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ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award

The ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award was presented by ACM Europe Awards Group, Joaquim Jorge and Aaron Quigley, on behalf of the ACM Europe Council, during the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019). The recipients of this award are Kevin Doherty and Gavin Doherty, for their paper Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study.

This photo shows the winners of the ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award receiving their award certificates, at the CHI 2019 conference.

The paper documents the first feasibility study on mobile devices to engage women in antenatal mental health screening. Using a mobile application, women attending UK National Health Service midwifery clinics provided reports of their wellbeing over a 9-month period. The application was instrumental in reporting risks of depression, self-harm or suicide; two-thirds of whom were not identified by conventional screening in-clinic.

This award-winning paper was selected amongst the 29 Best Paper Award winners at CHI 2019, by members of the CHI 2019 Best Paper Selection Committee.

Birds of a Feather – Lunch@CHI

A great thing about a conference is connecting with new people over shared topics. However, CHI is so big it can be a challenge to even meet people you know! This year we are trying to make it easier to connect with new people in a self-organised way.

This year, CHI has a temporary food court for lunch. You, yes you, can organise a lunch table on any topic that you like. Maybe you want to talk to other people about AR, the importance of explainable AI, something that was said in the keynote or anything else.

It’s really easy. In the morning, go to the registration desk and ask for a lunch reservation form. Fill it out and leave it on one table in the food court area. Then at lunch, simply buy and bring your own lunch, then go to the table and discuss.

Want to join a discussion table, super easy. Take 5 minutes to look at the topics on tables that are reserved, get some lunch and sit down at the table you want to talk about. You don’t need to register or know the other people.

We hope this will give all attendees both the chance to shape CHI and engage with new people over interesting topics. Its an experiment, and if you propose a topic or take part in a discussion, we’d really appreciate your feedback to pass forward to next year.

David McGookin, Joanna Bergström-Lehtovirta and Anusha Withana
Lunch@CHI Chairs
Email: lunch@chi2019.acm.org

CHI Equity

Welcome!

In keeping with an ongoing effort toward greater inclusion and equity at CHI, we’re happy to announce the chairing of a new position: CHI Equity. Meant to help build greater capacity for inclusive practices and foster a culture of respect, this position is tasked with a number of responsibilities: from advocacy and service/facility establishment to communication between other SIGs and chairs; program development; training programs; space-making; accountability maintenance; and on-the-ground support for equity-related efforts at the conference.

CHI is an enormous event and institution. It reflects the work of many hands, minds and hearts, and many of the equity initiatives and programs would not exist without dedicated volunteer chairs. Beyond the extensive work of the General Chairs and Assistants to the General Chairs, CHI currently involves efforts from: Local Arrangements Chairs, Accessibility Chairs, CHI Family/Childcare Chairs, Diversity and Inclusion Lunch Chairs, Language Inclusion Chairs, Newcomers Chairs, Sustainability Chairs, Communications Chair, Telepresence and Livestreaming Chairs, and countless others and their surrounding support communities. With over 50 different chaired positions responsible for the many initiatives at CHI, the transmission of information (be it feedback, lessons, plans or needs) is complicated. Small mistakes are magnified, and sometimes large issues are overlooked. Part of our role is helping with communication, doing what we can to ensure better institutional memory and on-the-ground initiatives.

It’s our inaugural year, so our position is largely in development and administrative. However, we’ve done great deal of review: what’s been working for past participants, what hasn’t, and what’s possible within organizational limitations. We’ve consulted with over 60 professionals and organizations with long-standing experience in equity, capacity-building, and organizing. And with the support of the CHI steering committee and CHI 2019’s general chairs, we would like to announce several initiatives. Alongside our internal efforts to build upon previous years’ work, we’d like to highlight the following initiatives (and encourage you to visit the Equity page for more information on each):

  • ALLYSHIP PROGRAM: This year you will see allies (designated by an “ALLY” pin) throughout the entire conference. Selected for their past experiences in equity-related activities and organizing, these volunteers have received training by us in basic bystander intervention, harassment, and discrimination management, as well as relevant policies and CHI Equity procedures. They are friendly and informed faces we encourage you to approach whether you have questions about equity matters, need direction, or are looking to file a report. If you would like to volunteer as an official ally, please indicate so on your registration!
  • LISTENING POST: Another opportunity to hear and be heard, there will be a drop-in “listening post” event on May 8th from 8:00-10:20am, in Island B CROWN. This will be an opportunity to openly express your experiences, thoughts, wants, and concerns regarding your CHI experience, to the Equity Chairs and other organizers.
  • REPORTING SYSTEM: In the event that an attendee experiences or witnesses harassment or discrimination during their time at the CHI, we encourage you to file a report. Doing so helps keep us aware of recurring issues, problematic individuals, or structural inequalities that we may have overlooked.
  • CHANNELS FOR COMMUNICATION: In addition to revising the standard post-conference survey, we have added the listening post event, one-on-one’s with the Equity chairs during CHI (just flag us down if you see us in person!), a report-filing system, allies, and an anonymous message center.
  • MULTI-FAITH QUIET ROOM: This year, an on-site multi-faith room has been secured. Rules and guidelines, compiled from best practices across international sources, will be posted outside the room.
  • ALL-GENDER BATHROOMS: New this year, SIGCHI has adopted a policy for all-gender bathrooms (restrooms) that applies to the organization of all SIGCHI-sponsored conferences.
  • BABY-CHANGE FACILITIES: Please note that the 2019 conference venue features change tables for infants in separate rooms apart from the restrooms.  
  • DESENSITIZATION ROOM: Participants have shown continued support for an on-site quiet space to decompress, reset, or temporarily distance themselves from the high-intensity stimulation of the conference.
  • BETTER BADGE PRONOUNS: All attendees will be given the option to self-identify (or not) on their badges during registration. These badges will be checked and proofed prior to distribution.
  • IMPROVED DIETARY REQUIREMENTS: We’re working closely with the registration team and SEC in order to accommodate the wide range of dietary needs during the conference.

