Call for Participation

This workshop explores the potential of cognitive personal informatics, which utilises physiological signals and wearable tech to track cognitive activity, stress levels, focus, and fatigue. With advancements in engineering and machine learning, we can use this data to shape our goals and change our behaviours. Instead, this workshop looks forward to when our cognitive activity can be easily tracked and presents itself as a new form of personal informatics that we might use to shape our goals and change our behaviours.

We invite contributions aligned (but not limited) to the following topics:

• Studies of how people manage their cognitive activity frequently and or longitudinally.
• Research that shapes our understanding of CPI.
• Research into communities that could benefit from or be harmed by (mis)use of CPI.
• Research into the design of systems or applications for CPI.
• Research into how cognitive activity is conceptualised and understood by people.
• And to match the conference theme: Research focused on the ethical, legal, and regulatory aspects of CPI.

We invite 1) Short research summaries (4-6 pages), 2) Perspectives papers (e.g. essay or design fiction) (4-6 pages), or 3) Attendee abstracts (1 page) that describe a perspective you can contribute. All submissions should be in single-column ACM format. Authors of research summaries and perspectives papers will be encouraged to record a 5-min video presenting the content of their submission, which will be shared before the workshop, and available after.

• Deadline for submissions: Rolling Deadline until Workshop
• Notifications of acceptance: within 2 weeks of submission
• Camera-ready: TBD

The workshop will be hybrid, led by Schneegass, Maior, and Chiossi in person, and Wilson, Cox, and Wiese online. We plan for periods of synchronisation, separate activities online and offline, and asynchronous sharing of research before and after the meeting.