May + June 2023 | ACM Interactions

VOLUME XXX.3 May + June 2023

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WELCOME
- Undoing Data Worlds
  
  Alex Taylor, Daniela Rosner, Mikael Wiberg, Elizabeth Churchill
  
  Many readers will have been exposed to, if not directly involved in, the now pervasive worlds of data. As practitioners and researchers designing and understanding the proliferation of technology, it's become impossible to ignore the unerring charge toward data worlds—these worlds enumerate bodies and experiences and extract data of…
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What are you reading?
- What Are You Reading? Srravya Chandhiramowuli
  
  Srravya Chandhiramowuli
  
  Undoing is an ambitious project, perhaps one that is always evolving, with myriad possibilities and no definitive end. In this piece, I try to find little entry points into this project by turning to a few books, both old and new, that have stayed with me recently and through…
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Blog@IX
- OpenSpeaks before AI: Frameworks for Creating the AI/ML Building Blocks for Low-Resource Languages
  
  Subhashish Panigrahi
  
  There has been a tremendous push on many levels to make artificial intelligence—and machine learning—based applications ubiquitous. Soon, the life decisions of almost every digital technology user will be affected by some form of algorithmic decision making. However, the development of large language models (LLMs) that drive this research…
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Exhibit X
- Islamic Geometry-Based Moon-Period Calendar and Interaction Design
  
  Anuradha Reddy
  
  Shocked by the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, people who menstruate worldwide were advised to back up, delete, and hide their period data from mobile apps, doctors, and partners—data that could incriminate people for exercising privacy around fetal viability and their right to…
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Columns
- But I’m Not Paranoid!
  
  Gopinaath Kannabiran
  
  There was no place for him to go. No place he could hide. No place where his enemy didn't exist. No escape from unconscious wakefulness. There was no rest. And so he just lay there with the nauseous pain of exhaustion…. Yet it was this constant and all-pervading pain…
- Throwing Spaghetti against the Wall: Why Technology Leaders Need to Invest More in HCI and UX
  
  Elizabeth F. Churchill
  
  At the time of writing this column, the world of search and information seeking is in a furor about OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Microsoft's adoption of its capabilities to "disrupt" the paradigm of online search as we know it. Google's response was to announce the release of Bard, which has…
- Using Graphical Perception in Visualization Recommendation
  
  Zehua Zeng, Leilani Battle
  
  As data continues to grow at unprecedented rates, we encounter unique challenges in helping analysts make sense of it. A prime example involves visualizing the data, where an analyst may have to reduce thousands of data columns and billions of data records to a single visualization. This often involves…
- Diamonds of Sadness: A Story of High-Tech Greed, Power, and Hypocrisy
  
  Daria Loi
  
  This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind. — Greta Thunberg In Triangle of Sadness, director Ruben Östlund points the finger at what increasingly seems to fuel our society: greed, power, and hypocrisy. After seeing the movie, it's…
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Making/breaking
- Designing Data Physicalization Artifacts
  
  Marijel Melo
  
  As opposed to 2D-rendered data representations that are solely visual, data physicalizations are 3D representations of datasets that can be touched, heard, and even smelled. The ethos of 2D data visualizations is touted in the simplicity of their portrayal: clean lines, minimal images, muted colors, and an aura of…
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Forums
- Data Practices and Data Stewardship
  
  Janis Wong
  
  Data protection laws and technologies limit the vast personal data collection, processing, and sharing in our digital society. These tools, however, may lack support for protecting individual autonomy over personal data, given the limited recourse individuals have when going up against large, multinational companies. Additionally, existing data stewardship solutions…
- Intersectional Computing—-Where It All Began: A Sankofa Story (Part 1)
  
  Jakita O. Thomas
  
  Go back to the past in order to build for the future. — Sankofa My journey toward intersectional computing began in 2015, when I took my daughter, Vivian, to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) in Houston. Vivian is an artist-scientist (as all three of my…
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Community square
- With HCI and Friends: Nurturing the Interstices of HCI
  
  Neha Kumar
  
  The SIGCHI-sponsored HCI and Friends Symposium that took place December 9–11, 2022, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay campus in Mumbai, India, was the outcome of a few different plans that had been in the making over the past three to four years [1]. When "Expanding the Horizons…
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Space
- Stratum: Selfhood in the Digital World
  
  Chari Glogovac-Smith
  
  Stratum is an intermedia movement-based performance work that explores selfhood and the human condition in a post-human digital society. Using video projections, immersive sound, 3D animation, and green screen technology, Stratum invokes the dynamics between presence and being present, between here and somewhere, and between self and selfhood. The…
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Features
- What’s Missing in the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
  
  Aaditeshwar Seth
  
  Two questions that are often encountered when evaluating the ethics of a technology project are Who is your product or service meant to benefit? and Is somebody being harmed by your product or service? Insights → The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct largely focuses on an…
- From Immersive Experiences to the Metaverse: How Can We Engage More Users?
  
  Jie Li
  
  I recently had a fascinating museum visit with my 6-year-old daughter, traveling through a giant "human body" at the Corpus Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. The one-hour trip started at the knee and went all the way up. We witnessed how platelets helped heal a bleeding wound and how…
- What Are You Not Reading? Critical Race Theory for HCI
  
  Muhammad Adamu
  
  Last year, after reading Katta Spiel's discussion of the political nature of one's reading and writing [1], I began pondering the sort of scholarly work shaping my thought beyond my current project interests. Since then, I have considered making the personal political by reflecting on some of the implications…
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Dialogues
- Beyond the Binary—Queering AI for an Inclusive Future
  
  Evelina Liliequist, Andrea Aler Tubella, Karin Danielsson, Coppélie Cocq
  
  Nowadays it is somewhat outdated, perhaps even naive, to talk about artificial intelligence as something set in the future. AI systems are already integrated into everyday human life, although they're not the sci-fi-inspired robots some imagine as AI. In fact, there are AI systems that operate much closer to…
- Seeing Like a Dataset: Notes on AI Photography
  
  Eryk Salvaggio
  
  The camera began to train photographers in 1816. Photography developed a set of rules, and a photographer may follow those rules when scouring the landscape for images, or else work with the camera to produce new ways of recording the world. Through repetition, the practices become instincts or habits.…
- Data-ing and Un-Data-ing
  
  Angelika Strohmayer, Michael Muller
  
  Below is the outcome of a meandering conversation we had over a video call. We covered many different topics from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. After recording our chat, we tried to edit it into a more structured conversation for this piece, but we also wanted to keep…
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Calendar
- Calendar
  
  INTR Staff
  
  May EuroSys '23: 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (Rome, Italy) May 8–12, 2023 http://2023.eurosys.org/ ETRA '23: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (Tübingen, Germany, and hybrid) May 30–June 2, 2023 https://etra.acm.org/2023/ GI '23: Graphics Interface 2023 (Victoria, BC, Canada) May 30–June 2, 2023 https://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/ NIME '23:…
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Exit
- Sunset on the American Dream 2
  
  Eugenia Cheng
  
  Contributor: Eugenia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Curator/Editor: Nia Easley In this large-scale wall drawing, artist and mathematician Eugenia Cheng applies mathematical thinking to depict different strands of being in the U.S. over the course of its history. Beginning at the bottom with five ways of…
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