We are extremely motivated to start laying the groundwork for the sustained growth of equity-related efforts in our conference community. We’re here to be accountable to you, help communicate across the labor of many hands and hearts that make CHI possible, and to do what we can to facilitate better community norms and a culture of understanding at CHI. Follow us, find and speak with us during the conference, and head over to the equity page for a lot of important information, community guidelines and events!

With more on the horizon, we look forward to seeing you at CHI 2019,
Your equity chairs for 2019,
Cayley MacArthur & Cale Passmore

CHI 2019 Cowl Knitting Pattern

This year’s theme for CHI is ‘Weaving the Threads of CHI’, inviting us to see the connections between different strands of research and how they connect the field. To provide the community with an opportunity to reflect on how different aspects of the field come together to create something each of them could not do individually, we offer up a knitting pattern that visualises the ‘Threads of CHI’. These knitting patterns are provided by Katta Spiel, Assistant to the General Chairs.

** update: fixed an error in the stripe pattern **

Materials

Yarn: The sample piece uses fairalpaka DK yarn (100m/50g). A finished piece requires about 1 ball o the main colour (MC; teal) and about 20g of the contrasting colour (CC; tangerine).

Needles: We used 3.5mm double pointed needles (dpns) for the sample piece. You might prefer to knit with 40cm circular needles.

Abbreviations

  • knit (k)
  • purl (p)
  • knit through back loop (ktbl)
  • twist through back loop (twbl) – insert right needle into second stitch on left needle and purl without dropping, then ktbl into first stitch on the left needle, dropping both together
A photograph showing a finished knitted CHI 2019 cowl.

Stripe Pattern

Repeat all parts for the round (chart below).

  1. p1,k1tbl,p1
  2. repeat step 1
  3. p1,tw1tbl
  4. p2,k1tbl
  5. move first stitch of the round to right needle, repeat step 3
  6. repeat step 4
  7. repeat steps 5 and 6 twice more
Instructions for the stripe pattern.

Mosaic Pattern

Each round seen on the chart is knitted twice, once as a knitted round, once as a purled round. Note that after each garter ridge, colour changes, starting with teal. Essentially, you start with a knit teal round according to the black stitches in the chart slipping all white ones (with teal yarn in back), then you purl the stitches you knit previously, slipping all you slipped previously. Then you switch to the tangerine and knit all white stitches in the chart (indicating row 3), slipping the black (a.k.a. teal) ones and repeating with a purl round. This sounds much more complicated than it really is. You can also find an introduction to garter stitch mosaic patterns here.

Instructions

The pattern comes in two sizes: S/M and L (sample piece shown in S/M). Instructions are given for S/M (L). The pattern is knit in the round.

  1. with MC cast on 108 (126) stitches; connect in the round be careful not to twist.
  2. purl 1 round, knit 1 round, purl 1 round
  3. knit Stripe pattern 36 (42) times through the round
  4. knit 1 round, purl 1 round (twice)
  5. switch to CC
  6. knit 1 round, purl 1 round
  7. knit Mosaic pattern 6 (7) times through the round
  8. knit 1 round, purl 1 round, cut CC
  9. with MC: knit 1 round, purl 1 round (twice)
  10. knit Stripe pattern 36 (42) times through the round
  11. knit 1 round, purl 1 round, knit 1 round
  12. bind off loosely by purling the last round
  13. weave in ends and block lightly, if desired.
A photo of Geraldine Fitzpatrick, one of the CHI 2019 General Chairs, wearing the finished knitted cowl.

CHI 2019 Best Papers & Honourable Mentions

The SIGCHI “Best of CHI” awards honour exceptional submissions to SIGCHI sponsored conferences.

A total of 29 Papers received a Best Paper award, as selected by the Best Papers committee. CHI Associate Chairs nominated 119 papers to receive a Honourable Mention.

The full list of Best Papers and Honourable Mentions for CHI 2019 is included below.

CHI 2019 Best Papers

“Occupational Therapy is Making”: Design Iteration and Digital Fabrication in Occupational Therapy
Megan Hofmann, Kristin Williams, Toni Kaplan, Stephanie Valencia, Gabriella Han, Scott E Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, Patrick Carrington

“I feel it is my responsibility to stream”: Streaming and Engaging with Intangible Cultural Heritage through Livestreaming
Zhicong Lu, Michelle Annett, Mingming Fan, Daniel Wigdor

Guerilla Warfare and the Use of New (and Some Old) Technology: Lessons from FARC’s Armed Struggle in Colombia
Debora, Castro, Leal, Max Krüger, Kaoru Misaki, Dave Randall, Volker Wulf

Investigating Slowness as a Frame to Design Longer-Term Experiences with Personal Data: A Field Study of Olly
William Odom, Ron Wakkary, Jeroen Hol, Bram Naus, Pepijn Verburg, Tal Amram, Amy Yo Sue Chen

Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study
Kevin Doherty, Jose Marcano-Belisario, Martin Cohn, Nikolaos Mastellos, Cecily Morrison, Josip Car, Gavin Doherty

Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children’s Thoughts During Deployment Studies
Alexis Hiniker, Jon Froehlich, Mingrui Ray Zhang, Erin Beneteau

Unremarkable AI: Fitting Intelligent Decision Support into Critical, Clinical Decision-Making Processes
Qian Yang, Aaron Steinfeld, John Zimmerman

Online grocery delivery services: An opportunity to address food disparities in transportation-scarce areas
Tawanna R Dillahunt, Sylvia Simioni, Xuecong Xu

Voice User Interfaces in Schools: Co-designing for Inclusion With Visually-Impaired and Sighted Pupils
Oussama Metatla, Alison Oldfield, Taimur Ahmed, Antonis Vafeas, Sunny Miglani

Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses
Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Fanny Chevalier

Geppetto: Enabling Semantic Design of Expressive Robot Behaviors
Ruta Desai, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Stelian Coros, James Lewis McCann, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman

Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale
Manaswi Saha, Michael Saugstad, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, Jon Froehlich

Touchstone2: An Interactive Environment for Exploring Trade-offs in HCI Experiment Design
Alexander Eiselmayer, Chat Wacharamanotham, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Wendy Elizabeth Mackay

AffinityLens: Data-Assisted Affinity Diagramming with Augmented Reality
Hariharan Subramonyam, Steven Drucker, Eytan Adar

A Translational Science Model for HCI
Lucas Franco Colusso, Ridley Jones, Sean A. Munson, Gary Hsieh

A Tale of Two Perspectives: A Conceptual Framework of User Expectations and Experiences of Instructional Fitness Apps
Ahed Aladwan, Ryan M Kelly, Steven Baker, Eduardo Velloso

Street-Level Algorithms: A Theory At The Gaps Between Policy and Decisions
Ali Alkhatib, Michael Bernstein

Risk vs. Restriction: The Tension between Providing a Sense of Normalcy and Keeping Foster Teens Safe Online
Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Xinru Page, Pamela J. Wisniewski

Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home: Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters
Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy, Larissa Nicholls, Paula Arcari, Mel Gregg

Detecting Personality Traits Using Eye-Tracking Data
Shlomo Berkovsky, Ronnie Taib, Irena Koprinska, Eileen Wang, Yucheng Zeng, Jingjie Li, Sabina Kleitman

ReType: Quick Text Editing with Keyboard and Gaze
Shyamli Sindhwani, Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber

Data is Personal: Attitudes and Perceptions of Data Visualization in Rural Pennsylvania
Evan Peck, Omar El-Etr, Sofia E Ayuso

PicMe: Interactive Visual Guidance for Taking Requested Photo Composition
Minju Kim, Jungjin Lee

Managing Messes in Computational Notebooks
Andrew Head, Fred Hohman, Titus Barik, Steven Drucker, Robert DeLine

A Framework for the Experience of Meaning in Human-Computer Interaction
Elisa D Mekler, Kasper Hornbæk

Managerial Visions: Stories of upgrading and maintaining the public restroom with IoT
Sarah Fox, Kiley Sobel, Daniela Rosner

Social Play in an Exergame: How the Need to Belong Predicts Adherence
Maximus D. Kaos, Ryan Rhodes, Perttu Hämäläinen, T.C. Nicholas Graham

“Think secure from the beginning”: A Survey with Software Developers
Hala Assal, Sonia Chiasson

“They don’t leave us alone anywhere we go”: Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia
Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth Churchill, Sunny Consolvo

CHI 2019 Honourable Mentions

“Beautiful Seams”: Strategic Revelations and Concealments
Sarah Inman, David Ribes

Alternative Avenues for IoT: Designing with Non-Stereotypical Homes
Audrey Desjardins, Jeremy Edward Viny, Cayla Key, Nouela Johnston

Designing for the Infrastructure of the Supply Chain of Malay Handwoven Songket in Terengganu
Min Zhang, Corina Sas, Zoe Lambert, Masitah Ahmad

Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools
Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak, Reuben Binns, Adam Slack, Michael Inzlicht, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt

Managing Multimorbidity: Identifying Design Requirements for a Digital Self-Management Tool to Support Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Julie Doyle, Emma Murphy, Janneke, Maria Louise, Kuiper, Suzanne Smith, Caoimhe Hannigan, An Jacobs, John Gerard Dinsmore

Beyond Tutoring: Opportunities for Intergenerational Mentorship at a Community Level
Ye Yuan, Svetlana Yarosh

A Place to Play: The (Dis)Abled Embodied Experience for Autistic Children in Online Spaces
Kathryn E. Ringland

Empowering Expression for Users with Aphasia through Constrained Creativity
Timothy Neate, Abi Roper, Stephanie Wilson, Jane Marshall

What Happens After Disclosing Stigmatized Experiences on Identified Social Media: Individual, Dyadic, and Social/Network Outcomes
Nazanin Andalibi

Cognitive Aids in Acute Care: Investigating How Cognitive Aids Affect and Support In-hospital Emergency Teams
Tobias Grundgeiger, Stephan Huber, Daniel Reinhardt, Andreas Steinisch, Oliver Happel, Thomas Wurmb

