There is an ongoing trend on embedding computing and communication capabilities into everyday objects, turning them into smart objects. Examples range from smart (tangible) objects over smart cars to even large-scale urban infrastructures. Other recent examples deal with the fabrication of smart objects, smart sensory augmentation, and smart spaces. This workshop will focus on how the intelligence situated in these smart objects can be harvested to provide more efficient and enjoyable interaction possibilities for the users. The underlying research fields pose unique challenges and opportunities for designing the interaction with such devices.

Topics

We seek high-quality contributions that explore the combination of intelligent interaction with the specific characteristics of smart objects. Topics include but are not limited to:

• technology and models required for enabling the interaction with smart objects
• novel interaction concepts for smart objects
• engineering of smart objects
• multimodal interaction
• self-explanatory smart objects
• fabrication of smart objects
• smart sensory augmentation and smart spaces
• smart cars
• embodied and tangible interaction
• context-awareness
• accessibility through smart objects
• intelligibility of smart objects
• user studies and evaluation techniques
• privacy and trust aspects of smart objects

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions as papers (2-6 pages, excluding references) that describe a motivated opinion or viewpoint on interaction with smart objects, identify an open issue or important problem, or presents work in progress.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three peers. Besides based on general contributions, submissions will also be selected on their potential to foster discussion. All submissions should be prepared according to single-column acmart (for templates see here; please use \documentclass[sigconf,anonymous,review]{acmart} for submission). Please submit your work anonymously as PDF.

Publication

All accepted submissions will be made available to all participants before the workshop. In addition, accepted submissions will appear in our proceedings published through TUprints (including a DOI). The authors retain copyright. Thus, papers can be submitted for other venues that allow this. Please note that at least one author must register for the workshop.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: April 22, 2022 (AOE)
• Author Notification: April 29, 2022 (AOE)
• Camera-ready version: May 6, 2022 (AOE)
• Workshop: June 21, 2022

Organizer

• Martin Schmitz, Saarland University
• Sebastian Günther, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Karola Marky, University of Glasgow
• Florian Müller, LMU Munich
• Alexandra Voit, adesso SE
• Roberts Marky, Black Arrow Financial Solutions Ltd.
• Max Mühlhäuser, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Thomas Kosch, Utrecht University

Venue

The Rethinking Smart Objects workshop is held in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '22)

Contact

Feel free to contact us via mail.