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The DCitizens team will be getting together in Siegen for a Knowledge Exchange Event from the 19th to 20th of June 2024. The event will include seminar talks and group discussions.

Wednesday 19th June Morning (10am – 12pm CET):

  • Visit to the Fablab
  • Introduction to Siegen based projects

Wednesday 19th June Afternoon (3PM – 4.30PM, CET):

Seminar Talks:

Pedro Ferreira

Posthumanist Care and Ecologies of Empathy: Investigating Design Potentials for Nature/Culture HCI

Abstract

HCI nature/culture dialogues have recently gained traction, highlighting ample opportunities for investigation. Here we look at the potential of locative games in fostering caring engagement with natural/cultural heritage, and present the results of a contextual study that explores the nature/culture duality of the Levada walks in Madeira Island and their intrinsic playfulness as a natural landscape. Through a combination of narrative self-reports and cultural probes, we conducted an on-site investigation of the motivations and embodied experiences of hiking these trails, distilling an empirical epistemology of human-nature interactions. By unpacking the various realities and tensions on the ground through a feminist ethics of care and posthuman lens, we provide insight into the design of future locative interactive technologies to support and encourage human-nature interaction. This research — which addresses and promotes values of engagement and conservation in cultural and natural heritage through a nature/culture continuum — was conducted within the LoGaCulture project, a Horizon Europe-funded consortium that brings together the leaders in digital locative games, in collaboration with some of Europe’s most significant cultural institutions, to enable a new generation of locative cultural heritage games through proposals for design guidance, validated ethical frameworks, and an open, extensible, and reusable set of technologies — a consortium that I will address during my talk.

Speaker

Pedro Ferreira holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, an MSc in Science Communication (Science Media Production) from Imperial College London, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Communication Sciences (Science Communication), from NOVA FCSH. Pedro is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) within the LoGaCulture project at ITI, and an Invited Assistant Professor of neuroscience and behavioural genetics at ISPA, in Lisbon. A neuroscientifically-trained Science & Technology Studies scholar, Pedro will be further studying the HCI brain at the Champalimaud Foundation in 2024/2025 through and its Fundamentals of Medicine Diploma of Advanced Studies.

Shuhao Ma
Uncovering Gig Worker-Centered Design Opportunities


Abstract

The gig economy and digital labour platforms, such as food delivery, have become essential while also troubling the current socioeconomic landscape. Delivery platforms promise entry-level work, flexibility, and other benefits. However, researchers remain divided on whether these platforms benefit workers and society at large. This study aims to shed light on the comprehensive challenges in food delivery work, uncovering gig worker-centred design opportunities to improve the lives of food couriers. Adopting an exploratory research process, we analyzed 19 ride-along food delivery videos and performed nine semi-structured interviews with food couriers in Portugal. Our findings illustrated the complexity and challenging nature of delivery work due to the entangled physical, digital, social, natural, and human factors. We captured and discussed gig worker-centred opportunities that surfaced from work challenges, echoing the needs of food couriers about supporting work, justice, inclusion, and work vision.

Speaker

Shuhao is a PhD candidate in Digital Media at the Interactive Technologies Institute, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and an affiliated PhD student at CMU/HCII through the CMU Portugal program. His doctoral research examines the dynamic relationship between design activities and labour in the gig economy. He is particularly focused on exploring how HCI and design strategies can improve the living experiences of marginalized working communities and promote social justice and sustainability. Before pursuing his PhD, Shuhao worked as an interaction designer and obtained a Master’s Degree in Design from Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Thursday 20th June Morning (10AM – 12PM, CET):

Seminar Talk:

Sima Amirkhani

Usable privacy and security with subtopic: online romance scam

Thursday 20th June Afternoon (3PM – 4:30PM, CET):

Seminar Talks:

Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado
Co-design under the Bauhaus of the Seas Lighthouse Project: a New European Bauhaus Case Study in Lisbon and Oeiras


Abstract

The Bauhaus of the Seas (BoS) is one of the Lighthouse projects of the New Euro-pean Bauhaus initiative (NEB). The project
promotes the application of the NEB values – sustainable, beautiful, together – to develop locally grounded Demonstrator Pilots and focus cities’ attention on the future of the oceans. A co-design approach is being applied in a series of participatory sessions with stakeholders, including nature/ecosystem experts, cultural institutions, local authorities and civic organizations, aiming at a consolidated collaborative approach. In this report, we present the results from the co-design processes under development in Oeiras and Lisbon – two coastal territories involved in the BoS. Our findings reveal that co-designing in a multi-stakeholder participatory process presents challenges, ranging from the discomfort of working in bottom-up decision-making settings to the difficulty of amplifying underrepresented voices, as well as the ethical, philosophical and practical challenges of involving
other-than-human beings.

Speaker

Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado is a Portuguese multidisciplinary researcher. He performs in three main domains: science (biology), creativity (design), and management (strategy). Currently, he is a postdoc for the BoS project in ITI/LARSyS, studying how
to increase the representativeness of other-than-humans in decision-making.

Filipa Correia
Two Perspectives of How Robots Affect Humans

Abstract

In this talk, Filipa will present two recent publications at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’24). One paper presents the results of a user study using the Robotic Cyberball Paradigm in a third-person perspective with a sample of 52 children aged between five to ten years old. The experimental results show that even 5-year-old children could discern when robots excluded another child. Children who observed exclusion reported lower levels of belonging and control, and exhibited higher prosocial behaviour than those witnessing inclusion. The other paper proposes a radically new posthuman perspective of the robomorphism theory. According to this paradigm, robomorphism is the attribution of robotlike traits to non-robotic entities. The robomorphism paradigm helps define its inherent concepts, such as robomorphisation and robomorphic. Additionally, there are broader implications of the robomorphism theory to the research community of Human-Robot Interaction, raising important new challenges.

Speaker

Filipa Correia received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2021. She is currently an assistant researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute. Her multidisciplinary research tackles the intersection of robotics, computer science and social psychology, and her work has been widely acknowledged by the scientific community within the topics of human-robot multiparty interactions and human-robot teamwork.