2019 - 2019 Biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter

This edition of the Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter will be held from 23 to 25 September 2019 in Padova. The Chapter is an active community that brings together people working on the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use. The conference is open to both members and nonmembers, enlarging the participation to scholars working in the Mediterranean and central European countries, stimulating the debate in the research and design community.
CHItaly’19 takes place in a context in which the relations between the individual self, the society, the environment and technology are deeply changing. Information and Communication Technologies offer new opportunities to sense huge amounts of data from the entities described above and to use such data to augment human knowledge, to influence behavior and to control our world. Several questions arise from this rapidly changing technological scenario: How can human society take advantage of these new opportunities? What are the risks related to trespassing the boundaries that used to be drawn? Which ethical boundaries need to be confirmed and which to be revised? CHItaly19 will pay special attention to topics such as:
- responsibly designing the interchange with the ICT components that are progressively becoming a symbiotic part of our body and mind, and keeping the human in the loop while implementing automation in the factory of the future;
- getting publicly engaged and able to interact with the huge amount of data related to the urban, social and natural environment, in order to stimulate proper actions within a sustainable, smart framework;
- exploiting new interactive paradigms to augment users’ knowledge and engagement with cultural heritage, and to access different knowledge domains, including art and science, by coupling cognitive and emotional experience;
- designing persuasive, motivating, empowering technologies that increase awareness of health issues and motivate to positive life styles.