Workshop Schedule
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WS1Crafting Connections: Building Wellbeing and Community in the PhD journey |
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Saturday morning |
Half Day |
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WS2AI-Driven Co-Design in Health and Care: Exploring Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations |
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Saturday |
Full Day |
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WS3The Role of XR, Spatial, and Physical Interaction in Remote Multimodal Communication: Emotional Well-Being in Older Adults |
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Saturday morning |
Half Day |
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WS4Accessibility Moonshots |
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Saturday afternoon |
Half Day |
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WS5Robots in the wild: Methodological Exploration of Robots in Everyday Environments |
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Saturday morning |
Half Day |
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WS6Moving Together with Robotics : A workshop on Co-embodied Human-Robot Interaction to Inspire Movement |
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Saturday afternoon |
Half Day |
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WS7Engaging human and non-human perspectives in crisis resilience: Designing AI-supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making |
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Saturday afternoon |
Half Day |
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WS8Framing and facilitating Participatory Design for Greater Impact |
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Sunday afternoon |
Half Day |
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WS9Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Online Safety Research |
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Sunday |
Full Day |
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WS10Empathic Entanglements : Designing with and for Robot Others |
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Sunday |
Full Day |
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WS11Epistemic Injustice in and through AI |
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Sunday |
Full Day |
1. Crafting Connections: Building Wellbeing and Community in the PhD journey (Half day, Saturday morning)
We welcome participants of all academic levels who like the idea of meeting people while making beautiful things, and who work in diverse teams and want to try new ways to include others and connect.
Join us to experience European Loom Knitting, Indonesian Wayang Making, Turkish İznik Tile Decorating and Sri Lankan Padura Weaving; learn about the traditions of wellness and community tied to these crafts; and reflect on what wellness and connectedness means to you. After the workshop, the organisers will write a workshop report about how crafting, connectedness and other strategies could better support HDR wellbeing.
Workshop website:
https://alead-b.github.io/WellbeingWorkshop
2. AI-Driven Co-Design in Health and Care: Exploring Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations (Full day, Saturday)
Join us for an interactive workshop that dives into the transformative impact of AI on co-designing health and care solutions. This workshop brings together researchers, clinicians, caregivers, and industry experts to explore how generative AI can boost collaboration, creativity, and inclusivity in complex health and care environments. Through hands-on activities and thoughtful discussions, participants will critically explore the opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations of AI-driven co-design. Whether you’re an AI expert or just beginning to explore these tools, connect with a diverse community shaping the future of human-centered AI in health and care, driving innovation that reflects real-world needs and diverse perspectives.
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/ozchi-ai-co-design-health
3. The Role of XR, Spatial, and Physical Interaction in Remote Multimodal Communication: Emotional Well-Being in Older Adults (Half day, Saturday morning)
As society ages and family structures evolve, older adults increasingly rely on remote social interactions. Traditional methods like video calls and messaging often inadequately support emotional expression, cognitive engagement, and sustained participation among this group. Extended Reality (XR) offers promising multimodal interaction opportunities through spatial presence, gestures, and haptic feedback. However, existing XR platforms often overlook the unique preferences, abilities, and challenges faced by older adults. This workshop invites participants to critically reflect upon and co-design multimodal XR communication experiences, using scenarios such as remotely celebrating holidays, to enhance older adults’ emotional well-being and social connectedness.
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/multimodalcommunication/home
4. Accessibility Moonshots (Half Day, Saturday afternoon)
This workshop invites researchers, designers, and industry practitioners to explore ambitious and high-impact "Accessibility Moonshots" that are transformative goals designed to embed accessibility into all facets of everyday life. Participants will engage in creative scenario-building and discussions aimed at shifting the focus from individual assistive technologies towards universally inclusive environments. We seek contributions addressing:
- Strategies for mainstreaming inclusive design
- Challenges and solutions in implementing inclusive public infrastructure
- Strategies for shifting from accessibility for individuals, to embedding access and inclusion into public spaces
- Harnessing emerging technologies to embed access and inclusion in every aspect of everyday life.
Interested participants can register by completing the registration form in the workshop website.
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/accessibilitymoonshotsworkshop/home
5. Robots in the wild: Methodological Exploration of Robots in Everyday Environments (Half day, Saturday morning)
Robots are increasingly part of our streets, campuses, hospitals, and cities. As these systems leave the lab and become embedded in public life, how do we make sense of their interactions, roles, and impacts? This half-day workshop invites scholars and practitioners from across disciplines to reflect on how we study robots in the wild. Through short participant presentations, a keynote, and a card-based collaborative mapping activity, we will chart the current methodological landscape, surface shared challenges, and co-develop future directions for interdisciplinary research on public robotics.
