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.

Workshop Schedule

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.

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 [TBA]. 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