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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.

Registration By

Friday, March 21, 2025 by 11:59 PM

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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

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
12:00 PM
Lunch (catered)
1:00 PM
Session 2: HCI + AI, Part II
2:00 PM
Break
2:15 PM
Session 3: XR and General HCI
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Session 4: HCI in Education and Physical Environments
4:30 PM
Break
4:45 PM
Award and Closing Remarks