"Between Empowerment and Exclusion: Socio-technical Approaches to Modeling, Designing and Evaluating Inclusive Interactive Systems"

Talks, discussions, and working groups are organized around four sociotechnical tensions. 

1. Standards vs. context (Anchors: User & context modelling)

   Dilemma: If a context-aware adaptation contradicts a WCAG guideline, should the system follow the guideline or the person in front of it?

2. Consultation vs. co-creation (Anchors: Evaluation frameworks for participation)

   Dilemma: Should a veto of a co-researcher with disability stop a project even if the rest of the team is convinced it's wrong?

3. Interface patch vs. architecture (Anchors: AI methods & adaptation)

   Dilemma: When AI accessibility affects disabled people’s livelihoods, who should have the final say: the people who build the technology or the experts who live with its consequences?

4. Universal vs. ability-based design (Anchors: Inclusive design methods)

   Dilemma: When a user with disability asks for technology that reinforces conformity, should researchers respect their individual preference or challenge the ableist norms behind it?

Talk Block 1 — Participation & Context (Dilemma #2)

1. Designing a Digital Tool to Promote Social Connections for Improved Physical Activity among Cardiac Patients: Lessons from a UK Co-Design Activity (Pavithren V S Pakianathan, MEng, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention)
2. Addressing Co-Users as Facilitators for Inclusive Interactive Systems: Towards a Context-Aware Approach (Lukas Baumann, TU Dortmund
3. "What is Your Role in This Project?" Addressing Participation User Experience of People with Cognitive Disabilities in HCI Research Projects in Exclusionary Contexts (Jana-Sophie Effert, TU Dortmund)

Talk Block 2 — AI, Architecture & Assistive Systems (Dilemma #3)

1. A Multimodally Controlled Assistive Robotic System for Physically Impaired Users (Ahmed Abdelhamed, TH Ostwestfalen Lippe)
2. Who Pays for AI Failure? Toward Failure-Centred Evaluation of AI-Based Inclusive Technologies (Susanne Dirks, TU Dortmund)
3. Creating Safe & Supportive Spaces for Intimate Communication with Human-Chatbot Interactions (Lisa Mühl, Universität Duisburg-Essen) Reading List & Desirable Outcomes by Dilemma