from 24 to 29 September 2023

International Summer School for
Humans & Technologies

at Chemnitz University of Technology

A five-day meeting of talks, practicals, and workshops on
"Technologies for Good"

Day 0, Sunday

Participants will arrive throughout the day and there will be an informal evening social at the local brewery pub.

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels

Day 1, Monday

Man Giving a Killer Presentation in Meeting

Participants will through impulse talks, share their research interests and identify mutual complementary skills.

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Day 2, Tuesday

Women Colleagues gathered inside Conference Room

Highlight Talks on Extended Reality, Usability and UX.
Workshops on "What is Good?"

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Day 3, Wednesday

Hands-On Crash Courses on Virtual Reality and Affective Computing for Serious Games

Photo by Vanessa Loring on Pexels

Day 4, Thursday

Three men look at a computer and laughing

Lectures on Applied Computer Vision; Workshops on Accessibility, and Assistive Technologies

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Day 5, Friday

Workshops and Pitch Sessions for "Technology for Good".

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23 Jun 2023: Call for Participation

20 Jul 2023: Scholarship Deadline (for ACROSS University Students)

24 Jul 2023: Confirmation of Scholarships

10 Aug 2023: Final Application Deadline

15 Aug 2023: Confirmation and Details of Participation

25 Sep 2023: Summer School Start

This event brings together early career researchers, across diverse disciplines, interested in defining and developing the
evolving relationship between humans and technologies.

Participation in this summer school is free and participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses.
Applicants from ACROSS universities are eligible to apply for a scholarship and should indicate this in their application form.

Participants will be introduced to state-of-the-art research on human-computer interactions and to critically question what it means to design and evaluate technologies that serve the good of human individuals, groups, and society.

Images clockwise from top-left: An in situ system that provides real-time assembly instructions to provide cognitive assistance (Kosch, Funk, Schmidt, Chuang, 2018); A system that teaches braille to young children (Lang, Pucs, Schmidt, Machulla, 2022); A serious game in virtual reality designed to train users to respond to flight emergencies (Chittaro, Buttussi, 2022)