7 Experiences – Aalto Experience Summit Societal impact – Experience research for grand challenges 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 through personal emails:

• • We will collect participants’ perspectives on the workshop topics through a 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/E3t1v3V6qGWbxj8D9.
4. Close to the workshop: Check your email to find a link to the Zoom room, and verify that it works for you.