Registration

Coffee and breakfast will be served during registration

Welcome

The General Chairs will welcome attendees and introduce the symposium’s aims and agenda.

Panel: New ways of knowing

10:00 am Core voice talk: Paul Dourish

10:30 am Paper presentations:

• Permission to Muck About, Knowledge, and the Grammar of Intuition by Joseph Lindley and David Philip Green (10’)
• Reflections Towards More Thoughtful Engagement with Literature Reviews in HCI by Raquel Breejon Robinson and Elisa Mekler (5’)
• Weaving Perspectives into Practice: A Manifesto for Combining Artistic and Qualitative Epistemological Strategies by Kathryn Blair, Pil Hansen, and Lora Oehlberg (5’)
• Designing our Weird Social XR Future: Tactics to support hybrid ways of embodied knowing by Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Elena Márquez Segura, and Katherine Isbister (10’)

11:00 am Break

11:20 am Core voice talk: Kia Höök

11:50 am Paper presentations:

• Intercorporeal Design: Dissolving Self-Other Dualism in Interaction Design by Ekaterina Stepanova, and Bernhard Reicke (10’)
• The Inbetweeny Collective: Reflexive Dialogues on the Liminality of Researchers' Lived Experiences by Denise Quesnel, Tatiana Losev, Ekaterina R. Stepanova, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Bernhard E. Riecke (10’)
• Designerly Ways of Knowing – Soma Design Meets Industrial Design Thinking by Alice Borg, Claudia Núñez Pacheco, Anna Karlsson, and Kristina Höök (10’)

12.20 Roundtable discussion

This panel will be moderated by Raquel Robinson, as one of the theme’s chairs.

Lunch

Panel: Reflective practices with AI

2:00 pm Core voice talk: Terry Winograd

2:30 pm Paper presentations:

• Explainable AI Reloaded: Challenging the XAI Status Quo in the Era of Large Language Models by Upol Ehsan and Mark Riedl (10’)
• Computational Poetry is Lost Poetry by Max Kreminski (5’)
• From Singularity to PlurAIverse: Expanding the AI Design Paradigm by Konstantin Aal, Sarah Rüller, and Volker Wulf (5’)
• Dr. Ping and Dr. Pong: Rethinking Writing and Work with Playful Embodied AIs by Ahmet Börütecene and Oğuz'Oz' Buruk (5’)
• Against Generative UI by Pavel Okopnyi, Oda Elise Nordberg, and Frode Guribye (5’)
• Can Machines Tell What People Want? Bringing Situated Intelligence to Generative AI by Alexandra Bremers and Wendy Ju (5’)

3:30 pm Roundtable discussion

This panel will be moderated by Nik Martelaro, as one of the theme’s chairs.

Coffee break

Interactive forum I

The symposium’s first interactive forum will start with a round of lightning talks (1-minute micro presentations) where all presenters will have a chance to briefly introduce their work. Following, we will move to the presentation area where presenters and other attendees will have a chance to engage in informal conversations around each author’s presentation space. Coffee and snacks will be served during the forum. This interactive forum will feature the following works related to the New ways of knowing, Reflective practices with AI, and Plurality of Humanness themes of the symposium:

• Making alternatives through designing for mediated religious and spiritual practice by Caroline Claisse, David Chatting, Sara Wolf, Ben Morris, and Abigail C. Durrant (New ways of knowing)
• Prototyping Jewish Ritual Objects: Wearable Affordances for Intention and Connection by Ian Gonsher, Rebecca Michelson, and Brett A. Halperin (New ways of knowing)
• Spools and Sparks: The Role of Materiality in Computational Making with E-textiles and BBC Micro:bit by Jennifer Rode, Yifan Feng, Annapoorni Parli Chandrashekar, Sonia Andreou, and Andri Ioannou (New ways of knowing)
• A utility belt for an agricultural robot: reflection-in-action for applied design research by Natalie Friedman, Asmita Mehta, Alexandra Bremers, Kari Love, Awsaf Ahmed, and Wendy Ju (New ways of knowing)
• Five Political Provocations for Soma Design: A Relational Perspective on Emotion and Politics by Rachael Garrett, Pasko Kisić-Merino, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Pedro Sanches, and Kristina Höök (New ways of knowing)
• Design with ‘Floating Signifier’ by Masood Rangraz (Reflective practices with AI)
• EverForest: A More-Than-AI Sustainable Cyber-Ecological Manifesto from Speculative On-Chain Artificial Life by Botao Hu and Fang Ting (Reflective practices with AI)
• Whose Values Matter in Persuasive Writing Tools? by Houda Elmimouni, Anasuya Sharma, Vidushi Manayra, Man Iao Chan, Yifan Feng, Kata Kyrola, and Jennifer Ann Rode (Plurality of humanness)
• Skins, Clothes, Costumes, Bling: How and Why Experts Dress their Robots by Natalie Friedman, Awsaf Ahmed, and Wendy Ju (Plurality of humanness)
• Synthetic Sentience: From Cup to Dish by Jiabao Li and WhiteFeather Hunter (Plurality of humanness)

This interactive forum will be moderated by the chairs of the themes New ways of knowing, Reflective practices with AI, and Plurality of Humanness who are present. 

