WUD SIGCHI-Italy

HCI for sustainability and accessibility

Who Should Attend

Join our vibrant HCI italian community into this journey towards designing for a better world! Highlights would be on the importance of integrating sustainability and accessibility into digital design. We are strongly engaged in how we can improve the design of public spaces, city infrastructure and urban architecture, natural spaces and civic participation for a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Speakers

The SIGCHI-Italy WUD event will open the day with a keynote on sustainable HCI. When the climate crisis is increasingly pressing, HCI can help communicate the repercussions of climate change and reduce environmental impact, through the co-creation of public policies, the integration of biodiversity into design and the development of multidisciplinary skills to address the complexity of climate change.

Also private companies have a responsibility in bringing innovaction having a social impct. These topics will be touched in company interventions.

In this event, the following open questions are debated:

Sustainability

Can citizen science promote civic awareness and commitment to sustainable development issues? The HCI perspective of today’s talk says “yes”.

What are challenges and responsibilities of software design in energy consumption? Many more than expected!

Can artificial intelligence be designed for equity and disability? It depends on what AI can assimilate of our learning and understanding.

Accessibility

How can universal design help make spaces, objects and services accessible to as many people as possible? Listen to our talk pushing the limits of traditional accessibility ahead.

Is the accessibility of technical-scientific information always guaranteed? Discover with us how problematic is to process non-textual signs for visually impared people.

Can tangible interfaces and serious games be used in critical scenarios? Successful stories from the rehabilitation and crisis management are told.

Event Leaders

Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia

Daniela Fogli, Università degli Studi di Brescia

Angela Locoro, Università degli Studi di Brescia

Stefano Valtolina, Università degli Studi di Milano