STT 2021: Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces 2021 |
Website | https://stt21.lab.plopes.org |
Submission deadline | February 19, 2021 |
The “Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces” workshop (STT 2021) addresses the burgeoning subfield of chemo- and thermo-sensory interfaces (smell, taste, and temperature) as well as their cultural contexts, usage, and resulting experiences. This three-day workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum of discussion for academics and practitioners interested in leveraging these sensations.
This workshop will be held virtually at ACM CHI 2021.
Important Dates
Paper Submission | Febrauary 19, 2021 |
Paper Notification of Acceptance | March 5, 2021 |
Camera-Ready Version | March 12, 2021 |
Workshop | May 7-9, 2021 |
Submission Guidelines
Researchers and practitioners from academia, arts, and industry are invited to apply to the workshop by submitting a 1-4 page position or research paper in the ACM Master Article Submission Template single column format via the Easy Chair system. The submission deadline is Friday, February 19, 2021 at 12:00pm (noon) PT. All applications will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and selection will be based on the paper’s quality.
Upon acceptance, participants are asked to produce a 5-minute introduction/paper presentation video, which will also be shared publicly on the workshop website. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.
List of Topics
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following
- Design and use of multi-sensory technologies.
- Technologies pushing forward smell, taste, and thermal experiences.
- Chemo- and thermo-sensory augmentation.
- Cultural aspects and contexts of multi-sensory interactions in everyday life and history, which influence and shape both the technologies being developed and their societal adoption.
- Techniques & recommendations for recording and stimulating chemo- and thermo-sensations.
We aim to additionally highlight and discuss open challenges in the field, which include, but are not limited to,
- Power consumption: affects all chemo- and thermo-sensory devices, but especially thermo-.
- Chemicals: affects all chemo-sensory devices (smell, taste, chemesthetic), often non-reducible, recordings and replay of experiences, precision, inter- and intra-modality effects (e.g. suppression effects).
- Non-technical: complexity of dimensions, precision, cultural adoption, sharing data across HCI researchers, open sourcing of devices, simultaneously ongoing basic scientific research.
Organizing Committee
- Jas Brooks, University of Chicago, United States
- Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago, United States
- Judith Amores, MGH/Harvard Medical School and the MIT Media Lab, United States
- Emanuela Maggioni, University College London, United Kingdom
- Haruka Matsukura, Osaka University, Japan
- Marianna Obrist, University College London, United Kingdom
- Roshan Peiris, Rochestere Institute of Technology, United States
- Nimesha Ranasinghe, University of Main, United States
Publication
STT 2021 proceedings will be published on the workshop webpage.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to jasbrooks[at]uchicago.edu