UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018

Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018.

Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions.

Full Papers

• Mediating Conflicts in Minecraft: Empowering Learning in Online Multiplayer Games
  Petr Slovák, Katie Salen, Stephanie Ta, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
• Investigating the Role of an Overview Device in Multi-Device Collaboration
  Frederik Brudy, Joshua Kevin Budiman, Steven Houben, Nicolai Marquardt
• Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation
  Jhim Kiel M. Verame, Enrico Costanza, Joel Fischer, Andy Crabtree, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Tom Rodden, Nicholas R. Jennings
• SurfaceConstellations: A Modular Hardware Platform for Ad-Hoc Reconfigurable Cross-Device Workspaces
  Nicolai Marquardt, Frederik Brudy, Can Liu, Ben Bengler, Christian Holz
• Inclusive Computing in Special Needs Classrooms: Designing for All
  Zuzanna Lechelt, Yvonne Rogers, Nicola Yuill, Lena Nagl, Grazia Ragone, Nicolai Marquardt
• Evaluation Strategies for HCI Toolkit Research
  David Ledo, Steven Houben, Jo Vermeulen, Nicolai Marquardt, Lora Oehlberg, Saul Greenberg
• Flexible and Mindful Self-Tracking: Design Implications from Paper Bullet Journals
  Amid Ayobi, Tobias Sonne, Paul Marshall, Anna L Cox
• Deep Thermal Imaging: Proximate Material Type Recognition in the Wild through Deep Learning of Spatial Surface Temperature Patterns
  Youngjun Cho, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Nicolai Marquardt, Simon J. Julier

Late-Breaking Work

• The Role of Aesthetics and Design: Wearables in Situ
  Matthew Pateman, Daniel Harrison, Paul Marshall, Marta Cecchinato
• Looking Up Information in Email: Feedback on Visit Durations Discourages Distractions
  Judith Borghouts, Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox
• Old Habits Die Hard: A Diary Study of On-Demand Video Viewing
  Jacob Rigby, Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox, Sandy Gould
• Knowing What You're Doing or Knowing What to Do: How Stress Management Apps Support Reflection and Behaviour Change
  Nora Ptakauskaite, Anna Cox, Nadia Berthouze

Doctorial Consortium

• Informing the Design of Personal Informatics Technologies for Unpredictable Chronic Conditions
  Amid Ayobi

Courses

• Applied Sketching in HCI: Hands-on Course of Sketching Techniques
  Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Nicolai Marquardt

SIG Meetings

• SketCHI: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Sketching in HCI
  Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Nicolai Marquardt, Thuong N Hoang

Demos

• SurfaceConstellation Applications
  Nicolai Marquardt, Frederik Brudy, Can Liu, Ben Bengler, Christian Holz

Workshops Organised

• Internet of Tangible Things: Workshop on Tangible Interaction with the Internet of Things [PDF]
  Leonardo Angelini, Zuzanna Lechelt, Eva Hornecker, Paul Marshall, Can Liu, Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro, Nadine Couture, Omar Abou Khaled, Elena Mugellini
• Reshaping Touch Communication: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
  Sara Price, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Carey Jewitt, Gijs Huisman, Bruna Petreca, Nadia Berthouze , Domenico Prattichizzo, Vincent Hayward

Workshop and Symposium Papers

• Personal Informatics Tools Benefit from Combining Automatic and Manual Data Capture in the Long-Term.
  Nora Ptakauskaite, Anna Cox, Mirco Musolesi, Abhinav Mehrotra, James Cheshire, Chiara Garattini
  Workshop: Next Steps Towards Long Term Self Tracking
• Do I Really Have To Publicly Disclose My HIV Status?
  Mark Warner, Ann Blandford
  Workshop: Exploring Individual Differences in Privacy
• Digital Social Exchanges Of Tactile Experiences Of Textiles
  Bruna Petreca, Douglas Atkinson, Sharon Baurley, Lesley Cary, Keija Wang, Xuemei Yu, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
  Workshop: Reshaping Touch Communication: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
• Automated Inference of Cognitive Stress in-the-Wild
  Youngjun Cho, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Simon J. Julier
  Symposium: The 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health

Student Design Competition

• NaviiCompass: An Exploratory Feedback System for an Urban Farm Community [Poster] [Video]
  Jessica Andrich, Diana Beirl, Timothy Serkes, Tassilo Bouwman, Anouk Harde
• VisuaLife: An engaging campaign aims to visualise air pollution in the form of t-shirts displayed in an exhibition [Poster] [Video]
  Yun-Sheng Su, Jack Solomon, Lorenzo Bellucci, Mihaela Dimitrova, Zihe Liu

Other full papers from UCL (non-UCLIC)

• Design Opportunities for AAC and Children with Severe Speech and Physical Impairments -- Honourable Mention
  Seray B Ibrahim (UCL Knowledge Lab), Asimina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab), Michael Clarke (Language & Cognition - Division of Psychology & Language Sciences)
• Fairness and Accountability Design Needs for Algorithmic Support in High-Stakes Public Sector Decision-Making
  Michael Veale (Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL), Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns
• 'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage'; Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions
  Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek, Michael Veale (Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL), Ulrik Lyngs, Jun Zhao, Nigel Shadbolt
• A Critical Examination of Feedback in Early Reading Games
  Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab), Asimina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab), Kay Berkling, Wolmet Barendregt, Manolis Mavrikis (UCL Knowledge Lab)
• Transforming Last-mile Logistics: Opportunities for more Sustainable Deliveries
  Oliver Bates, Adrian Friday, Julian Allen, Tom Cherrett, Fraser McLeod, Tolga Bektas, ThuBa Nguyen, Maja Piecyk, Marzena Piotrowska, Sarah Wise (Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL), Nigel Davies

Other workshop papers from UCL (non-UCLIC)

• Some HCI Priorities for GDPR-Compliant Machine Learning
  Michael Veale (Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL), Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek
  Workshop: The General Data Protection Regulation: An Opportunity for the CHI Community?
• The Need for Sensemaking in Networked Privacy and Algorithmic Responsibility
  Max Van Kleek, Michael Veale (Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL), Nigel Shadbolt, William Seymour, Reuben Binns
  Workshop: Sensemaking Workshop

Other SIG Meeting from UCL (non-UCLIC)

• SIG on Telepresence Robots
  Houda El mimouni, Susan Fussell, Susan Herring, Carman Neustaedter, Jennifer Rode (UCL Knowledge Lab)