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Speculative call
Over the recent past human computer interaction has seen computing flee from the desktop and engage in wider concerns. In the recent years we have seen the rise of urban computing and rural computing. Yet since the industrial revolution we have seen the deliberate creation of a third habitation space, suburbia.
The workshop seeks to acknowledge suburban space is not an inconsequential hinterland between urban and rural spaces but a region with it’s own rich complex patina, history and issues. A zone were a considerable fraction of a city’s population lives. A context for domestic and educational computing. These areas are complex physical and social regions where issues like community and identity emerge forming serpentine like idea of neighbourhood.
This workshop seeks position papers to begin to pursue the influence, on and of, computing and digital technologies in the arena of suburbia. Suggested areas of interest include but are not limited to.
- Suburban informatics
- Work from neighbourhoods
- The facilitation of neighbourhood
- Last mile infrastructure.
- Public/Private information in suburbia
- Social Computing aspects of suburbia
- Technological Gated Communities
- Overlap with computational aspects of suburban sustainable computing
- Suburban transportation issues
- Autonomous vehicles and suburbia
- Shared digital and physical resources
- Legible and accessible uses of personal data in suburbia
The workshop will operate over two days. The first presenting position papers and investigating a suburban region with a conceptual design intervention exercise.
Participants are welcomed from a range of disciplines including architecture, urban design, environmental psychology, computing, HCI, interaction and experience design, service design, digital arts and media, robotics, and cognitive science.
Participants should submit a 2-4-page position paper in extended abstracts format, related to the workshop issues, themes and goals to holger.schnadelbach@nottingham.ac.ukby INSERT DATE HERE. These will be peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary review committee. One author of each accepted paper will need to register for the workshop.
