Research Papers

Electronic versions of all the papers are on Blackboard.

Papers in bold are required reading and you must take and hand-in notes on them and hand them in at class. Not all papers that are required have formal presentations but they will be discussed in class.

Ethnography (Week 3)

• Unruh et al., Transforming Clinic Environments into Information Workspaces for Patients, CHI 2010
• Hinman and Matovu, Opportunities and Challenges for Mobile-based Financial Services in Rural Uganda, CHI 2010
• Swan and Taylor, Notes on Fridge Surfaces, CHI 2005
• Odom,  Zimmerman and Forlizzi, Teenagers and Their Virtual Possessions:  Design Opportunities and Issues, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Nanda Kishore Bhat)

Health interfaces #1; Older Adults (Week 4)

• Choe et al., Opportunities for Computing Technologies to Support Healthy Sleep Behaviors, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Ghanshyam Bhatt)
• Purpura et al., Fit4Life: The Design of a Persuasive Technology Promoting Healthy Behavior and Ideal Weight, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Xueming Wu
• Keyani et al., DanceAlong: Supporting Positive Social Exchange and Exercise for the Elderly Through Dance, CHI 2005 (Presenter: Milesh Nima)
• Chu Yew Yee et al., Investigating Narrative in Mobile Games for Seniors, CHI 2010
• Optional:
  • Piper, Campbell, Hollan, Exploring the Accessibility and Appeal of Surface Computing for Older Adult Health Care Support, CHI 2010
  • Bickmore, Caruso, Clough-Gorr, Acceptance and Usability of a Relational Agent Interface by Urban Older Adults, CHI 2005

Interface Design Tools & Toolkits (Week 5)

• Chang, Yeh, and Miller, GUI Testing Using Computer Vision, CHI 2010 (Presenter: Fnu Kiranjit Singh)
• Li, Hong, and Landay, Topiary: A Tool for Prototyping Location-Enhanced Applications, UIST 2004 (Presenter: Lei Wang)
• Kumar et al., Bricolage: Example-Based Retargeting for Web Design, CHI 2011
• Ashbrook and Starner, MAGIC: A Motion Gesture Design Tool, CHI 2010
• Optional:
  • MacIntyre et al., DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences, SIGGRAPH 2005
  • Landay and Meyers, Sketching Interfaces: Toward More Human Interface Design, IEEE Computer 2001

Design Skills (Week 6)

• Dow et al, Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy, TOCHI 2010 (Presenter: Subhajit Mukherjee)
• Davidoff et al., Rapidly Exploring Application Design through Speed Dating, UbiComp 2007 (Presenter: Akshay Ajit Sane)
• Brandt, Designing Exploratory Design Games: A Framework for Participation in Participatory Design?, Participatory Design Conference 2006
• Tohidi et al., User Sketches: A Quick, Inexpensive, and Effective way to Elicit More Reflective User Feedback, NordCHI 2006

Health interfaces #2 (Week 7)

• Lee, Kiesler, and Forlizzi, Mining Behavioral Economics to Design Persuasive Technology for Healthy Choices, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Nima Attaran Rezaei)
• Iqbal et all, Hang on a Sec! Effects of Proactive Mediation of Phone Conversations While Driving, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Pulkit Misra)
• Lee and Dey, Reflecting on Pills and Phone Use: Supporting Awareness of Functional Abilities for Older Adults, CHI 2011
• Maitland and Chalmers, Designing for Peer Involvement in Weight Management, CHI 2011
• Optional:
  • O’Brian and Mueller, Jogging at a Distance, CHI 2007
  • Lee at al., PmEB: A Mobile Phone Application for Monitoring Caloric Balance, CHI 2006
  • Shinohara and Wobbrock, In the Shadow of Misperception: Assistive Technology Use and Social Interactions, CHI 2011
  • Klasnja, Consolvo, and Pratt, How to Evaluate Technologies for Health Behavior Change in HCI Research, CHI 2011
  • Wilcox et al, Characterizing Patient-Friendly “Micro-Explanations” of Medical Events, CHI 2011
  • Kaptein, Duplinsky, and Markopoulos, Means Based Adaptive Persuasive Systems, CHI 2011

Graphic Design; Tangible interfaces; Games (Week 8)

