While this workshop invites conversation around any professionals who interact with opaque technological systems, we welcome papers which elevate how the CHI community talks about low-power workers managed by or engaging with algorithmic/digital platforms, with the goal of centering workers and their agency.
We invite position papers, from a range of disciplines, which discuss:
Imaginations of what technology design would look like if it leveraged workers understandings of algorithmic underpinnings;
New ways of framing interactions between on-the-ground algorithmically mediated workers and technological systems;
Innovative methodological breakthroughs which can provide insight into the ‘people’s research’ workers undertake, i.e. cognitive labor, sensemaking, or algorithmic imaginaries, and/or their influence on platform functions.
TO PARTICIPATE
Send a 300 word abstract with a short bio thosewholabor [at] gmail [dot] com no later than February 19, 2021 AOE.
Selected participants will be notified on March 8th, 2021
Position papers are no longer than 3000 words in CHI extended abstract format due on April 10, 2021
At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and at least one day of the conference.
Abstracts will be evaluated based on their fit with the workshop theme.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Deadline: February 19 2021 at 23:59:59 AoE.
Notification: March 8, 2021 at 23:59:59 AoE.
Position Paper deadline: April 10, 2021 at 23:59:59 AoE
Virtual Workshop at CHI2021: May 9, 2021
