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Human Computer Interaction

Computer Human Interaction is an interdisciplinary field drawing on the expertise of computer scientists, software engineers, psychologists, interaction designers, graphic designers, sociologists, and anthropologists to design useful and useable technology. See ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction, SIGCHI.

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Tarek R. Besold – Barcelona, Spain

What are you talking about HAL? The Why, the What and the How of Explainable AI.
Discussions surrounding questions of interpretability (or even: explainability) in AI and ML are gaining in popularity in academia and industry. In this talk we will have a look at desiderata...

Stephen Brewster – Glasgow, United Kingdom

Designing new user interfaces for cars
In-car interactions are undergoing major changes as traditional physical buttons, dials and switchgear are replaced by touchscreens and touch-sensing surfaces. Drivers...
Haptics and Human-Computer Interaction
Haptics and the use of touch can provide rich new ways for people to interact and experience devices. I have been working in the area of haptics for a long time and am often frustrated by...
Multimodal human-computer interfaces
This talk introduces the topic of multimodal interaction, what it is and discusses some of the most important work in the area, with a focus on haptics, audio and smell based interfaces. Each...
Multimodal mobile interaction - making the most of our users' capabilities
Mobile user interfaces are heavily based on small screens and keyboards. These can be hard to operate when on the move which limits the applications and services we can use. This talk will look at...
Ultrasound haptics and levitation: the future of human-computer interaction
Ultrasound provides some brand new opportunities for interaction in user interfaces. In this talk, I will describe this new modality and what it offers to HCI. By using standard loudspeakers, we...

Duncan P Brumby – London, United Kingdom

Drowning in Email? Practical Tips from Research on How to Better Manage Your Inbox.
We are all utterly overwhelmed by the volume of email that we receive every single day. I will talk about our research on how people manage digital communications over email and offer...
History and Future of Human-Automation Interaction
In this talk, I shall review the history of human-automation interaction research, assess its current status, and identify future directions. I will start by reviewing articles that were published...
How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?
Work is frequently interrupted. What is known about how interruptions affect productivity? This important question has been studied using a variety of research methods, from controlled experiments...
Managing Digital Distractions
Our daily activities are constantly punctuated by interruptions and maintaining focus can be challenging. In this talk, I’ll discuss the results of our research aimed at understanding how...
Media Multitasking in the New Digital Age
On-demand video services, such as Netflix and Amazon Video, have become extremely popular. The advent of these video services has transformed how people access content, from the devices...
Research Methods for HCI
The talk will introduce quantitative and qualitative methods used in HCI research. I shall discuss how these research approaches are used to understand people and interactional contexts. Practical...

Margaret Burnett – Corvallis, OR, United States

Gender-Inclusive Software and Beyond
How can software industry professionals (e.g., developers, UI/UX professionals, product managers) assess whether their software supports diverse users? And if they find problems, how can they fix...

Zehong (Jimmy) Cao – Adelaide, SA, Australia

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Human Intervention Applications
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) considers the problem of machine agent learning to make decisions by trial and error and make decisions to maximise rewards by continuously interacting with the...

Luigina Ciolfi – Cork, Ireland

Making it Work: Managing Digitally-Entangled Worklives
Digital technologies have long enabled people to work outside of institutional offices, including at home and in “informal” spaces such as hotels, airports, etc. The Covid-19...
Tangible and embodied experiences of cultural heritage technologies
The importance of physical and tangible qualities in museum visits has been established by extensive literature exploring the importance of materiality and multisensory experiences of heritage....
Users, Participants, Co-Designers or just Pesky Humans? On the challenges of human centred research in Human Computer Interaction
A main aspiration of Human Computer Interaction is to be human- and user-centred in its approach to creating novel digital interactions. But how do we engage, involve and encourage end users? This...

Gilbert Cockton – Sunderland, United Kingdom

Being a Human-Focused Team Player in a Competitive Creative Industry
Many countries classify software as a creative industry. Creatively educated designers have become ever more common in software development over the last decade and a half, and are often...
What I Discovered in a Design School That Many in Computing Don't Know -- and Some May Not Accept
I have taught Interaction Design for almost four decades at bachelors, masters, and doctorate level, with courses to practitioners and professionals, mostly in computing contexts. I began...

