Engaging the City: Public Interfaces as Civic Intermediary As interest in the city grows as a viable site for HCI research, the organizers of this workshop aim to shift the research perspective from the architects plan view to the street level. No longer reducing the city to a dense population of users, we challenge our participants to consider the city not just as a backdrop for interactions but as an inalienable part of interactions that happen within it. By reorienting ourselves, we move beyond the city as a muse to the city as a resource for public exchange. This workshop is designed to explore notions of exchange within an urban landscape. What relationships do we have with the city? What do we give and take from it and each other in its embrace? How is this exchange enacted in and upon the city in everyday life? And how can technological innovation capture or foster this exchange? The challenge for the HCI community is to design public interfaces that provide citizens with more active access, authorship, and agency. The workshops field research component will involve visiting the city of Portland as a case study for processing and refining these theoretical considerations. We would like to gather a representative group of social scientists, technologists, urban planners, architects, artists, and designers whose work addresses issues of shared public interfaces and interactions. Application Participants will be selected based on a demonstrated interest in the topic, as seen through position papers submitted prior to the workshop that consist of: · A discussion of background, interests, current work and relevance to workshop goals. · An object/image/idea which represents an active exchange with the city. Participants should be prepared to demonstrate this item's context within the theoretical framework of access, agency, and authorship. Acceptable submission formats include: Word or PDF. Send submissions and questions regarding format to Michele Chang at: <mailto:michele.f.chang@intel.com>michele.f.chang@intel.com. Workshop URL: <http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/>http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/ ORGANIZERS Michele Chang, Intel Corporation, People and Practices Research Katrina Jungnickel, INCITE, University of Surrey Chet Orloff, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University Irina Shklovski, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University