STT 2023: Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2023 Congress Center Hamburg (CCH) Hamburg, Germany, April 23, 2023 |
Conference website | https://smelltastetemperature.com |
Abstract registration deadline | February 26, 2023 |
Submission deadline | February 26, 2023 |
The “Sharing and Experiencing Hardware and Methods to Advance Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces” workshop (STT 23) at CHI 2023 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 one-day (potentially two-day) workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum of discussion for academics and practitioners interested in leveraging these sensations.
There has been a monumental push from the CHI community to bring more human senses to interactive devices. This trend is significant because we use all our senses in everyday interactions but only an extremely narrow subset when interacting with computers. This workshop focuses on bringing together researchers to advance some of the most challenging senses to embed into interfaces, but arguably the most exciting: smell, taste, and temperature. To integrate these modalities into interfaces, researchers not only use methods from traditional mechanics or haptics (e.g., pumps, heating pads, etc.) but must also acquire tacit skills and understandings from psychophysics, neuroscience, anatomy, and chemistry (e.g., receptor signaling pathways or food chemistry). This demo-based workshop provides a platform to come together and bring their demonstrations, experiments, and hardware to experience, discuss, and advance the field.
This workshop will be held in-person at ACM CHI 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission | Friday, February 24, 2023 |
Paper Submission | Sunday, February 26, 2023 |
Notification of Acceptance | Friday, March 10, 2023 |
Camera-Ready Version | Friday, April 7, 2023 |
Workshop | Sunday, April 23, 2023 |
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 24, 2023 at 12:00pm (noon) PT. In line with STT 2023's goals, we will prioritize submissions that include in-person demonstrations or share tacit knowledge. All applications will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and selection will be based on the paper’s quality.
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
- Sharing & open-sourcing experimental setups, hardware, or toolkits for smell, taste, and temperature.
- Techniques and methods to design and use multi-sensory technologies.
- Systems for recording, stimulating, and augmenting multi-sensory experiences.
- Assistive and environmental technologies using smell, taste, or temperature.
- Cultural aspects and contexts of multi-sensory interactions in everyday life and history, and how they influence and shape the technologies developed and their societal adoption
We aim to additionally highlight and discuss open challenges in the field, which include, but are not limited to,
- Recommendations on sharing tacit knowledge.
- Sharing system designs: share how researchers overcome power limitations, wearable form factor constraints, network constraints, and compute resource utilization.
- Tackling the replication of this research: affects all these devices, which end up being often non-reducible, recordings and replay of experiences, precision, inter-, and intra-modality effects.
- Data sharing & modeling: how to share data across HCI researchers, benefit from recommended practices in data modeling, information dissemination, and evaluation methodologies.
- Perception: avoid sensory conflicts or take advantage of mixed senses, calibrate for over or under stimulation, predictably stimulate senses for a large and diverse population of people.
- Social implications: for example, questions around cultural adoption and equal access to these interfaces
Organizing Committee
- Jas Brooks, University of Chicago, United States
- Alireza Bahremand, Arizona State University, United States
- Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago, United States
- Christy Spackman, Arizona State University, United States
- Judith Amores, Microsoft Research, United States
- Hsin-Ni Ho, Kyushu University, Japan
- Masahiko Inami, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Simon Niedenthal, Malmö University, Sweden
- Jessica Lai, Arizona State University, United States
- Mason Manetta, Arizona State University, United States
- Lauryn Mannigel, Arizona State University, United States
Publication
STT 2023 proceedings will be published on the workshop webpage. These are non-archival, and will not have DOIs. If you do not want your submission to be published, please let us know.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to jasbrooks[at]uchicago.edu