The 2nd International Workshop on Social Drones for Health, Well-Being, Sports, and Play
@ Nordic CHI 2024 [HYBRID]
13th October 2024, Uppsala, Sweden

The 2nd edition of the Workshop on Social Drones for Health, Well-Being, Sports and Play is part of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2024), continuing the conversation on social drones.

Drones have transcended their conventional roles as mere observational tools, evolving into social entities capable of fostering meaningful interactions between public and personal spaces of users. There is a growing interest in researching social drones, which act as entities facilitating meaningful experiences by sensing, adapting, and responding to users in their "social and personal spaces". Knowledge from several research fields like design, engineering, social sciences, etc. can help inform the design and study of social drones in spaces around a user. With this workshop our aim is to bring together researchers from diverse research backgrounds providing their perspective to guide the research in the field of developing social drones. To stimulate the discussions, in this edition of the workshop we focus on the use of drones to support movement in the context of health, well-being, sports, or play. We focus on meaningful application areas such as health, well-being, sports, and play because we want to highlight the potential of drones to positively enhance human experiences beyond their functional utility.

During the workshop we will be discussing the challenges related to implementing drones to support movement and build a roadmap that enables researchers to identify synergies across various fields, incorporate relevant perspectives, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Using the roadmap, we hope to establish a fundamental understanding of the aspects that need to be considered when designing drones operating in spaces near users, potentially leading to a necessary paradigm shift in approaching drone design.

Join us for an enriching interdisciplinary exploration of drone design to support movement, contributing to the evolving field of Human Drone Interaction!

Important Dates

  • September 1, 2024 September 8, 2024: Submission Due (23:59, AOE)
  • September 14, 2024: Author Notified of Acceptance
  • October 11, 2024: Proceedings Published
  • October 13, 2024: Workshop
  • Registration: Link
Drone Movement Images

Submit

To participate in the workshop, we welcome research contributions on the topic which examines:

The use of drone(s) to support movement in the context of health, well-being, sports, or play.
Some interesting research questions to consider include (but not limited to):
1. What are the roles, expectations, and activities of users in the scenario that utilizes the drone?
2. How does drone(s) support users in the described scenarios?
3. What role do you as a researcher play in developing the technology to support users in the described scenario?
4. What are some challenges (at least two) that you would face as researchers when implementing drones in the described scenario, and which fields of research could help address these challenges?
Movement, here, refers broadly to any physical activity or body movement, including examples such as walking, playing sports, dancing, or engaging in playful activities, and is open to interpretation based on researcher(s) interest(s).

Types of Submissions:

We welcome the following types of submissions, that is 2-4 pages (including references) long single column and uses the CEUR WS template (Link). [LaTeX: LINK; Microsoft Word: LINK]
1. Position Paper: Presents inspiring, controversial, or provoking thoughts on the described topic.
2. Research Paper/Case Study: Novel/application-based research on the described topic. This could include analogies of how using a drone could support their work, as well as speculative examples based on their own work and/or supported by existing research.
3. Pictorials: Visual components (e.g., diagrams, sketches, illustrations, renderings, photographs, annotated photographs, and collages) accompanying text to convey new ideas and contribute to the described topic. This could include analogies of how using a drone could support their work, as well as speculative examples based on their own work and/or supported by existing research.

Submissions should not be anonymus

Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and selected based on the relevance to the workshop and potential to spark discussions. NordiCHI 2024 is a hybrid event as such, participants have the option to attend the workshop online as well. But, to gain the full experience at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in-person.

Submission Deadline:September 1, 2024 September 8, 2024 (23:59 AOE)
Notifciation of Acceptance: September 14, 2024

We would like to invite researchers, including but not limited to, those in the following fields:
  • Human Drone Interaction
  • Human Robot Interaction
  • Interaction Design
  • Movement Sciences
  • Sports and Play HCI
  • Health and Well-being HCI
  • Ethics
  • Navigation and Control
  • Perception Systems
  • Electronics and Systems Engineering
  • User-Centered Methods
  • Social Sciences
  • Quantitative/Qualitative Research
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Experience Design
Note to potential participants:
Due to the workshop's short format, four papers from the selected group will be used to drive the discussions during the workshop.
Other selected papers can be presented as digital posters on a Miro Board during the workshop.
We plan to write a paper based on the workshop discussions.
During the workshop we will request consent from participants to collect their input.
Those who do not wish to contribute to the paper will be noted, so we can leave their material from the paper.

Note for online participants: We will share the meeting link a day before the conference.

Rough schedule

The workshop will take place on the 13th of October (Sunday) 2024

Time Activity
1PM Introduction
1:15PM Icebreaker and Sensitizing Activity
1:35PM Elevator Pitches & Brainstorm (Challenges)
2:35PM Walking Brainstorm (Solutions)
3:00PM Break
3:10PM Energizer Activity
3:20PM Design Guidelines Discussion
5:50PM Summary and Closing

Post Workshop Plans

Workshop submission will be stored on the workshop website and in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (indexed by Google Scholar).
A full-paper consolidating the examples, challenges, and design guidelines discussed during the workshop will be written and submitted to a relevant CHI conference or journal.
Selective photos and descriptions of the outputs from the conference will be published on the workshop website (subject to participant's permission)

Organizers

Aswin Balasubramaniam

Aswin Balasubramaniam

University of Twente, Netherlands
a [dot] balasubramaniam [at] utwente [dot] nl
Dennis Reidsma

Dennis Reidsma

University of Twente, Netherlands
d [dot] reidsma [at] utwente [dot] nl
Mohammad Obaid

Mohammad Obaid

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
mobaid [at] chalmers [dot] se
Aykut Coşkun

Aykut Coşkun

Koç University, Turkey
aykutcoskun [at] ku [dot] edu [dot] tr
Dees Postma

Dees Postma

University of Twente, Netherlands
d [dot] b [dot] w [dot] postma [at] utwente [dot] nl