UCLIC: most successful UK HCI group at CHI2015

Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2015, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which takes place in Seoul, Korea, April 18 - 23 2015.

Check out this list, which makes UCL Interaction Centre the most successful UK HCI group at #chi2015!

We are delighted that four of our papers received Best of CHI Honorable Mentions.

For over 30 years, the CHI conference  has attracted the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the field of HCI from businesses and universities to share ground-breaking research and innovations related to how humans interact with digital technologies.

The theme for CHI 2015 is "Crossings": crossing borders, crossing boundaries, crossing disciplines, crossing people and technology, crossing past and future, crossing physical and digital, crossing art and science, … crossing you and me.

Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions:

Full Papers: 12

• Working 9-5? Professional Differences in Email and Boundary Management Practices.
  Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A.L., Bird, J.
• The Emergence of Interactive Behaviour: A Model of Rational Menu Search.
  Chen, X., Bailly, G., Brumby, D.P., Oulasvirta, A., Howes, A.
• Display Blindness? Looking Again at the Visibility of Situated Displays Using Eye Tracking.
  Dalton, N., Collins, E., Marshall, P.
• WATCHCONNECT: A Toolkit for Prototyping Smartwatch-Centric Cross-Device Applications.
  Houben, S., Marquardt, N.
• Moving Beyond Fun: Evaluating Serious Experience in Digital Games.
  HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Iacovides, I., Cox, A.L.
• "Everyone Is Talking about It!": A Distributed Approach to Urban Voting Technology and Visualisations.
  HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Koeman, L., Kalnikaitė, V., Rogers, Y.
• Concealing or Revealing Mobile Medical Devices? Designing for Onstage and Offstage Presentation.
  O'Kane, A.A., Rogers, Y., Blandford, A.
• Contextual Influences on the Use and Non-Use of Digital Technology while Exercising at the Gym.
  Patel, M., O'Kane, A.A.
• Spatially-Aware or Spatially-Agnostic? Elicitation and Evaluation of User-Defined Cross-Device Interactions.
  Rädle, R., Jetter, H.-C., Schreiner, M., Lu, Z., Reiterer, H., Rogers, Y.
• Beyond Self-Tracking and Reminders: Designing Smartphone Apps that Support Habit Formation.
  Stawarz, K., Cox, A.L., Blandford, A.
• As Light as your Footsteps: Altering Walking Sounds to Change Perceived Body Weight, Emotional State and Gait.
  HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Basia, M., Deroy, O., Fairhurst, M., Marquardt, N., Bianchi-Berthouze, N.
• Más Tecnología, Más Cambio? Investigating an Educational Technology Project in Rural Peru.
  Therias, E., Bird, J., Marshall, P.

Notes: 5

• Visual Grouping in Menu Interfaces.
  Brumby, D.P., Zhuang, S.
• Balancing Boundaries: Using Multiple Devices to Manage Work-Life Balance.
  Fleck, R., Cox, A.L., Robison, R.A.V.
• Push-Edge and Slide-Edge: Scrolling by Pushing Against the Viewport Edge.
  Malacria, S., Aceituno, J., Quinn, P., Casiez, G., Cockburn, A., Roussel, N.
• An Experimental Comparison of Vertical and Horizontal Dynamic Peephole Navigation.
  Müller, J., Rädle, R., Jetter, H.-C., Reiterer, H.
• Resilience Ex Machina: Learning a Complex Medical Device for Haemodialysis Self-Treatment.
  HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Noble, P.

Courses: 2

• Methods for Human-Computer Interaction Research.
  Gould, S.J.J., Brumby, D.P., Cox, A.L., Fitzpatrick, G., Hoonhout, J., Lamas, D., Law, E.
  More information available at bit.ly/hci-methods-course
• Sketching User Experiences: The Hands-on Course.
  Marquardt, N., Greenberg, S.
  More information available at sketchbook.cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Doctoral Consortium: 1

• Apps with Habits: Adaptive Interfaces for News Apps.
  Constantinides, M.

Works-in-Progress: 3

• Smartwatches: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
  Cecchinato, M.E., Cox., A.L., Bird, J.
• Task Lockouts Induce Crowdworkers to Switch to Other Activities.
  Gould, S.J.J., Cox, A.L., Brumby, D.P.
• Connichiwa – A Framework for Cross-Device Web Applications.
  Schreiner, M., Rädle, R., Jetter, H.-C., Reiterer, H.

Workshop Organised: 1

• Knowledge Production in Interaction Design.
  Höök, K., Dalsgaard, P., Reeves, S., Bardzell, J., Löwgren, J., Stolterman, E., Rogers, Y.

Workshop Papers: 10

• Supporting Collaborative Curation of Historic Documents with Mobile Ad Hoc Cross-Device Interactions.
  Brudy, F., Marquardt, N., Jetter, H.-C., Houben, S., Sellen, A., Rogers, Y.
  Workshop: Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables.
• Online vs Offline: Implications for Work Identity.
  Cecchinato, M.E., Fleck, R., Bird, J., Cox, A.L.
  Workshop: Between the Lines: Reevaluating the Online/Offline Binary.
• Shared PI: Sharing Personal Data to Support Reflection and Behaviour Change.
  Fleck, R., Harrison, D.
  Workshop: Beyond Personal Informatics: Designing for Experiences with Data.
• Control and Confounds in Cross-Cultural Crowdsourced Experiments.
  Gould, S.J.J., Cox, A.L., Brumby, D.P.
  Workshop: How WEIRD is HCI? Extending HCI Principles to other Countries and Cultures.
• Challenges in Watch-Centric CrossDevice Applications.
  Houben S., Brudy, F., Marquardt N.
  Workshop: Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables.
• A Human-Data Design Approach to Physically Experiencing Data.
  Houben S., Gallacher S., Golsteijn, C., Marquardt N., Capra L., Rogers Y.
  Workshop: Exploring the Challenges of Making Data Physical.
• Tiny Data: Situated Data Analysis to Support Community Decision Making.
  Jones, G., Rogers, Y., Marquardt, N.
  Workshop: Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities.
• Who Should Lead the Development of Community Technology?.
  Koeman, L., Jetter, H.-C.
  Workshop: Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities.
• Case Studies: Understanding Players and the Contexts in which they Play.
  Iacovides, I., Cox, A.L.
  Workshop: Crossing Domains: Diverse Perspectives on Players.
• Designing for Health Behavior Change: HCI Research Alone Is Not Enough.
  Stawarz, K., Cox, A.L.
  Workshop: Crossing HCI and Health: Advancing Health and Wellness Technology Research in Home and Community Settings. ​