Ed Chi's CHI2009 Conference Trip Report

CHI 2009 Trip Report Ed H. Chi (with input from ASC, Oliver B., Nic D.) 2009-05-06 CHI2009 Trip Report

2009-05-06 CHI2009 Trip Report

Overview

General Impressions

Workshops

Opening Plenary by Judy Olson

Highlights of Technical Track

Video Showcase

PARC papers

Interesting papers

Closing Plenary

Lab Visits to Google/MS/IBM/MIT

General Impression

Lots of students looking for jobs

Too much specialization, too narrow

Too many iSchools and HCI departments generating students focused on user studies and interaction design

Academia looking forward to increased funding

NSF and NIH seem both active

General Impressions

HCI strong institutions are

First tier: CMU, Microsoft, MIT, IBM, UW, GaTech

Second tier: Cornell , Penn State, Stanford, UCBerkeley

Google, Facebook, Yahoo are all largely missing

Industry Research Lab reasonably strong, but much more dispersed

General nervousness about the future of the economy and industrial research

Workshops

Sensemaking workshop

Social Mediating Technologies: Developing the Research Agenda

Interacting with Temporal Data

Sensemaking Tools

Broadly, issues facing toolmakers can be deal with in four large pieces:

SM Phases

SM Context

SM Scale

SM Requirements

Top Ten Requirements for SM tools

Keeping track of progress / alternatives, provide useful advisement; hypothesis generation; Facilitate refining and shifting – [Data State Model?]

stimulate diversity -- Conflict and multiple POV (diversity) management - Balance

Help with narratives and deal with confirmation bias

Carry rationale / provenance, integrated communication

Data and project management are critical

Enable building up of synergy between individual and group sensemaking

Keep track of confidence in the analysis: Provide trust and evidences of consensus

Analyze / Reduce risk of handoff

Readiness of revisit: Undo / history, readwear and editwear for state of sensemaking

Transparency and explanation of the state of the model

Opening Plenary

Large HCI problems:

How to design a large scale activity

Generalize across field studies

Human robot interaction

Social ergonomics

Social Ergonomics

Psychology on F2f and video conferencing research

Physics of space and time

Eye contact, video size

Impression, cultural, ethnic, gender differences

Video Showcase

Asked by Dan Olsen to Chair.

Designed to parallel the SIGGRAPH electric theater

Attended by about 600-700 people

Best Video Awards given in Oscar ceremony style

An Elementary Social Information Foraging Model

Peter Pirolli

Remembrance of Things Tagged: How Tagging Effort Affects Tag Production and Human Memory

Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Lichan Hong

Signpost from the Masses: Learning Effects in an Exploratory Social Tag Search Browser

Yvonne Kammerer, Rowan Nairn, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi

So You Know You’re Getting the Best Possible Information: A Tool that Increases Wikipedia Credibility

Peter Pirolli, Evelin Wollny, Bongwon Suh

What's in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure

Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh

Annotate Once, Appear Anywhere: Collective Foraging for Snippets of Interest Using Paragraph Fingerprinting

Lichan Hong, Ed H. Ch

With a Little Help from My Friends: Examining the Impact of Social Annotations in Sensemaking Tasks

Les Nelson, Christoph Held, Peter Pirolli, Lichan Hong, Diane Schiano, Ed H. Chi

Body and Mind: A Study of Avatar Personalization in Three Virtual Worlds

Student Competition: Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search

Poster: Using Temporal Patterns (T-Patterns) to Derive Stress Factors of Routine Tasks

Poster: Predicting Shoppers' Interest from Social Interactions Using Sociometric Sensors

PARC papers 2009-05-06 CHI2009 Trip Report

Paper Track

Included significant works on areas such as

(1) social computing and social networking site characterization and tool development;

(2) Ubicomp, mobile and surface computing;

(3) Computer Mediated Communication and CSCW research;

(4) Debate on HCI research methodology and metrics;

(5) Search tools and desktop interactions.

Monday 2009-05-06 CHI2009 Trip Report

Creativity, Challenges, and Opportunities in Social Computing (Panels) Monday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM   Creativity Challenges and Opportunities in Social Computing Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado Pamela Jennings, Banff New Media Institute Mary Lou Maher, NSF Mitchel Resnick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

Personal Information Management

Giornata: in situ, longitudinal study of an activity-based computing system

TAGtivity, user activity tagging system and evaluation

GrayArea , combines the advantages of deletion and keeping files

Tuesday

Information Foraging

Q&A systems

Social Networking Sites

Paper + Invited Panel: Scientometric Analysis of the CHI Proceedings  Tuesday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  Session Chair: Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research  Paper: Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings Christoph Bartneck, Eindhoven University of Technology Jun Hu, Eindhoven University of Technology  Panel Discussion: Scientometric Analysis of the CHI Proceedings danah boyd, Microsoft Research Gilbert Cockton, University of Sunderland Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon University

Situated action

Work practice

Studying Work vs. culture interpretation

Literary discipline vs. observational discipline

Wednesday

FacetLens: interactive Vis. of faceted data sets

Thursday 2009-05-06 CHI2009 Trip Report

New Visualization Techniques

EnsembleMatrix, interactive ML

Multi-Tasking and Interruptions

Typology of self-interruptions

Multi-Tasking and Interruptions

Unified Theory of the Multitasking Continuum

Social Interactions and Awareness in the Office

Exploring Awareness Needs and Information Display Preferences Between Coworkers

Social Interactions and Awareness in the Office

Yours, Mine and (Not) Ours: Social Influences on Group Information Repositories

MY Stuff vs. YOUR Stuff

First Do No Harm

Consequences of Clutter

Unmet Social Expectations

Closing Plenary -- Kees Overbeeke

Always someone outside the community, often with a design bent.

“ Dreaming of the Impossible” focused on a European perspective on design and technology.

Design is about people. It is about our lives, our hopes and dreams, our loneliness and joy, our sense of beauty and justice, about the social and the good. It is about being in the world.

a primacy of action. In accordance with some theories of knowledge, meaning cannot be detached from action. Meaning is in (inter)action. There is a primacy of embodiment.

Kees Overbeeke

A design theory consequently must be a theory of action and the embodiment in the first place, and of meaning in the second, and not the other way around. Reflection on action is the source of knowledge.

The methods used must be rooted in design practice, in the socio-cultural environment, invigorated by experimental and technological methods from other disciplines.