Accounting for technologies' unintended consequences — whether they are misinformation on social media or issues of sustainability and social justice---increasingly requires HCI to consider technology design at a societal-level scale. At this scale, public and corporate policies play a critical role in shaping technologies and user behaviors.

However, the research and practices around tech and policy design have largely been held separate. How can technology design and policies better inform and coordinate with each other in generating safe new technologies? What new solutions might emerge when HCI practitioners design technology and its policies simultaneously to account for its societal impacts? This workshop brings together HCI, design, and policy communities, academics and practitioners to explore these questions.

This workshop aims to

• Identify disciplines and areas of expertise needed for a tighter, more proactive technology-and-policy-design integration,
• Launch a community of researchers, educators, and designers interested in this integration,
• Identify and publish an HCI research and education agenda towards designing technologies and technology policies simultaneously.

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Reports

• Read the workshop organizers' position paper;
• The learnings from this workshop, prepared by the organizers, have been published in CHI2024.;
• Read workshop proceedings.

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Organizers

• Qian Yang, Cornell University;
• Richmond Y. Wong, Gerogia Institute of Technology;
• Steven J. Jackson, Cornell University;
• Sabine Junginger, The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts;
• Margaret Hagan, Stanford University;
• Thomas Krendl Gilbert, New York Academy of Sciences;
• John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University;

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Let us know that you are Designing Tech and Policy Simultaneously too!

Reference this workshop:

@inproceedings{YangDesignTechPolicy_CHI23WS,
    author = {Yang, Qian and Wong, Richmond Y. and Gilbert, Thomas and Hagan, Margaret D. and Jackson, Steven and Junginger, Sabine and Zimmerman, John},
    title = {Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously: Towards A Research Agenda and New Practice},
    year = {2023},
    isbn = {9781450394222},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573827},
    doi = {10.1145/3544549.3573827},
    booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
    articleno = {343},
    numpages = {6},
    location = {Hamburg, Germany},
    series = {CHI EA '23}
  }

Reference the workshop findings:

@inproceedings{YangDesignTechPolicy_CHI24,
      author = {Yang, Qian and Wong, Richmond Y. and Jackson, Steven and Junginger, Sabine and Hagan, Margaret D. and Gilbert, Thomas and Zimmerman, John},
      title = {The Future of HCI-Policy Collaboration},
      year = {2024},
      isbn = {9798400703300},
      publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
      address = {New York, NY, USA},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642771},
      doi = {10.1145/3613904.3642771},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      articleno = {820},
      numpages = {15},
      keywords = {Policy, design, societal impact of technology.},
      location = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
      series = {CHI '24}
  }