Experimental Analysis of Barehand Mid-air Mode-Switching Techniques in Virtual Reality
Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Fabrice Matulic, Daniel Vogel

ActiveInk: (Th)Inking with Data
Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Ken Hinckley, Bongshin Lee, Caroline Appert, Emmanuel Pietriga, Christopher Collins

Human-Centered Tools for Coping with Imperfect Algorithms During Medical Decision-Making
Carrie J Cai, Emily Reif, Narayan Hegde, Jason Hipp, Been Kim, Daniel Smilkov, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viegas, Greg S Corrado, Martin Stumpe, Michael Terry

Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care
Dorothy Howard, Lilly Irani

“This Girl is on Fire”: Sensemaking in an Online Health Community for Vulvodynia
Alyson L. Young, Andrew D Miller

Socio-technical Dynamics: Cooperation of Emergent and Established Organisations in Crises and Disasters
Daniel Auferbauer, Hilda Tellioglu

“Can you believe [1:21]?!”: Content and Time-Based Reference Patterns in Video Comments
Matin Yarmand, Dongwook Yoon, Samuel Dodson, Ido Roll, Sidney S Fels

Impact of Contextual Factors on Snapchat Public Sharing
Hana Habib, Neil Shah, Rajan Vaish

Seekers, Providers, Welcomers, and Storytellers: Modeling Social Roles in Online Health Communities
Diyi Yang, Robert E Kraut, Tenbroeck Smith, Elijah Mayfield, Dan Jurafsky

Printer Pals: Experience-Centered Design to Support Agency for People with Dementia
Sarah Foley, Daniel Welsh, Nadia Pantidi, Kellie Morrissey, Thomas Nappey, John McCarthy

HCI and Affective Health: Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions
Pedro Sanches, Axel Janson, Pavel Karpashevich, Camille Nadal, Chengcheng Qu, Claudia, Dauden, Roquet, Muhammad Umair, Charles Windlin, Gavin Doherty, Kristina Höök, Corina Sas

Unobtrusively Enhancing Reflection-in-Action of Teachers through Spatially Distributed Ambient Information
Pengcheng An, Saskia Bakker, Sara Ordanovski, Ruurd Taconis, Chris L.E. Paffen, Berry Eggen

Understanding the Effect of Accuracy on Trust in Machine Learning Models
Ming Yin, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach

FTVR in VR: Evaluation of 3D Perception With a Simulated Volumetric Fish-Tank Virtual Reality Display
Dylan Brodie Fafard, Ian Stavness, Martin Johannes Dechant, Regan Mandryk, Qian Zhou, Sidney S Fels

Evaluating Sustainable Interaction Design of Digital Services: The Case of YouTube
Chris Preist, Paul Shabajee, Daniel Schien

Developing Accessible Services: Understanding Current Knowledge and Areas for Future Support
Michael Crabb, Michael Heron, Rhia Jones, Mike Armstrong, Hayley Reid, Amy Wilson

Investigating Implicit Gender Bias and Embodiment of White Males in Virtual Reality with Full Body Visuomotor Synchrony
Sarah Lopez, Yi Yang, Kevin Beltran, Soo Jung Kim, Jennifer Cruz Hernandez, Chelsy Simran, Bingkun Yang, Beste Yuksel

Like A Second Skin: Understanding How Epidermal Devices Affect Human Tactile Perception
Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Klaus Kruttwig, Jaeyeon Lee, Roland Bennewitz, Eduard Arzt, Jürgen Steimle

Everyday Experiences: Small Stories and Mental Illness on Instagram
Jessica L. Feuston, Anne Marie Piper

Saliency Deficit and Motion Outlier Detection in Animated Scatterplots
Rafael Veras, Christopher Collins

Autonomous Distributed Energy Systems: Problematising the Invisible through Design, Drama and Deliberation
Larissa Pschetz, Kruakae Pothong, Chris Speed

Sketching NLP: A Case Study of Exploring the Right Things To Design with Language Intelligence
Qian Yang, Justin Cranshaw, Saleema Amershi, Shamsi Iqbal, Jaime Teevan

Toward Algorithmic Accountability in Public Services: A Qualitative Study of Affected Community Perspectives on Algorithmic Decision-Making in Child Welfare Services
Anna Brown, Alexandra Chouldechova, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Andrew Tobin, Rhema Vaithianathan

Empowerment on the Margins: The Online Experiences of Community Health Workers
Azra Ismail, Neha Kumar

Student Perspectives on Digital Phenotyping: The Acceptability of Using Smartphone Data to Assess Mental Health
John Rooksby, Alistair Morrison, Dave Murray-Rust

AdaCAD: Crafting Software For Smart Textiles Design
Mikhaila Friske, Shanel Wu, Laura Devendorf

Local Standards for Anonymization Practices in Health, Wellness, Accessibility, and Aging Research at CHI
Jacob Abbott, Haley MacLeod, Novia Nurain, Gustave Essombe Ekobe, Sameer Patil

Practitioners Teaching Data Science in Industry and Academia: Expectations, Workflows, and Challenges
Sean Kross, Philip Guo

SmartEye: Assisting Instant Photo Taking via Integrating User Preference with Deep View Proposal Network
Shuai Ma, Zijun Wei, Feng Tian, Xiangmin Fan, Jianming Zhang, Xiaohui Shen, Zhe Lin, Jin Huang

