Reflecting on Hybrid Events: Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences

Authors: Sean Rintel
Venue: CHI 2023
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden shift to virtual work and events, with the last two years enabling an appropriated and rather simulated togetherness—the hybrid mode. As we return to in-person events, it is important to reflect on not only what we learned about technologies and social justice, but about the types of events we desire, and how to re-design them accordingly. This SIG aims to reflect on hybrid events and their execution: scaling them across sectors, communities, and industries; considering trade-offs when choosing technologies; studying best practices and defining measures of “success” for hybrid events; and finally, identifying and charting the wider social, ethical, and legal implications of hybrid formats. This SIG will consolidate these topics by inviting participants to collaboratively reflect on previous hybrid experiences and what can be learned from them.

Citation

Alberta A Ansah, Adriana S Vivacqua, Sailin Zhong, Susanne Boll, Marios Constantinides, Himanshu Verma, Abdallah El Ali, Alina Lushnikova, Hamed Alavi, Sean Rintel, Andrew L Kun, Orit Shaer, Anna L Cox, Kathrin Gerling, Michael Muller, Vit Rusnak, Leticia Santos Machado, Thomas Kosch, Chiwork Collective, and Sigchi Executive Committee. 2023. Reflecting on Hybrid Events: Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 517, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583181

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ansah2023reflecting,
author = {Ansah, Alberta A and Zhong, Sailin and Vivacqua, Adriana S and Boll, Susanne and Constantinides, Marios and Verma, Himanshu and Ali, Abdallah El and Lushnikova, Alina and Alavi, Hamed and Rintel, Sean and Kun, Andrew L and Shaer, Orit and Cox, Anna L. and Gerling, Kathrin and Muller, Michael and Rusnak, Vit and Machado, Leticia Santos and Kosch, Thomas and Collective, CHIWORK and Committee, SIGCHI Executive},
title = {Reflecting on Hybrid Events: Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences},
organization = {ACM},
booktitle = {CHI 2023},
year = {2023},
month = {April},
url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/reflecting-on-hybrid-events-learning-from-a-year-of-hybrid-experiences/},
note = {SIGCHI Event},
}
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