Welcome to bioadaptive media x XR anticipatory workshop! 8.10.2025
What if the next generation of media could read your emotions and adapt in real time? How might that change the way we play, learn, or connect?
Technological change constantly reshapes our mediascape: from search and recommendation algorithms to smartphones and wearables, our perception of reality is increasingly mediated. A new generation of immersive and adaptive systems — such as XR environments, affective sensing, and biofeedback-driven media — extends this transformation further by not only responding to users but potentially co-constructing perception with them. Such systems point to a future where attention, emotion, and embodiment may no longer be private states but operationalised inputs in algorithmic loops.
Adaptive Media That Feels is a full-day interactive workshop at Academic Mindtrek 2025 (Oct 8 in Tampere, Finland from 10:00am to 17:00pm) that invites you to explore these questions together. Using playful speculative design, futures thinking, and role-play, we will imagine and enact future scenarios involving emerging tech like immersive XR, bioadaptation-driven media, and generative AI. Our focus is on participation, creativity, and critical inquiry of future sociotechnical landscapes – no technical expertise required.
We warmly welcome an interdisciplinary mix of participants across HCI, design, STS, media studies, the arts, creative industries, and beyond. Join us to collaboratively imagine, play out, and reflect on how future media that feels might shape the way we perceive, interact, and make meaning in the world around us.
Deadline for participant applications: October 3rd via the form. The deadline may be extended in case there are spots left.
For questions and inquiries please contact: Mila Bujić (mila.bujic@tuni.fi), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere UniversityMattia Thibault (mattia.thibault@tuni.fi), Professor, Tampere University
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This work is supported by the Kone Foundation (DIAL, 202008478), Research Council of Finland (Postemotion, 342144; Unite Flagship,359173), NextGenerationEU and Business Finland (NEXR, 5703/31/2023), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe (ERC StG InterReal, 101163472).