Emotion Work in Experience-Centered Design
Madeline Balaam, Rob Comber, Rachel, E, Clarke, Charles Windlin, Anna Ståhl, Kristina Höök, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Hackathons as Participatory Design: Iterating Feminist Utopias
Alexis Hope, Catherine D’Ignazio, Josephine Hoy, Rebecca Michelson, Kate Krontiris, Jennifer Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman

Can Children Understand Machine Learning Concepts? The Effect of Uncovering Black Boxes
Tom Hitron, Yoav Orlev, Ariel Shamir, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Hadas Erel, Oren Zuckerman

How Do Distance Learners Connect?
Na Sun, Xiying Wang, Mary Beth Rosson

A Walk on the Child Side: Investigating Parents’ and Children’s Experience and Perspective on Mobile Technology for Outdoor Child Independent Mobility
Michela Ferron, Chiara Leonardi, Paolo Massa, Gianluca Schiavo, Amy L. Murphy, Elisabetta Farella

Clairbuoyance: Improving Directional Perception for Swimmers
Francisco Kiss, Paweł W. Woźniak, Felix Scheerer, Julia Dominiak, Andrzej Romanowski, Albrecht Schmidt

Using Time and Space Efficiently in Driverless Cars: Findings of a Co-Design Study
Gunnar Stevens, Paul Bossauer, Stephanie Vonholdt, Christina Pakusch

Sustainabot – Exploring the Use of Everyday Foodstuffs as Output and Input for and with Emergent Users
Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson, Mark D Holton, Shashank Ahire, Matt Jones

Ethical Dimensions of Visualization Research
Michael Correll

GameViews: Understanding and Supporting Data-driven Sports Storytelling
Qiyu Zhi, Suwen Lin, Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Ronald Metoyer

StoryBlocks: A Tangible Programming Game To Create Accessible Audio Stories
Varsha Koushik, Darren Guinness, Shaun Kane

Symbiotic Encounters: HCI and Sustainable Agriculture
Szu-Yu (Cyn) Liu, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell

Pose-Guided Level Design
Yongqi Zhang, Biao Xie, Haikun Huang, Elisa Ogawa, Tongjian You, Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu

“My blood sugar is higher on the weekends”: Finding a Role for Context and Context-Awareness in the Design of Health Self-Management Technology
Shriti Raj, Kelsey Toporski, Ashley Garrity, Joyce Lee, Mark W. Newman

EarTouch: Facilitating Smartphone Use for Visually Impaired People in Public and Mobile Scenarios
Ruolin Wang, Chun Yu, Xing-Dong Yang, Weijie He, Yuanchun Shi

Trolled by the Trolley Problem: On What Matters for Ethical Decision Making in Automated Vehicles
Alexander G. Mirnig, Alexander Meschtscherjakov

Co-Created Personas: Engaging and Empowering Users with Diverse Needs Within the Design Process
Timothy Neate, Aikaterini Bourazeri, Abi Roper, Simone Stumpf, Stephanie Wilson

The Right to the Sustainable Smart City
Sara Heitlinger, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Rob Comber

Dancing With Drones: Crafting Novel Artistic Expressions Through Intercorporeality
Sara Eriksson, Åsa Unander-Scharin, Vincent Trichon, Carl E T Unander-Scharin, Hedvig Kjellström, Kristina Höök

VIPBoard: Improving Screen-Reader Keyboard for Visually Impaired People with Character-Level Auto Correction
Weinan Shi, Chun Yu, Shuyi Fan, Feng Wang, Tong Wang, Xin Yi, Xiaojun Bi, Yuanchun Shi

Shape Changing Surfaces and Structures: Design Tools and Methods for Electroactive Polymers
Karmen Franinovic, Luke Franzke

Causeway: Scaling Situated Learning with Micro-Role Hierarchies
David Lee, Emily S. Hamedian, Greg Wolff, Amy Liu

ChewIt. An Intraoral Interface for Discreet Interactions
Pablo Gallego Cascón, Denys J.C. Matthies, Sachith Muthukumarana, Suranga Nanayakkara

SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
Lawrence H Kim, Sean Follmer

Technologies for Social Justice: Lessons from Sex Workers on the Front Lines
Angelika Strohmayer, Jenn Clamen, Mary E Laing

Coding for Outdoor Play: a Coding Platform for Children to Invent and Enhance Outdoor Play Experiences
Netta Ofer, Idan David, Hadas Erel, Oren Zuckerman

Making Healthcare Infrastructure Work: Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Individuals
Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen

What is Mixed Reality?
Maximilian Speicher, Brian D. Hall, Michael Nebeling

Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in Virtual Reality
Parastoo Abtahi, Benoit Landry, Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Marco Pavone, Sean Follmer, James A. Landay

Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
Saleema Amershi, Dan Weld, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Adam Fourney, Besmira Nushi, Penny Collisson, Jina Suh, Shamsi Iqbal, Paul N. Bennett, Kori Inkpen, Jaime Teevan, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Eric Horvitz

An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies
William Delamare, Ali Neshati, Pourang Irani, Xiangshi Ren

Quantitative Measurement of Tool Embodiment for Virtual Reality Input Alternatives
Ayman Alzayat, Mark Hancock, Miguel Nacenta

Look-From Camera Control for 3D Terrain Maps
Kurtis Danyluk, Bernhard Jenny, Wesley Willett

Reveal: Investigating Proactive Location-Based Reminiscing with Personal Digital Photo Repositories
David McGookin

