Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction
Instructor: Juan Pablo Hourcade, 101L MacLean Hall, Office Hours: 1-2TTh, 2:30-3:30F or by appointment
Location: N104 Lindquist Center
Schedule: 11:00-12:15, TTh


May 14
Final presentations, 8-10pm.

May 9
At home with surface computing? (Metz)
Voice typing: a new speech interaction model for dictation on touchscreen devices (Bell)

May 7
Implanted user interfaces (Dewda)
Laying the table for HCI: uncovering ecologies of domestic food consumption (Singh)

May 2
Augmented perception of satiety: controlling food consumption by changing apparent size of food with augmented reality (Bingham)
The normal natural troubles of driving with GPS (Schroeder)

April 30
CommunitySourcing: engaging local crowds to perform expert work via physical kiosks (Nair)
ClayVision: the (elastic) image of the city (Zeman)

April 25
The mismeasurement of privacy: using contextual integrity to reconsider privacy in HCI (Trivedi)
Not doing but thinking: the role of challenge in the gaming experience (Schulte)

April 23
ShoeSense: a new perspective on gestural interaction and wearable applications (Jain)
Tell me more?: the effects of mental model soundness on personalizing an intelligent agent (Mark)

April 18
"A pace not dicatated by electrons": an empirical study of work without email (Pulagam)
A longitudinal study of facebook, linkedin, & twitter use (Zhang)

April 16
Revisiting the Jacquard loom: threads of history and current patterns in HCI (Murillo)
Technology heirlooms?: considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials (Carino-Marek)

April 11
Uncomfortable interactions (Keep)
From participatory to contributory simulations: changing the game in the classroom (Jiang)

April 9
BiTouch and BiPad: designing bimanual interaction for hand-held tablets (Metz)
Using rhythmic patterns as an input method (Bell)

April 4
Human computation tasks with global constraints (Dewda)
Talking in circles: selective sharing in google+ (Singh)

April 2
Understanding user experience in stereoscopic 3D games (Bingham)
Observational and experimental investigation of typing behaviour using virtual keyboards for mobile devices (Schroeder)

March 28
Look & touch: gaze-supported target acquisition (Nair)
Looking glass: a field study on noticing interactivity of a shop window (Zeman)

March 26
Beyond energy monitors: interaction, energy, and emerging energy systems (Trivedi)
The impact of tutorials on games of varying complexity (Schulte)

March 14
It's complicated: how romantic partners use facebook (Jain)
"Oh dear stacy!": social interaction, elaboration, and learning with teachable agents (Mark)

March 12
Writing the experience of information retrieval: digital collection design as a form of dialogue (Pulagam)
Characterizing web use on smartphones (Zhang)

March 7
Participation and publics: supporting community engagement (Murillo)
Health promotion as activism: building community capacity to effect social change (Carino-Marek)

March 5
Too close for comfort: a study of the effectiveness and acceptability of rich-media personalized advertising (Keep)
Regroup: interactive machine learning for on-demand group creation in social networks (Jiang)

February 26: Age-specific user interfaces. Slides available on ICON
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February 19, 21: Information visualization. Slides available on ICON
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February 14, 19: Input devices. Slides available on ICON
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February 12, 14: Reading research papers. Slides available on ICON
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February 7: Interpreting results. Slides available on ICON
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February 7: Are you ready to start your experiment?. Slides available on ICON
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February 5: Single-variable, multiple-variable and converging series experiments. Slides available on ICON
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February 5: Between and within subjects studies. Slides available on ICON
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January 31: Selecting independent and dependent variables. Slides available on ICON
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January 31: How to be fair with science. Slides available on ICON
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January 29: Treating participants fairly. Slides available on ICON
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January 24, 29: How to do experiments. Slides available on ICON
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January 22: Making orderly observations. Slides available on ICON
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January 22: Introduction to class.
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