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This meet-up brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to explore embodiment and more-than-human relations through a shared, situated, and embodied experience. While fourth-wave HCI has increasingly addressed the entanglement of bodies, technologies, and systems of power, such discussions are often abstract and disembodied. This session counters that trend by centring participants' lived, bodily states, such as hunger, fatigue, joy, and discomfort, through a series of rotating, themed stations inspired by embodied design and World Cafe methods. Participants will reflect on how social inequalities, technologies, and non-human actors are inscribed in and experienced through the body. By approaching embodiment with our own bodies at the centre, this meet-up aims to cultivate a sense of community, inspire new research perspectives, and foster long-term collaborations. Attendees will leave not only with insights but with a felt sense of relationality that extends beyond the session.

Families creatively negotiate many different types of digitally mediated communication to do social family work – sometimes playfully and sometimes due to urgent need. This negotiation can manifest in numerous ways, reflecting the dynamic nature of modern family life. Such creative acts are performed across a multitude of interfaces and media forms and serve to maintain family intimacy and cohesion. In this study, we combine the concept of creative un-use with the study of family life and digital technology. We analyse in-depth interviews with Swedish extended family members who are curating, cutting, reducing, or modifying their uses to ‘do family’. Our results show that these social and creative acts are constantly negotiated and shifting as new technologies are adopted and uses, norms, routines, habits, and expectations change. We show how acts of creative un-use, always oscillating between use and non-use, and as small or sometimes quirky they may be, are deeply entangled with family work and used as a means to support both within and between household family ties. The study finally explores what creative family appropriation of digital communication technology means for how these very systems are designed.

Movement-based design methods have gained increased attention across various research fields and practices, particularly in interaction design. By engaging the body in movement, these methods have the potential to explore a richer, more intuitive, and immersive user experience. A recent project MeCaMinD¹ brought together researchers from interaction and sports design to explore, collect, and document movement-based methods and make them practically useful across domains. The methods were explored through a series of workshops, furthering the team’s understanding of their use and practical applicability. This understanding was compiled into a set of design cards that we present here. We discuss the experience of using the resulting cards in movement-based design sessions. We found that while the cards are mostly used in designing, planning, and preparing sessions, they also function as support during the design sessions, used by both facilitators and participants. Based on a final ideation session with both novice and experienced facilitators, we sketch ways to support managing the cards during sessions, integrating them with movement and physical action.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work, presenting new challenges and opportunities for professionals across industries. This study, grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), examines the impact of AI integration on work engagement among IT professionals. Through qualitative investigation, our research reveals that AI both augments and complicates professionals' work lives, providing opportunities for growth while also demanding ongoing adaptation. Key findings indicate that AI tools like UiPath and GitHub Copilot enhance work efficiency by automating routine tasks, enabling professionals to concentrate on more complex aspects of their work and enhancing their perceived competence. However, this efficiency gain requires continuous learning and adaptation, posing challenges in maintaining engagement and mastery. These findings illuminate the complex balance between leveraging AI for increased efficiency and maintaining the intrinsic human elements of IT design, offering some insights for navigating AI integration in the workplace.

This study explores how AI-enabled work tools influence the Flow experiences of IT professionals, focusing on their potential to enhance or hinder states of deep focus and immersion. Drawing on interviews with 12 IT professionals, the research examines the interplay between AI tools, task characteristics, and Flow preconditions such as goal clarity, feedback, and the challenge-skill balance. The study follows ethical research design recommendations, ensuring participant privacy and informed consent. Findings reveal that AI tools generally play a supportive role, aiding productivity and creativity without consistently inducing Flow states. Their impact depends heavily on task complexity and user goals, with tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT enhancing Flow-related conditions such as feedback and exploratory possibilities. However, limitations such as inaccuracies and poor adaptability to complex tasks occasionally disrupt Flow experiences. The study offers design recommendations to better align AI tools with Flow principles, including enhancing goal clarity, dynamic adaptability, and support for iterative exploration. These insights contribute to the growing discourse on AI’s role in fostering psychological engagement and optimal experiences in professional settings.

Digitalization and emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, and drones, are predicted to reshape airport operations worldwide, with the potential to enhance efficiency, safety, and the overall experience for passengers and staff. This study investigates the perspectives of key airport stakeholders, including ground staff, airport managers, technical managers, and labor unions, on adopting these technologies. By employing the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the research examines how stakeholders perceive these innovations’ usefulness and ease of use. Based on 27 semi-structured interviews across 14 Swedish airports, the findings highlight opportunities for automation to streamline processes like luggage handling, enhance operational efficiency, and improve safety through AI and autonomous systems. However, challenges such as high implementation costs, infrastructure compatibility issues, and the risk of job displacement remain critical. This paper underscores the importance of addressing technological and human factors to ensure the sustainable integration of these technologies in airport operations.

Feminist self-defense combines physical self-defense with mental strength exercises through role-playing scenarios. It aims to challenge limiting beliefs about women's abilities to respond to interpersonal violence. We present the experiences from feminist self-defense classes in Sweden and the results of a set of speculative designs that combined contribute to imagine how technology could play a role in experiencing these holistic practices. The goal is to illustrate the potential of embodied interaction design to empower beginner feminist self-defense practitioners. To do so, the study was conducted via two methods: semi-structured interviews with students and teachers, and a participatory speculative design workshop with novice practitioners. The speculative concepts demonstrate how design can support the practice of feminist self-defense. Through this study we contribute to the corpus of embodied design interventions, in this case combining design for bodily movements with feminist consciousness raising in relation to the topic of gender-based violence.

This paper addresses the growing crisis of consent in machine interactions, particularly in data-driven technologies where consent is often legally compliant but ethically shallow. Users frequently accept default settings and terms without understanding, undermining the notion of informed, voluntary consent. Drawing from theories of relational consent—originating in the field of sexuality—we explore more dynamic, ongoing, and context-aware models of consent in computing. This challenges static, one-time consent frameworks and reframes consent as a dialogic, ethically engaged process. We present the notion of relational consent in computer interaction and apply it through exploration and speculative design in two case studies. The first examines animal husbandry, where power asymmetries and datafication challenge notions of agency. The second explores video games, reimagining consent as continually negotiable. Together, these cases offer highly diverse perspectives that illustrate a wide range of consent-related challenges. The findings aim to better support autonomy, integrity, and fairness in machine-mediated interactions. This work contributes to the design of more ethical technologies that take into account both human and more-than-human considerations.

Internet and increased datafication, signify a new era for civic society. Social media, fundraising tools, digital petitions, social media analytics, greatly facilitate the ability to activate, organize and raise public opinion. At the same time, the technology entails algorithmic surveillance and risks of being exposed to threats and hatred. For people at risk, undocumented refugees or people with protected identity, the lack of digital infrastructures also means great difficulties. While research points to these opportunities and risks, there is lack of research on how civic society deals with the increased datafication, and what methods, tools, and strategies are used on the field. The purpose of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who investigate the impact of digitalization on civil society, both for established NGOs and informal activism.