We excited to announce information on the accepted workshops at BCS HCI 2025!
Co-Designing Human-Centred AI Technologies for Health and Wellbeing: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
Abstract:
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in technologies for health and wellbeing. However, many of these AI-based interventions often overlook the critical role of patients, healthcare professionals, and other key stakeholders and do not involve them early and inclusively enough in the design process. Thus, we propose to organise a full day hybrid workshop to discuss the challenges and opportunities to use co-design approaches as a critical methodology to meaningfully involve different key stakeholders from the very beginning of the design process taking a multidisciplinary and democratic approach to human-centred AI design. We will invite a multidisciplinary group of participants from academia and industry, as well as practitioners who will discuss their experiences, barriers, and facilitators for using co-design for designing culturally appropriate AI-based technology in diverse healthcare and wellbeing contexts.
Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/bcs-hci-2025-workshop/
Opportunities and Challenges of Designing for Mindful Eating: Integrating HCI Research on Mindfulness, Human-Food Interaction and Somaesthetics
Abstract:
Given its sensory and emotional qualities, food as a rich resource for design has been much explored in Human-Food Interaction research. Besides such positive aspects of food and food experiences, other scholars have focused on problematic and disordered eating, as well as technologies’ negative impact on the growing number of people living with these conditions. Drawing from mindfulness-based interventions, health research has explored effective interventions for mindful eating, which however have been limitedly harnessed in interaction design, despite the growing body of HCI research on mindfulness technologies emphasizing also the role of the human body in mindfulness practices.
Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/bschci25mindfuleating/home
Accessibility in Austerity: Formulating Strategies for Accessibility Research in Constrained Times
Abstract:
Accessibility research, and the experience of disabled people are increasingly threatened by economic cuts and fluctuating political landscapes. Austerity sees a shift towards frugality with public money, with disabled people most at risk. Accessibility research, similarly, faces challenges as governments wish to reduce research funding, and large technology companies shift their focus to the global AI race. This workshop will bring together accessibility researchers, students, and practitioners to explore what we can do with these increasing constraints in the UK and its broader context. We will create a strategy for both managing current challenges and resisting future constraints, with a view to shaping a community of resilient and impact-led accessibility researchers in the UK.
Workshop site: TBC
Beyond Quantitative Goals: Design for Qualitative Goals and their Quantitative Subgoals
Abstract:
Goals, as key aspects of users’ motivation, have been much explored in personal informatics and behaviour change, albeit with an emphasis on single-domain, individual, and quantitative goals with limited account for users’ intrinsic motivation. This half-day workshop aims to address these gaps through six underexplored themes focusing on (i) designing for qualitative goals, (ii) extending the measurement of quantitative goals beyond behavioural measures, (iii) accounting for and supporting users’ intrinsic motivation, (iv) critical approach to goal setting, (v) supporting multiple-domain goals and social goals, and (vi) addressing the theoretical gap of technologies for behaviour change and their interventions.
Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/qualitative-goals