Josiah Dykstra – Severn, MD, United States

Stress and Hacking: Understanding Cognitive Stress in Tactical Cyber Operations
Hacking is a high-risk, high-reward, with a high-cost to human capital. This talk will discuss effects of human factors in cyber operations and why practitioners should care about them....

Xiangmin Fan – Beijing, China

Expanding the Interaction Bandwidth between Human and Machine
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is essentially about the two-way communication between humans and computers. However, it is challenging to keep the information flow balanced between such...
Scalable Teaching and Learning via Intelligent User Interfaces
The increasing demand for higher education and the educational budget cuts lead to large class sizes. Learning at scale is also the norm in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). While it...

Ujwal Gadiraju – Delft, Netherlands

Conversational Interfaces for Health, Search, and Crowd Computing
Conversational interfaces have been argued to have advantages over traditional GUIs due to having a more human-like interaction. The rise in popularity of conversational agents has enabled humans...

Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez – Tempe, AZ, United States

Affective Computing: A Roadmap Through Approaches, Technologies, and Data Analysis
Affect is inextricably related to human cognitive processes and expresses a great deal about human necessities; affect signals what matters to us and what we care about. Furthermore, affect...

Nitesh Goyal – Stamford, CT, United States

?You have to prove the threat is real?: Understanding the needs of Female Journalists and Activists
Online harassment is a major societal challenge that impacts multiple communities. Some members of the community, like female journalists and activists, bear significantly higher impacts since...
Effects of Sensemaking Translucence on Distributed Collaborative Analysis
Collaborative sensemaking requires that analysts share their information and insights with each other, but this process of sharing runs the risks of prematurely focusing the investigation on...
Intelligent Interruption Management using Electro Dermal Activity based Physiological Sensor for Collaborative Sensemaking
Sensemaking tasks are difficult to accomplish with limited time and attentional resources because analysts are faced with a constant stream of new information. While this information is often...
Leveraging AI Responsibly in Sensemaking for Successful Human AI Workflows
My research vision is to enable expert and non-experts to successfully make sense of complex world problems. As a Human-Computer Interaction researcher, I iteratively focus on studying how...
RAMPARTS: Supporting Sensemaking with Spatially-Aware Mobile Interactions
Synchronous colocated collaborative sensemaking requires that analysts share their information and insights with each other. The challenge is to know when is the right time to share what...

Juan Pablo Hourcade – Iowa City, IA, United States

Giving Out Superpowers: A Discussion of Ethics, Cognitive Processes, and the Future of Interactive Technology
The use of interactive technologies is changing the way our cognitive processes work: from perception to memory, attention, learning, problem solving, communication, and metacognition. In...
Universal Interactions for Children
Computer literacy and access are increasingly critical to satisfy basic needs and rights (e.g., education, participation in a democracy, transportation, purchases). This means computer software...

Jim Jansen – Doha, Qatar

Understanding Real Users Using Imaginary People
Personas are imaginary people that represent real users. Creating personas by processing complex online behavioral and demographic data is an on-going research and commercialization project. Using...

Joaquim A Jorge – Lisboa, Portugal

Game Over? New Approaches to Teaching Engineering Courses
Gamification has been explored recently as a way to promote content delivery in education, yielding promising results. However, little is known regarding how it helps different students...

Antonio Lieto – Turin, Italy

Cognitive Biases for the Design of Persuasive Technologies: Uses, Abuses and Ethical Concerns
In the last decades Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has started to focus attention on “persuasive technologies” having the goal of changing users’ behavior and attitudes...