Emotional Utility and Recall of the Facebook News Feed
Pawarat Nontasil, Stephen J Payne

From Director’s Cut to User’s Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it
Richard Ramchurn, Sarah Martindale, Max L Wilson, Steve Benford

“If you want, I can store the encrypted password.” A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers
Alena Naiakshina, Anastasia Danilova, Eva Gerlitz, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Matthew Smith

Mapping the Margins: Navigating the Ecologies of Domestic Violence Service Provision
Rosanna Bellini, Angelika Strohmayer, Patrick Olivier, Clara Crivellaro

Analyzing Value Discovery in Design Decisions Through Ethicography
Shruthi, Sai, Chivukula, Colin M. Gray, Jason A Brier

The Breaking Hand: Skills, Care, and Sufferings of the Hands of an Electronic Waste Worker in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Implementing Multi-Touch Gestures with Touch Groups and Cross Events
Steve Oney, Rebecca Krosnick, Joel Brandt, Brad Myers

Detecting Perception of Smartphone Notifications Using Skin Conductance Responses
Pascal E. Fortin, Elisabeth Sulmont, Jeremy Cooperstock

Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets
Yang Zhang, Michel Pahud, Christian Holz, Haijun Xia, Gierad Laput, Michael McGuffin, Xiao Tu, Andrew Mittereder, Fei Su, William Buxton, Ken Hinckley

Search as News Curator: The Role of Google in Shaping Attention to News Information
Daniel Trielli, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Springlets: Expressive, Flexible and Silent On-Skin Tactile Interfaces
Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Adrian Wagner, Simon Voelker, Jürgen Steimle, Jan Borchers

An Explanation for Fitts’ Law-like Performance in Gaze-Based Selection Tasks Using a Psychophysics Approach
Immo Schuetz, T. Scott Murdison, Kevin MacKenzie, Marina Zannoli

Mind the Tap: Assessing Foot-Taps for Interacting with Head-Mounted Displays
Florian Müller, Joshua McManus, Sebastian Günther, Martin Schmitz, Max Mühlhäuser, Markus Funk

To Asymmetry and Beyond!: Improving Social Connectedness by Increasing Designed Interdependence in Cooperative Play
John Harris, Mark Hancock

Behind the Curtain of the “Ultimate Empathy Machine”: On the Composition of Virtual Reality Nonfiction Experiences
Chris Bevan, David, Philip, Green, Harry Farmer, Mandy Rose, Danaë Stanton Fraser, Kirsten Cater, Helen Brown

­Understanding the Boundaries between Policymaking and HCI
Anne Spaa, Abigail Durrant, Chris Elsden, John Vines

RePlay: Contextually Presenting Learning Videos Across Software Applications
C. Ailie Fraser, Tricia J. Ngoon, Mira Dontcheva, Scott Klemmer

Interferi: Gesture Sensing using On-Body Acoustic Interferometry
Yasha Iravantchi, Yang Zhang, Evi Bernitsas, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

Steering Performance with Error-accepting Delays
Shota Yamanaka

Can Mobile Augmented Reality Stimulate a Honeypot Effect? Observations from Santa’s Lil Helper
Ryan M Kelly, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Niels Wouters, Frank Vetere

A Player-Centric Approach to Designing Spatial Skill Training Games
Helen C Wauck, Elisa D Mekler, Wai-Tat Fu

Enhancing Texture Perception in Virtual Reality using 3D-Printed Hair Structures
Donald Degraen, André Zenner, Antonio Krüger

Smart and Fermented Cities: An Approach to Placemaking in Urban Informatics
Guo Freeman, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Szu-Yu (Cyn) Liu, Xi Lu, Diandian Cao

Transcalibur: A Weight Shifting Virtual Reality Controller for 2D Shape Rendering based on Computational Perception Model
Jotaro Shigeyama, Takeru Hashimoto, Shigeo Yoshida, Takuji Narumi, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Michitaka Hirose

SottoVoce: An Ultrasound Imaging-Based Silent Speech Interaction Using Deep Neural Networks
Naoki Kimura, Michinari Kono, Jun Rekimoto

HistoryTracker: Minimizing Human Interactions in Baseball Game Annotation
Jorge H Piazentin Ono, Arvi Gjoka, Justin Salamon, Carlos Dietrich, Claudio Silva

Influencers in Multiplayer Online Shooters – Evidence of Social Contagion in Playtime and Social Play
Alessandro Canossa, Ahmad Azadvar, Casper Harteveld, Anders Drachen, Sebastian Deterding

“When the Elephant Trumps”: a Comparative Study on Spatial Audio for Orientation in 360º Videos
Paulo Bala, Raul Masu, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes

Automation Accuracy Is Good, but High Controllability May Be Better
Quentin Roy, Futian Zhang, Daniel Vogel

Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform
Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Chris Greenhalgh, adrian hazzard, Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain

Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration Combining 360 Video and 3D Reconstruction
Theophilus Hua Lid Teo, Louise M Lawrence, Gun Lee, Mark Billinghurst, Matt Adcock

AutoFritz: Autocomplete for Prototyping Virtual Breadboard Circuits
Jo-Yu Lo, Da-Yuan Huang, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Chen-Kuo Sun, Jun Gong, Teddy Seyed, Xing-Dong Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

