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UofT, Faculty of Information profs and students participate at CHI22 Conference

Submitted on Sunday, April 24, 2022

Several Faculty of Information professors and students will be presenting at the CHI22 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), which gets underway April 30.

CHI – pronounced ‘kai’ – annually brings together researchers and practitioners from all over the world and from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and positionalities, who have as an overarching goal to make the world a better place with interactive digital technologies.

The names of participants from the Faculty of Information and other affiliated UofT organizations and Faculties are bolded. Please note that some of the links have not yet been activated but will be when the conference opens. More information can be found in the conference program.

Papers

Devansh Saxena, Erina Seh-young Moon, Dahlia Shehata, and Shion Guha. 2022. Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis.  In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 33 pages.

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Hasan Mahmud Prottoy, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2022. Putting the Waz on Social Media: Infrastructuring Online Islamic Counterpublic through Digital Sermons in Bangladesh. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages.

Sharifa Sultana, Sadia Tasnuva Pritha, Rahnuma Tasnim, Anik Das, Rokeya Akter, Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2022. ‘ShishuShurokkha’: A Transformative Justice Approach for Combating Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23 pages.

Dina Sabie, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2021. A Decade of International Migration Research in HCI: Overview, Challenges, Ethics, Impact, and Future Directions. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 1, 1, Article 1 (January 2021), 33 pages.  [ToCHI Journal presented in CHI]

Kornfield, R., Meyerhoff, J., Levin, H., Bhattacharjee, A., Williams, J. J., Reddy, M., & Mohr, D. C. Meeting Users Where They Are: User-centered Design of an Automated Text Messaging Tool to Support the Mental Health of Young Adults. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Robert Soden, Lydia B. Chilton, Scott Miles, Rebecca Bicksler, Kaira Ray Vil- lanueva, and Melissa Bica. 2022. Insights and Opportunities for HCI Research into Hurricane Risk Communication. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages.

Yaxi Zhao,Razan Jaber, Donald McMillan, Cosmin Munteanu. 2022. “Rewind to the Jiggling Meat Part”: Understanding Voice Control of Instructional Videos in Everyday Tasks. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Benett Axtell, Raheleh Saryazdi, Cosmin Munteanu. 2022. Design is Worth a Thousand Words: The Effect of Digital Interaction Design on Picture-Prompted Reminiscence. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Chu Li, Jessie Liu, Yan Chen, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman. 2022. ASTEROIDS: Exploring Swarms of Mini-Telepresence Robots for Physical Skill Demonstration. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Kevin Huang, Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2022. immersivePOV: Filming How-To Videos with a Head-Mounted 360° Action Camera. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).  [Honorable Mention]

Martin Feick, Kora Persephone Regitz, Anthony Tang, Antonio Krüger. 2022. Designing Visuo-Haptic Illusions with Proxies in Virtual Reality: Exploration of Grasp, Movement Trajectory and Object Mass. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Lev Poretski and Anthony Tang. 2022. Press A to Jump: Design Strategies for Video Game Learnability. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Minfan Zhang, Daniel Ehrmann, Mjaye Mazwi, Danny Eytan, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Fanny Chevalier. 2022. Get To The Point! Problem-Based Curated Data Views To Augment Care For Critically Ill Patients. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). [Honorable Mention]

Senjuti Dutta, Rhema Linder, Doug Lowe, Matthew Rosenbalm, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Alex C. Williams. Mobilizing Crowdwork: A Systematic Assessment of the Mobile Usability of HITs.

Dai, J., Moffatt, K., Lin, J., Truong, K.N. Designing for Relational Maintenance: New Directions for AAC Research. (Accepted; To Appear) In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Panels

Jaisie Sin, Cosmin Munteanu, Jenny Waycott, Robin N. Brewer, Sergio Sayago Amanda Lazar, Astrid Weber. 2022. Alexa, Tell Me a Joke!: “Voice Interfaces are Truly Inclusive”. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) – Extended Abstracts.

Douglas Zytko, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha, Eric P.S. Baumer, and Min Kyung Lee. 2022. Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) – Extended Abstracts.

Late Breaking Work

Devansh Saxena, Charlie Repaci, Melanie Sage, and Shion Guha. 2022. How to Train a (Bad) Algorithmic Caseworker: A Quantitative Deconstruction of Risk Assessments in Child-Welfare. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.

Nicole Tang and Priyank Chandra. 2022. Community, Culture, and Capital: Exploring the Financial Practices of Older Hong Kong Immigrants. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.

Harsh Kumar*, Taneea S Agrawaal*, Kwan Kiu Choy, Jiakai Shi, and Joseph Jay Williams. 2022. “Sounds like a Cheesy Radio Ad”: Using User Perspectives for Enhancing Digital COVID Vaccine Communication Strategies for Public Health Agencies. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 Pages.

Zarif Mahmud, Aarjav Chauhan, Dipto Sarkar, and Robert Soden. 2022. Revisiting Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping: An Updated Analysis of Contributor Retention in OpenStreetMap. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.

Kartikaeya Kumar, Lev Poretski, Jiannan Li, Anthony Tang. 2022. Tourgether360: Exploring 360° Tour Videos with Others. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts).

Meetha Nesam James, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Anthony Tang, Lora Oehlberg. 2022. Watch Your Flavors: Augmenting People’s Flavor Perceptions and Associated Emotions based on Videos Watched while Eating. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts).

Workshops

W12: Interrogating Human-centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations. Scheduled: Virtual: 10am-3pm CDT, April 23.

W20: Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence: Responding to the Reassertion of the Human Element into Automation. Scheduled: Virtual: 8am-4pm CDT, April 15.

W28: Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI. Saturday, April 30 (Hybrid).

W37: Emerging Telepresence Technologies in Hybrid Learning Environments. Saturday, April 30 (Hybrid).

W43: Towards a Material Ethics of Computing: Addressing the Uneven Environmental Stakes of Digital Infrastructures. Organizers: Jen Liu, Cindy Lin, Anne Pasek, Robert Soden, Lace Padilla, Daniela Rosner, Steve Jackson. Scheduled: Sunday, May 1 (Hybrid).

Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces. Organizers: Minha Lee, Jaisie Sin, Guy Laban, Matthias Kraus, Leigh Clark, Martin Porcheron, Benjamin R. Cowan, Asbjørn Følstad, Cosmin Munteanu, Heloisa Candello.