Andrés Lucero – Helsinki, Finland

Co-Designed, Collocated & Playful Interactions
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets were originally conceived and have traditionally been utilized for individual use. Early research on mobile collocated interactions often encouraged...
Creating Delightful User Experiences
Playfulness is a mindset whereby people approach everyday activities with a frivolous, purposeless, and frisky attitude—as something not serious, with neither a clear goal nor real-world...
First-Person HCI Research Methods
Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design, there has been a growing desire to more deeply understand the use of technology within real, everyday settings. The...
Latin American Human-Computer Interaction
There is a rich and lively Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research community in Latin America. However, due to financial, geographic, language, and publication strategy reasons among others, HCI...

Zhihan Lv – Qingdao, China

Towards Virtual Reality
Virtual reality technology is a computer simulation system that can create and experience a virtual world. It uses a computer to generate a simulation environment that immerses users into the...

John McCarthy – Cork, Ireland

Digital publics and counter-publics: varieties of community participation online
The idea of publics is gaining traction in HCI as a construct for framing design of and understanding media engagement. This talk presents a critical enquiry into the emergence, values, and...
The politics and aesthetics of participation in HCI
In one form or another, participation is deep in the DNA or culture of HCI, from the very earliest pragmatic commitments to have computer users involved (even indirectly) in the design of...
Thinking about sensible technologies for people with dementia
Much technology design and development for people living with the diagnosis of dementia is remedial and focuses on providing assistance in areas that are perceived to be cognitive deficits....

Weizhi Meng – Copenhagen, Denmark

Securing Smart Devices with Behavioral User Authentication
Smartphones have become a widely available device to assist users, i.e., storing their personal data and working as a social connection with peers. Thus, smartphones are often being an...

Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara – Auckland, New Zealand

Design Innovations: Thinking Outside the ?Computer? Box
Technology has reached a critical point compared to the generations before. Machines now possess new skills (Speaking, Hearing, Seeing, Understanding and answering) creating direct threats to the...
New Frontiers of Assistive Augmentations
The overarching topic of this lecture is centred on the design and development of novel human computer interfaces that seamlessly integrate with a user’s mind, body and behaviour, providing...
Project Kiwrious: Activating Curious and Fearless Problem Solvers
Project Kiwrious (a wordplay on Curious) aims to democratize and empower science education for young New Zealand students, primarily in low socio-economic schools. Kiwrios low cost plug and play...

Peter Robinson – Cambridge, United Kingdom

Computation of emotions
The importance of emotional expression as part of human communication has been understood since the seventeenth century, and has been explored scientifically since Charles Darwin and others...
Driving the future
Road transport is changing. Drivers will see more changes in the next five years than they have seen in the last 100. How can we make these changes easier? How...

Eunice R Sari – Perth, Australia

Agile Usability Testing
Usability is a critical part of a product design and development process. This process should be done iteratively without blocking the existing process. The art of doing practical usability in the...
Customer Journey Mapping
Customer Journey Mapping is a hands-on workshop to get the opportunity to develop your capabilities in customer journey mapping capabilities. The customer journey is the complete sum of...
Design Sprint for Digital Transformation
Organizations are getting good in designing and building beautiful products. In many product development process, great forms and functionalities are often considered as the main factors...
Google Material Design
In this talk, you will learn Google Material Design as a Design System, how to use it to design an awesome experience in a digital products and services. By the end of the talk, you will be...
Introduction to UX Research
UX Research determines the success and failure of the product and service we design and develop. The value of UX Research is influenced by the planning, execution, analysis and...
Lean UX in Digital Transformation
In the Digital Transformation Era, products and services evolve so quickly. The tendency to move fast without considering the target users is imminent. In this hands-on workshop, we will learn...
Measuring UX
Measuring UX is a training to develop the ability to measure UX’s success in achieving business goals.

In this workshop, you will learn how to...
UX Writing
Being able to communicate well to users, internal and external stakeholders is critical to ensure the success of a UX project. This talk will give an overview on how to craft human-centred writing...

