Fashnology2019: Fashnology Across Social, Cultural, and Religious Ideals and Practices The 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019 Paphos, Cyprus, September 2-6, 2019 |
Conference website | https://fashn-ology.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fashnology2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 20, 2019 |
Submission deadline | May 20, 2019 |
We invite researchers and practitioners with an interest in designing inclusive wearables to submit position papers for the IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019 workshop: Fashnology Across Social, Cultural, and Religious Ideals and Practices. This workshop aims to address the importance of creating wearables that are inclusive, empathetic, and culturally sensitive. The omnipresence of wearables in our everyday life may potentially create conflict within one’s culture. While addressing the necessity of diversity in design, it is crucial to consider cultural, social, and religious differences that may affect interaction and interpretation. It would require research and understanding to discover and learn how to nurture cultural, social, and religious inclusivity when designing wearables. The one day workshop will offer an interdisciplinary platform of discussion for both academics and practitioners interested in universal design, inclusive technology, and fashnology.
Topics
The one day workshop will focus on addressing the challenges of designing and developing wearables that consider cultural, social, and religious variability. The results of the workshop will propel the construction of a conceptual framework for fashnology design for wearables given varied social, cultural, and religious ideals.
Accepted position papers include but are not limited to:
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Current research that considers factors that are relevant to fashnology and social, cultural, and religious aspects;
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Personal case studies while using wearables given the same context;
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Revisiting the design of existing wearables: creating cultural conscious versions.
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Current research that addresses the impact on healthcare wearables consumption when neglecting social, cultural, and religious factors in the design process.
Submission Guidelines
In order to participate in the workshop, 4-6 page position papers (Springer LNCS format) should be submitted via EasyChair. All position papers will be reviewed and selection will be made based on the quality and relevance of the position paper.
Organizing Committee
Shiroq Al-Megren is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU). She is a co-investigator with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the Smart Distributed Systems research group at KSU. For the past year, she (along with her colleague, Najwa Alghamdi) were responsible for re-evaluating the User Experience Design core module for the IT department at KSU. Within this course, students were encouraged to address the cultural, religious, and social differences that impact the design of an interactive system, particularly wearables. She is the current web officer of KACST ACM SIGCHI’s local chapter in Riyadh, which initiated the first ACM SIGCHI-sponsored Summer School in HCI Research Methods (August 2018; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
Najwa Alghamdi is an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at KSU, and a member of the HCI Lab at KACST, and KACST ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter in Riyadh. Her research interests lie primarily in speech and hearing interfaces and technologies and their applications to healthcare. She has led the research and development of a bundle of auditory/audio-visual rehabilitation and accessibility solutions addressed to the hard-of-hearing recipients of cochlear implants. It was with this work, that Najwa encountered the clash between accessible solutions and fashion. Najwa has participated as a speaker at the first ACM SIGCHI-sponsored Summer School in HCI Research Methods, presenting the design principles of voice user interfaces.
Ragad Allwihan is an assistant professor of computer science at King Saud Bin AbdulAziz University for health science. She is an affiliated researcher with the HCI Lab at (KACST), and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC). She is a member in KACST ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter and participated in organizing the first ACM SIGCHI Sponsored Summer School in HCI Research Methods (August 2018) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research interests are in the mobile HCI, user experience, cross-cultural design and HCI research methods.
Nora Alrajebah is an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University. She is an affiliated member at the Informatics, Web technologies, and Arabic Natural Language Processing research group (IWAN) at the university. Her research interests are computational sociology, web science, data science and network science. She is interested in studying the intersection between users and technologies. In particular, she is interested in studying the way users influence and change technologies and vice versa.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings and available at the workshop website.
Venue
The Coral Beach Hotel & Resort in Paphos, Cyprus, is situated on 500 meters of natural sandy beach with its own private harbour. It is close to the town of Paphos, 30 minutes from Paphos International Airport and 150km from Larnaca International Airport. This unique resort combines the traditional Cypriot décor of white walls and authentic woodwork with the modern amenities expected of a five-star resort.
The hotel is located on the edge of the Akamas peninsula, an area protected by UNESCO. Guests can enter Akamas and enjoy the breathtaking scenery either by horseback, 4×4 jeep or by boat. The town of Paphos has itself been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1980.
Contact
All questions should be addressed to Shiroq Al-Megren <salmegren AT ksu DOT edu DOT sa> or <shiroq AT mit DOT edu>