Spring+2012

=The Future of Human-Computer Interaction = //A weekly reading seminar// //Instructors: Jon Froehlich, Ben Bederson, [|Leah Findlater]//

Brain-computer interfaces, smart cities, computing for all, human computation, augmented reality, personalized health care, environmental sustainability. What do all of these topics have in common? They are just a small taste of emerging hot topics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

This 1-credit weekly reading seminar will cover recent papers that represent new directions and opportunities in HCI. By nature HCI has been interdisciplinary, incorporating fields such as Computer Science, Psychology, and Design. The Future of HCI will be even more so. We will reflect this trend by targeting papers that not only integrate multiple sub-discipines of CS (e.g., computer vision, machine learning) but also target problem spaces traditionally found in other fields (e.g., medicine, urban planning, environmental sustainability).

We plan on reading approximately 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 instructors, and partially selected by the students.

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 * When:** Spring Semester 2012, Tuesdays 12pm-1pm
 * Where:** Hornbake 2116
 * Why:** For research inspiration, to meet new people, and to have friendly discussion

Course Info
How to read a paper Short reading responses - **DUE 10am** before class Short discussion summaries are posted on Google+

Reading Schedule
[] [[|G+ Post]] @http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1979742.1979606 [[|G+ Post]]
 * ~ W**eek** ||~ **Topic** ||~ **Selected Paper** ||
 * 1/31 || Crowdsourcing || von Ahn, L., & Dabbish, L. (2008). Designing games with a purpose. //Communications of the ACM//, //51//(8), 57.
 * Discussion Leader:** Jon Froehlich **Summarizer:** Jon ||
 * 2/07 || Crowdsourcing || Bigham, J.P., Jayant, C., Ji, H., Little, G., Miller, A., Miller, R.C., Miller, R., Tatarowicz, A., White, B., White, S., and Yeh, T. 2010. VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions. In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 333-342. [] [[|G+ Post]]
 * Discussion Leader:** Kotaro **Summarizer:** Mike G. ||
 * 2/14 || Crowdsourcing || Bederson, B.B., & Quinn, A.J. (2011) Web Workers Unite! Addressing Challenges of Online Laborers. Alt.CHI paper at CHI 2011, ACM Press, 97-106.
 * Discussion Leader: ** Sarah W. **Summarizer:** Matthew M.

Hu, C., Resnik, P., Kronrod, Y., & Bederson, B.B. (2012) Deploying MonoTrans Widgets in the Wild, to appear in CHI 2012 (short paper) [|Tech Report Version] [[|G+ Post]] [] [[|G+ Post]]
 * Discussion Leader: ** Adil Y. **Summarizer:** Sana M. ||
 * 2/21 || Input || Chris Harrison, Hrvoje Benko, and Andrew D. Wilson. 2011. OmniTouch: wearable multitouch interaction everywhere. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 441-450. DOI=10.1145/2047196.2047255

Please watch the UIST 2011 video as well: [|OmniTouch - Demo Video - ACM UIST 2011]

And, if you have time, please watch Pranav Mistry's TED Talk on SixthSense from 2009: [|Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology]


 * Discussion Leader:** Lyndsey **Summarizer:** Nick ||
 * 2/28 || Input || Vincent Levesque, Louise Oram, Karon MacLean, Andy Cockburn, Nicholas D. Marchuk, Dan Johnson, J. Edward Colgate, and Michael A. Peshkin. 2011. Enhancing physicality in touch interaction with programmable friction. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2481-2490. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979306 [] [[|G+ Post]]

**Discussion Leader**: Kazi R. **Summarizer:** Adil Y. || Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011) . ACM, New York, NY, USA, 413-422. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979001 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979001] [[|G+ Post]]
 * Discussion Leader:** Rongjian **Summarizer:** Tak ||
 * 3/06 || Input || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goel, M., Findlater, L., Wobbrock, J.O. (2012). WalkType: Using accelerometer data to accommodate situational impairments in mobile touch screen text entry. //Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012)//, 10 pages. [|Download paper] [[|G+ Post]]
 * 3/13 || Input || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, and Richard E. Ladner. 2011. Usable gestures for blind people: understanding preference and performance.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Discussion Leader:** John G. **Summarizer:** Matthew M. || Quantified Self || The Design and Evaluation of Prototype Eco-Feedback Displays for Fixture-Level Water Usage Data. Froehlich, J., Findlater, L., Ostergren, M., Ramanathan, S., Peterson, J., Wragg, I., Larson, E., Fu, F., Bai, M., Patel, S., Landay, J. Proceedings of CHI 2012, To Appear. [[|Paper]] [[|Movie]] [[|G+ Post]] || Quantified Self || Healthcare in the pocket: Mapping the space of mobile-phone health interventions. Predrag Klasnja and Wanda Pratt. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 45 (2012) 184–198 [[|Paper]] [[|G+ Post]] Quantified Self || Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies. Ian Li, Anind Dey, and Jodi Forlizzi. Ubicomp 2011, pp. 405-414. [[|Paper]] [[|G+ Post]] Here are examples of what we mean by links to inspirational videos: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 <span style="color: #0065cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwuMg0FsKzs [[|G+ Post]] It would be great to have these posts up by Monday night if possible so that there will be time for everyone to read them over before the seminar.
 * 3/20 || No seminar. Spring break. || NA ||
 * 3/27 || Personal informatics
 * 4/3 || Personal informatics
 * Discussion Leader: ** Nick G. **Summarizer:** Lyndsey F. ||
 * 4/10 || Personal informatics
 * Discussion Leader:** Sana **Summarizer:** Tak ||
 * 4/17 || Cyborg || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Solovey, E.T., Schermerhorn, P., Scheutz, M., Sassaroli, A., Fantini, S., Jacob, R.J.K. (2012). Brainput: Enhancing Interactive Systems with Streaming fNIRS Brain Input. Proc. ACM CHI 2012. To appear. [[|Paper]] [[|G+ Post]]
 * Discussion Leader: ** Matthew M. **Summarizer:** Jessy ||
 * 4/24 || Cyborg || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">+T. Scott Saponas, <span class="proflinkPrefix" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">+ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3366cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|Desney Tan] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, +Dan Morris, +Ravin Balakrishnan, +Jim Turner, and <span class="proflinkPrefix" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">+ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3366cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|James Landay] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">. 2009. Enabling always-available input with muscle-computer interfaces. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 167-176; [[|Paper]][[|G+ Post]]
 * Discussion Leader:** Michael G. **Summarizer:** Sarah ||
 * 5/1 || Cyborg || Since it's the last seminar, we decided to change things up and not assign a reading. Instead, this week each student should look for a recent or emerging technology, interaction or vision that they find inspirational for thinking about the future of human-computer interaction. If there's a video showcasing this technology/interaction/vision, post the link to the video here. If not, is there a light article that talks about the technology? This is meant to be a fun, creative activity and you do not need to read and comment on a full-blown research paper. Along with the link to the resource (e.g., video or article), write a paragraph highlighting why you find the technology inspirational, what it could enable, and what challenges may need to be overcome before adoption.
 * Discussion Leader:** Minhaz **Summarizer:** John G. ||
 * 5/8 || No seminar. Week of ACM CHI 2012 conference. || NA ||

