CHCI Eighth Annual Workshop
When
Friday, March 22, 2024
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Where
Gilbert Place
220 Gilbert Street
Room 2124
Registration
Closed
The Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) invites you to submit a big idea for presentation at the 2024 Eighth Annual Workshop in our CHCI Workshop Series on the Future of HCI. Following the broad participation of researchers in the 2023 workshop, we decided to continue this Big Ideas theme in 2024. This is a unique opportunity for researchers – faculty and students – to propose work on complex challenges relevant to human-computer interaction and to engage with others in reflecting on and discussing big ideas. The one-day workshop will be held Friday, March 22, 2024 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm) in Gilbert Place, 220 Gilbert Street, Blacksburg.
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 about new big ideas that they may want to be part of
- Give and receive feedback about their 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 4/1/2024) shortly after the workshop. Please see the Call for Proposals for details.
- Earn Professional Development Network (PDN) credits
VT faculty and students are welcome to attend the workshop whether or not they are presenting.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. David Woods
Faculty Emeritus
Ohio State University
As a scientist, Woods has discovered the key ingredients that allow systems to build the potential for resilient performance and flourish despite complexity penalties that accompany growth (his research has been cited @44K times). As a systems engineer, he shows organizations how to uncover and overcome points of brittleness and then how to build the capability for resilient performance when, inevitably, shock events occur (e.g., awards from Aviation Week and Space Technology, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society). His books include Behind Human Error, Resilience Engineering (the 1st book in the field), Resilience Engineering in Practice, Joint Cognitive Systems. He started the SNAFU Catchers Consortium, a software industry-university partnership to apply the new science to build resilience in critical digital services (see stella report). He is Past-President of the Resilience Engineering Association and Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He is frequently asked for advice by many government agencies and companies, domestically and abroad (e.g., DoD, NASA, FAA, IoM; Air France, TNO, IBM; UK MOD, NHS, Haute Autorité de Santé).
The Future is Already Here and It’s Not as Advertised
As new technology is developed and deployed, processes of growth and complexification are stimulated. New challenges arise; new versions of old challenges come to the fore; old challenges take on new urgency. As fields develop, conceptual lag sets in even as knowledge grows in the form of empirical generalizations, laws, and formal theories. The knowledge advances bring new light to challenges old and new, and provide new paths forward in understanding fundamentals and for pragmatic action. Current trajectories of technology change are but the latest cycles in a continuing stories of growth, complexity, and adaptation.
Conceptual lag applies to challenges at the intersection of people, technology and work as people take advantage of technology capabilities leading to new complexities, new scales of operation, new forms or joint and coordinated activity with new players, human and machine. Virtually all of the claims about the impact of new technology on human systems are stuck and stale in the face of the complexity penalties that accompany the new scale and extensive interdependencies of modern systems. All of the relevant lines of inquiry have fallen behind the pace of change (for the example of resilient infrastructures, see Woods & Alderson, 2021).
Ironically, trans-disciplinary work over the last 20 years have led to new findings about general patterns (e.g., three ways adaptive systems fail), empirical laws (e.g., Fluency Law; Law of Stretched Systems), proven theorems (e.g., Robust Yet Fragile; Perspective Bounds), and comprehensive formal theories about how human-technology adaptive systems function and malfunction at scale (The Theory of Graceful Extensibility; Diversity Enabled Sweet Spots).
This body of work on distributed & tangled layered networks made up of many human and machine roles has reframed the study of human systems. This body of work has had and is having direct and practical impact in many areas. I will use one sector — critical digital services, how it underpins every sector, how it is exposed to brittle failures, and why it works at all — to illustrate the complexity penalties that accompany growth (brittleness), the limits/ weaknesses of autonomy, and the findings about the essential role of adaptive capacity (graceful extensibility) to flourish despite the messiness of this universe.
