In Conjunction with the Aarhus 2025 Decennial Conference, August 18-22, 2025 (18th or 19, the exact workshop date to be decided)
Organisers:
MARTIN JONSSON, Södertörn University, Sweden JAKOB THOLANDER, Stockholm University, Sweden MATTIAS ROST, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ADVAIT SARKAR, Microsoft, United Kingdom YLVA FERNAEUS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden AHMED KHARRUFA, Newcastle University, United Kingdom THOMAS LUDWIG, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany TOBIAS AHLIN BJERROME, GitHub, Sweden
Call for Participation In "The end of programming"-workshop we will investigate the potential “alternative futures” of programming with generative AI tools. The workshop aims to establish a strand of HCI research on the future of AI-supported programming that goes beyond the current focus on increasing the usability and performance of GenAI-assisted programming tools, to instead explore radical re-conceptualizations of co-coding and co-creation with AI. The workshop is open to researchers and practitioners engaged in critically exploring and understanding novel ways of coding and interacting with AI-based programming tools in a fashion that goes beyond traditional forms of articulating and expressing ideas and intentions in practices of programming.
We encourage speculative design inquiries exploring prototypes, interaction forms and provocations that facilitate engagement with a wider spectrum of human skills, experiences and ways of knowing when programming and coding with AI. The workshop welcomes contributions that i) present examples of novel interaction, empirical studies or prototypes of AI-based programming, ii) re-conceptualize how programming with AI-based tools may be conducted and the actions and activities they are designed for, iii) reflect on values and ethical challenges of AI-based programming.
Authors are invited to submit a 2-4 page position paper following the ACM single-column review format as a pdf-file. We promote broader participation including various ways of displaying research findings and ideas, including design examples, conceptual reflections, provocations, and design fictions. We encourage authors to explicitly address one of the workshop themes. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and selected based on their relevance to the workshop’s themes and the possibility to open up for reflection and conversation.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2025 decennial Aarhus conference, August 18-22, in Aarhus, Denmark
Position papers to be sent to: [email protected].
Deadline: June 16, 2025. Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2025
Workshop website: https://mi.sh.se/~shmnjn07/theend
Workshop description draft:
AARHUS25_Workshop_The_end_of_programming.pdf