PhysioCHI24: Sensing the Body: Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI Hawaiʻi Convention Center Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, HI, United States, May 11-16, 2024

Sensing the Body : Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI

Recently, we saw a trend toward using physiological signals in interactive systems. These signals, offering deep insights into users’ internal states and health, herald a new era for HCI. However, as this is an interdisciplinary approach, many challenges arise for HCI researchers, such as merging diverse disciplines, from understanding physiological functions to design expertise. Also, isolated research endeavors limit the scope and reach of findings. This workshop aims to bridge these gaps, fostering cross-disciplinary discussions on usability, open science, and ethics tied to physiological data in HCI.

We unite scholars, practitioners, and researchers to advance the application of physiological signals for input and evaluation in HCI, emphasizing reproducible and open practices.

Our aim is to foster a collaborative environment where interdisciplinary expertise converges, setting new standards for integrating physiological data in user-centric design and research.

Submission Guidelines

Biosensing technologies are increasingly more widely integrated in HCI. Biosignals provide novel opportunities for interaction, offering valuable insights into ordinarily hidden processes inside our bodies, revealing somatic information about our and other’s bodies, emotions, health, and cognitive processes. However, integrating biosignals in HCI presents many challenges regarding transparency, UX, I/O, interpretation of biodata, and broader ethical concerns.

To map out the landscape of existing challenges and future research directions, we invite participants working with biosignals to join a one-day hybrid workshop held at the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems following a hybrid format.

We welcome participants from HCI, Psychology, Neuroscience, Data Science, Mixed Reality, and Digital Ethics.

You can access the Workshop proposal here.

We invite submissions of 4-8 page position papers or case studies, presenting a project, or articulating a challenge related to this call. Alternatively, authors may submit their previously published papers raising relevant questions. Submissions should be sent to EasyChair , must adhere to accessibility guidelines outlined by ACM, and use a CEUR Workshop Proceedings template.

The organizing committee will select submissions based on the quality and contribution of the work relating to the workshop themes, with a special focus on biosignal integration. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend (in-person or remote) and register for the workshop and the CHI’24 conference.

Organizing Committee

• Francesco Chiossi (LMU Munich)
• Ekaterina Stepanova (Simon Fraser University)
• Benjamin Tag (Monash University)
• Monica Perusquía-Hernández (NAIST)
• Alexandra Kitson (Simon Fraser University)
• Arindam Dey (University of Queensland)
• Sven Mayer (LMU Munich)
• Abdallah El Ali (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - CWI)

Contact

For closer communication and community engagement contact us at physiochi24@medien.ifi.lmu.de  and join our Physiological Interaction Slack Server!