Corina Sas – Lancaster, United Kingdom

Ethical design for wellbeing and affective health
Emotional wellbeing and mental health are topics of much social significance, which are also reflected in the growing HCI work aimed to support them. Research in this area covers a broad space...
Reflecting on the value of food for Human-Food Interaction research
Through its rich sensory and emotional qualities, food is an excellent resource for design. Most human-food interaction research however has focused on designing around food, for instance through...
Sensitive design for supporting emotional memories in old age
Much research on aging technologies has focused on diagnosis or reminiscing technologies targeting episodic memories more broadly. While emotions are often weaved in these memories, their value...
Technologies for attention regulation and mindfulness practices
The last decade has witnessed a significant growth of HCI interest in mindfulness technologies, with a focus on audio-visual interfaces for guided or interactive mindfulness support, particularly...

Carol J Smith – Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Being Actively Ethical: Dynamic HCI for AI
Artificially intelligent (AI) technologies are exciting and with them come new and intimidating responsibilities. How do we understand and clarify our users’ needs for transparency,...
Gearing up for Ethnography
Prepping for research can be intimidating, and there will never be enough time or resources. Carol will share her personal experiences in the field, both good and bad. She has learned the...
Techniques for Integrating HCI into Agile Efforts
Even experienced HCI practitioners struggle with balancing research and evaluation methods that inform good design, while supporting continuous releases in a fast-paced environment. Carol...

Anthony Steed – London, United Kingdom

Interaction Everywhere
There is now a plethora of ways of interacting with computers. Computers are now wearable, immersive, ubiquitous and mobile. In this talk, I will draw out some interesting parallels between quite...
The Limits of Virtual Reality
Today's virtual reality systems provide audio and visual stimuli to users and can read some of the user's motions and speech. We are a long way from fully immersing a user in a...
Where is the Interface in Virtual Reality?
Now that virtual reality (VR) has moved from the laboratory to the consumer market, it is time to reflect on the unique properties of VR as a form of human-computer interface. Almost everyone who...

Shriram K Vasudevan – Coimbatore, India

Augmented and Virtual Reality ? The Game Changer (Human Computer Interaction)
The way augmented and virtual reality have been growing is tremendous and has made many impossible things look simple. The lecture shall discuss in detail the transition of VR to AR, AR headsets...

Dakuo Wang – Cambridge, MA, United States

A New Paradigm of Human-Computer Interaction: Human-AI Collaboration
We are witnessing an emerging new paradigm of how people interact with computer systems. A few examples include computers we ate into our stomachs, artificial limbs controlled by electrical...
Computer-Supported Collaborations In Practice: Two Case Studies of Collaborative Editing and Human-AI Collaboration
Collaboration is an essential activity in all kinds of work, and it is not easy. That is why Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers from both academia (e.g., CMU, Stanford, UMichigan,...
Introduction to Computer Supported Cooperated Work (CSCW) and Human-AI-Collaboration
Collaboration is an essential activity in all kinds of work, and it is not easy. That is why Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers from both academia (e.g., CMU, Stanford, UMichigan,...

Ingmar G Weber – Doha, Qatar

A Digital Socioscope
How can Twitter data be used to study individual-level human behavior and social interaction on a global scale? This talk introduces the audience to the methods, opportunities, and...
Digital Demography
Demography is the science of human populations and, at its most basic, focuses on the processes of (i) fertility, (ii) mortality and (iii) migration. Knowing basic population characteristics if of...
Using Social Media for Health Studies
Given that users share all kinds of minutiae on social media, can this noisy, crowd-sourced data be used for health studies? This talk presents a number of recent examples that show the...

Tariq Zaman – Sibu,, Malaysia

Reducing ?white elephant? ICT4D projects: A Community- Researcher Engagement
Participation is a key requirement to ensure that ICT4D and HCI4D projects succeed. Specifically, the relationship between the research and community is necessary for any ICT4D project; without...
Signs, Material and Technology: A Design Journey in the Forests of Malaysian Borneo
In this presentation, Tariq Zaman will share his experiences and insights of co-designing mobile technologies with indigenous communities for digitization and preservation of indigenous knowledge...
Transcultural Approach to Cultural Engagements in Community Technology Design
Community technology design has been deeply affected by paradigm shifts and dominant discourses of its seminal disciplines, such as Human Computer Interaction, Cultural and Design theories, and...