NordiCHI 2025 Summer School

The NordiCHI 2025 Summer School will take place in Bergen, Norway, from June 16th to 18th, 2025. The NordiCHI research community arranges summer schools in the years between its biennial NordiCHI conferences. Similar to the first NordiCHI summer school in 2023, this year’s event is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the University of Oslo.

Call for participation

We invite PhD students in Human-Computer Interaction and related research fields to submit a proposal for evaluation. The admission to the school will be based on the review of the proposal.

Dates and venue

•     Dates: 16th – 18th June, 2025
•     Venue: Baroniet Rosendal, two hours south of Bergen by bus/boat.

Programme

The format of the summer school will be a combination of lectures by invited lecturers, PhD student presentations with feedback, and plenary discussions. The limited number of PhD students (max. 15) will allow for dialogue and discussions in the spirit of the NordiCHI conferences.

Organizers and invited lecturers (panel)

• Organizers: Prof. Dag Svanæs, NTNU, Trondheim; prof. Tone Bratteteig and assoc. prof. Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo.
• Invited lecturers (confirmed): Prof. Anna Vallgårda, IT University of Copenhagen. (Two more unconfirmed).

ECTS credits

The successful completion of the summer school and submission of an experience report will award 3 ECTS credits from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The proposal

• The proposal should consist of (1) a research summary, (2) a short resume and (3), a recommendation letter from your PhD supervisor.
• The research summary should be a 2-4 page paper (excluding references) that describes your research. In addition to the overview, you may go in detail on an aspect of your research that you would like to receive feedback on during the summer school.
• Your research summary will not be published, i.e. you can use it verbatim in future publications. However, if accepted to the summer school, we want to distribute your research usmmary to the other participants as background for discussions.
• As the research summary will not become part of a proceeding, you may use the 1-column ACM initial submissions format. (See summer school web page for further links):
• https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx
• Your research summary, resume and recommendation letter should be submitted by email to dag.svanes@ntnu.no and tone@ifi.uio.no.
• Deadline for submission is April 15th. 

Registration fee

Registration fee: 750 €. This covers accommodation and food for the three days of the summer school, and transport to and from Bergen airport. This year’s summer school is sponsored by the NordiCHI conference fund, NTNU and the University of Oslo.

Important dates

• Deadline for submission of proposal: April 15th
• Notification of Acceptance: April 25th
• Registration deadline: May 7th
• Summer School: June 16th-18th
• Deadline for submission of experience report: October 15th

Summer School web site

https://www.ntnu.edu/nordichi-summer-school

​​​​For questions, please contact us at dag.svanes@ntnu.no or tone@ifi.uio.no.