NatureHCI'21: Designing for/with/around Nature CHItaly 2021 Bolzano, Italy, July 12, 2021 |
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Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=naturehci21 |
Submission deadline | April 23, 2021 |
In 2020, when most of the world population has experienced limitations to free mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialization and outdoor life started to be strongly desired and dreamed. Technologies such as smartphones, cameras, sports trackers, electronic tourist guides, head-mounted displays have the potential to enable, enhance or disrupt users' experience of and interaction with nature, broadly intended as an open-air setting that includes cities, peripheries, rural areas, wild natural environments. Thus, the use of technology outdoors offers a wide range of interesting aspects and challenges to be investigated, such as individual wellbeing, knowledge generation, sustainability, and social issues.
Resonating with the CHItaly theme "Frontiers of HCI", this workshop aims to bring together researchers exploring the frontiers of i) using technology outdoors, in terms of scope, opportunities, and limitations;ii) spaces that are not only natural or artificial but hybrid and offer opportunities for remote and asynchronous outdoor experiences;iii) interaction design in accounting for human interests over a variety of non-human ecologies.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Technology enabling/enhancing/augmenting the natural experience
- Ecotourism
- The political ecology of interaction design
- Outdoor sports
- Citizen science
- Socialization outdoors (e.g., parks and public spaces, community gardening)
- Education & Serious leisure outdoors
- Environmental sustainability
- Technology for outdoor safety and safety when using technology outdoors
- Natural and cultural heritage (e.g., cultural landscapes)
- The indoorisation of natural elements (e.g., indoorisation of outdoor sports, virtual/augmented reality)
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