HCI Reading Seminar
General Information
Meeting Time & Place: Wednesdays from Noon - 1pm, in the College of Computing, room 102.In a relatively informal discussion format, we will cover topics in HCI that are of general interest. Each week, one or two people will volunteer to lead the discussion.
Readings will either be included on this page as links or will be made available a week in advance.
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Link to the Body of Knowledge in HCI
HCC 1 Class & link to readings
| Date | Topic | Discussants | Papers and/or seminar materials | Citation |
| 8/23 | Scheduling | Kent Lyons | N/A | N/A |
| 8/30 | Design Product | Sabina Karkin & Nithya Sambasivan | Gentner-Nielsen_The Anti-Mac Interface.pdf | Communications of the ACM 38(8): 70-82. |
| 9/06 | Computer-mediated mentoring | Brenda Reyes & Deidrick Capers | peertopeermentoring.pdf | |
| 9/13 | no class | |||
| 9/20 | The Computer for the 21st Century | Ogechi Nnadi | p94-weiser.pdf | 09-91 Scientific American |
| 9/27 | Internet Use and Psychological Well-Being | Pavani Yalla & Sarah Williams | RoutineUsesOfInternet-final.pdf | |
| 10/04 | Women and Online Gaming | Pam Griffith & Nils Beck | womenandgaming.pdf | Convergence, Vol. 9, No. 1, 21-46 (2003) |
| 10/11 | no class | |||
| 10/18 | no class | |||
| 10/25 | Collective Creation and Sense-Making of Mobile Media | James Clawson & Sunyoung Kim | chi2006-mgroup.pdf | CHI 2006 |
| 11/01 | Post-WIMP User Interfaces | Jin Ah Chon & Craig Tashman | Designing Post-WIMP UI's.pdf | CHI 2000 |
| 11/08 | Making Work Visible | Deidrick Capers & Craig Tashman | Suchman's Making Work Visible.pdf | Comm. of the ACM, Sept, 1995 |
| 11/15 | Groupware and Social Dynamics | James Clawson & ??? | CACM1994.pdf | Communications of the ACM,1994 |
| 11/22 | Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design | Brenda Reyes & Zhigang Hua | matthewsmultitasking.pdf | CHI 2006 |
| 11/29 | A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design | Pavani Yalla & Nils Beck | BorchersInteractionPatterns.pdf | AI & Society 2001 |
| 12/06 | Promoting universal usability with multi-layer interface design | Ogechi Nnadi & Sunyoung Kim | multi-layer interfaces.pdf | ACM conference on Universal usability, 2003 |
Past Seminars and Papers
Spring 2006 Seminar ScheduleWho is who?Interesting Things to DiscussPotential mobile reading papers
| Date/B | BTopic/B | BDiscussants/B | BPapers and/or seminar materials/B | bDiscussion/b |
| 1/11 | Scheduling | Kent Lyons | N/A | N/A |
| 1/18 | Mobile HCI overview and the txtBoard | Yelena Nakhimovsky and James Clawson | kjeldskov-graham MobileHCI 2003.pdfandp1705-ohara.pdf | The first paper is a catagorization of mobile HCI research and the second paper looks at mobility and situated displays. |
| 1/25 | Attention Saving in mobile HCI | Jahmeilah Richardson and Ji Soo Yi | p909-ho.pdf,MobileFeedbackFinal.pdf | "Human attention is the scarce resource" by Herbert Simon in 1967. This old quote is still applicable in mobile HCI. |
| 2/01 | Parameter Mapping & Gestural Control of Music | Seungyon and Celeste | "Neural Network for Mapping Hand Gestures to Sound Synthesis Parameters" :P.Mod.pdf (Optional reading : "The Importance of Parameter Mapping in Electronic Instrument Design" :hunt.pdf) | Metaphor and Mapping : Exploring the input behavior for mobile device from musical instrument/performance |
| 2/08 | Controlling and Building Art with Mobiles | Zach Pousman | mobilenin-scheible.pdf and mobileart-lorstad.pdf (optional) | MobiLenin / Interactive Street: Can mobiles be used to control the environment for art / entertainment purposes? |
| 2/15 | What's HCI? | a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~giac"Giovanni Iachello/a/html | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1109069.1109097http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1109069.1109108 Paternalistic technologyhttp://www.taucis.hu-berlin.de/_download/technology_paternalism.pdf | Interaction design is still an art form.: ergonomics is real engineering by Don Norman, Interations 13:1 p. 45 Is HCI homeless?: in search of inter-disciplinary status by Jonathan Grudin, Interactions 13:1 p. 54 br You can get both through the GT Library:http://www.library.gatech.edu-> Databases -> Computing -> Computer Science -> ACM Digital Library -> login -> Magazines -> Interactions -> Current Issue -> get PDFs |
| 2/22 | Usability and Mobile Application | Shivam Goyal | mobile.pdf | Usability Testing of Mobile Applications: A Comparison between Laboratory and Field Testing |
| 3/01 | Who's in control? | James Clawson | Paternalistic technologyhttp://www.taucis.hu-berlin.de/_download/technology_paternalism.pdf | Examins issues of control in sensor rich environments |
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| 3/15 | RFID and Consumers: Understanding Their Mindset | Celeste Buckhalter-Pittman | http://www.ecrnet.org/gci/intelligent_tagging/gci_rfid_study_cgey_oct_2003.pdf | Examines consumers' views and prior knowledge of RFID tags |
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| 3/29 | ||||
| 4/05 | ||||
| 4/12 | Introducing wearable force sensors in martial arts. Chi, E.H. (PARC) | Yelena Nakhimovsky | WearableForceSensors_MartialArts_PervasiveComp05.pdf, from July-Sept 2005 issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing (also available through GT Library) | Discusses the technical implementation, evaluation, and contextual issues such as effects on activity & gaining the trust of the athletes and judges – What effects does this system have on the sport and judging? How applicable are the developed evaluation metrics to other sports, or indeed to other situations? |
| 4/19 | The Future of Mobile Device Research in HCI | Seungyon Lee | 16_wobbrock.pdf "The Future of Mobile Device Research in HCI" CHI 06 | A workshop paper for CHI 06 - "What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction?" |
