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Reading Seminar on Research in Human-Computer Interaction
//A weekly reading seminar // //Instructors: Kotaro Hara, Matthew Mauriello, & Jon Froehlich//

By nature HCI has been interdisciplinary, incorporating fields such as Computer Science, Psychology, and Design. The future of HCI will be even more so. This 1-credit weekly reading seminar will cover recent papers that represent new directions and opportunities in the field while reflecting on current trends. We will target papers that not only integrate multiple sub-disciplines of Computer Science (e.g., machine learning, crowdsourcing) but also target problem spaces traditionally found in other fields (e.g., urban planning, environmental sustainability). For this semester, we will focus on interesting applications of machine learning, crowdsourcing, and/or social computing around a central monthly theme. Students will be invited to suggest papers and themes following the first month of papers.

September: Best Papers of CHI 2015 October/November: Mixed-Reality November/December: Citizen Science
 * Monthly Themes **

Students from all research backgrounds are welcome to join the seminar AND the weekly discussion is open to anyone from the campus community (i.e., faculty, staff, and non-registered students are welcome drop in on one of our discussions). However, students who plan to attend weekly should register.


 * What: ** Seminar is cross-listed under CMSC838L and INST779L.
 * When: ** Fall Semester 2015, Tuesdays 12:30pm - 1:20pm
 * Where: ** Hornbake 2119
 * Why: ** For research inspiration, to meet new people, and to have friendly discussion

Reading Schedule
Leader: Matthew Mauriello | Summarizer: Kotaro Hara || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * ~ W**eek** ||~ **Topic** ||~ Authors ||~ **Paper Title** ||~ Link to Paper ||~ Link to Discussion ||
 * 9/1 || Introduction || Guy Schofield //et al.// || Bootlegger: Turning Fans into Film Crew
 * 9/8 || Best of CHI || Gierad Laput //et al.// || Acoustruments: Passive, Acoustically-Driven, Interactive Controls for Handheld Devices

Leader: Lee Stearns | Summarizer: Matthew Mauriello || __ [|PDF] __ || Discussion ||
 * 9/15 || Best of CHI || Erin Buehler //et al.// || Sharing is Caring: Assistive Technology Designs on Thingiverse

Leader: Kotaro Hara | Summarizer: Alina Goldman || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 9/22 || Best of CHI || Pascal Lessel //et al.// || Analysis of Recycling Capabilities of Individuals and Crowds to Encourage and Educate People to Separate Their Garbage Playfully

Leader: Jon Brier | Summarizer: Arunesh Mathur || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 9/29 || Best of CHI || David R. Flatla //et al.// || ColourID: Improving Colour Identification for People with Impaired Colour Vision

Leader: Ruofei Du | Summarizer: Lee Stearns || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 10/5 || Mixed-Reality || Quercia //et al.// || The Digital Life of Walkable Streets

Leader: Kotaro Hara | Summarizer: Matthew Mauriello || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 10/13 || Mixed-Reality || Yannier //et al.// || Learning from Mixed-Reality Games: Is Shaking a Tablet as Effective as Physical Observation?

Leader: Matthew Mauriello | Summarizer: Arunesh Mathur || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 10/20 || Mixed-Reality || Boyko //et al.// || Cheaper by the Dozens Group Annotation of 3D Data

Leader: Jyothi Vinjumur | Summarizer: Ruofei Du || DL || Discussion ||
 * 10/27 || Mixed-Reality || Reeves //et al.// || I’d Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public

Leader: Alina Striner | Summarizer: Jyothi Vinjumur || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 11/3 || Mixed-Reality || Miksik //et al.// || The Semantic Paintbrush Interactive 3D Mapping and Recognition in Large Outdoor Spaces

Leader: Uran Oh | Summarizer: Jon Brier || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * 11/10 || Citizen Science and Social Media || Eveleigh //et al.// || Designing for Dabblers and Deterring Drop-Outs in Citizen Science

Leader: Jon Brier | Summarizer: Kotaro Hara || [|PDF] || Discussion ||
 * 11/17 || Citizen Science and Social Media || Egelman //et al.// || Is This Thing On?: Crowdsourcing Privacy Indicators for Ubiquitous Sensing Platforms

Leader: Alina Goldman | Summarizer: Manaswi Saha || [|DL] || Discussion ||
 * **11/24** || **Holiday** || **NA** || ***No Class* Thanksgiving Holiday**


 * Leader: NA | Summarizer: NA** || **NA** || **NA** ||
 * 12/1 || Citizen Science and Social Media || Van Horn //et al.// || Building a bird recognition app and large scale dataset with citizen scientists: The fine print in fine-grained dataset collection

