Co-Constructing Agency in Human-AI Interactions
@ NordCHI 2024 Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden
Call for participation
Here you find us! The workshop aims to explore the role of design in the co-construction of agency in human-AI interactions. During this workshop, participants will be presented with formalized cases of contested agency between Al and humans, summarized from participant submissions. Using a Research Through Design approach, participants will work in groups with the skewing artifact properties design method to design low-fidelity prototypes that explore agency dimensions in these cases of contested agency. The workshop will end with a short prototype pitch session where participants present their RtD outcomes.
Key information
Deadline: 14th August
Acceptance: 16th August
Workshop day: 13th October
Participation:
Send a case of (contested) agency in human-AI interactions to yi.luo@hh.se
How to participate?
We invite scholars from different backgrounds, including design, computer science, human geography, humanities, and sociology, to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on agency in the age of AI in different socio-spatial settings. To participate, you need to send a case of (contested) agency involving humans and AI that must include the following elements (500 words max):
Description of the socio-spatial settings in which the interaction between humans and AI is taking place;
How or if the interaction is producing tension or friction;
In what ways, if at all, the interaction evolves in time;
What kind of impact is the interaction having on the socio-spatial settings.
Please send the case as a PDF and include a short bio to yi.luo@hh.se by 14th August.
Preliminary Schedule
9:00-:10:00 Introduction
10:00-11:30 Group work: Research through Design
11:30-12:00 Presentation and wrap up
Organizers
Miriam Tedeschi is a researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland, and a fellow at the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, London. A docent in human geography, Miriam’s work combines empirical methods, primarily ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches, with non-representational geographies and posthuman theories. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the Academy of Finland research project JuDiCe – Justice in Digital Space.
Dimitrios Gkouskos is a senior lecturer in the department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design at Halmstad University, where he works with design research on topics ranging from use of artificial intelligence in design processes, to social sustainability and research through design. Dimitrios’ research interests center around research through design methodologies, experience and interaction design education, and using design to include people in the shaping of emergent technologies.
Andrea Resmini is associate professor of experience design and information architecture in the Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design at Halmstad University, where he works with the conceptualization and design of blended spaces and blended experiences, and a researcher in exploratory and speculative game making at the GAME Research Lab, University of Skövde. An architect turned information architect turned educator, Andrea is a two-time past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a founding member of Architecta, the Italian Society for Information Architecture, a co-founder of the World IA Day international conference, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Architecture, and the author of Pervasive Information Architecture (2011), Reframing Information Architecture (2014), and Advances in Information Architecture (2021).
Yi Luo is a Ph.D. student in informatics and experience design at Halmstad University interested in designing technology to enhance people’s everyday life. Her background is a mixture of human-computer interaction and psychology with working experience in designing IoT devices with multimodal interaction. Her thesis aims at how to design AI/ML that supports human-AI collaboration in the experience design process.