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Past Seminars and Papers
Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule
| Date/B | BTopic/B | BDiscussants/B | BPapers and/or seminar materials/B | bDiscussion/b |
| 24 August | Scheduling | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 31 August | Design-Oriented HCI | Chris Skeels | Design-Oriented Human-Computer Interaction.pdf | The term "design" seems to get thrown around alot, maybe even haphazardly. I'm pretty sure we don't all mean the same thing. Particularly in the context of doing research, what role does design play? Can you be both a designer and a researcher? Aren't there different goals for each? I picked the readings to motivate a discussion on these sorts of questions. The first is a 2003 CHI paper, the second is a follow up 2005 NORDES paper by the same author. The second is 5 pages and easy to digest once you've read the first. |
| 31 August | Supplemental Reading | Chris Skeels | Why Research-Oriented Design Isn't Design-Oriented Research.pdf | |
| 7 SEPT | Zach Pousman and Chris Plaue | NameVoyager/a | This is the technote version of the InfoViz paper. br /br /Check out the Visualization: a href="http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html"BabyName Wizard Name Voyager/abr /br /Martin Wattenberg is a researcher in the a href="http://domino.watson.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/99751d8eb5a20c1f852568db004efc90/801202452f8bc73b8525698a0066cba4?OpenDocument"Reinventing Email Group at IBM Watson/a. His personal site has a href="http://www.bewitched.com/research.html"some more cool-viz-toys/a. | |
| 14 September | Accounts and representation | Aras Bilgen | a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/abilgen/hci/cic95-accounts.pdf"Accounting for System Behaviour: Representation, Reflection and Resourceful Action/a | |
| 14 September | Supplement | Aras Bilgen | a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/abilgen/hci/kiczales.pdf"Towards a New Model of Abstraction in Software Engineering/a | How Kiczales talks about the concepts outlined in Dourish's paperbr/About Aspect Oriented Programming at a href="http://aosd.net/"AOSD/a, a href="http://eclipse.org/aspectj/"AspectJ/a and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming"Wikipedia/a |
| 21 September | Info Viz | Nick Diakopoulos | a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~nad/knowledge%20precepts%20for%20design%20and%20evaluation%20of%20information%20visualization.pdf"Knowledge Precepts for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations/a | This is the journal version of the InfoVis 2004 Best Paper. It elucidates analytic gaps in using infovis tools for higher-level analytic tasks. It then introduces a framework for design and evaluation of info vis systems. |
| 28 September | Social Networking | Susan Gov and Sheena Lewis | Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking.pdf | |
| 5 October | Ed Clarkson | Developing Privacy Guidelines for Social Location Disclosure Applications and Services.pdf | ||
| 12 October | InfoVis | Mario Romero | Information Visualization and the Challenge of Universal Usability.pdfandThe Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation.pdf | This week we'll be discussing two 2004 Information Visualization papers by Catherine Plaisant. Ben Shneiderman chose these papers for the introduction of his Information Visualization Spring 2005 class at the University of Maryland. The papers offer a quick and current overview of Information Visualization and they present a summary of challenges regarding universal usability and evaluation in the context of InfoVis. |
| 19 October | Cancelled | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 26 October | Shivam Goyal | Man-Computer Symbiosis.pdf | ||
| 2 November | Fuzzy UI | Matt McKeon | Physical Embodiments for Mobile Communication Agents | Fun paper from UIST 2005, where the authors make stuffed animals that answer your mobile calls. However, I believe that beyond the immediate wow factor, there are some interesting issues raised by the paper. What are some of the pitfalls of creating highly emotionally / culturally charged user interfaces? What about when we try to create UIs that flow naturally into everyday human social interaction? |
| 9 November | Susan Wyche | Making by Making Strange - Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies.pdf | ||
| 16 November | Interaction in 4-Second Bursts: The Fragmented Nature of Attentional Resources in Mobile HCI | Kristin Vadas and Nirmal Patel | Interaction in 4-Second Bursts - The Fragmented Nature of Attentional Resources in Mobile HCI.pdf | |
| 23 November | Open Discussion | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 30 November | Infovis | Andy Cox | Vizster - Visualizing Online Social Networks.pdfandprefuse - a toolkit for interactive information visualization.pdf | Successful infovis systems are often one-off and domain-specific, requiring significant development efforts. This has hindered the proliferation of mainstream infovis systems, despite their demonstrated benefits. prefuse (presented at CHI '05) is one attempt to address the need for toolkits/frameworks/infrastructure to make powerful infovis systems easier to build. Vizster (presented at InfoVis '05) is an example of a system built using prefuse, and it is conveniently based on the Friendster paper we covered in September. The discussion can focus on either paper or a combination. |
| 7 December | Ralph Ware, Brandon Yarbrough, and Sheena Lewis | Availability and Interruption in Research Management.pdf |
Fall 2002 Seminar Schedule
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chi2006-mgroup.pdf
CACM1994.pdf
matthewsmultitasking.pdf