Heimdall: A Remotely Controlled Inspection Workbench For Debugging Microcontroller Projects
Mitchell Karchemsky, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Kuan-Ju Wu, Francois Guimbretiere, Bjoern Hartmann

Charting Subtle Interaction in the HCI Literature
Henning Pohl, Andreea Muresan, Kasper Hornbæk

What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents
Leigh Clark, Nadia Pantidi, Orla Cooney, Philip Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Justin Edwards, Brendan Spillane, Emer Gilmartin

Poirot: A Web Inspector for Designers
Kesler Tanner, Naomi Sarah Johnson, James A. Landay

Put Your Warning Where Your Link Is: Improving and Evaluating Email Phishing Warnings
Justin Petelka, Yixin Zou, Florian Schaub

Implicit Communication of Actionable Information in Human-AI teams
Claire Liang, Julia Proft, Erik Andersen, Ross A Knepper

The effect of co-located audiences on user experience with conversational interfaces in physical spaces
Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Mauro Carlos Pichiliani, Flavio Figueiredo, Paulo Cavalin, Marisa Vasconcelos, Haylla Tandara Conde do Carmo

The Channel Matters: Self-disclosure, Reciprocity and Social Support in Online Cancer Support Groups
Diyi Yang, Zheng Yao, Joseph Seering, Robert E Kraut

Pictorial System Usability Scale (P-SUS): Developing an Instrument for Measuring Perceived Usability
Juergen Baumgartner, Naomi Frei, Mascha Kleinke, Juergen Sauer, Andreas Sonderegger

Egocentric Smaller-person Experience through a Change in Visual Perspective
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Mika Oki, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato, Kenji Suzuki

PledgeWork: Online volunteering through crowdwork
Keiko Katsuragawa, Qi Shu, Edward Lank

If It’s Important It Will Be A Headline: Cybersecurity Information Seeking in Older Adults
James Nicholson, Lynne Coventry, Pamela Briggs

Bringing Design to the Privacy Table: Broadening “Design” in “Privacy by Design” Through the Lens of HCI
Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre Mulligan

Security Managers Are Not The Enemy Either
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Making CHI More Accessible

Now that CHI is just around the corner, we would like to invite you again to communicate any accessibility needs/requests by the early registration deadline, which is Monday, March 18, 2019. These needs may include ASL translation and special equipments, food requirements, accessibility issues in terms of getting around the venue, etc.

We have been working on a few items, including:

  • Working with student volunteer (SV) chairs to train student volunteers to handle accessibility issues during the conference;
  • Ensuring that the washroom signage are following the SIGCHI guidelines;
  • Ensuring that paper programs are available to those who need or prefer them;
  • etc.

A few other things you should know:

  • CHI 2019 will be held in the three different venues across the central SEC, Crown Plaza Hotel, and Armadillo building. Therefore, you will have to walk a fair amount to travel across these venues;
  • We do provide a desensitization room, a quiet small low sensory input room, for those who need to disengage;
  • CHI is flash-free, which means that there will be no flash photography allowed at the conference, as it will affect people with epilepsy or those prone to migraines.

For other information about accessibility at CHI 2019, please consult:

  1. The CHI 2019 accessibility FAQ page;
  2. The conference venue (SEC) accessibility page.

From your accessibility co-chairs,
Edith Law (University of Waterloo)
Sunyoung Kim (Rutgers University)

Announcing our opening keynote

We are excited to announce our opening keynote speaker: Dr Aleks Krotoski.

Announcing our closing keynote

We are excited to announce our closing keynote speaker: Dr Ivan Poupyrev.

Talking about CHI and Sustainability

One of our goals for CHI2019 is to start making CHI more sustainable.

There are hard questions we all must face if we care about our planet, its ecosystem, and the impacts humanity is having (and vice versa) [1], [2], [3]. As academics, educators, human beings, what role do we play in our work and in our practice as a community of conference goers? In our SIG at CHI last year, we pledged to start this conversation at CHI. We’re grateful to the general chairs who have, for the first time, created a sustainability role for us to make a start on addressing these important questions.

There can be no doubt, making a conference sustainable is not easy: by far the most carbon intensive thing most of us will do is utilise air travel, yet this has become an essential part of modern careers and lifestyles. Tackling this will require thinking again about the very existential notions of conferences as we know them. This year, a virtual PC meeting, went some small way towards offsetting this as far fewer people travelled than would normally. The conference venue (SEC)’ ‘trees for life’ programme, which aims to offset some of the venue’s footprint by planting new forests, will also help. However, we should not fool ourselves into thinking CHI 2019 will be entirely sustainable!

We will however make as many adjustments that benefit environmental sustainability as we can – some of which will impact you as attendees! Concretely, we are:

Targeting a reduction of single use plastics and hard to recycle paper. A conference like CHI can create a large amount of plastic and hard to recycle paper waste such as our name badges, disposable cups, and promotional materials. For CHI 2019, we aim to reduce the amount of printed leaflets and promotions, including the ones that were handed out in previous years as part of the package attendees received at the registration desk, and minimize the amount of disposable cups at the venue. For this year, this means:

  • No bag by default. We have decided that there will be no conference bag by default for attendees on the grounds that these are often discarded in any case, and we have long since moved past printed proceedings. Instead we are exploring an option to buy a high quality long life bag if you need it. If you have one, why not bring a bag from a previous CHI? – the earlier the better!
  • Hydration stations. There will be water coolers where you can refill your own bottles, so please do bring one if you have one.
  • Reusable lanyards and badge holders. We will be moving to more generic lanyards that can be reused year on year.
  • Shared transport options. There are excellent public transport links to the venue, for instance, we’re close to Glasgow train station, and there are local bike hire schemes with cycle parking at the venue. We’ll be working to provide more information on this in coming weeks.

