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CHCI Ninth Annual Workshop

The 2025 CHCI Big Ideas Workshop

A one-day symposium hosted by Virginia Tech’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction. The Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) invites you to submit your big idea to our Ninth Annual Workshop on the Future of HCI.

The workshop is scheduled for Friday, March 28, 2025, and it is a unique opportunity for researchers—faculty members and students —to propose work on complex challenges relevant to human-computer interaction and see what other members propose.

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When

Friday, March 28, 2025
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Where

Gilbert Place #2124
220 Gilbert Street
Room 2124

Keynote speaker
Workshop Schedule
Faculty Call for Big Ideas
Student Call for Big Ideas

Keynote speaker

Dr. Steve Feiner
Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University

Steve Feiner (Ph.D., Brown, ’87) is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab. He has been doing AR and VR research for over 30 years, designing and evaluating novel 3D interaction and visualization techniques, creating the first outdoor AR system using a see-through head-worn display and GPS, and pioneering experimental applications of AR and VR to fields as diverse as tourism, journalism, assembly, maintenance, construction, dentistry, and medicine. Steve is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, a member of the SIGCHI Academy and the IEEE VGTC VR Academy, and the recipient of the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, the IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award, and the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award. He and his colleagues have won two IEEE ISMAR Paper Impact Awards, the ISWC Early Innovator Award, and the ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award.

What More Can We Want?

There has been over a half century of research and development in VR and AR. While custom hardware and software prevailed in the ’60s and ’70s, commercial systems have been sold to labs since the ’80s, to ardent hobbyists since the ’90s, and now to tens of millions of others. Smart glasses are also becoming a commodity, breathlessly celebrated by technology journalists. But even as progress and publicity escalate, there is much more that must be done to fulfill and surpass the dreams of early researchers. In this talk, I will provide a personal overview of some of what “much more” entails. I will suggest directions that could be taken to improve hardware, software, and the ways we interact with them, to better address our human capabilities and needs.

Workshop Schedule

Time
Topic
8:30 AM
Coffee and Snacks
9:00 AM
Welcome
9:05 AM
Keynote: Dr. Steve Feiner (Columbia University)
10:00 AM
Break
10:15 AM
Session 1: HCI + AI, Part I

  • AI-Driven Usability Evaluation for Smart Classrooms (presented by Sehrish Basir Nizamani)
  • AI-Augmented Human Decision-Making for Secure Space Systems (presented by Christiana Chamon Garcia)
  • Sustainable Fashion Futures: AI-driven Creative Repair with Empathy (presented by Yoon Jung Choi)
  • AI-Powered Walking Companions: Leveraging Physical AI for Safer, Smarter Walking Infrastructure (presented by Junghwan Kim)
  • “Inside Out”: Adapting In-Vehicle AI Agents to External Situations and Internal Driver States for Automated Vehicles (presented by Manhua Wang)
  • Sonic Sculpting: Generative design approach to propose geometric solutions based on the acoustic features (presented by Chris Thomas)
  • From Page to Presence: Transforming 1001 Arabian Nights into Immersive Storytelling Narratives Using AI (presented by Eiman Elgewely)

12:00 PM
Lunch (catered)
1:00 PM
Session 2: HCI + AI, Part II

  • Locally Trained LLMs For Every Canvas Course (presented by Mayank Goel)
  • Enhancing Diary Studies with Multimodal AI and Data Visualization (presented by Sung Oh)
  • AI-Driven Heuristic Evaluations of Code Snippets (presented by Nolan Platt and Ethan Luchs)
  • CHOIR: Chat-based Helper for Organizational Intelligence Repository (presented by Sangwook Lee)
  • AI-Powered Assistant for Elderly Health, Well-Being and Accessibility (presented by Sheikh Moonwara Anjum Monisha)
  • Personalizing Conversational Agents for Executive Function Coaching (presented by Caleb Wohn)
  • Exploring Human-Centered AI and Collaboration in OSINT Clinics (presented by Anirban Mukhopadhyay)
  • Beyond Static UML Diagrams (presented by Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew)
  • Facilitating Complex Sensemaking in Genealogy Research (presented by Fei Shan)

2:00 PM
Break
2:15 PM
Session 3: XR and General HCI

  • Augmented Humans: Potentials and Risks of Context-Aware Ubiquitous XR (presented by Ibrahim Tahmid)
  • Sustainable Lifestyle Inspired by Minimalists (presented by Jaehoon Pyon)
  • ParticipantMagnet: A Platform for Finding Eligible Research Participants (presented by Minhyuk Ko and Shawal Khalid)
  • Computational Ikegai: An AI/VR Solution to Existential Questions of Purpose (presented by J. Douglas Harrison)

2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Session 4: HCI in Education and Physical Environments

  • Demystifying Quantum Education (presented by Jamie Sikora)
  • Casebook: A Digital Library for Ethical and Social Impact Case Studies (presented by Dan Dunlap)
  • BRIDGE: Boosting the Success of Students with ADHD with a Chatbot that Supports Time Management and Executive Functioning (presented by Sang Won Lee)
  • Sounds of Silence (presented by Rafael N.C. Patrick)
  • A Ray of Sunshine for Every Window (presented by Lavinia Carmen Uscatescu)
  • HCI Challenges in Civil Engineering (presented by Ryan Beemer)

4:30 PM
Break
4:45 PM
Award and Closing Remarks

Organizing Committee

  • Ryan P. McMahan (Computer Science) - 2025 Workshop Chair

  • Abiola Akanmu (Construction Engineering and Management)

  • Doug A. Bowman (Computer Science)

  • Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

  • Nathan Lau (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

  • Kurt Luther (Computer Science)

  • Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Computer Science)

  • Rachael Paine (Design)