Final Workshop Date To Be Announced Shortly
This is a hybrid workshop
This workshop will be held as a hybrid event so as best to reach the widest range of participants who may be interested in this topic. We will structure the bulk of the virtual engagement to take place asynchronously, with optional synchronous engagement opportunities for those who are unable to attend CSCW in-person. To derive the most benefit from in-person, synchronous engagement, we will focus the bulk of our time on rotating small group discussions. Each discussion group will have a facilitator and a designated notetaker from the organizing team, to ensure that detailed reporting can be made for virtual participants after CSCW.
Pre-Workshop
In the two weeks leading up to the workshop, we will invite participants to an event Padlet, to allow participants to volunteer questions as seed for the workshop discussions. One week before CSCW, we will open an event specific Slack, populating the Slack channels from common themes in the Padlet response. Members of the organizing committee will be present in all Slack channels to help seed discussions and foster community dynamics and discussion.
Day-Of Workshop Schedule
Morning: Topic Area Overview
- Session 1: (20 minutes) Introduction and Housekeeping
- The goal for this session is to give a high-level overview of the structure for the day, the in-room logistics and introduce the facilitators.
- Session 2: (90 min) Introductory Lightning Talks
- The goal for these lighting talks is for all participants to give a brief overview of what brings them to the workshop and highlight what discussions they would like to have during our time together. Lightning talks are intended to be no more than 2 minutes and should focus on what topics they would like to connect with other participants on in the following session.
- Break
- Session 3: (40 min) Research Speed Networking
- The goal of the speed networking session is to foster one-on-one connections between participants. To facilitate cross discipline conversation, we will invite attendees to rotate through 5, 5 minute sessions with other attendees to build on topics presented during the lightning talk session.
- Session 4: (30 min) Deciding on Emergent Session Topics
- The goal for this session is to seed the topics of conversation for the afternoon session. The afternoon sessions will be based on the interest of the attendees, following an unconference model of topic elicitation. Examples of potential topics for discussion are:
- Safety and AI
- Conflicting definitions of safety across sub-disciplines
- Concepts of safety in upcoming global legislation
- The goal for this session is to seed the topics of conversation for the afternoon session. The afternoon sessions will be based on the interest of the attendees, following an unconference model of topic elicitation. Examples of potential topics for discussion are:
Lunch break
Afternoon: Synthesis
- Sessions 5 and 6: (45 min each) Emergent Topic Discussion(s)
- The goal for the afternoon sessions is to give attendees the opportunity to have small group discussions on focused topics emerging from the morning sessions. Having two discussion sessions will allow attendees to participate in multiple topics they are excited about as well as giving the facilitators, who stay in place for each session, the opportunity to see how the thematic threads evolve with different conversational participants.
- Break
- Session 7: (60 min) Report Out & Next Steps
- The goal for this session is to highlight the common threads of conversation at the small group discussion tables to allow for synthesis across topics. We will allow for at least 20 minutes of discussion on what concrete next steps out of these discussions might look like, including future convenings in other venues for continued discussion on emerging topics, written report outs such as an article in Communications or joint whitepapers, and opportunities for coalition building across subfields.
Post-Workshop
Additional Virtual Engagement
To ensure equal participation options for virtual participants, we will run three, 90-minute synchronous virtual discussions tailored to major time zone blocks in the month following CSCW. These sessions will mirror a similar rotating discussion structure as the day-of, in-person event at CSCW, allowing participants to engage in multiple discussion topics. Additionally, each of these sessions will have a running digital whiteboard available from a day before to a day after the session in order to enable asynchronous participation and seed potential synchronous options for engagement. Discussion groups will have a dedicated notetaker to incorporate the major discussion points into the reportout.
Engaging on Slack
After CSCW, we will continue to stand up the event-specific Slack for an additional 4 weeks. The organizing committee will provide topic specific report outs from the small group discussions sessions in-person at CSCW no more than 2 weeks after the event. For our report out (and indeed for this entire event), we will be invoking Chatham House Rules. We will be reporting out the major discussion points from the different in-person and virtual channels in the workshop, but not providing direct attribution of any commentary, reflecting the potentially sensitive nature of the conversations.