SensiBlend: Sensing Blended Experiences in Professional and Social Contexts

H. Verma, Marios Constantinides, Sailin Zhong, Abdallah El Ali, Hamed S. Alavi

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Abstract

Unlike traditional workshops, SensiBlend is a living experiment about the future of remote, hybrid, and blended experiences within professional and other social contexts. The interplay of interpersonal relationships with tools and spaces—digital and physical—has been abruptly challenged and fundamentally altered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this meta-workshop, we seek to scrutinize and advance the role and impact of Ubiquitous Computing in the new “blended” social reality, and raise questions relating to the specific attributes of socio-technical experiences in the future organization of interpersonal relationships. How do we better equip people to deal with blended experiences? What dimensions of socio-technical experiences are at stake? To this end, we will utilize the occasion of a virtual UbiComp in combination with novel remote-working tools and participatory sensing with attendees to collectively examine, discuss, and elicit the potential routes of augmenting social practices in a discourse about the future of blended working, socializing, and living.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages491-495
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-8461-2
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 21 Sept 202125 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameUbiComp '21

Conference

Conference2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/09/2125/09/21

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Keywords

  • participatory sensing
  • blended experiences
  • hybrid arrangements
  • future workshops
  • remote work and socializing

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