Max Krüger

HCI and CSCW have a long-standing interest in the consequences of digital transformation for work practices. A key part of this is its impact on labour relations. While prior HCI studies have examined labour relations in domains such as platform work, few have looked at industrial settings. This paper presents an ethnographic study of works councils in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Germany. Works councils exemplify the principle of Co-Determination, which is the right of employees to participate in the design and management of their workplace and play a vital role in vetting new technologies whenever they imply changes in work practices. A number of issues confront works councils when they attempt to accomplish this, namely a lack of time, knowledge, and external support. We discuss these issues and consider their implications for both design and the constitution of workplace democracy in future industrial settings.

Previous CSCW research has paid increasing attention to regional innovation systems providing the context for CSCW research and design. In this paper we provide insights into attempts to intervene in such a regional innovation system via practice-oriented activities. Our findings describe experiences of co-creating knowledge around digitization of SMEs on a regional level, beyond individual company contexts. We reflect on the benefits and challenges such an approach affords and highlight the importance of interpersonal relationships and similarities between practices in different contexts to enable intended but also initially unexpected knowledge spillovers. Our findings highlight how a praxeological approach to CSCW can be influential in regional development programs, and open this field to CSCW research and design. We draw out lessons for similar interventions and outline fruitful avenues for future research.

Forests across the world play a crucial role in the fight against the climate catastrophe as well as mass extinction that characterise the Anthropocene. However, they are also increasingly threatened by destructive human practices such as agriculture and mining, but also climate change itself. This article focuses on forests in Germany, which have been devastated in recent years by heat, drought and bark beetles. Hence, forests and associated forestry practices are in urgent need of adaptation to a different climate. Several digital applications have been developed to assist with this effort. Adaptation is complicated by the epistemological challenge of climate change, that the uncertainty of how exactly climate change will affect specific local sites, as well as future markets for forest products, poses. In this short paper we review how two applications address this uncertainty in their approach to supporting the climate adaptation of forests and draw out preliminary lessons for HCI research and design.

Sustainability has never been more critical for DIS researchers. Within the DIS and HCI community, the term has multiple meanings: In sustainable HCI, it frequently refers to ecologically sustainable lifestyles through the design of interactive systems and to sustainability in HCI practice itself. Conversely, community-based HCI speaks of the sustainability of HCI, referring to the longevity of our socio-technical interventions. This workshop seeks to bring together these seemingly different conceptions of sustainability to explore their commonalities. Arguably, longevity is important for sustainable HCI, as is ecological impact for community-based HCI. We invite participants from diverse fields, such as sustainable HCI, HCI4D, Community-Based Participatory Design, and Digital Civics to reflect on past and current work, develop best practice recommendations, and design sustainability roadmaps to help researchers and designers to conceive, run, and evaluate future projects with sustainability through, in, and of HCI in mind.

There has been a growing body of work on migration within the HCI community, as well as within the social science and public policy communities. More specifically, human-centered security researchers have been exploring the needs and concerns of migrants, starting to contend with the harms created by digital technologies and experienced by those who are and have been marginalized. Case studies through which migration and (digital) security within the HCI domain intersect have been localized to specific contexts such as, e.g., particular issues related to data processing and sharing in refugee camps, or a narrow set of security threats and harms experienced by migrant workers in their new places of work. However, more holistic approaches to understanding the intersections of migration and (digital) security are yet to be fully explored while accounting for the past (including home country security practices, use of localized digital technologies, and interactions with technologies throughout the migration journey), the present (current security practices and experiences in the place or country migrants are situated), and the future migrants are trying to secure for themselves and their families. This workshop aims to build a community of HCI researchers interested in how migration and (digital) security intersect to braid together research narratives, perspectives, and methods, design for inclusive technologies, and build an agenda for future research and practice.

