ECCE 2022 Program & Invited Speakers

Patrick Baudisch is a professor in Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute at Potsdam University and chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. After working on mobile devices, touch input, and natural user interfaces for several years, his current research focuses on personal fabrication and haptics. Previously, Patrick Baudisch worked at Microsoft Research and at Xerox PARC. He was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2013 and has been an ACM distinguished scientist since 2014.

Keynote: About 1, 10, and 100 person year research projects

Alan Dix is a Professorial Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University and also Director of the Computational Foundry; a £32.5M project of Swansea University, Welsh Government, and the European Commission to promote ground-breaking digital research with a real impact on society. He is known principally for his work in human–computer interaction including writing one of the key textbooks in the area. He was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2013 and is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Outside academia, Alan has been co-founder of two tech companies, developed intelligent lighting, worked in local government and even submarine design.

Keynote: Forever Cyborgs – A long view on physical-digital interaction
From prehistory to the internet age, humans have always lived as part of a technologically mediated world. Knapped flints have given way to touch-screens, cuneiform to CSS, but in both rapid hand-eye coordination and long-term social interactions, our experiences and actions in the world are embedded in a physical, mechanical, symbolic and digital nexus. After far too long in the writing, my co-authors and I are delighted that “TouchIT: Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World” is finally published – symbolic words, recorded in digital media and printed on physical paper. This book covers established and emergent digital technology, but repeatedly the continuity of current and past technology, physical and digital worlds is evident. The fundamental cognitive resources that enable our digital existence in an age of constant flux are the result of aeons of development in a physical world that we remake and reimagine. In this talk I will explore multiple scales of digital interaction from seconds to years, informed by and illuminating what it means to be a fully embodied and richly reflective human.

Kristina Höök is a professor in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She also used to be the director of the Mobile Life centre. Her research interests include affective interaction, somaesthetic design, internet of things and anything that makes life with technology more meaningful, enjoyable, creative and aesthetically appealing. She ist the author of the book "Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design" (MIT Press, 2018). She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2020 and has been an ACM distinguished scientist since 2014.

Keynote: Soma Design – Intertwining aesthetics, movement and emotion in design work
We are at a watershed moment: our relationship to technology is about to undergo a dramatic and irreversible shift. With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and our interfaces with technology will look radically different in the years ahead, incorporating changes like full body interaction, shape-changing interfaces, wearables, and body- and movement-tracking apps. Kristina will discuss how we approach this challenge through Soma Design — a process that allows designers to examine and improve on connections between sensation, feeling, emotion, subjective understanding and values — and their relationships to technology. She will argue that by engaging in a soma design process we can better probe which designs lead to: deepened somatic awareness; social awareness of others in the environment and how they are affected by the human-technology assemblage; enactments of bodily freedoms rather than limitations; making norms explicit; engage with a pluralist feminist position on who we are designing for; aesthetic experience and expression; and, ultimately an aesthetic and ethical position on how to design for being human.

Sebastian Pannasch directs the chair for Engineering Psychology and Applied Cognitive Research at the Faculty of Psychology at TU Dresden. His research focuses on the understanding of perception, attention and information processing in the context of active vision, principally via analysis of eye movement behavior. His previous professional positions include Assistant Professorships and Fellowships at Aalto School of Science and Technology (Finland), University of California at Santa Cruz (USA), and Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Germany). He was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship “EyeLevel” and the DFG Research scholarship on “Levels of cognitive organization in human eye movements”.

Keynote: From basic mechanisms of human eye movements to autonomous driving
Sebastian's presentation will consist of three parts. In the first part, he will focus on human eye movements which are essential for visual perception. During fixations, information is extracted from the environment and internally processed. Since highest visual acuity is limited to the small foveal region, fast saccadic movements are required to redirect the foveal region from one fixation point to another. Analyzing fixation durations and saccade amplitudes during everyday activities allows understanding what details of the environment receive attention. With a combined analysis of fixations and saccades it can be determined how such details were processed. In the second part, Sebastian will show how knowledge about the mechanisms of eye movement control can be related to various areas of application. Since these findings are still very much based to research in the lab, the final part will be about their recent research efforts in relation to the perspectives of autonomous driving.