Luddy Indianapolis was well-represented at the world’s leading human-computer interaction academic conference this spring, with a faculty member presenting a daylong symposium, and one paper receiving an honorable mention.
CHI 2023 – the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – was held April 23-28 in Hamburg, Germany. Participants from IU’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis who attended in-person included students Adina Friedman, Yukta Karkera, and Hawra Rabaan, who presented papers, and Andrew D. Miller (left), Ph.D., incoming department chair of the School’s Human-Centered Computing Department.
CHI is considered the most prestigious series of academic conferences in the human-computer interaction (HCI) field.
Symposium
Miller, an associate professor, co-organized a daylong mini conference, “Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare” (WISH), at CHI 2023.
“The WISH symposium is the premier international meeting place for researchers in human-centered design,” Miller says, “and has been running at major conferences in HCI and health informatics for over a decade.”
“This year’s symposium was the first in-person WISH since 2019, and was attended by over 100 attendees from HCI, medicine, and industry.”
Miller co-organized the symposium with colleagues Daniel A. Epstein from the University of California and Aisling Ann O’Kane from the University of Bristol (U.K.)
During WISH there were more than 70 accepted presentations, “some presented orally and the rest in two very robust poster sessions,” Miller says. There also were three interactive panels.
“Many attendees said the WISH symposium was the highlight of the conference for them,” he added.
Accepted papers
More than 4,500 researchers and practitioners from almost 80 countries attended CHI 2023. Out of over 3,100 papers submitted, just under 900 were accepted for publication and presentation at the conference. Luddy Indianapolis students and faculty presented four accepted papers at the conference, including one which was awarded an honorable mention.
Honorable mention
A paper co-authored by Ratanond Koonchanok, a research and teaching assistant who is earning his doctorate in data science at Luddy Indianapolis, earned an honorable mention (top 5% of papers) at the academic conference. Co-author Khairi Reda, Ph.D., an associate professor of data science and human-computer interaction at Luddy Indianapolis, did a virtual presentation of the paper, “Visual Belief Elicitation Reduces the Incidence of False Discovery.”
Other co-authors include Gauri Yatindra Tawde, Gokul Ragunandhan Narayanasamy, and Shalmali Walimbe.
“We’re very excited to share this work with the community, which aims to broadly improve the reliability of interactive data science tools and the results that can be generated from these systems,” says Reda, director of the Data Science Graduate Program at Luddy Indianapolis.
The paper was published in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23).
Additional papers
Building Community Capacity: Exploring Voice Assistants to Support Older Adults in an Independent Living Community, 2023 (full paper). Co-authors Yukta Karkera (right, who presented the paper) and Sowmya Chandra are earning their master’s degrees in human-computer interaction from Luddy Indianapolis. Karkera has previously worked with Toyota Mobility Foundation and Philips to design products for underserved communities, and Chandra has worked as a user experience designer at Johnson Controls. Their co-authors were Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Ph.D., assistant professor of human-computer interaction at Luddy Indianapolis; and Barsa Tandukar.
Survivor-Centered Transformative Justice: An Approach to Designing Alongside Domestic Violence Stakeholders in US Muslim Communities, 2023 (full paper). Co-author Hawra Rabaan (left), who presented the paper, is a research assistant at Luddy Indianapolis, where she’s earning her Ph.D. in HCI. Co-author Lynn Dombrowski, Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of the human-computer interaction program at Luddy Indianapolis.
“From Thoughts to Interaction: Designing Controls for Video Playback Gestures with Embodied Schemata,” 2023 (work in progress / peer reviewed short paper). Co-author Adina Friedman (right), who presented the paper, is a research assistant earning her Ph.D. in HCI at Luddy Indianapolis Co-author. Francesco Cafaro, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of human-computer interaction at the school.
Photos by Andrew Miller
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