This interdisciplinary workshop explores how emerging biosensing technologies and sensory augmentation are reshaping human experience. As wearables, neurotech, and embedded sensors become more accessible, designers, researchers, and engineers face new challenges and opportunities in crafting experiences for “augmented humans.” How can we design interactions that are meaningful, ethical, and inclusive when people gain new forms of perception or biofeedback? What does it mean to design with the body as an active sensing medium?

Through a mix of presentations, hands-on activities, and critical discussion, the workshop invites participants to examine biosensing from experiential, technical, and socio-cultural perspectives. We welcome contributions across HCI, design, arts, and technology that interrogate or demonstrate novel sensing experiences, explore embodied interaction, or propose speculative futures for human augmentation. Together, we will map out new directions for experience design that extend the boundaries of human perception and interaction.

Agenda

• 9:00-10:00 Introductions and Inspiration Talks
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee
• 10:30-12:00 Paper sessions (5+2 mins per paper)
  •    Paper session I 10:30-11:00 – chair: Roope Raisamo
  •    Paper session II 11:00-11:30 – chair: Jonna Häkkilä
  •    Paper session III 11:30-12:00 – chair: Heiko Müller
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch (and demos at about 13:30-14)
• 14:00-14:30 Inspiration Talks
• 14:30-16:45 Interactive sessions
• 16:45-17:15 Coffee
• 17:15 Closing session

Inspiration talks

• prof. Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich
• prof. Rosa Ballardini, University of Lapland
• prof. Kai Kunze, Keio University
• prof. Roope Raisamo, Tampere University

Paper session I 10:30-11:00 – chair: 

1. Do I Really Feel Better or Is It Just the Smartwatch Telling Me That I Do? – Negotiating the Felt-Experience with Smartwatch Data. Markus Löchtefeldt
2. MindfulBreath: Every Breath You Take, Every Mind You Wake. Hannah Cho, Jingyeong Park, Yeonjun Seong, Jangwon Lee, Hayoung Oh, and S. Shyam Sundar
3. Exploring Singing Breath: Physiological Insights and Directions for Breath-Aware Augmentation in Mixed Reality Design. Kanyu Chen, Zhuang Chang, Qianyuan Zou, and Kai Kunze

Paper session II 11:00-11:30 – chair: 

1. Conscious or Unconscious Meditation? Haptic Interaction Design in Meditation Augmentation Using Physiological Sensing. Danyang Peng, Kanyu Chen, Yun Suen Pai, Giulia Barbareschi, Kouta Minamizawa, and Kai Kunze
2. A Preliminary Taxonomy and Evaluation Methodology for Recursive Bioadaptive Media Technologies. Mila Bujić and Juho Hamari
3. Passive Body-Area Electrostatic Field (Human Body Capacitance) for Ubiquitous Computing. Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, and Paul Lukowicz

Paper session III 11:30-12:00 – chair: 

1. Biosensing-Driven Cognitive Augmentation: Real-Time Mind Wandering Detection and Robot Intervention. Hyobin Kim, Jinkwon Lee, Seoyeong Kim, Hayoung Oh, and Jangwon Lee
2. Augmenting Office Workers with Robot Avatars – An Exploratory Study. Jonna Häkkilä, Juri Etto, Sari Tapio, and Emma Kirjavainen
3. Digitally Induced Altered States as Facilitators of the Future Augmented Human Sensorium: Analysis of Science Fiction Representations. Anatolii Belousov, Mila Bujić, Joseph Macey, and Juho Hamari

Organizers

Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland, Finland
Jani Mäntyjärvi, VTT, Finland
Zhengya Gong, University of Lapland, Finland.
Heiko Müller, University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Kati Pettersson, VTT, Finland.
Roope Raisamo, Tampere University, Finland.
Ashley Colley, University of Lapland, Finland.
Kai Kunze, Keio University, Japan.
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU, Germany.

Accepted Papers

• MindfulBreath: Every Breath You Take, Every Mind You Wake
  Hannah Cho, Jingyeong Park, Yeonjun Seong, Jangwon Lee, Hayoung Oh, and S. Shyam Sundar

• Exploring Singing Breath: Physiological Insights and Directions for Breath-Aware Augmentation in Mixed Reality Design
  Kanyu Chen, Zhuang Chang, Qianyuan Zou, and Kai Kunze

• A Preliminary Taxonomy and Evaluation Methodology for Recursive Bioadaptive Media Technologies
  Mila Bujić and Juho Hamari

• Biosensing-Driven Cognitive Augmentation: Real-Time Mind Wandering Detection and Robot Intervention
  Hyobin Kim, Jinkwon Lee, Seoyeong Kim, Hayoung Oh, and Jangwon Lee

• Digitally Induced Altered States as Facilitators of the Future Augmented Human Sensorium: Analysis of Science Fiction Representations
  Anatolii Belousov, Mila Bujić, Joseph Macey, and Juho Hamari

• Do I Really Feel Better or Is It Just the Smartwatch Telling Me That I Do? – Negotiating the Felt-Experience with Smartwatch Data
  Markus Löchtefeld

• Passive Body-Area Electrostatic Field (Human Body Capacitance) for Ubiquitous Computing
  Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, and Paul Lukowicz

• Conscious or Unconscious Meditation? Haptic Interaction Design in Meditation Augmentation Using Physiological Sensing
  Danyang Peng, Kanyu Chen, Yun Suen Pai, Giulia Barbareschi, Kouta Minamizawa, and Kai Kunze

• Augmenting Office Workers with Robot Avatars – An Exploratory Study
  Jonna Häkkilä, Juri Etto, Sari Tapio, and Emma Kirjavainen

Call for Papers

We invite researchers, designers, artists, and practitioners to submit contributions exploring the intersection of interaction design and biosensing. The workshop aims to bring together a diverse community interested in designing with physiological data, wearable sensors, and augmented sensing technologies to enable meaningful, embodied, and inclusive experiences. We welcome a broad range of perspectives, including experience-centered design, critical and speculative approaches, accessibility and inclusion, and real-world applications in public, social, and cultural settings.

Submissions may include position papers, case studies, methodological insights, or design reflections. Papers should be 2–4 pages in length (excluding references), follow the ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, and should not be anonymized. Please submit via EasyChair by June 22nd 2005 (Anywhere on Earth). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and register for the conference and the workshop day. Accepted contributions will be made available on the workshop website.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Designing interactions with biosensors and physiological data
• Wearable devices for affective and cognitive state sensing
• Augmented perception and sensory substitution interfaces
• Tangible and embodied interaction with biofeedback
• Design methods for experience-centered biosensing
• User experience studies of biosensing technologies
• Speculative and critical design of augmented human experiences
• Ethical and inclusive design for sensory augmentation
• Biosensing in public and social settings
• Accessibility and neurodiversity in enhanced sensing design
• Cross-cultural perspectives on bodily sensing and augmentation
• Bio-interfaces for collaborative or shared experiences
• Visualizing and interpreting real-time physiological data
• Biosensing in healthcare, education, and well-being
• Field studies involving wearables or sensing devices
• Storytelling, performance, and artistic uses of biosensing
• Hybrid systems combining AI, XR, and biosensing for interaction

Submission link:  https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=besedahs2025