Call for papers

With the advancement of technologies and tools, mis/disinformation are proliferating at a concerning rate. Users are required to identify emerging types of fake media beyond simple text such as manipulated images and videos. As this endeavor is becoming increasingly difficult to undertake by humans, tools and interventions are required to support in distinguishing manipulated content.

At the same time, with the growth of different types of fake media, technology designers and developers need to identify heuristics that used to evaluate all forms of fake media. These heuristics can act as a framework when they design and develop new tools to combat mis/disinformation. Specifically, when designing tools in the domain of mis/disinformation, designers and developers need to understand users' perceptions toward identifying these new forms of fake media. Undoubtedly, this effort requires a multidisciplinary approach in which not only technology designers but also academics, researchers, psychological experts, cognitive scientists, journalists, and other types of domains experts collectively contribute critical thoughts.

In this workshop, we aim to bring together multidisciplinary diverse teams consisting of designers, developers, and users across disciplines to interrogate user needs, understand diverse perceptions, and articulate necessary frames needed in designing new tools to combat mis/disinformation. The workshop will foster multi perspective of user perceptions and allow to bring together a useful framework which succinctly provide a guideline to design tools for mis/disinformation from human-centered design perspective. With Human-Computer Interaction being at the forefront of designing and developing computing systems for users, we bear special opportunities to address these issues and work on solutions to mitigate problems arising around misinformation.

We invite diverse intellectuals, academics, researchers, designers, developers, activists, journalists, and any person who has an interest in mitigating the generation and spread of mis/disinformation. We welcome submissions covering a wide range - artifacts that can ignite critical discussion in the workshop and help to achieve the mission of understanding user perceptions and designing tools for mis/disinformation such as

1) Preliminary research findings in a position paper with less than 1000 words (1-2 pages) ,

2) Use cases (1-2pages)

3) UX prototype of a tool to combat new type of fake media (shareable URL of the prototype in any tool)

4) An interaction design (in a shareable tool) or

5) A position statement explaining interest in taking part in the workshop (1 page).

If you have any question - Pls reach dilrukshi.gamage@acm.org