CHCI Big Idea Workshop
When
Friday, March, 17th, 2023.
See detailed Schedule below
Where
Squires Brush Mountain Room A (305A)
290 College Ave, Blacksburg, VA 24060
Registration
closed
An ever-changing world of technology has brought about new societal, technical, and environmental challenges that require interdisciplinary approaches. The CHCI Big Ideas workshop is designed to provide a platform for researchers to initiate an intellectual discourse about their ideas with CHCI members and experts. Specifically, the workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to
- Pitch big ideas that they want to work on in the near future
- Learn new big ideas that they want to potentially be part of
- Give and receive feedback about their big ideas
- Participate in discussion with other presenters and attendees for brainstorming
- Find collaborators to work on their ideas for future external funding
- Refine ideas that can be submitted to the CHCI planning grant program (faculty only, due 4/7/2023) soon after the workshop.
Individuals and teams are invited to submit an abstract (max one page) that sparks new ideas and provokes thought by Feb 24th (See Call for Participation for more details). You can also attend the workshop without presenting any.
Liz Gerber
- Co-director, Delta Lab
- Co-Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Founder, Design for America
Connection = Impact
Abstract
To tackle societal challenges ranging from waste reduction to public health, innovation is critical. But in an increasingly complex world, individuals cannot successfully innovate on their own. Connecting with others is a powerful way to make an impact. When we connect with others, we find interesting ways to apply our technical expertise, develop solutions to problems we’ve never considered, and create solutions that people will use. I will share lessons from my research, practice, and Design for America, a national network I started to empower people to make positive impacts in their communities.
Bio
Liz designs and implements new technologies to effectively collaborate. She is particularly interested in how new social technologies enable new ways to solve problems with diverse stakeholders; how the technologies change the roles stakeholders play, and the new organizations needed for this work. Her work cuts across design, human-computer interaction, and organizational studies, is generously supported by the National Science Foundation and industry, and informed by her formal training in product design, management science, and studio art at Stanford University and Dartmouth College.
She is the recipient of the 2022 ACM Social Impact Award and the 2018 Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Award for Institutional Excellence. Her work has been featured in outlets including NPR, ABC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, and Wired.
Friday, March, 17th, 2023
Coffee and Snack, Introduction
Welcome from the director
Keynote Speech
- Dr. Liz Gerber (Northwestern University)
- Title: Connection = Impact
Break
Session 1: Human-AI/Drone interaction (Moderator: Todd Ogle)
- Building Effective Human-AI Teams for the Future of Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance (Presenter: Rodrigo Sarlo)
- Who wrote this? How to Tell the Difference between AI-Generated Text and Human Writing (Presenter: Chreston Miller)
- Drone-Base Additive Manufacturing (Presenter: Ramtin Haghnazar)
- Behind Density Lines: The Need for Machine Learning in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images (Presenter: Monet Roberts)
Expert panelists: Alexander Leonessa, Ed Fox, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Kurt Luther
Student Lightning talks 1
- Pet&Me: Designing a Food Tracking App that Cares for More Than Humans (Presenter: Ke Hu)
- Helping de-mining teams in rural areas to improve the Non-technical survey process (Presenter: Carlos Augusto Bautista Isaza)
Lunch provided (Room 342)
Session 2: Social/Educational/Behavioral (Moderator: Andrea Kavanaugh)
