Everyday Automation Experience

Automation is starting to accompany us in many forms of everyday life and is thus leading to changing practices in various domains and applications areas. House owners orchestrate their appliances in their 'smart homes', drivers negotiate control with their cars, public transport passengers are starting to use autonomous buses, shoppers do not deal with human sales attendants any more, and workers in factories see themselves in the role of monitoring rather than actively controlling. This emergent role of automation in our environment has an impact on the way how people can be supported in perceiving, monitoring and configuring technologies in a variety of situations.

This workshop investigates the requirements and design criteria for automation that are experienced by non-experts in everyday situations. In line with this overall goal, it will pursue the following subgoals:

• Provide an overview of the hitherto cluttered field of automation experience and introduce recent research work.
• Reflect on major challenges of interacting with ubiquitous (semi-)automated systems and discuss ways to address them.
• Exchange ideas and networking across domains to enable knowledge transfer and best practice exchange regarding the recognition of universal design strategies for ubiquitous automated systems.
• Identify promising future work in the field of user experience of ubiquitous automated systems in form of a research agenda.

This one-day workshop provides a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners working on automated systems and corresponding human interactions. Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their recent or future work in the field of 'everyday automation experiences'.

• Position papers must be formatted according to the CHI Extended Abstract template and comprise between three and five pages.
• Position papers must be submitted in PDF format (non-anonymized) to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp19.
• The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers (and additional experts, if required) based on relevance, originality, significance and quality.
• Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop.
• All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the main conference.

• Submission of position papers (extended): February 10th 2019 February 20th 2019
• Decision to authors: March 1st 2019
• Camera-ready versions due: March 20th 2019
• Workshop: May 5th 2019