Schedule
Friday, March, 22th, 2024
Coffee and Snacks
Introduction
Welcome from CHCI
Keynote Speech
- Keynote Speech
- Dr. David Woods (Ohio State University)
- Title: The Future is Already Here and It’s Not as Advertised
Break
Title: The Future is Already Here and It’s Not as Advertised
- Session 1 Full Talks: Social Infrastructure, Justice & Health
- Deepfakes for investigating and reducing bias in hiring (Presnter: Louis Hickman)
- Social Learning in Human-AI Interaction (Presenter: Alice Jiang)
- AI Technology adoption and Inequality (Presenter: Jian Ni)
- Using Artificial Intelligence & Communication in Disaster Response & Recovery (Presenter: Sweta Baniya)
- Progressive Disclosure of Information: Empowering Mental Health Information Accessibility (Presenter: Rachael Paine)
- Session 1 Lightning Talks: Social Infrastructure, Justice & Health
- Discovering Expertise in the Medical Domain (Presenter: Jinwoo Oh)
- Supporting Student-led Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment using OSINT for Small Businesses (Presenter: Anirban Mukhopadhyay)
- Investigating communal network infrastructure as a means of non-primary Internet access (Presenter: Wesley Woo)
Lunch
- Session 2 Full Talks: Reimagine the Physical World and Workplaces
- ToySphere: Reuse, Replicate, Reimagine (Presenter: Yoon Jung Choi)
- AI as Agents of Community Care (Presenter: Bob Leonard)
- A HIP (Human Information Processing) Approach to Building Interface Evaluation (Presenter:Philip Agee)
- THE GREEN LIGHT SONATA: Accomodating Driver Response (Presenter: Monty Abbas)
- Session 2 Lightning Talks: Reimagine the Physical World and Workplaces
- In-Cabin Automotive Sonification (Presenter: Ivica Ico Bukvic)
- Haptic Virtual Violin Bow (Presenter:Charles Nichols)
- Exploring dynamic task allocation in Human-Autonomy Teams (Presenter: Anirudh More)
Break
- Session 3 Full Talks: Working with Intelligent Technology (Presenter: Abhijit Sarkar)
- Supporting Monitoring and Response with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Interconnected Infrastructure Systems (Presenter: Abhijit Sarkar)
- AI-ACCESSIBILITY (Presenter: Andrew Gipe-Lazarou)
- Complementarity Neglect: When People Don't Recognize Advantages of Human-AI Collaboration (Presenter: Meng Zhu)
- Session 3 Lightning Talks: Working with Intelligent Technology
- Receptivity: Toward the Development of a Comprehensive Teaching Software based on Continuous Non-Verbal Feedback (CNVF) Signals (Presenter: Denis Gracanin)
- PITCH - Personal and Intelligent Task-management Conversation Helper (Presenter: Adnan Abbas)
- Unveiling the Potential of Blockchain in Software Engineering and HCI: An Exploratory Reflection (Presenter: Shawal Khalid)
Break
- Session 4 Full Talks: Personal and Social Experiences with Technology
- Reimagining Cultural Exploration in Human-Computer Interaction: A Bottom-Up Approach (Presenter: Sehrish Basir Nizamani)
- Drosera Obscura (Presenter: Thomas Tucker)
- DanceSync: Personalized Dance Learning through Generative Video Synthesis (Presenter: Kiymet Akdemir)
- Session 4 Lightning Talks: Personal and Social Experiences with Technology
- Next Gen Immersive Wellness:Headset (Presenter: Nayaab Azim)
- Implications for Design in Outdoor Asynchronous Video Sharing (Presenter: Natalie Andrus)
- Sustainable Interactive Arts Experiences: Creativity and Post-growth HCI (Presenter: Chelsea Thompto)
- Closing remarks
- How to join CHCI
- CHCI planning grants
Organizing Committee
Nathan Lau
ISE, lead faculty for Workshop 2024
Abby Walker
English
Eiman Elgewely
Interior Design
Doug Bowman
Computer Science
Todd Ogle
University Libraries
Kurt Luther
Computer Science
Sang Won Lee
Computer Science
Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Computer Science
Andrea Kavanaugh
CHCI