Chinese CHI Concurrent Workshops | The Possibilities of Bio-HCI

The Chinese CHI 2024 conference, organized by the International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction (ICACHI), will be held from November 22 to 25, 2024, at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China.

On the first day of the conference (November 22), the SUSTech School of Design will host seven parallel workshops.

Theme

Towards New Possibilities of Bio-HCI: Exploring Future Scenarios of Bio-HCI Innovation
 

Christiane Herr, Haorui Tian, Umaru Mohammed

Future Ecologies Group

SUSTech School of Design

Info

Participants:

10 – 20 Participants

Workshop Duration:

9:00 – 12:00 (with one coffee break with refreshments)

Workshop Location:

Rm.1108, Bldg. C1, iPark

Workshop Language:

Chinese/English

Workshop participants bring their own equipment:

Laptops

mobile phones

Description

With the development of science and technology, the integration of biology and human-computer interaction (HCI) has become an emerging and promising research direction, leading to the development of the new research direction of Bio-HCI. Bio-HCI uses innovative biotechnology, biosensors and biomaterials to redefine the relationship between humans, organisms, and computers through bio-design and examines ways in which such interaction experiences can be supported and enhanced. This workshop aims to provide participants with an open-ended discursive space to understand the basic concepts, trends, and cutting-edge cases of Bio-HCI. At the same time, the workshop will guide participants to experiment with these concepts in a design exercise to generate new interaction models and to discuss the future application scenarios and possibilities of Bio-HCI in order to promote the innovative application of Bio-HCI in different fields.

Expected Outcomes

• Understand new research directions of human-computer interaction.
• Understand the development trends, application methods and tools/technologies of Bio-HCI (sensors, IoT etc).
• Enhance the design team's ability to collaborate and communicate across disciplines.
• Inspire participants to think extensively about the future innovation and application scenarios of Bio-HCI.
• Experimental design Bio-HCI design concepts.

Target Audience

• Design students, interaction designers, artists and HCI researchers with an interest in Bio-HCI topics
• engineers and scientists with cross-disciplinary research and innovation interests
• Students with an interest in the Bio-HCI

Speaker's Info

Christiane M. HERR

Professor

Christiane M. Herr is Professor and PhD supervisor as well as responsible person for education and Director of the BEng Industrial Design program at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology. With a background in architecture and engineering, Christiane leads the Future Ecologies Research Group with a focus on the areas of cross-disciplinary ecological design, advanced façade technologies and digitally supported design. Christiane obtained a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Kassel, an MArch and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Hong Kong and a second Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Kassel. Before joining SUSTech, she held positions as Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Shenzhen University and as Visiting Assistant Professor at National Cheng Kung University. Christiane was President of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) for four years and is currently vice-chair of the Board of the CAADFutures Foundation. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), the journal Architectural Intelligence and the journal Sustainable Horizons. Herr has authored over 100 peer reviewed academic publications and has recently co-edited the book “Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New”, published in the Springer Design Research Foundations Series.