CALL FOR PAPERS

In an increasingly interconnected world, the aesthetics of connectivity have a profound impact on how we interact with data, AI, and the products and services built upon them. This workshop aims to explore innovative approaches, methodologies, and technologies that take connectivity into design considerations to further enhance the role of aesthetics in empowering individuals. By delving into the aesthetical qualities of connectivity, we seek to foster discussions and collaborations among researchers, practitioners, designers, artists, and industry professionals. This workshop will provide a platform for sharing insights, exchanging ideas, and exploring new and emerging trends in this exciting area.

To effectively implement prior approaches and fully leverage the value that aesthetical qualities of connectivity to empower, research papers on (but are not limited to) the following topics are of mutual interest to this workshop:

• Discussions on aesthetics of connectivity for empowerment in HCI;
• Sharing cases on aesthetics of connectivity for empowerment in practice;
• Examine where aesthetics of connectivity can and where they cannot empower;
• Identify potential research directions, methodologies, and design strategies for future investigations;
• Sharing knowledge on generalizing aesthetics of connectivity to empower other scenarios.

Workshop participants are invited to first submit a full research paper related to “connectivity, aesthetics and empowerment” for a peer review process. Submissions should be at most 8 pages in length, excluding references, in ACM Master Article Submission Templates. The workshop organizers will recruit two external reviewers and one meta-reviewer to review each submitted paper. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentations and discussion at the workshop. All accepted papers (15 papers) will be published via the ACM digital library or Ceur-sw.org. All accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with 50% or more content) for a special issue on Aesthetics and Empowerment in the International Journal of Arts and Technology. More information on the special issue on “Aesthetics and Empowerment”: click here.