CHCI Events
CHCI Community Events
Community engagement is critical to the health of our Center, offering opportunities for faculty and students to discover new research opportunities, build relationships, and learn from one another as well as from colleagues outside the Center. Throughout the academic year, the Center hosts a series of social events, guest speakers, workshops on a variety of topics, lab and studio open houses, and a weekly Hack ‘n Yak.
Leadership: Philart Jeon, Associate Director for Community Engagement
CHCI will host an HCI Speaker Series (one speaker per semester) beginning in Fall 2023. The Center will distribute an open call to CHCI members for speaker nominations at the outset of each semester.
- Speaker: Dr. Ryan McMahan, Department of Computer Science, Deputy Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction
- Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) applications generate rich interaction data, including the motions of the user's head and hands. Machine learning this data presents new opportunities for predicting and augmenting aspects of the user experience (UX). This talk presents several investigations of these opportunities. First, we discuss how machine learning can be used to predict trainee learning outcomes from VR-based training applications. We demonstrate that body motions, particularly velocities, are indicative of learning gains. We then discuss how effectively machine learning can be used to identify VR users and its implications for user privacy and security. Finally, we briefly discuss the need for more datasets in this area and present a tool for capturing data from consumer VR applications like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx.
- Time: 11 AM - 12 PM 9/20 (Friday)
- Location: Gilbert Place 2124
- Hack ‘n’ Yak (with donuts!)
- A good way for students to meet others, chat, hang out and get some work done. Faculty members are welcome to join and interact with students and other faculty while holding office hours, working, and chatting. Informal talks or presentations are held 2:30 - 3 pm.
- Every Friday 2-5 pm
- Location: LLC Building, 185 Kent St (near VT bookstore) Room 104
- CHCI ICAT Playdate: Friday, January 19, 2024
- Speaker: Doug Bowman
- Title: How AR+AI could transform personal computing and why an interdisciplinary approach is critical
- 8:30-9:30 am (talk begins at 9 am)
- LLC Building, Community Assembly, 185 Kent St (near VT bookstore)
- Open House: New DDS Visualization Classroom
- Date/time: Friday, February 23 (2 pm - 3:30 pm)
- Location: Data and Decision Sciences Building, Room 132
- Hosts: Chris North, Jesse Harden
- HCI-AI Speaker Pinar Yanardag Delul and brown bag lunch
- Tuesday, February 27, noon to 1 pm
- Room 3001, Gilbert Place
- CHCI Annual Workshop: Big Ideas in HCI
- March 22, 2024, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Gilbert Place, Room 2124
- Invited Guest Speaker: Gloria Mark
- Friday, April 19, 11 am - 12 pm
- Gilbert Place, Room 2124
- Center wide Meeting
- Friday, April 26, 2024 (2-3 pm)
- Gilbert Place, Room 3001
- CHCI Student Research Symposium
- Friday, April 26, 2024 (3-5 pm)
- Gilbert Place, Room 2124
- CHCI Potluck at the Park
- Friday, May 3, 2024 (5-8 pm)
- Blacksburg Municipal Park (Shelter #9)
- Hack ‘n’ Yak (with donuts!)
- A good way for students to meet others, chat, hang out and get some work done. Faculty members are welcome to join and interact with students and other faculty while holding office hours, working, and chatting. Informal talks or presentations are held 2:30 - 3 pm.
- Every Friday 2-5 pm
- CID LLC , 185 Kent St (Room 104)
- CHCI Kick Off Meeting and Open House
- Friday, September 22
- 3-5 pm
- Gilbert Place (220 Gilbert Street) Room 3001 and lab areas
- ICAT Playdate: Friday, October 13, 2023
- Eugenia Rho and Angela Scarpa-Friedman
- Title: Empathy-Driven Interactive Human-AI System
- 8:30-9:30 am (talk begins at 9 am)
- LLC Building, Community Assembly, 185 Kent St (near VT bookstore)
- ICAT Playdate: Friday, November 3, 2023
- CHCI Affiliates, among others: James Ivory, Sang Won Lee, Zach Duer
- Title: Game Design and Game Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
- 8:30-9:30 am (talk begins at 9 am)
- LLC Building, Community Assembly, 185 Kent St
- Social gathering
- Date and time: Friday, November 3 (5-7 pm)
- Location: Eastern Divide Brewery, Blacksburg
- ICAT Playdate: Friday, November 10
- CHCI Affiliates, among others: Brendan David-John and Bo Ji
- Title: Securing Trustworthy XR Interactions through Human-Machine Networks in Healthcare
- 8:30-9:30 am (talk begins at 9 am)
- LLC Building, Community Assembly, 185 Kent St
- Guest Speaker: Ray Hong
- Date, time: Friday, December 1 (11 am-12 pm)
- Location: Gilbert Place, Room 2124
- Hack ‘n’ Yak (with donuts!)
- A good way for students to meet others, chat, hang out and get some work done. Faculty members are welcome to join and interact with students and other faculty while holding office hours, working, and chatting. Informal talks or presentations are held 2:30 - 3 pm.
- Every Friday 2-5 pm
- CID LLC , 185 Kent St (Room 104)
- VT Gaming and Media Effects Research (G.A.M.E.R) Laboratory Tour:
- Friday, Jan 27, 11am - noon
- Location: Media Building, Room 105
- Tour: Myers-Lawson School of Construction
- Faculty Host: Philip Agee
- Friday, February 10 (1 to 2 pm)
- Bishop-Favrao Hall (Third Floor) 1345 Perry St.
- CHCI One-day Workshop on Big Ideas in HCI
- Friday, March 17
- Location: Squires, Brush Mountain Room A
- 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
- Industry Visit: Oberon Technologies
- Faculty Host: Todd Ogle
- Monday, March 20
- 1100 Torgersen Hall
- 9 am - 2:15 pm
- ICAT Playdate: Friday, March 31, 2023
- Doug Bowman and Sang Won Lee: Big Ideas in HCI
- 8:30-9:30 am (talk begins at 9 am)
- Living-Learning Community, 185 Kent St (Community Assembly)
- Guest Speaker: Cindy Grimm
- Faculty Host: Brendan David-John
- Friday, April 7, 10:30 am - 12 noon
- Torgersen Museum (Room 1100)
- Gilbert Street Tour
- April (Date and Time TBD)
- CHCI Center Wide Meeting
- April 21 2:00 - 3:00
- LLC, Room 104, 185 Kent Street
- CHCI Student Research Symposium
- Host: CHCI Student Council
- April 21 3pm - 4:30pm
- LLC, Community Assembly (Main Lobby Area)