Exploring the Design Space of Assistive Augmentation
(Workshop on 12th March 2023 at the Augmented Humans Conference )

Introduction

Assistive Augmentation has been proposed as 'user interfaces and interactions that seamlessly integrate with a user’s mind, body and behaviour, providing an enhanced perception' [1, 2]

We believe carefully designed Assistive Augmentation can empower people constrained by impairments to live more independently again and even extend one's perceptual and cognitive capabilities beyond the ordinary. However, a systematic exploration of the design space of Assistive Augmentation has not been done yet. 

As such, the aim of this workshop is to discuss two aspects of Assistive Augmentation forming a design space (see Figure 1).

Fig. 1 Proposed Design Space of Assistive Augmentation from two dimensions (ability, bodily integration) Perspective with examples. 

Call for Participation

To participate in the workshop,  please submit one of the following two options:

Use the Word Template, LaTeX Template or Overleaf Template (submissions are not anonymous). 

Submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee and selected for invitation based on the relevance to the workshop theme and the ability to foster discussion at the workshop.

Important Dates 

 References

[1] Jochen Huber, Jun Rekimoto, Masahiko Inami, Roy Shilkrot, Pattie Maes, Wong Meng Ee, Graham Pullin, and Suranga Nanayakkara. 2014. Workshop on Assistive Augmentation. In CHI ’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (CHI EA ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 103–106.

[2] Jochen Huber, Roy Shilkrot, Pattie Maes, and Suranga Nanayakkara. 2018. Assistive augmentation. Springer.