St Andrews HCI Research Group

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May 2017

SACHI @ #CHI2017 in Denver


CHI 2017Members of SACHI will be at the upcoming CHI’17 conference.
If you are looking to meet members of SACHI to discuss collaborations or research visits you can find us here. Likewise, if you are a company attending CHI and you wish to discuss working with us please get in touch. You can find us helping and involved throughout CHI 2017 with the presentation of 5 papers including 2 full papers, 1 late breaking work paper, 2 workshop papers and other activities.

Find an overview of the SACHI research that is being presented in form of papers or other below.

Full Papers

Bottom-up vs. Top-down: Trade-offs in Efficiency, Understanding, Freedom and Creativity with InfoVis Tools

Gonzalo Gabriel Méndez, Uta Hinrichs, and Miguel A. Nacenta

In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 841-852.

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DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025942

Monday, May 08; 14:30 – 15:50
Understanding Data Visualisation: Room Four Seasons 4

Project Page | PDF | Local PDF

Investigating Tilt-based Gesture Keyboard Entry for Single-Handed Text Entry on Large Devices

Hui-Shyong Yeo, Xiao-Shen Phang, Steven J. Castellucci, Per Ola Kristensson, and Aaron Quigley

In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4194-4202.

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DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025520

Wednesday, May 10; 11:30 – 12:50
Innovative Text Entry Systems: Room 205

Project Page |PDF

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Late Breaking Work

TiTAN: Exploring Midair Text Entry using Freehand Input

Hui-Shyong Yeo, Xiao-Shen Phang, Taejin Ha, Woontack Woo and Aaron Quigley

In CHI EA ’17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 3041-3049

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Workshop Papers/Presentations

Data Craft: Integrating Data into Daily Practices and Shared Reflections

Alice Thudt, Uta Hinrichs and Sheelagh Carpendale

Saturday, May 7
Workshop: Quantified Data & Social Relationships | PDF

Could Keyboard Background Images Affect Performance, Cognitive Load or Engagement?

Hui-Shyong Yeo, Per Ola Kristensson, and Aaron Quigley

Saturday, May 7
Workshop: Workshop on Ubiquitous Text Interaction | PDF

Chairing

  • Thursday: Miguel is chairing the session on Data Extraction, in room 103/105 from 14.30 – 15.50
  • Thursday: Aaron is chairing the session on Mobile & Tools, in room 302 from 9.30 – 10.50.

Symposia

CHI 2017 is offering a series of special symposia for topics pertinent to HCI communities and as ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences, Aaron will be attending a number of these symposia, including:

  • Saturday May 6th (9-11am): HCI Across Borders, Room 303
  • Sunday May 7th (9.45am – 11.30am): Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection, Room 302
  • Sunday May 7th (4-5pm): Presentation at 2nd Career Development Symposium for Recent PHDs, Room 304

Workshops and SIGCHI events

The SIGCHI Executive Committee is organising a series of events at CHI for the HCI community at large and as ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences, Aaron will be presenting at a number of these events, including:

  • Sunday May 7th: SIGCHI Chapters Workshop on Sunday May 7th (invitation only)
  • Monday: SIGCHI Video Lunch in room 205 on Monday from 12.50 (open to all)
  • Wednesday: SIGCHI Town Hall in room 207 from 12.50 (open to all)
  • Wednesday: Becoming a SIGCHI volunteer in Room 106 from 2.30