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CfP: Human Work Interaction Design 2024 (HWID'2024)
Sustainable Workplaces by Design
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy) - September 5-6, 2024
Joint conference of the IFIP WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design and
IFIP WG 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and
System Developmenthttps://hwid2024.unibs.it/hwid2024
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Designing for sustainability extends beyond merely reducing resource
consumption and waste. It encompasses environmental, social, and
economic dimensions while acknowledging their potential conflicts.
Today, designers need to anticipate the impact on future generations,
and social equity and justice between workers, while also considering
financial performance. It appears clear that focusing solely on
individual behaviour change, without considering workplace practices
and reaching decision-makers, can only have a limited influence. While
interactive systems to support sustainability have been proposed, it
is crucial not to overlook the interactive systems used by workers in
this endeavor.
Beyond being mere tools, automation and AI systems must become work
partners collaborating with workers to enhance their performance by
taking over repetitive and tedious tasks. However, as these systems
increasingly handle high-level cognitive tasks, designing meaningful
roles for workers is even more challenging when designers already have
to deal with known issues such as complacency, deskilling, monitoring,
and takeover performances when automated systems reach their
operational limits or fail. Consequently, methods, tools, and
processes need to be refined to ensure a positive user experience and
identify novel forms of human-automation cooperation for sustainable
workplaces.
THEME, SCOPE, AND FOCUS
The theme of HWID'24 emphasizes the insights into the relationship
between the sustainability of workplaces, the anticipatory potentials
of design, and how automation and AI may fit the picture. It calls for
a workplace design oriented towards sustainability, responsibility,
and explainability.
Examples of relevant questions include:
- What does the very notion of design imply from the point of view of
being sustainable, responsible, and explainable, and how can these
values be embodied in workplaces?
- How to design environment-friendly and humane workplaces?
- What individualistic vs collectivistic frictions may emerge from
unethical practices, and how can design mitigate them?
- How to design workplaces ensuring social equity and well-being when
we deal with both biased humans and automated systems?
- How to identify, evaluate, and support the new UX interactional
patterns between workers and AI and maintain workers' efficiency and
well-being?
- How can alternative forms of job design (e.g. job crafting) mitigate
conflicts between the pursuit of financial profit and the reduction of
companies’ impact on the environment? Can automation help?
Topics of interest include:
- Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Augmentation in the workplace
- Collaborative robots
- Virtual Assistants
- Digital Twins
- Cyber-physical systems
- Automation for social equity and well-being
- User experience in workplaces and novel forms of human-computer cooperation
- Sustainability, Responsibility, and Ethics of Technology in Workplaces
This working conference aims to answer these and more questions by
involving professionals working in academia, national labs, and
industry who are engaged in human work analysis and interaction design
for sustainable workplaces. We will discuss tools, procedures, and
professional competencies needed to face issues and opportunities
provided by workplace design's sustainable and automatization
perspectives.
IMPORTANT DATES in 2024
Submission deadline: April 21st, 2024
Notification to authors: June 2nd, 2024
Camera ready: June 28th, 2024
Conference: September 5-6, 2024
SUBMISSIONS
We invite authors to submit full papers (max 8 pages, excluding
references) formatted according to LNCS template available on the
Springer website:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
The link to the submission system:
https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/HWID2024
Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. The collection of all
accepted papers will be distributed to the participants as digital
proceedings before the conference. During the review process, the
reviewers will be asked to evaluate whether an extended version of the
paper is suitable for an IFIP Springer book (IFIP Advances in
Information and Communication Technology) that will be edited and
published after the conference (before the end of 2024).
ORGANIZERS
General Chairs: Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia) and
Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan)
Program Chairs: Elodie Bouzekri (McGill University), Angela Locoro
(University of Brescia), and Tilo Mentler (Trier University of Applied
Sciences)
Publicity Chair: Arminda Guerra Lopes (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco)
Student Volunteer Chairs: Antonio Paolo Pernigotti (University of
Milan) and Luca Marchionni (University of Milan)