End of day

Recap and reflection

We will host an informal conversation where attendees will be invited to share their thoughts about Days 1 & 2 of the symposium. Coffee and breakfast will be served

Interactive Forum II

The symposium’s second interactive forum will start with a round of lightning talks (1-minute micro presentations) where all presenters will have a chance to briefly introduce their work. Following, we will move to the presentation area where presenters and other attendees will have a chance to engage in informal conversations around each author’s presentation space. This interactive forum will feature the following works related to the More-than-humanness theme of the symposium:

• Making Space for Poems: An Invitation to More-than-Human Design by Armi Behzad (More-than-humanness)
• Manifesto for creating with/for more-than-humans by Jiabao Li, Leslie Ruckman, and Gal Nissim (More-than-humanness)
• Decentering the Designer Through Live-Action Roleplay by Mikaela O'Bryan, Alberto Alvarez, Jose Font, and Raquel Robinson (More-than-humanness)
• What if we re-position joy at the heart of the sustainability transition? by Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Jordi Márquez Puig (More-than-humanness)
• Consume Our Consumption by Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo, and Jiabao Li (More-than-humanness)
• Data Sets for Regenerative Futures: Noticing Emergence by Michael Dunbar and Chris Speed (More-than-humanness)
• Becoming Bat by Jiabao Li and Botao Hu (More-than-humanness)
• Speculative F/Actors: Climate Futures – Crafting a Workshop for Collaborative Worldbuilding in Cataclysmic Climates by Michael Beach, Christina Graves, and Tyler Fox (More-than-humanness)
• The Ways of Water: A Guiding Metaphor for Designing Calm Technologies for Well-Being by Kuan-Ju Wu, Harpreet Sareen and Yasuaki Kakehi (More-than-humanness) (More-than-humanness)
• A Post-Qualitative Foray into Theorizing Privacy Through Entanglement by Priya Kumar (More-than-humanness) (More-than-humanness)

This interactive forum will be moderated by the chairs of the More-than-humanness theme.

Panel: More-than-humanness

10:30 am Core voice talk: Ron Wakkary

11:00 am Paper presentations:

• Computing for the 22nd Century – More-than-human to see the environmental footprints of profound technologies by Mikael Wiberg and Robin Teigland (5’) 
• Designing Our Way Through Abstractions: Calling for More Practice-based More-than-Human Design Research by Caglar Genc, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Linas Gabrielaitis, Esthiak Ahmed, and Velvet Spors (10’)
• Caring through: Engaging with temporality of care in more-than-human design by Gizem Oktay, Minha Lee, Bahareh Barati, and Ron Wakkary (10’)

11:30 am Break

11:50 am Paper presentations:

• The Material Correspondence Framework: Mapping Material Encounters in More than Human Worlds by Jihan Sherman and Michael Nitsche (10’)
• Directions for Degradation: Multispecies Entanglements with 3D Printed Biomaterials by Fiona Bell and Leah Buechley (10’)
• Creating with more-than-humans by Jiabao Li, Leslie Ruckman, and Gal Nissim (10’)

12:20 pm Roundtable discussion

This panel will be moderated by Andy Quitmeyer, as one of the theme’s chairs.

Lunch

Panel: Panel: Plurality of humanness

1:30 pm Core voice talk: Shaowen Bardzell

2:00 pm Paper presentations:

• A Plurality of More-than-Humanness: Feminist Speculations for Designing with the Vaginal Microbiome by Nadia Campo Woytuk, Fiona Bell, Joo Young Park, Mirela Alistar, and Madeline Balaam (10’)
• Ambiguity as a Resource to Design for a Plurality of Bodies by Laia Turmo Vidal and Jared Duval (10’)
• True Sight: How Transgender Perspectives Can Shape Values for Designing Embodied Interactions by Michelle Cormier and Phoebe Toups Dugas (5’)
• Learning to Fail Beautifully: Pole Dancing as a Case Study of Gender Euphoria & Dysphoria for Embodied Interaction Design by Phoebe Toups Dugas and Theresa Tanenbaum (10’)
• Towards Appropriating Tools for Queer Use by Jingyi Li (5’)
• What Worlds Are We Designing For? by Jen Liu and Cindy Lin (5’)

3:00 pm Roundtable discussion

This panel will be moderated by Sarah Fox, as one of the theme’s chairs.

Coffee break

Synthesis conversation & what next

We will host an open conversation where people can share their takeaways from the symposium and discuss their ideas and expectations for Halfway to the Future moving forward. We hope to consolidate the key take-aways from the symposium and set the foundations for its next edition(s). Coffee and snacks will be served during the conversation.

Closing remarks & end of symposium