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This workshop had preceded a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting in 2016 and a workshop in 2017. In the first SIG meeting at the Computer Human Interaction conference 2016 [5], the organizers broadly approached the topic of refugees and the role of HCI for this vulnerable population with the wider HCI community. The majority of the participants highlighted the important role of researchers in identifying and addressing the needs of refugees. There was consensus that Weiterlesen…

The workshop will be promoted through the already existing website (https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/refugeesandhci/), that will present the results of the previous workshop and communicate the aims and structure of the upcoming workshop. The maximum number of participants is 15 persons, which will be selected based on extended abstracts in which they relate their current/previous work to refugee contexts and needs. The position papers of the previous workshops are available and will be extended with the new accepted Weiterlesen…

After the workshop, the notes and documentation materials that were created during the discussion will be shared among the workshop participants. A poster with the main results (such as the finalized guidelines and cornerstones of the manifesto) will be presented during the poster session of the main conference. Together with other groups, who address the topic of refugees and migration, a special journal issue will be prepared, which will include the manifesto, best practices and Weiterlesen…