Beyond these changes, we are aiming to:

Benchmark the overall carbon footprint of the CHI conference. To help target reductions of the carbon footprint of CHI on an ongoing basis, we must first understand where the opportunities for reduction lie. For CHI 2019 we have been working closely with SEC to promote their green and low carbon initiatives (“the SEC team has implemented over 15 initiatives to aid the goal of achieving zero waste to landfill by 2020”) and their carbon offset programme supporting Scottish Forestry (Trees of Life), as well as gathering primary data on the energy used for our conference. Look out for our reports on our 2019 benchmarks in a future blog post.

Working with caterers to providing sustainable food. We are pushing for locally sourced, healthy and sustainable food choices during breaks and at catered events. By reducing the number of food miles (e.g. the mileage that the food has moved through supply chains), rethinking the amount of high carbon ingredients (e.g. red meat, imported fresh fruit and vegetables) in the menus, and asking for sustainable sourcing, we are aiming to reduce the impact of CHI’s food where feasible.

For the future, we will:

Identify challenges in the of planning CHI.
Some of the potential barriers that we have identified are:

  • Cost. Often, more sustainable choices are more expensive. To help drive a sustainability agenda for the CHI conference we need to frugally plan how to enable sustainability without passing additional costs onto attendees.
  • Reducing food waste. Due to issues around food safety it can be hard to donate “waste” food to local charities.
  • Varying International Policy and Sustainability Commitments. Given the varying cultural interpretation and commitments regarding sustainability, food and the environment we expect to face a different array of challenges as CHI moves from host to host.
  • Timelines for change – perhaps naively, we came into this process thinking we could change everything! As some of you may suspect, organising a conference as large as CHI takes around 2 years (and many of the decisions, such as the selection of venue takes place even further in advance). The Sustainability Chair role at CHI was created at the kick-off meeting in July 2018 (roughly 13 months into the process of organising CHI 2019). We now realise, that this ship will take longer to turn! A number of commitments have already been made which impose certain constraints regarding sustainability years before any single event. There are also very real budgetary constraints and associated practical trade-offs. We will be documenting this to help factor sustainability decisions earlier into the planning cycles.

For 2020 (and beyond) we look to:

  • Work closely with caterers, venues, and logistics plans to help build deeper sustainability roots for CHI
  • Elect one (or more) Sustainability Chair(s) who are local to the venue, and can provide local, community and cultural contexts for sustainability and green initiatives and challenges
  • Engaging with the PC process to assess the viability of more interactive remote participation at the CHI conference, as well as supporting our telepresence attendance options
  • Producing documentation, guidelines or whatever for next year’s Sustainability Chairs – ensuring that there are 2 chairs who overlap each year for knowledge and network transfer
  • Develop a communications plan for displays and promotional materials

Who are we anyway? We are just volunteers from your community, helping raise the profile of sustainability. Sustainability has been driving our work for the last 8 or so years, focusing on various aspects of everyday life including reducing domestic energy demand, sustainable design, promoting sustainable food choices, and sustainable last-mile logistics. We invite you to join us in helping make a difference to CHI and beyond!

We are, Adrian Friday (Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University), Oliver Bates (Chair of the SIGCHI Community on HCI and Sustainability), Christian Remy (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University), and Mike Hazas (Reader, Lancaster University).

A personal letter to the CHI community

One of our general chairs has written a personal letter exhorting the CHI community to handle discussions and complaints in a more constructive way – to choose CHIndness:

“It is great that people in CHI are prepared to raise concerns and issues. As an always-learning-growing community, we need to hear these concerns to make CHI events better. But it is how those concerns and issues are being raised that I think we really need to stop and reflect on. What is happening now, especially via social media, is negative, hurtful, and unproductive and often drowns the attempts at providing constructive feedback or community efforts to make the conference better. My hope is that we can find different ways of raising issues, engaging in discussions and effecting change that are respectful, kinder, more compassionate, and more solution-focussed.”

The key messages are:

  • There is no ‘CHI’, there is you and me. We are CHI.
  • The CHI conference event (and SIGCHI in general) only happens because of an enormous amount of volunteer effort, done willingly and with great care by your colleagues.
  • We are a learning community always trying to improve and constructive feedback is an important part of this.
  • The tone of current feedback and discussions on social media can be perceived as negative, hurtful, and counter-productive, with real health and well-being impacts for people involved.
  • We can engage in in a much more productive and care-ful way, and grow a kinder community culture.
  • Some basic strategies proposed towards this:
    • STOP, THINK before posting it on social media.
      • What is your real intention?
      • Is social media the best avenue for this?
      • Do you have all information to make the judgement you are making?
      • What assumptions are you making?
      • Is there a way of framing the issue orienting to solutions or exploring positive alternatives?
    • Before focusing on a complaint, come up with three positive things (that are getting better or things that are working well or similar).
    • Take just as much time and effort, if not more, to say thank you, to show appreciation, being specific, being personal, being generous.
    • We can be the culture change needed to make that happen.

We encourage you to read the full letter and to share it with your colleagues. And for you to help by choosing CHIndness!