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/adaptivehri/home
6. Moving Together with Robotics : A workshop on Co-embodied Human-Robot Interaction to Inspire Movement (Half day, Saturday afternoon)
This movement-based human–robot interaction (HRI) workshop invites participants to reimagine the shapes, forms, and movements of human and nonhuman entities through the lens of Performative Experience Design (PED). Framing HRI as a more-than-human encounter, the workshop explores robotic appendages as dynamic bodily extensions through co-embodied movement practices. Employing speculative prototyping and embodied exploration, participants are prompted to reconceptualize robotics through movement, materiality, and performativity. Combining brainstorming and bodystorming, the workshop investigates the interplay between human and nonhuman affordances in coexisting human–robot scenarios, opening new pathways for understanding robotic appearance, behavior, and meaning-making beyond both anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric paradigms.
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ozchi25-moving-robotics-ws/workshop-homepage
7. Engaging human and non-human perspectives in crisis resilience: Designing AI-supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making (Half day, Saturday afternoon)
How can we design technologies that support inclusive planning in times of crisis - accounting not only for human needs, but also for ecological systems and non-human lives? This half-day workshop invites researchers and practitioners to explore how immersive and AI-supported tools might reshape participatory engagement for crisis resilience. Through collaborative mapping, discussion, and speculative design, we will examine current challenges and co-develop new interaction concepts that reflect multispecies perspectives. Participants from HCI, design, planning, and related fields are encouraged to join us in imagining more just, adaptive, and ecologically aware approaches to engagement.
Workshop website:
http://morethanhuman.me/workshop
8. Framing and facilitating Participatory Design for Greater Impact (Half day, Sunday afternoon)
Participatory design (PD) has the potential to address "big issues" with broad societal impact. This hybrid workshop will focus on two key themes: how we frame (distributed) PD activities, and how we facilitate (D)PD to support both participants and facilitators during the design process. These are unified by the question: How do we balance the desire for PD to have greater impact and tackle "big issues", while safeguarding the mental health of participants and facilitators?
Participants are invited but not required to submit a position paper.
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/framing-facilitating-pd/home
9. Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Online Safety Research (Full day, Sunday)
Addressing online safety effectively requires an interdisciplinary approach that bridges research, policy, design, and technology. Yet, current efforts across HCI often remain fragmented, with sub-fields tackling different aspects of the problem in isolation. This workshop brings together researchers, designers, policymakers, and industry practitioners to explore how online safety is approached across disciplines, identify current methods, gaps, and challenges, and foster new collaborations. Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to develop shared understandings and co-create future research directions. We welcome those working on or interested in online safety across design, technology, policy, ethics, and the social sciences.
Workshop website:
10. Empathic Entanglements: Designing with and for Robot Others (Full day, Sunday)
This workshop explores how robots become expressive, empathic entities through amplified behaviours, animal-like movement, and textile augmentation. We frame robotic expression as more-than-human intelligence communicated through body, rhythm, and responsive materials. Participants will ask: How do we design for robotic acceptance without assuming sameness? How can machine behaviours evoke empathy without language? Using textile interfaces, such as elastic bands, feathers, and stretch fabric, participants will construct new connections between human and robot bodies. Outcomes, documented through short performance vignettes, will expand HRI design beyond functional or social robotics into speculative, somatic, and material empathy – interaction felt through contact, not commands.
Workshop website:
https://jareddonovan.github.io/empathic-entanglements-designing-for-and-with-robot-others
11. Epistemic Injustice in and through AI (Full day, Sunday)
AI is rapidly transforming knowledge production and practices across domains yet often embeds epistemic injustices—privileging dominant perspectives while marginalising others. This workshop critically examines epistemic injustice in AI through the lenses of generative AI, creative practice, healthcare, work, education, and automated decision-making. We explore how AI systems respond to diverse sociocultural and epistemological inputs, revealing systemic biases. Through collaborative mapping, creative experimentation, and critical reflection, participants will identify research priorities and intervention strategies. The workshop aims to foster rich dialogue, surface underrepresented perspectives, and advance research on epistemic justice in AI toward more inclusive, equitable technological futures.
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