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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of position papers:
February 11th 2020
Decision to authors:
February 28th 2020
Camera-ready versions due:
March 20th 2020
Workshop date:
April 26 2020
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Automation takes up an increasingly important role in everyday
life. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for a
holistic view on design foundations for automated systems in
everyday private, public and professional surroundings. We
conceive the workshop as an interdisciplinary forum for
user-centered design and research, taking inspiration from
diverse problem areas and application fields. Given their
current relevance for automation experience, four key aspects
(intelligibility, interventions, interplay, and integrity) will
be addressed in expert talks, participant presentations and
group-wise creative thinking exercises. The workshop will
provide a further step towards a research agenda for
comprehensive design and research approaches that provide a
transfer and consolidation across different application domains,
user requirements and system capabilities.
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TOPICS OF INTERST
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Given their current relevance for automation experience, the
workshop will focus on four key aspects of ubiquitous automated
systems: intelligibility, interventions, interplay, and
integrity. Corresponding research questions to be adressed
include:
Intelligibility
- How can non-expert users obtain an overall understanding of
the reasoning of a system?
- Which styles of communication should be used to convey the
state of a ubiquitous automated system?
- How can findings on reliability displays as well as awareness
and intent communication be integrated amongst different
application domains?
- How to enable people with no or little programming skills to
customize the behavior of a system?
Interplay
- How to design for an enjoyable interplay of non-expert users
and automated systems?
- How will future forms of collaboration between non-expert
users and automated systems look like?
- How can non-expert users be involved in decision-making
processes of ubiquitous automated systems?
- Which are promising applications for collaboration of humans
and autonomous systems in everyday life?
Intervention
- How to communicate human intervention opportunities and
potential consequences?
- How to design for (unobtrusive) awareness of ubiquitous
systemsí status?
- How to allow human interventions in complex automated
procedures?
- To what extend should users be able to overrule the system
behavior?
Integrity
- How to design for integrity of automation?
- Is training necessary for interacting with everyday
automation?
- What are the interaction design practices to ensure
automation integrity in different types of projects and
contexts?
- How to assess automation integrity on user
interface/interaction level?
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PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION
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- Position papers must be formatted according to the CHI
Extended Abstract template and comprise between three and five
pages.
- Position papers must be submitted in PDF format
(non-anonymized) to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp20.
- The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers (and
additional experts, if required) based on relevance,
originality, significance and quality.
- Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted
position paper must attend the workshop.
- All workshop participants must register for both the workshop
and for at least one day of the main conference.
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Peter Fröhlich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Matthias Baldauf, University of Applied Sciences St.Gallen
Philippe Palanque, University of Toulouse