Blogs
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Drawn together – the role of sketching in product design
Jess Phoa Posted: Wed, December 11, 2019 - 3:28:51
I’ve always loved expressing myself through visual means for as long as I can remember: When I was a kid, I created art with reckless abandon. I didn’t care what…
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Sitting with Hakken
Gopinaath Kannabiran Posted: Tue, December 03, 2019 - 2:02:38
The last time I met David Hakken was at his office. We both knew it would be the last time we would meet. He was very calm. It felt very…
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Reflections on mental health assessment and ethics for machine learning applications
Anja Thieme, Danielle Belgrave, Akane Sano, Gavin Doherty Posted: Fri, November 01, 2019 - 11:33:18
As part of the ACII 2019 conference in Cambridge (U.K.), we ran a workshop on “Machine Learning for Affective Disorders” (ML4AD). The workshop was well attended and had an extensive…
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Synthesizing family perspectives on health: Using fun activities to stimulate health conversations
Jomara Sandbulte , Jordan Beck, Janice Whitaker, John Carroll Posted: Mon, October 07, 2019 - 3:02:05
Many families have difficulty carrying out healthy behavior practices in their household. Since conversations about health and well-being are infrequent within families, it becomes more challenging to cultivate those practices…
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Finsterworlds: Bringing light into technological forests through user empowerment
Johannes Schöning Posted: Tue, August 13, 2019 - 2:12:03
I am really fascinated by novel technology. This had already started in kindergarten, but when I studied computer science I read Mark Weiser’s seminal paper “The Computer for the 21st…
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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures: An interview with Ben Shneiderman
Jessica Hullman Posted: Mon, August 05, 2019 - 3:10:09
Few people in visualization research have had careers as long and as impactful as Ben Shneiderman. I caught up with Ben over email in between his travels to get his…
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Creativity limited by technology: Lessons from the past for virtual reality as a re-trending topic
Oguzhan Ozcan Posted: Thu, August 01, 2019 - 2:07:25
I wrote this blog to remind young researchers who are surrounded by technology trends that, in the future, these technologies will change their form or may no longer even be…
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CHI-ldren: Two kids’ impressions from CHI 2019
Julianna Kun, Nicholas Kun Posted: Tue, June 04, 2019 - 1:55:36
Hello! Our names are Julianna and Nicholas Kun. We went to CHI 2019 with our dad. We are 11 and 8 years old and would like to present to you…
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Reflections on the first ACM SIGCHI-Sponsored Summer School in Saudi Arabia
Shiroq Al-Megren, Ragad Allwihan, Khalid Majrashi, Naelah Alageel, Areej Al-Wabil Posted: Wed, May 29, 2019 - 11:30:14
Between August 27 and August 30, 2018, in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the ACM SIGCHI-Sponsored Summer School on Research Methods took place. The school received ACM sponsorship from the…
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Should curriculum and assessment authors be certified? A response to Rolf Molich
Gilbert Cockton Posted: Mon, May 20, 2019 - 2:31:39
Rolf's blog begins with a question: “Should usability testers be certified?”—answering “Yes” and then, more emphatically, “YES!” I will focus on his closing question: “Is certification worth the effort?” However,…
