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Call for Papers
ACADEMIC MINDTREK 2023 CONFERENCE
Human-Nature Interaction track
October 3-6, 2023
Tampere (Finland) and online
https://www.mindtrek.org/2023/academic-2023/
Deadline for full papers & workshops: June 8, 2023
Deadline for posters, demos & doctoral consortium submissions: August 17, 2023
Chairs: Ferran Altarriba (Tampere University), Velvet Spors (Tampere University), Katherine Isbister (University of California, Santa Cruz), Pat Brundell (University of Nottingham)
On behalf of my co-chairs at the Academic Mindtrek 2023 conference I invite you to submit your work to our Human-Nature Interaction track. The conference will take place in Tampere (Finland) on October 3-6, 2023. Though in-person attendance will be very much encouraged, we will host a hybrid event with professional video streaming. The conference welcomes full papers, workshops, demonstrations, and poster presentations on various topics, as well as a Doctoral Consortium. In cooperation with ACM and ACM SIGCHI, contributions will be published in the ACM digital library.
Our Human-Nature Interaction track aims to bring together a body of exciting research into the design of interactive technology targeting the human-nature interplay. We welcome a broad range of research topics and projects that explore the potential of tech to enhance people’s experience of and relationship with nature. In particular, we are interested in works that transcend the bounds of techno-solutionism; that is, works that explore how technology could contribute to enriching human-nature interactions beyond productivist or otherwise utilitarian frames, thus embracing the importance of alternative values such as joy, fun, care, or multi-species inter-relatedness. Overall, we intend to stimulate a conversation around the potential of technology to support future human-nature entanglements that are experientially rich, socio-culturally meaningful, ecologically caring, and ultimately, joyful and fun.
We welcome papers representing various research approaches and methodologies. Due to the track’s theme and focus, we expect the conversation to have a slight orientation toward HCI, interaction design, and design research. However, we also welcome submissions from other disciplines such as social sciences or the arts, e.g. in the form of research or artistic work centered on the impact of tech on people’s relationship with nature. We invite various submission types, including theoretical works, argumentation essays, empirical studies, design cases, annotated portfolios and pictorials, experiences, artworks, and methods papers.
In summary, this track’s topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- The impact of technology on human-nature interactions
- Technology design centered on values of joy and/or care (for the environment, for oneself, for other humans, for other species…)
- Celebratory technology for nature-related activity
- Technology that imitates, simulates, or augments nature experiences
- Design research that touches upon environmental and ecological justice, restoration, sustainability, and climate change
- Participatory engagements that reflect on local flora and fauna through technology
- Playful or gameful design targeting forestry experiences
- Novel methods for co-designing for and/or from the forest
- Critical, speculative, and/or theoretical works that reflect upon these themes and concerns
Key dates:
Submission opens on EasyChair: May 8, 2023
Deadline for full papers & workshops: June 8, 2023
Deadline for posters, demos & doctoral consortium submissions: August 17, 2023
Conference dates: October 3-6, 2023
More information: https://www.mindtrek.org/2023/academic-2023/
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