance on
digital devices use
-  Models of user performance
-  Understanding device ecology and leveraging it to design suitable
interfaces
-  UI design patterns and metaphors
-  Opportunities to sustain older adults’ current activities and practices
through digital technologies
-  Societal implications, including the digital divide and social exclusion.
-  Bridging Social Computing and senior-centred HCI4D
-  Evaluation methodologies
-  Ethical concerns

At the workshop, we intend to showcase topic related research through short
presentations of authors as well as plenary discussions and thematic
groups, focusing on areas of interest that are important to the greater
older adult community.

The 'Interactive Demonstrations' session is a new feature of this year’s
workshop. We strongly encourage authors of position papers to bring a
developed working prototype of their work, if they have one. During the
session, other workshop participants will be able to try out different apps
or hardware prototypes. We expect this will provide participants with
valuable feedback and stimulate their senior-centred design ideas for
future improvements. Where feasible, we will coordinate the distribution of
participant’s demo apps prior to the workshop.

We are also currently finalizing agreements with a journal publisher for a
special topics issue on Interactive Technologies for Older Adults. A
selected set of accepted top quality position papers from the CHI workshop
will have their authors invited to submit full papers to this special
topics issue. Details will be finalized before the CHI 2020 conference.

* Submission
A 4 page (excluding references) position paper in the CHI Extended
Abstracts Format (
https://chi2020.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/#EAF) (PDF file)
should be sent to older.adult.chi at gmail.com. Position papers will be
reviewed based on relevance to the workshop and the potential for
contributing to discussions on methods and the research agenda to be
developed during the workshop.

* Registration
At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the
workshop and all workshop participants must register for both the workshop
and for at least one day of the conference.

* Important Dates
Submission Deadline: February 11, 2020
Notification sent to authors: February 28, 2020
Workshop Day: Sunday, April 26, 2020


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Best Regards,
Workshop Organizers
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