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.
Intuition and common sense should be high on the agenda. They should be exploited to the maximum.

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PARC papers
An Elementary Social Information Foraging Model
Remembrance of Things Tagged: How Tagging Effort Affects Tag Production and Human Memory
Signpost from the Masses: Learning Effects in an Exploratory Social Tag Search Browser
So You Know Youre Getting the Best Possible Information: A Tool that Increases Wikipedia Credibility
What's in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure
Annotate Once, Appear Anywhere: Collective Foraging for Snippets of Interest Using Paragraph Fingerprinting
With a Little Help from My Friends: Examining the Impact of Social Annotations in Sensemaking Tasks
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

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