- Improving the Learning Engagement by Intelligently Integrating Social Presence into the Dynamic Learning Context (Presenter: Yan Chen)
- Repurposing Software Engineering Faux Pas to Improve Developer Behavior (Presenter: Chris Brown)
- Towards Large-Scale Human-AI Interactive Curriculum Generation for Online Learning (Presenter: Dawei Zhou)
Expert panelists: Ed Fox, Eugenia Rho, Todd Ogle
Student Lightning talks 2
- Mobile Era: Navigation Systems in transportation (Presneter: Maryam Rahimi Movassagh)
- Automatic Print Statement Insertion Tool (Presenter: Minhyuk Ko)
- Incorporating virtual reality into the massing stage of the design process (Presenter:Sara Saghafi Moghaddam)
Break
Session 3: Security/ Usable Privacy (Moderator: Abby Walker)
- Towards a broader understanding of bystander privacy and solutions for wearable AR displays (Presenter: Brendan David-John)
- Usable Security in Agriculture (Presenter: Shreya Mitra)
- Machine Learning and Intelligence of Things-based Adaptive and Interactive Educational Facilities for Improving Students’ Health and Well-Being (Presenter: Ruichuan Zhang)
Expert panelists: Bimal Viswanath, Daphne Yao, Denis Gracanin
Break
Session 4: Virtual World (Moderator: Sang Won Lee)
- Immersive Virtual Reality with Animatronics + Artificial Intelligence (Presenter: Thomas Tucker)
- Transcending place and time barriers: Creating A Virtual-Real Museum Space Dialogue (Presenter: Eiman Elgewely)
- Training Gen-Z: Can Games transform the way we prepare our Future Construction Workforce (Presenter: Nazila Roofigari)
- Receptivity to Boundary Signals During Challenging Conversations (Presenter: Aaron Ansell, remote)
Expert panelists: Doug Bowman, Meaghan Dee, Philart Jeon
Closing remarks
- How to join CHCI
- CHCI planning grants
Receptivity to Boundary Signals During Challenging Conversations
Aaron Ansell, Rafael Patrick, Sylvester Johnson, Denis Gracanin
Towards a broader understanding of bystander privacy and solutions for wearable AR displays
Brendan David-John, Matthew Corbett, Jiacheng Shang, Charlie Hu, Bo Ji
Usable Security in Agriculture
Brianna Posadas, Shreya Mitra, Mehul Bhanushali, Shikhar Poudel
Who wrote this? How to Tell the Difference between AI-Generated Text and Human Writing
Chreston Miller, Eugenia Rho
Repurposing Software Engineering Faux Pas to Improve Developer Behavior
Chris Brown
Towards Large-Scale Human-AI Interactive Curriculum Generation for Online Learning
Dawei Zhou, Shuo Yao
Transcending place and time barriers: Creating A Virtual-Real Museum Space Dialogue
Eiman Elgewely
Behind Density Lines: The Need for Machine Learning in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images
Monet Roberts, Tanner Upthegrove
Training Gen-Z: Can Games transform the way we prepare our Future Construction Workforce
Nazila Roofigari, Todd Ogle, Phyllis Newbill
Drone-Base Additive Manufacturing
Ramtin Haghnazar, Jonas Hauptman
Building Effective Human-AI Teams for the Future of Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance
Rodrigo Sarlo, Joseph Gabbard
Machine Learning and Intelligence of Things-based Adaptive and Interactive Educational Facilities for Improving Students’ Health and Well-Being
Ruichuan Zhang
Immersive Virtual Reality with Animatronics + Artificial Intelligence
Thomas Tucker, Tohm Judson
Improving the Learning Engagement by Intelligently Integrating Social Presence into the Dynamic Learning Context
Yan Chen
Helping de-mining teams in rural areas to improve the Non-technical survey process
Carlos Augusto Bautista Isaza
Pet&Me: Designing a Food Tracking App that Cares for More Than Humans
Ke Hu
Mobile Era: Navigation Systems in transportation
Maryam Rahimi Movassagh
Automatic Print Statement Insertion Tool
Minhyuk Ko
Racism through User Experience (UX) design: A case study of Zillow and GreatSchools
Pratyusha Kiran
Incorporating virtual reality into the massing stage of the design process
Sara Saghafi Moghaddam
Call for Participation for CHCI Big Idea workshop is now closed. Join the workshop by registering for the workshop.
Administrative Support
- Melissa Wyers (Finance)
- Debbie Zier (Space Reservation)
- Dylan Parker (Web Presence)