On behalf of our team at #MHCID, I am delighted to invite you to participate in our inaugural #HCI and #UX Industry #Survey.
This survey is part of a study on the state of our industry which will drive a deeper understanding of how our community is faring during this time of complex transformation.
Is your #school and/or #district facing the #ESSER cliff combined with other downward #budget pressure? We could be facing a pivotal moment in #education as the landscape faces remarkable forces for/of change, across #technology ( not just but including #AI of course, with #HCI and #cybersecurity ) and cultural shifts, politics generally, social-emotional development in Society, and so much more ... Here is the thing. It's going to work out. But put on your seatbelt, it might get a little bumpy.
Selecting sites for academic conferences is a key issue in the SIGCHI community and beyond. Dr. Katie Seaborn and Adrian Petterson (The University of Toronto) have co-authored possibilities for going forward. https://medium.com/p/071173b3c34e#acm#sigchi#hci#chi#chi24#whychi
📢 Last big update before #CHI2024: The #HCI + #AI preprint collection now lists about 280 papers! Incl. some workshop papers. Thank you all for sharing! 🤩
Congratulations to @laurasouth_, Amy Pavel, Caglar Yildrim, and @michelle_borkin
for earning an Honorable Mention from @chi for "Barriers to Photosensitive Accessibility in Virtual Reality" 🎉
Why are we opening things up?
💡Over the last 4 years, practitioners & policymakers have shared challenges of submitting a paper (bandwidth, resources, etc.)
Totally hooked on Professor @aquigley#keynote at #EverythingOpen today - it's all about #interfaces and #HCI - and about #sensors - and how they can be used for secondary purposes to those originally designed - and at the end of the day we are all #human - and this limits the attention we have for input.
Super interesting!
Paper references are on Prof Quigley's Google Scholar:
Keep an eye out for the first Data Visualization Accessibility workshop at @ieeevis this year!! Organized by @laurasouth_, Naimul Hoque, Pramod Chundury, @frankelavsky, Lucas Nadolskis, @kekewu728, Brianna Wimer, @dom, Danielle Albers Szafir, Jonathan Lazar, and @elm
CFP: Position papers (2-4 pages) that discuss topics relevant to accessible data visualizations
Next was an excellent talk by @shriramk on the human factors of formal methods at ACM India. Even in something as seemingly divorced from humans as logic verification, Krishnamurthi demonstrates how human interpretability of method outputs dramatically changes outcomes and why it's essential to integrate a variety of disciplines to effectively build socio-technical systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehrYEdt8NKE (11/12) #HCI#ComputerScience
Just read #CHI2024 preprint "The Future of HCI-Policy Collaboration" led by @fabulousqian. Authors argue for greater and more intentional involvement of #HCI researchers with #policy. I appreciated this definition: "In practice, policy design is the iterative process of (1) identifying policy needs, (2) clarifying policy needs (or issue- framing), (3) formulating policy, (4) designing systems and services that implement policy, and (5) evaluating policy outcomes"
More and more jurisdictions have policies saying that people who receive negative decisions made by or with the aid of algorithms should have a right to "appropriate grievance redressal mechanism" but the details are left unspecified. @naveena has just completed a study of (currently algorithm-free) application and contestation processes in the context of housing/land benefits in the US and India. Goal is to inform future tech design.
Day One of our cozy @ieeevis writing retreat has kicked off at the Northeastern Roux Institute campus in Portland Maine! Excited to see what folks submit this year 😍
52 pages of community comments in a year and Spotify still hasn't done anything about forced "Smart Shuffle" #enshittification on their app 🥴 Give a lil upvote if you can
To all the people designing user interfaces: if you have a select dialog of some sort that only has one option to choose from: think of replacing that useless dialog with a five second notification popup for information.
CONGRATULATIONS DOCTOR LAURA SOUTH on a successful #PhD dissertation defense of "Designing for Photosensitive Epilepsy Across Social, Interactive, and Immersive Platforms"! and to Dr. @michelle_borkin for the immense achievements of your student! #DataVis#HCI#a11y
Worried about account takeover? You're not alone! Attackers often misuse the "forgot password" mechanism to hack us.
Our latest study revealed a game-changer to counter this: Risk-Based Account Recovery! Platforms like Google now tailor recovery mechanisms based on your device and location context, making it hard for bad actors but easy for legitimate users.
Next was an important talk by @ampiper on rethinking design for accessibility at Stanford University. Piper presents interfaces that are grounded in extensive fieldwork that reveal the interactive nature of accessibility and also reveal new HCI paradigms. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyg5S7l_rlg (13/14) #HCI#accessibility