Engaging Human and Non-Human Perspectives in Crisis Resilience: Designing AI-Supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making
Published in OZCHI 25: Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025
Crisis events such as natural disasters, habitat loss, and ecological degradation demand new ways of engaging communities in decision-making. Traditional approaches to engagement often exclude the voices of those most affected, particularly non-human species and ecological systems. Human-computer interaction research has begun to explore how immersive technologies and AI-supported tools can offer more inclusive, interactive, and situated forms of engagement. This workshop aims to advance this conversation by bringing together researchers and practitioners to examine how human and non-human perspectives might be integrated into participatory planning for crisis resilience. The workshop will focus on designing immersive and AI-supported tools that foster inclusive deliberation, multispecies ethics, and ecological awareness. Through a facilitated framing discussion, collaborative mapping, and speculative design activities, participants will critically examine current engagement and design practices and co-develop new interaction concepts that support just, inclusive, and adaptive responses to crisis events.
Recommended citation: Adrian Wong, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Callum Parker, Marius Hoggenmueller, Nate Zettna, Carlos Alfredo Tirado Cortes, Soojeong Yoo, and Joel Fredericks. 2025. Engaging Human and Non-Human Perspectives in Crisis Resilience: Designing AI-Supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making. In Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1011–1015. https://doi.org/10.1145/3764687.3767277
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