Expressive digital place making as means of aggregation.

Abstract

Where are the frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction? What theories, methodologies, tools, and sensitivities do researchers, designers and practitioners need to explore uncharted territories? These are the questions that inspired CHItaly 2021, the 14th edition of the biannual conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter. Some initial answers are documented in the proceedings and summarised in this foreword alongside a reflection on future frontiers of hybrid scientific conferences.The original focus of inquiry was on transcending disciplinary, communication and national boundaries, reaching out to new scholars, engaging the public, and supporting internationalisation. The COVID-19 pandemics abruptly challenged us to explore unexpected frontiers of space and time in evolving virtualities fraught with uncertainties. Unlike most human-computer interaction conferences, CHItaly 2021 was planned as a hybrid meeting with the aim of reconfiguring physical and digital spaces to mutual benefit. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano infrastructured the physical space for scholars and citizens within changing local, national and international safety legislation. The technical chair (Fabio Butussi) and the digital frontiers chairs (Fabio Morreale and Ilaria Torre) infrastructured the connection between Bozen-Bolzano and the rest of the world.The conference started on July the 11th with the first edition of the Interactive Experiences track at CHItaly. Marìa Menéndez-Blanco, Ceçil Uğur Yavuz and Jennifer Schubert curated this hybrid exhibition to connect artists, the conference attendees, the local population and the virtual public. It included eleven artefacts authored by international artists, researchers and designers to spark foundational critical discourses, such as reflections on AI and user profiling, human-technology symbiosis, and digital obsolescence. In parallel, six workshops (selected by Barbara Rita Barricelli and Catia Prandi) provided the venues for speculating about equality, diversity and inclusion in machine learning and virtual reality, imagining trans-urban futures, reflecting on socio-political consequences of digitalisation in rural regions, and exploring the space of outdoors-related HCI, virtual games and extended realities. Finally, the doctoral colloquium, chaired by Fabio Paternò and Daniela Fogli, provided a venue for young researchers to share and refine their work.v

Digital placemaking, health & wellbeing and nature-based solutions: A systematic review and practice model

“…Furthermore, some authors mention these terms in their work without defining them (Alvarez et al, 2017;Besek, 2021; Table 2 Study selection chart. Bicquelet-Lock, 2021;Breek et al, 2018Breek et al, , 2021Busse, 2021;Chaudhry et al, 2019;Cilliers et al, 2015;Clowater, 2021;Edwards et al, 2020;Globa et al, 2019;Gobbo and Benedetti, 2021;Harner et al, 2017;Houghton et al, 2015;Hunter et al, 2022;MacIntyre et al, 2019;Marshall, 2021;Mcarthur and Xu, 2021;Ozduzen et al, 2021;Rzeszewski and Naji, 2022;Soedarsono et al, 2021;Truong et al, 2022;Wright, 2021;Zhang and Gong, 2021). The absence of an explicit clarification of these concepts presented from the results of the analysis, as well as the different terms employed, emphasizes the confusion and lack of consensus on digital placemaking.…”

“…Location-based technology is found as an essential element of hybrid realities, which is also understood as a key characteristic of digital placemaking (Clarke, 2021;Keegan, 2021;MacIntyre et al 2019;Witteborn, 2021). Results of the review showed that hybrid realities include location-based technology and games (Bilandzic and Johnson, 2013;Frith and Richter, 2021;Gobbo and Benedetti, 2021;Harner et al, 2017;Hjorth and Richardson, 2017;Pavlovskaya, 2016;Qabshoqa, 2018), augmented realities (Abdel-Aziz et al, 2016;Boffi, 2021;Clowater, 2021;Her, 2021;Hjorth and Richardson, 2017;Hunter et al, 2022;, immersive digital experiences (Globa et al, 2019), virtual reality (Kuchelmeister et al, 2020;Rzeszewski and Naji, 2022;van Houwelingen-Snippe et al, 2021), and digital pop-up artefacts (Fredericks et al, 2018). All of them help create realities that combine the physical and digital world with different intensitiesvirtual reality refers to a fully immersive experience in the digital environment, in contrast to digital pop-up artefacts that combine analogue and digital media for community engagement.…”