Leader: Lee Stearns | Summarizer: Matthew Mauriello || [|PDF] || Discussion || //et al.// || "I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]": Reasoning about Invisible Algorithms in News Feeds
 * 12/8 || Citizen Science and Social Media || Eslami

Leader: Manaswi Saha | Summarizer: Arunesh Mathur || [|DL] || Discussion || Suggestions for the seminar? [|Suggestion Form]

**Student Learning Outcomes **
By the end of the semester, students will:
 * Possess a broad understanding of the current state of HCI research within the theme(s) for the seminar (//e.g.,// crowdsourcing, urban informatics, environmental sustainability, social networking ).
 * Be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HCI research projects employing a variety of methods (e.g., field evaluations, controlled lab studies).
 * Possess an improved understanding of how to effectively communicate research findings.

Course Format
We plan on reading one paper per week. Attendance is required for credit. Each paper will be assigned one leader who will be partly responsible for leading the discussion of the paper. In addition, all participants will be expected to post a short comment about the paper before class. The papers selected for the course will be partially selected by the instructor, and partially selected by the students. Finally, one person will record the weekly discussion and post their notes to the wiki.

For those of you who are new to critically reading an academic paper, refer to "How to Read Research Papers" in the following link for instruction: link

We will ask students to post discussions directly to the wiki; please be sure to sign up for an Wikispaces account. Please contact Kotaro or Matthew if you have any problems posting comments for the weekly discussion.

** Everyone: ** Short reading responses on the discussion board - **DUE 5pm the Monday before class.** ** Discussion leader: ** Prepare discussion questions based on the paper and student comments - **DUE at class.** ** Discussion Summarizer: ** Post a short discussion summary to the discussion - **DUE 5pm the Tuesday after class.**

Picking a Paper
HCI research is published primarily at conferences, with a smaller focus on journals. A lot of the proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library (DL). For browsing proceedings through the ACM DL links below: (1) click on the "Publication Archive" tab and you'll see a listing of all of the years; (2) click on the year you want; (3) click on the "Table of Contents" tab.

To access the ACM DL from off campus, [|you can use the library proxy]. A few potential topics include:

**HCIxLocationTech**
 * Miksik // et al. ////,// The Semantic Paintbrush Interactive 3D Mapping and Recognition in Large Outdoor Spaces, CHI 2015
 * Möller // et al. ////,// Experimental Evaluation of User Interfaces for Visual Indoor Navigation, CHI2014
 * Quercia // et al. ////,// The Digital Life of Walkable Streets, WWW 2015
 * Boyko // et al. ////,// Cheaper by the Dozens Group Annotation of 3D Data, UIST 2014

**Crowdsourcing & On-demand Services**
 * Kuznetsov //et al.,// DIYbio Things Open Source Biology Tools As Platforms For Hybrid Knowledge Production and Scientific Participation, CHI2015
 * Laput //et al.,// Zensors Adaptive Rapidly Deployable Human-Intelligent Sensor Feeds, CHI2015
 * Marlow //et al.,// Exploring the Role of Activity Trace Design on Evaluations of Online Worker Quality, CHI2015
 * Robert //et al.,// Crowd Size Diversity and Performance, CHI2015
 * Salehi //et al.,// We Are Dynamo: Overcoming Stalling and Friction in Collective Action for Crowd Workers, CHI2015

**Other potential topics:** design for older adults, people with visual, cognitive, motor, or hearing impairments, children, people with low literacy; situational impairments; low resource settings; technologies/tools that could have implications for accessibility.

**For conference papers, try to choose a full length one (usually 8-10 pages).** If you find a really interesting short paper (usually 4 pages), then we'll find another short one to pair with it. The main conferences for finding papers related to our theme of inclusive design are:
 * [|ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)] . This is the biggest conference in HCI, so the proceedings may be overwhelming at first. Just use keyword search to find what you want. ACM DL: []
 * [|ACM ASSETS Conference] . This is much smaller, but focuses on accessibility. ACM DL: []
 * [|ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)] . Focused on new technologies, which sometimes have an accessibility slant. Browse in the ACM DL: []
 * [|Interaction Design and Children] . The name says it all. ACM DL: []
 * [|International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)] . Technology to support political, social, and economic development. Includes, for example, some design for low literacy and low educational levels. Recent offerings are in the ACM DL: []
 * [|ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems] . ACM DL: []


 * A sample of journals ** :
 * ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). General HCI journal. ACM DL:[]
 * ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). Focused on accessibility. ACM DL:[]
 * International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Not in the ACM DL, but you may come across papers published here if you start looking on Google Scholar, for example:[]

Cheaper by the Dozens Group Annotation of 3D Data