Ten faculty and students from the School of Information are preparing to present their research at this year's CHI conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
The I School contingent will be joining two thousand other conference attendees from 38 countries to focus on the design, user experience, and engineering of all types of computer-based systems. The CHI 2009 conference, entitled "Digital Life — New World," will be "the showcase for the technologies, designs and ideas that will form the new world of digital life," according to organizers.
I School faculty and students will be leading four conference workshops, presenting three papers, and presenting three "works in progress" posters.
Workshops
- Ph.D. student Melissa Ho, part of the I School's program in ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Development), organized two CHI workshops on "Human-centered Computing in International Development". Melissa is currently conducting her dissertation research in Uganda.
- Adjunct professor Erik Wilde organized and will lead the workshop "LocWeb 2009: Second International Workshop on Location and the Web." (workshop information) As part of the workshop, master's student Nick Doty will present his paper "The Case for a Location Metasystem".
- Doctoral student Daniela Rosner leads a workshop on "DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization."
Papers
- The CHI session on "Designing for Other Cultures" includes the paper "A Comparative Study of Speech and Dialed Input Voice Interfaces in Rural India", by I School assistant professor Tapan Parikh, also from the I School's ICTD program.
- The session on "Creative Thought and Self-Improvement" includes Daniela Rosner's paper, "Learning from IKEA Hacking: I'm Not One to Decoupage a Tabletop and Call It a Day"
- I School doctoral student Elizabeth Goodman presents "Three environmental discourses in Human-Computer Interaction" as part of the "Build a Better World" session in the alt.chi track. Alt.chi presents controversial ideas, novel prototypes, and other unusual, challenging, or thought-provoking work that is outside of the norm.
"Works in progress" posters
- The poster "Multimodal Programming Environment for Kids: A "Thought Bubble" Interface for the Pleo Robotic Character" presents research done by assistant professor Kimiko Ryokai and master's students Michael Lee and Jonathan Breitbart.
- Kimiko Ryokai and master's student Andy Brooks present the poster "Tangible Message Bubbles for Children's Communication and Play"
- Tapan Parikh presents the poster "Metamouse: Multiple Mice for Legacy Applications," along with I School alumnus Joyojeet Pal and colleagues from the Berkeley Computer Science department.
CHI 2009, the 27th annual CHI conference, will be held April 4–9, 2009, and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI (the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction).