This study explores the global phenomenon of migration at the local, neighborhood level of a mid-sized city in Germany. Focusing on a long-term interactive storytelling-initiative, it studies the emergence of Arrival Literacy as a bi-directional skill-set. It describes the development of individual, local responses to global migration consequences, among both newcomers who migrated, as well as long-term citizens who never moved. The analytic lens of Arrival Literacy brings forward the complexity and difficulties of the arrival process, where the individual is navigating the consequences of political decisions that were made at a broader level. Digital storytelling as an element is a method to 1) creatively develop a skill of expression for one's own positionality, and 2) to connect with the positionalities of others, thus supporting the process of dealing with arrival at the local community level and beyond.

It is sometimes argued that there is hardly a place in the world in the 21st century left untouched by global capitalism [111, 112]. Even so, some places remain at the periphery, participating in this system without being fully absorbed by it. In this article, we take a detailed look at the economic life of such a “pericapitalist” [161] community in the Brazilian Amazon region. We detail how the community increasingly participates in global systems and supply chains, yet also organizes economic life around local and traditional values. We pay special attention to the role of digital technologies in the community, including mobile phones and internet. The contribution of the article is as follows: firstly, it provides a detailed analysis of the material practices of a community at the edge . Secondly, it draws attention to the heterogeneous nature of responses to global capitalism, formed from the relationship between specific material practices, new technology, and elements of cultural identity. Thirdly, it argues for an increased sensibility towards these different relations to capitalism when considering design implications. We argue that close attention to material practice goes some way towards resolving those tensions and, further, provides for an appeal to a more pluralistic views of culture and development [61].

Die wirtschaftliche Situation unseres Gesundheitswesens ist insbesondere im stationären Versorgungsbereich gekennzeichnet durch einerseits steigende Patientenzahlen sowie andererseits steigende Kosten als Folge des rasanten medizinischen Fortschritts. Verkürzte Liegedauern und der damit einhergehende Bettenabbau als Folge eines pauschalierten Abrechnungssystems führen zu einer zunehmenden Arbeitsverdichtung, die noch zusätzlich durch den bereits spürbaren Mangel an ärztlichem und pflegerischem Personal verstärkt wird. Ein möglicher Ausweg aus dieser Situation wird in der Betrachtung medizinischen Handels aus einer prozessualen Sicht gesehen. Neben dem Schaffen von Transparenz gelten eine optimierte Auslastung der menschlichen und apparativen Ressourcen sowie eine exakte kaufmännische Kostenkalkulation als mögliche Ziele. BPMN ist eine standardisierte, graphische Prozessnotation, die ab der Version 2.0 auch für die Prozessautomation verwendet werden kann. Durch die von der BPMN zur Verfügung gestellten Symbole und Kernelemente können medizinische Prozesse und die daran beteiligten Handlungspartner, beginnend vom Symptom (z.B. atypische vaginale Blutung) bis hin zur endgültigen Therapieentscheidung nach vorliegen des histologischen Befundes dargestellt werden. Durch die Möglichkeit spezielle Subprozesse separat zu modellieren (z.B. Terminmanagement, ambulante präoperative Vorbereitung, ambulante/stationäre operative Therapie etc.) und in den Hauptprozess einzubetten besteht darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit die Granularität der Prozessmodellierung beliebig zu erhöhen ohne dabei die Übersichtlichkeit des gesamten Prozessmodels zu gefährden. Durch geeignete (und noch weiter zu entwickelnde) Simulations-Tools können die modellierten Behandlungspfade mit Personal- und Sachkosten Kosten hinterlegt und direkt kalkuliert werden. So ist es z.B. problemlos möglich den vermuteten Zusammen zwischen höheren Kosten im Vergleich zu kürzeren OP-Zeiten beim Einsatz von Einmalinstrumenten zu analysieren. Mit der BPMN steht eine graphische Notation zur Verfügung, die es künftig nicht nur erlaubt medizinische Prozesse transparent darzustellen und zu simulieren, sondern ggf. auch Teilprozesse durch automatisierte Prozessschritte zu unterstützen und damit die menschlichen Handlungsträger zu entlasten. Die Granularität des Prozessmodells hängt dabei ausschließlich von den mit der Prozessmodellierung verfolgten und daher durch die künftigen Nutzer zu definierenden Zielen ab.