Workshops
This year, we’re delighted to invite you to four exciting Academic Mindtrek workshops!
More details will be announced soon, but for now, here’s a brief overview of what each workshop will cover.
Please note that participants must be registered to the Academic Mindtrek conference with a ’Presenter/ Visitor/ DC’ pass or a separate ’Workshop’ pass.
1. The Importance of Memes/Academic Shirttalking
A light, informal workshop using memes or humor as a way to surface concerns, frustrations, and shared experiences in academia. The goal is to create a fun space for reflection and discussion.
Registration: TBA
Time & Place: TBA
2. Designing Multi-Reality Futures: Speculative Explorations of Seamless and Meaningful XR Experiences
This speculative design workshop aims at 1) developing possible scenarios of multi-reality experiences that illustrate how transitions across different realities can be thoughtfully crafted and potentially benefit society across diverse domains and 2) critically reflecting their implications across multiple dimensions, such as economic, societal, technological, environmental, and ethical aspects.
Registration: TBA
Time & Place: TBA
3. Alternative Research Outcomes and Presentation Formats
This workshop will invite authors to learn about alternative research outcomes and presentation forms, develop their own alternative approaches, and reflect in the possibilities and limitations of including alternative outcomes and formats in our own research practices.
Registration: TBA
Time & Place: TBA
4. Human-Centered Perspectives on the Role of AI in Accessibility
A Workshop examining the role of Artificial Intelligence in accessibility: past, present, and future. We want to look at what AI is already doing for and to accessibility, what the evidence supports, what is mostly marketing, and what is still missing.
Registration: TBA
Time & Place: TBA