• Harrison et al., Kineticons: Using Iconographic Motion in Graphical User Interface Design, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Serkan Okur)
• Badshah et al., Interactive Generator: A Self-Powered  Haptic Feedback Device, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Chen Chu)
• Andersen et al., Placing a Value on Aesthetics in Online Casual Games, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Utsav Shah)
• Linehan et al., Practical, Appropriate, Empirically-Validated Guidelines for Designing Educational Games, CHI 2011
• Optional:
  • Piper, Ratti, and Ishii, Illuminating Clay: A 3-D Tangible Interface for Landscape Analysis, CHI 2002
  • Duggan and Payne, Skim Reading by Satisficing: Evidence from Eye Tracking, CHI 2011
  • Levesque et al., Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction, CHI 2011
  • Casiez et al., Surfpad: Riding Towards Targets on a Squeeze Film Effect, CHI 2011
  • Tuddenham, Kirk, and Izadi, Graspables Revisited: Multi-Touch vs. Tangible Input for Tabletop Displays in Acquisition and Manipulation Tasks, CHI 2010
  • Lee et al., HandSCAPE: A Vectorizing Tape Measure for On-Site Measuring Applications, CHI 2000

Mobile (Week 9)

• Mistry, Maes, and Chang, WUW - Wear Ur World - A Wearable Gestural Interface, CHI 2009 (Presenter: Ashish Jacob)
• Findlater, Wobbrock, and Wigdor, Typing on Flat Glass: Examining Ten-Finger Expert Typing Patterns on Touch Surfaces, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Ankur Verma)
• Williamson, Murray-Smith, and Hughes, Shoogle: Excitatory Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices, CHI 2007
• Hinckley and Song, Sensor Synaesthesia: Touch in Motion, and Motion in Touch, CHI 2011
• Optional:
  • Patrick, Griswold, Raab, Intillle, Health and the Mobile Phone, AJPM 2008

Anthropomorphic interfaces; Speech Interfaces (Week 10)

• Bickmore, Pfeifer, and Jack, Taking the Time to Care: Empowering Low Health Literacy Hospital Patients with Virtual Nurse Agents, CHI 2009 (Presenter: Yiyun Ma)
• Patel et al., Avaaj Otalo — A Field Study of an Interactive Voice Forum for Small Farmers in Rural India, CHI 2010 (Presenter: Tanmay Pai)
• Vertanen and MacKay, Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and Gaze, CHI 2010
• Dahlback et al., Similarity is More Important than Expertise: Accent Effects in Speech Interfaces, CHI 2007

CSCW (Week 11)

• Kirman et al., Improving Social Game Engagement on Facebook through Enhanced Socio-Contextual Information, CHI 2010 (Presenter: Aida Ehyaei)
• Mamykina et al., Design Lessons from the Fastest Q&A Site in the West, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Ajit Chakrapani)
• Komanduri et al., Of Passwords and People: Measuring the Effect of Password-Composition Policies, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Dana Lopes)
• Bernstein et al., Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside, UIST 2010
• Optional:
  • DiMicco, Pandolfo, and Bender, Influencing Group Participation with a Shared Display, CSCW 2004
  • Erickson et al., Synchronous Interaction Among Hundreds: An Evaluation of a Conference in an Avatar-based Virtual Environment, CHI 2011
  • White, Richardson, and Liu, Effects of Community Size and Contact Rate in Synchronous Social Q&A, CHI 2011

Affective interfaces; Ubicomp (Week 12)

• Diakopoulos and Shamma, Characterizing Debate Performance via Aggregated Twitter Sentiment, CHI 2010 (Presenter: Anurag Agarwal)
• Nacke et al., Biofeedback Game Design: Using Direct and Indirect Physiological Control to Enhance Game Interaction, CHI 2011 (Presenter: Quazi Farhan)
• Puri et al., StressCam: Non-contact Measurement of Users’ Emotional States through Thermal Imaging, CHI 2005
• Cohn et al., Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna, CHI 2011
• Optional:
  • Sundstrom, Stahl, and Hook, eMoto – Affectively Involving both Body and Mind, CHI 2005
  • Nancel  et al., Mid-air Pan-and-Zoom on Wall-sized Displays, CHI 2011

Miscellaneous (Optional)

• Chetty et al., Why is My Internet Slow?: Making Network Speeds Visible, CHI 2011
• Huang, White, and Dumais, No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search, CHI 2011
• Kane, Wobbrock, and Ladner, Usable Gestures for Blind People: Understanding Preference and Performance, CHI 2011