Call for workshop participation:
Designing Meaningful Industrial Work for Hybrid Human-Technology Environments
7 October 2025, Tallinn, Estonia
We are inviting contributions to an interactive workshop that will explore how cognitive ergonomics and human-centered design can enhance the meaningfulness of work in hybrid environments where humans
collaborate with automation, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and other technologies.
Important dates:
The workshop will be held as part of ECCE 2025 conference. The workshop will include position paper talks / sharing session, interactive discussions, short expert talks, collaborative activity, and future directions
or joint paper collaboration. The workshop aims to discuss human-centered, cognitively ergonomic, and meaningful industrial work in hybrid environments with a particular focus on enhancing worker motivation, competence, and well-being, while attracting younger
generations of workers.
In this workshop, we aim to explore topics including (but not limited to):
We invite position papers of 2-4 pages, following the single-column ACM Word / LaTeX template.
Papers should be submitted to the following workshop organisers by the deadline to: Mari Myllylä (mari.t.myllyla@jyu.fi) and Anna Viljakainen (anna.viljakainen@aalto.fi).
Position papers will be reviewed by the workshop co-organisers. Main criteria are relevance with respect to the theme of the workshop and scientific quality. Information about the acceptance of position
papers and approval for participation will be sent to the participants by e-mail. In the e-mail, the accepted participants are informed about the specific themes and asked to
choose e.g. 3 of the most interesting themes they would like to participate in the workshop group work. The workshop organizers will then select the most popular themes to be discussed during the workshop’s afternoon session.
More about this
Workshop and the ECCE 2025 conference.
Welcome!
Organizing committee:
Dr. Mari Myllylä, University of Jyväskylä
Dr. Susanna Aromaa, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Dr. Martina Caic, Aalto University
Henrikki Salo-Pöntinen, University of Jyväskylä
Bastian Tammentie, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland