Projection mapping situates digital visuals within physical spaces, objects, and architectural surfaces, yet often remains inaccessible to beginners due to perceived technical complexity, specialised software, and the cost of professional tools. This hands-on workshop, Projection Mapping for Beginners, guides participants with little or no prior experience to create and project their first mapped visual experiences using free and open-source tools, aiming to democratise access to spatial and immersive creative technologies through accessible tools, curiosity, and experimentation.

The rush to agentify is outpacing the understanding of what's being agentified, so this workshop teaches a way of deciding what stays human and what becomes agentic, treating the human in the loop as a load-bearing part of the system whose judgment still works at human tempo, not a formality. Participants learn and apply the Choreography Map, a method for designing agentic and human workflows together, developed and tested in the author's own practice and currently under review for publication.

This workshop asks whether what we build treats people as full human beings or merely as problems to be processed, framing taste as a teachable discipline across four lenses (Function, Aesthetic, Content, and Emotion) where Function and Aesthetic are "cheap" and easily approximated by automated tools, while Content and Emotion are "expensive" and demand a human who understands the user's ground reality. Participants will learn to surface what usually goes unseen by analysing ground reality, mapping regional and cultural relevance, and prioritising problem identification over immediate solutions, showing that in the age of AI, conscious human intervention is more important, not less.

Although HCI is fundamentally concerned with people, technology conferences are often structured around expert presentations and predetermined agendas, while in AI for education, meaningful expertise is distributed across students, teachers, parents, practitioners, and researchers. Building on Participatory Dialogue, this workshop proposes an Unconference format to bring these perspectives together on equal footing through participant-led dialogue.

Virtual Reality learning is often judged by technical performance or visual realism, while the experience of first-time learners receives less attention; this workshop uses a functional Unity-based laboratory-safety prototype as a shared HCI case, in which participants capture behavioural evidence, identify interaction breakdowns, and co-design improvements using human-centred methods. It produces team artefacts and a collective Human-Centred VR Learning Design Checklist covering usability, accessibility, comfort, safety, feedback, error recovery, and learning effectiveness.

As interactions with technology move beyond screens into "Phygital" experiences involving sensors, actuators, and responsive environments, this course introduces designers to basic sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers as design materials, connecting them to UX principles and interaction heuristics while questioning whether technology actually makes the experience better. Using Tinkercad Circuits, a browser-based simulation environment requiring no physical hardware, participants will identify an opportunity within a customer journey and develop a simple phygital interaction, with the emphasis on meaningful, intuitive, and human-centred interactions rather than technical complexity.