As part of this year’s Alpbach Technology Symposium, Manfred Tscheligi will chair a breakout session on “(Why) Do we need art to innovate?“ which is coordinated by Alina Krischkowsky. This breakout session will be a follow-up to several previous events that the Center for HCI organized addressing the relation between art, design, research, and innovation (e.g., previous breakout sessions at the Alpbach Technology Symposium in 2017, 2016 and 2011). It also perfectly colludes with the activities of Studio 3, that part of the Center for HCI, where human-computer interaction and art-based research intermingle in new ways.

This year’s format of the breakout session will be a bit different to previous years; next to exciting impulse talks by the panelists, we will also have a lecture performance and a more workshop-like setup where participants and panelists collaboratively shape strategies for art-based innovation in industries. 

Friday, August 23, 2019 // 01.00 p.m. – 05.45 p.m.
Hauptschule Alpbach

(Why) Do We need Art to Innovate?
Innovation can be made by finding purpose in accident. Art is not defined by purpose, allowing the unexpected to evolve. Artistic exploration, therefore, allows us to peek into possible technological futures. In-depth collaborations between technologists and artists have proven to be a valuable source of innovation.But what risks are technology-oriented industries willing to take? Based on best practices represented by the panelists, participants will collaboratively shape strategies for art-based innovation that are applicable to different sectors and sizes of industries.

(Warum) Braucht es Kunst zur Innovation?
Innovation passiert, wenn aus Zufall Nutzen wird. Kunst ist ein Raum, der nicht vom Nutzen bestimmt wird und wo Zufall Platz hat. Experimentelle Künste können daher technologische Zukunftsszenarien greifbar machen; eine intensive Zusammenarbeit zwischen Technologie-ExpertInnen und KünstlerInnen kann Innovation stiften. Welche Risiken sind Technologie-Unternehmen bereit, diesbezüglich einzugehen? Ausgehend von erprobten Modellen kunst-basierter Innovation werden gemeinsam Strategien für andere Sektoren und Unternehmensgrößen entwickelt.

 

Introduction

Andrea Klambauer, Salzburger Landesregierung

Chair

Manfred Tscheligi, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg; Head, Center for Technology Experience, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna

Panelists

Elisabeth Gutjahr, Rector of the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Salzburg

Antoni Rayzhekov
Guest lecturer in Experimental Media, University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten, Austria
Guest lecturer in Performative Media (Digital Arts MA), National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

Noah Weinstein
Creative Program Director & Consultant, Founder of Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop and Residency Programs, Oakland

Michael Hackl
Product Owner, Scinteco GmbH, Strategic Development, Schmiede Hallein, Wien

Claudia Schnugg
ArtScience Consultant, Independent Researcher and Curator, Wels

Coordinator

Alina Krischkowsky, Postdoc, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg

On basis of thoughtful and inspiring discussions with workshop attendees at the European conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’15) about drivers for technology appropriation – we are very happy to further explore this topic in a dedicated focus section on technology appropriation in the IxD&A Journal to be published this summer.

Our focus section is about *Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users, Usage, Circumstances, and Design* and is organized by Alina and Manfred together with Nervo Verdezoto from Aarhus University (Denmark) and Michael Muller from IBM Research (USA).

With this focus section we aim at further exploring how technology appropriation is used by people to satisfy their communication needs. We argue that it is critical to identify ‘unexpected’ communication needs, to better account for them when designing interactive systems. Thereby, a variety of contexts may be of relevance ranging from private settings (e.g., home) or semi-public spaces (e.g., art galleries) to strictly regulated environments (e.g., production lines or health- and emergency contexts) in which appropriation may be considered as a ‘critical’ matter.

We invite researchers and practitioners to deeper explore on the drivers (e.g., unanticipated users, usage, circumstances or others) for technology appropriation but also on the challenges, opportunities, lessons learned, and theoretical insights that emerge when researching technology appropriation to satisfy communication needs. This will broaden the scope of IxD&A and HCI research towards a more holistic understanding of the appropriation phenomenon.

If you are interested to submit, please consider the following dates:
* Deadline: May 15, 2016
* Notification to authors: June 20, 2016
* Camera ready manuscripts: July 20, 2016
* Publication of the special issue: mid September, 2016

For more detailed information about this focus section, the submission procedure as well as the full call for papers, please visit the IxD&A website.

We look very much forward to your submission and in case you have any further questions, please contact Alina!

We are co-organizing a workshop at CSCW 2016:

Collaborative Appropriation:  How Couples, Teams, Groups and Communities Adapt and Adopt Technologies

The one-day workshop will take place on the  27^th of February 2016 in conjunction with the 19^th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in San Francisco, USA.

About the Workshop
Previous workshops and papers have examined how individual users adopt and adapt technologies to meet their own local needs, by “completing design through use.” However, there has been little systematic study of how groups of people engage collaboratively in these activities. This workshop opens a discussion for these understudied forms of collaborative appropriation, using a broad range of perspectives including empirical data, design explorations, research, and critique.

Organizers
Michael Muller, IBM Research
Katja Neureiter, Center for HCI,  Department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg
Nervo Verdezoto, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University
Alina Krischkowsky, Center for HCI,  Department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg
Anna Maria Al Zubaidi-Polli, Department of Human-Centered-Computing at the University of Applied Science
Manfred Tscheligi, Center for HCI,  Department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg

From September 19-23, Alina Krischkowsky attended the European conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) 2015 in Oslo, Norway. Together with Manfred Tscheligi, Katja Neureiter, Michael Muller, Anna Maria Al Zubaidi-Polli, and Nervo Verdezoto, Alina organized a one-day workshop on „Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users, Usage, Circumstances, and Design“. Michael Muller and Alina were on site in Oslo to discuss with the workshop participants their experiences in regard to technology appropriation that is driven by unanticipated users, usage, circumstances, and design.

On basis of these constructive and inspiring discussions a related focus section in the IxD&A Journal is currently in preparation for summer 2016. As a follow up, the organizers (Michael Muller, Katja Neureiter, Nervo Verdezoto, Alina Krischkowsky, Anna Maria Al Zubaidi-Polli, and Manfred Tscheligi) will organize a workshop at CSCW’16, focusing on “Collaborative Appropriation: How Couples, Teams, Groups and Communities Adapt and Adopt Technologies“.

We are co-organizing a workshop at ECSCW 2015:

Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users, Usage, Circumstances, and Design

This will be a one-day workshop taking place in September 2015 in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in Oslo, Norway.

About this Workshop

Whether in private or professional life, people frequently adapt, adopt, and shape the technology around them, based on their everyday practices, to ease interaction when accomplishing certain tasks. The major goal of this one-day workshop is to discuss how this form of technology appropriation is used to satisfy people’s communication needs. In particular, we focus on technology that was not initially intended to foster communication, but which led to appropriation, driven by people’s communication needs. We aim to identify ‘unexpected’ communication needs, to better account for them when designing interactive systems. We focus on different contexts, ranging from private settings (e.g., home) or semi-public spaces (e.g., art galleries) to strictly regulated environments (e.g., production lines or health- and emergency contexts) in which appropriation can be considered as a ‘critical’ matter. Thereby, we will discuss four aspects of appropriation: unanticipated usage, unanticipated users, unanticipated circumstances, and designing for the unanticipated.

For further information please visit: https://projects.hci.plus/ecscw2015/