ACM CHI
At CHI 2019, thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists and designers come together to present the future of interactive technology.
Talking Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction: A Review of the CHI 2019 SIG meeting.
Talking Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction: A Review of the CHI 2019 SIG meeting.
We present the key takeaways and research questions that were raised from this meeting and open the door for further conversation.
Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-Sleep Through a Neurofeedback Artistic Experience
Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-Sleep Through a Neurofeedback Artistic Experience
This article summarizes a paper authored by Nathan Semertzidis, Betty Sargeant, Justin Dwyer, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, and Fabio Zambetta…
Preparing for Automation and Evaluating Expert Curation in a Baby Milestone Tracking App
Preparing for Automation and Evaluating Expert Curation in a Baby Milestone Tracking App
ACM CHI 2019 Article
SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
This article summarizes a paper authored by Lawrence Kim and Sean Follmer. This paper will be presented at CHI 2019, a conference of…
VizNet: Towards a Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository
VizNet: Towards a Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository
VizNet is a large-scale corpus of over 31 million datasets that experiments with real-world data, assess the ecological validity of…
Pinpoint: In-circuit PCB debugging for all
Pinpoint: In-circuit PCB debugging for all
At the heart of the computing revolution lies a printed circuit board (PCB). PCBs are the final stage of most circuit designs thanks to…
Personalising the TV Experience using Augmented Reality
Personalising the TV Experience using Augmented Reality
This article describes an exploration, by BBC R&D (Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy & Maxine Glancy) and IRT (Christoph Ziegler & Richard Schäffer)…
Electrical Muscle Stimulation in HCI: 10 years later… what about the question of agency?
Electrical Muscle Stimulation in HCI: 10 years later… what about the question of agency?
At CHI2019 we unveil two pieces of the puzzle that might us help to create haptic systems that do not compromise the user's sense of…
Growkit: Using Technology to Support People Growing Food at Home
Growkit: Using Technology to Support People Growing Food at Home
Growkit is a project developed at Digital Society School to help people living in the city grow their own food sustainably at home.
Encumbered Interaction: A Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform
Encumbered Interaction: A Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform
This article summarises a paper authored by Juan Martinez-Avila, Chris Greenhalgh, Adrian Hazzard, Steve Benford and Alan Chamberlain. The…
What makes children think certain technologies are creepy but view others as benign?
What makes children think certain technologies are creepy but view others as benign?
To investigate this question, we conducted four participatory design sessions with 11 children (ages 7 -11) to design and evaluate creepy…
Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in…
Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in…
This article summarizes a paper authored by Parastoo Abtahi, Benoit Landry, Jackie Yang, Marco Pavone, Sean Follmer, and James Landay…
To Share or Not Share? Public Sharing Decisions on Snapchat
To Share or Not Share? Public Sharing Decisions on Snapchat
This article summarizes a research paper authored by Hana Habib (Carnegie Mellon University), Neil Shah, and Rajan Vaish (Snap Inc).
The Heat is On: Exploring User Behaviour in a Multisensory Virtual Environment for Fire Evacuation
The Heat is On: Exploring User Behaviour in a Multisensory Virtual Environment for Fire Evacuation
This article presents a study featuring a novel VR fire evacuation simulator capable of providing real-time heat and scent feedback.
Caring for Vincent: A Chatbot for Self-compassion
Caring for Vincent: A Chatbot for Self-compassion
How giving help to a chatbot actually helps you
VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation
VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation
Machine learning models trained on dataset-visualization pairs from Plotly perform on par with humans when predicting crowdsourced…
It’s not what is said, but how it is said — Sociophonetic inspired design strategies for VUI voice
It’s not what is said, but how it is said — Sociophonetic inspired design strategies for VUI voice
Interest in Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) (e.g. Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri) both commercially and academically has increased…
7 Things we Learned about how People use Camera Glasses
7 Things we Learned about how People use Camera Glasses
This article summarizes a paper authored by Taryn Bipat (University of Washington and Snap Inc.), Maarten Bos (Snap Inc.), Rajan Vaish…
Opportunities of Quantified Self for resocialisation of (ex-)convicts
Opportunities of Quantified Self for resocialisation of (ex-)convicts
This is an insight into the design process for the Intention Mirror project. Inclusive user research with former convicts helped design a…
The Smartphone as a Pacifier and its Consequences
The Smartphone as a Pacifier and its Consequences
Young adults’ smartphone usage in moments of solitude and relations to self-reflection
Co-Designing Food Trackers with Dietitians
Co-Designing Food Trackers with Dietitians
Identifying design opportunities for food tracker customization
Mazi: Tangible Technologies as a Channel for Collaborative Play
Mazi: Tangible Technologies as a Channel for Collaborative Play
This post summarizes a research paper, authored by Antonella Nonnis and Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns from Queen Mary University of London, UK. The…
HoloDoc: Enabling Mixed Reality Workspaces that Harness Physical and Digital Content
HoloDoc: Enabling Mixed Reality Workspaces that Harness Physical and Digital Content
This article summarizes a paper by Zhen Li, Michelle Annett, Ken Hinckley, Karan Singh, and Daniel Wigdor. This paper will be presented at…
SeeingVR: A Set of Tools to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible to People with Low Vision
SeeingVR: A Set of Tools to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible to People with Low Vision
This post summarizes a research paper, authored by Yuhang Zhao (Cornell Tech, also an intern Microsoft Research), Edward Cutrell…