Future technologies for remote and hybrid work have received a great deal of attention in research and industry. The lockdown demonstrated the potential benefits and possibilities of remote work practices but also made clear the glaring deficiencies such practices bring. Hybrid and remote work will never be the same as physically being at work together. We cannot remove these inequalities. Instead, we need to work with them, or beyond them.

In this session we focus on:

• How do we address the asymmetry in hybrid work?
• How can we design hybrid technologies to not only support productivity, but also the wellbeing and relationships between workers?
• How can we ensure a sense of presence and embodiment in collaboration technologies?
• What types of interaction can be used: multimodality, virtual and augmented reality, shape-changing interfaces, WYSIWIS or malleable interfaces?

Program

13:15 – 13:45: Introduction, and two short inspirational talks
13:45 – 14:30: Groupwork with exploration of the trajectories of imagined future
technologies
14:30 – 14:45: Final remarks and next steps

Organizers

• Eve Hoggan, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
• Susanne Bødker, Professor, Aarhus University
• Qianqian Mu, PhD Fellow, Aarhus University
• Julia Kleinau, PhD Fellow, Aarhus University
• Pernille Bjørn, Professor, University of Copenhagen
• Kellie Dunn, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen
• Melanie Schmidt, PhD Fellow, ITU
• Nina Boulus-Rødje, Professor, Roskilde University
• Juliane Busboom, PhD Fellow, Roskilde University

Level

Intermediate