[Air-L] CFP: Addressing Global HCI Challenges at the Time of Geopolitical Tensions through Planetary Thinking and Indigenous Methodologies

[Huatong Sun]

Dear colleagues,


Please consider presenting your work and attending this workshop at
INTERACT2025
to share your thoughts about this timely topic!


A remote option is provided to make this international research forum more
accessible.


*Addressing Global HCI Challenges at the Time of Geopolitical Tensions
through Planetary Thinking and Indigenous Methodologies*

Workshop at INTERACT2025

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HCI researchers and practitioners witness an even more divided world in
2025 that manifests global inequalities and disparities, triggered by local
politics and global and regional geopolitical tensions, and perpetuated by
sociocultural structures. This workshop invites participants to reimagine a
new world order of HCI at the time of geopolitical tensions with the
emerging ontology of the planetary thinking. We aim to explore local design
principles, rationales, and heuristics for global HCI design projects. It
is our first step towards defining how planetary thinking can help scale up
HCI design approaches to address global challenges and risks to nurture the
well-being of diverse species for and with the planet that we live on. Our
goal is to achieve technology diversity by including diverse local values
and intellectual traditions in our design processes with an emic strategy
inspired by indigenous design methodologies. For example, a business
knowledge sharing system developed with participatory Ubuntu values in
South Africa, or a Scandinavian minimalist HCI design of an energy-saving
system.



This full-day hybrid workshop is organized by IFIP TC13 WG13.8 –
Interaction Design for International Development. Researchers and
practitioners are invited to submit a position paper or a design case on
the subject matter. The collection of accepted position papers and design
cases will be shared one week before the workshop—extended versions of the
workshop papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. To build
a sustainable research community for advocating local research and
mentoring junior scholars, we will host quarterly Zoom meetings and/or
monthly speaker series to invite our participants or researchers in this
area to share their work-in-progress or working papers.


*Detailed call*: LinkedIn Page
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*Submission Procedure*

Please submit your position paper or design case of up to 4 pages in the
Springer LNCS format to Huatong Sun at huatongs at gmail.com with a subject
line INTERACT 25.


   - Deadline: June 1, 2025
   - Decision of notification: June 10, 2025
   - Workshop date: September 8 or 9, 2025, precise date TBC.

*Organizers:*

Huatong Sun, Jose Abdelnour Nocera, Torkil Clemmensen, and Sheethal Liz Tom

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Huatong Sun (she/her), Ph.D.
On Sabbatical 2024-2025
Professor, Digital and Social Media & Global Design
School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Global Innovation and Design Lab
University of Washington Tacoma
http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/

OUP Author: Global Social Media Design: Bridging Differences Across
Cultures
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-social-media-design-9780190845582>
(2020) & Cross-Cultural Technology Design
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cross-cultural-technology-design-9780199744763>
(2012)