As organisations and individuals continue to grapple with the shift in work culture post-pandemic, hybrid models have been widely adopted but poorly understood. What does ‘hybrid’ actually look like in practice? How does it shape people’s experience of work? And what challenges arise in the digitally-mediated workflows that now underpin modern professional life?
These questions will be explored in depth by Professor Luigina Ciolfi, a leading expert in Human-Computer Interaction at University College Cork. Her talk, Digitally-Entangled Worklives: Is Hybrid Really the Ideal ‘New Normal’?, offers new insights grounded in qualitative fieldwork on how people configure digital tools, relationships, and infrastructures to sustain liveable and flexible worklives. The talk connects directly to global debates on the future of work, technology design, and organisational wellbeing. The talk is being hosted jointly by the Human-Computer Interaction research group at University College Dublin (HCI@UCD), along with The School of Information and Communication Studies, the College of Social Sciences at UCD and ADAPT. The event celebrates 10 years since the foundation of the HCI@UCD group and aims to showcase the key role social science research plays in helping to shape our future digital world.
About the Speaker
Professor Luigina Ciolfi is an internationally recognised scholar in Human-Computer Interaction and a member of the People and Technology Research Group (PATLab) at University College Cork (UCC). Her interdisciplinary work spans collaboration, participation, placemaking, mobile work, public-space interaction, and cultural heritage technologies. She has published extensively, contributed to numerous international research projects, serves as associate editor of the CSCW Journal, and is regularly invited to speak and advise for national and EU-level bodies including the European Commission.
The event is free and open to the public.
