Welcome to our spring seminar, “The New Mundane (Everyday Futures)” on Wednesday, 27.5. at 13:00-15:00!

Join us for our spring seminar with exciting talks related to The New Mundane (Everyday Futures) where we focus on the current shifts in human-computer interaction and how we understand these shifts as affecting our perceptions and practices of everyday lived experience. SIGCHI Finland’s spring seminar 2026 zooms in on the subtle changes creeping into our daily existence: how they re-form habits, routines, meanings, relationships, and subsequently also our expectations, gradually over time. Our selection of speakers foregrounds these changes in addition to the evolution of developing and studying human-technology interaction. They highlight the frictions and breakdowns, as well as new opportunities. Here, we treat emerging technologies, not as disruptions, but rather as ongoing negotiations between people, infrastructures, values, and environments. We invite you all to join us on May 27, 2026, to consider not what technology could do someday, but what it is quietly asking people to do every day. 

The event is held online and it´s free and open for all.

Registration for the event closes on Monday, 25.5.2026. The Zoom link for the event will be emailed on Tuesday, 26.5.

— Register for the event via this link —

Program

Please note that times in the program are approximate, and some deviation may occur.

13:00-13:10 Welcoming words
Laura Havinen, Chair of SIGCHI Finland

13:10-13:40 Am I Still Needed? Reconfiguring Human Roles in the Age of AI Agents
Martina Čaić, Assistant Professor in Strategic Service Design, Aalto University

13:40-14:10 Everybody’s Smart: discussing four speculative disciplines that don’t exist yet
Sérgio Tavares, Lead Service Designer at F-Secure

14:10-14:20 Pause

14:20-14:50 The Cost of Velocity: What are we Overlooking in Everyday Life
Jane Vita, Co-founder of The Joy Time

14:50-15:00 Closing words
Rebekah Rousi, SIGCHI Finland