7 Experiences – Aalto Experience Summit Experience research agenda workshop

The overall goal of the workshops is to advance experience research by sharing the knowledge between experience researchers from different disciplines. The workshops are not designed to be training sessions, but after a short introduction, we will jointly identify and discuss the workshop topics that unite experience researchers across domains and disciplines. Since we want to develop experience research, the discussions will be mostly academic. We cannot guarantee the most immediately pertinent experience for practitioner participants. However, the perspectives of practitioners are invaluable, and we warmly welcome active practitioner engagement. We hope the workshops may provide opportunities for participants to identify potential collaborators and initiate new projects.

To make full use of the 1-hour workshop, we take the following actions:

• • We will collect participants’ perspectives on the workshop topics through the preparatory activity, and discuss the emerged key themes in the workshop.
  • The workshop discussions focus on topics important for the experience research in general. Unfortunately, we will not have time to discuss and advise specific projects during the short workshop, but we would love to hear about your projects at a later point.
  • We encourage short statements from the participants and will have to brutally stop lengthy or out-of-scope statements.
  • We record the workshop, analyze the discussion and compile a report. We also plan to share a short summary video online.

Next steps for the workshop participants

1. By August 17: After studying the workshop information below, please confirm (or cancel) your participation to the above workshop by responding to personal invitation email (cc virpi.roto@aalto.fi)
2. By August 17: Provide your consent for recording the workshop (see a separate personal email)
3. By August 23rd: As a preparatory activity to the workshop topic, please respond to a few questions at https://forms.gle/dC6jRKypct7q5DV1A.
4. Close to the workshop: Check your email to find a link to the Zoom room, and verify that it works for you.

Mat	Duerden	Brigham Young University	United States
Islam	Elgammal	Professor in the Business Administration department, Jeddah University, SA	Saudi Arabia
Mona	Eskola	University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences, Culture-based Service Design	Finland
Ingvill	Fossheim	Aalto University	Norway
Patti	Freeman	Brigham Young University	United States
Karen	Melton	Baylor University	United States
Anna	Praat	Breda University of Applied Sciences Experience Research and Design	The Netherlands
Haian	Xue	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
Licia	Calvi	Breda University of Applied Sciences	The Netherlands
Erdogan	Ekiz	School of Hospitality Business and Management, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University	Morocco
Anita	Manfreda	Torrens University Australia	Australia
Vesa	Markuksela	Senior Lecturer	Finland
NANXI	YAN	u of alberta	Canada