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Possible Topics and Papers
This is //your// reading seminar! Add topics you'd like to see covered, vote for topics, or suggest a paper for a given topic. We will use this information to put together the reading schedule.

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 * ~ T**opic** ||~ **Suggested Papers - Add papers or vote for one by appending [YourName] to the paper entry** ||
 * computer vision and HCI ||  ||
 * machine learning and HCI ||  ||
 * natural language processing and HCI || * Koji Yatani, Michael Novati, Andrew Trusty, and Khai N. Truong. 2011. Review spotlight: a user interface for summarizing user-generated reviews using adjective-noun word pairs. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1541-1550. []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hu, C., Bederson, B.B., & Resnik, P. (2010) Translation by Interactive Collaboration between Monolingual Users, Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2010), 39-46//.//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hu, C., Resnik, P., Kronrod, Y., & Bederson, B.B. (2012) Deploying MonoTrans Widgets in the Wild, to appear in CHI 2012 ||
 * gesture-based computing || * Zafrulla, Z., Brashear, H., Starner, T., Hamilton, H., and Presti, P. 2011. American sign language recognition with the kinect. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces (ICMI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 279-286. []
 * Gregory Goth. 2011. Brave NUI world. Commun. ACM 54, 12 (December 2011), 14-16. [] ||
 * brain-computer interaction ||  ||
 * human computation || * Bernstein, M. S., Little, G., Miller, R. C., Hartmann, B., Ackerman, M. S., Karger, D. R., Crowell, D., et al. (2010). Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside (pp. 313-322). New York, New York, USA: ACM. []
 * Bederson, B. B., & Quinn, A. J. (2011). Web Workers Unite! Addressing Challenges of Online Laborers. //CHI//(pp. 97–106). ACM. []
 * von Ahn, L., & Dabbish, L. (2008). Designing games with a purpose. //Communications of the ACM//, //51//(8), 57.
 * activity recognition ||  ||
 * tangible / surface computing || * Patrick Baudisch, Torsten Becker, and Frederik Rudeck. 2010. Lumino: tangible blocks for tabletop computers based on glass fiber bundles. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1165-1174. DOI=10.1145/1753326.1753500 []
 * Esben Warming Pedersen and Kasper Hornbæk. 2011. Tangible bots: interaction with active tangibles in tabletop interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2975-2984. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979384 [] ||
 * alternative input methods || * Harrison, C., Benko, H., and Wilson, A. D. 2011. OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Santa Barbara, California, October 16 - 19, 2011). UIST '11. ACM, New York, NY. []
 * T. Scott Saponas, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan, Jim Turner, and James A. Landay. 2009. Enabling always-available input with muscle-computer interfaces. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology(UIST '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 167-176. []
 * Harrison, C., Tan, D. Morris, D. 2010. Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY. []
 * Vincent Levesque, Louise Oram, Karon MacLean, Andy Cockburn, Nicholas D. Marchuk, Dan Johnson, J. Edward Colgate, and Michael A. Peshkin. 2011. Enhancing physicality in touch interaction with programmable friction. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2481-2490. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979306 [] [best paper award] ||
 * health informatics ||  ||
 * environmental sustainability ||  ||
 * computing for all / accessibility || * Bigham, J.P., Jayant, C., Ji, H., Little, G., Miller, A., Miller, R.C., Miller, R., Tatarowicz, A., White, B., White, S., and Yeh, T. 2010. VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions. In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 333-342. [] ||
 * personalization || * Matthijs, N. and Radlinski, F.. 2011. Personalizing web search using long term browsing history. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 25-34. [] ||
 * real-time smart cities ||  ||
 * augmented reality ||  ||
 * social media analysis || * Pal, A. and Counts, S. 2011. Identifying topical authorities in microblogs. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 45-54. [] ||
 * speech interfaces ||  ||
 * urban informatics ||  ||
 * accessibility ||  ||
 * eye-tracking ||  ||
 * human-robot interaction ||  ||