AutomationXP22: Engaging with Automation

Automation has been permeating our everyday lives in various facets. Given both the ubiquity and, in many cases, the indispensability of ubiquitous automated systems, creating engaging experiences with them becomes increasingly relevant. This workshop provides a platform for researchers and practitioners working on (semi-)automated systems and their user experience and allows for cross-discipline networking and knowledge transfer. In a keynote talk, paper presentations, discussions, and hands-on sessions, the participants will explore and discuss user engagement with automation for operation, appropriation, and change.

The overall objective of this workshop is an exploration of the interplay of engagement and automation from a multi-disciplinary perspective. In line with this overall goal, it will pursue the following sub-goals:

• Uncovering the dimensions of automation engagement,
• Reflecting on major challenges of automation engagement,
• Identifying promising future research topics in the field of automation experience in the form of project ideas and aresearch agenda, and
• Forming a multi-disciplinary network of automation experience researchers.

• Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Theme Issue on Engaging with Automation
• Workshop on Automation Experience at the Workplace at CHI'21
• Everyday Automation Experience: a Research Agenda
• Workshop on Automation Experience across Domains at CHI'20
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Theme Issue on Everyday Automation Experiences
• Workshop on Everyday Automation Experience at CHI'19

This workshop provides a platform for researchers and practitioners working on (semi-)automated systems and their user experience and allows for cross-discipline networking and knowledge transfer. In a keynote talk, paper presentations, discussions, and hands-on sessions, the participants will explore and discuss user engagement with automation for operation, appropriation, and change. The results of the workshop are a set of research ideas and drafts of joint research projects to drive further automation experience research in a collaborative interdisciplinary manner.

In agreement with the authors, participants' position papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected position papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to the related Theme Issue "Engaging with Automation" to be published in the journal "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing".

Topics of Interest
Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their relevant recent or future work. Toics of interest include but are not limited to

• Engagement of non-experts during first encounters with automated systems
• Engaging humans in dynamic work collaboration between humans and machines
• User requirements regarding the adaptation of automated processes
• Support for long-term engagement with automated systems
• Design of take-over requests for various types of automated systems
• Customizing and tailoring of automated systems by non-expert users
• Impact of the adaptability of automated processes on the user's automation experience
• Ensuring automation integrity in different contexts

• Papers must be formatted according to the ACM Master Article Submission Template (single column) and comprise up to 6 pages (incl. references).
• Position papers must be submitted in PDF format (non-anonymized) to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp22.
• 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: February 14th 2022 EXTENDED: February 24th 2022
• Decision to authors: March 3rd 2022
• Camera-ready versions due: March 31th 2022
• Workshop: April 30th 2022