HCI+D Researchers Attend CHI 2024

Northwestern at ACM CHI 2024

The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction in the world. Taking place in Honolulu Hawai'i, from May 11th to 16th, Northwestern University has 14 faculty and 30 students and postdocs presenting research and we couldn't be prouder of them. For a full run down on what's being presented, see the schedule below.

This year's award winners

This year, Center for HCI+D students and faculty affiliates have received four Honorable Mentions and one Best Paper awards. 

Faculty affiliates, Matt Kay and Nick Diakopolous, MTS PhD student, Chloe Mortenson, and post-doc, Fumeng Yang, received Best Paper their paper titled "In Dice We Trust: Uncertainty Displays for Maintaining Trust in Election Forecasts Over Time." 

Matt Kay and 2nd year TSB Ph.D. student, Mandy Cai, also received an honorable mention for their paper "Watching the Election Sausage Get Made: How Dara Journalists Visualize the Vote Counting Process in U.S. Elections".  

And Matt Kay and CS PhD students, Yuan Cui and Abhraneel Sarma, received an honorable mention for their paper titled "Odds and Insights: Decision Quality in Exploratory Data Analysis Under Uncertainty." 

Faculty affiliate, Jessica Hullman, and TSB PhD student, Dongping Zhang, postdoc, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, and Computer Science PhD student, Negar Kamali, received an honorable mention for their paper "Evaluating the Utility of Conformal Prediction Sets for AI-Advised Image Labeling".

Taewook Kim, a 3rd year CS PhD student, Hyomin Han, MS Education student, and faculty affiliate Matt Kay received an honorable mention for their paper "Authors' Values and Attitudes Towards AI-bridged Scalable Personalization of Creative Language Arts".

HCI+D Schedule

Saturday, May 11th

Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy
Type: Workshops
Authors: Lily W. Ge, Maryam Hedayati, Yuan Cui, Yiren Ding, Karen Bonilla, Alark Joshi, Alvitta Ottley, Benjamin Bach, Bum Chul Kwon, David N. Rapp, Evan Peck, Lace M. Padilla, Michael Correll, Michelle A. Borkin, Lane Harrison, Matthew Kay

Sunday, May 12th

Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact
Type: Workshops
Authors: Elena Agapie,Ravi Karkar, Tricia Aung, Eleanor R. Burgess, Munyaradszi Joel Chinguwa, Andrea K. Graham, Predrag Klasnja,Aaron Lyon, Terika McCall, Sean A. Munson, Francisco Nunes, Katie Osterhage

Monday, May 13th

Odds and Insights: Decision Quality in Exploratory Data Analysis Under Uncertainty
Winner: Honorable Mention
Session: Working with Data
Type: Papers
Authors: Abhraneel Sarma, Xiaoying Pu, Yuan Cui, Eli T. Brown, Michael Correll, Matthew Kay

Tuesday, May 14th

EcoSante Lifestyle Intervention: Encourage Reflections on the Connections between Health and Environment
Session: Behavior Change
Type: Journals
Authors: Pei-Yi (Patricia) Kuo, Mike Horn

Searching for the Non-Consequential: Dialectical Activities in HCI and the Limits of Computers
Session: Ethics of Digital Technologies
Type: Papers
Authors: Haoqi Zhang

Learning Agent-based Modeling with LLM Companions: Experiences of Novices and Experts Using ChatGPT & NetLogo Chat
Session: Coding with AI
Type: Papers
Authors: John Chen, Xi Lu, Yuzhou Du, Michael Rejtig, Ruth Bagley, Mike Horn, Uri Wilensky

Authors' Values and Attitudes Towards AI-bridged Scalable Personalization of Creative Language Arts
Winner: Honorable Mention
Session:Arts and Creative AI
Type: Papers
Authors:Taewook Kim, Hyomin Han, Eytan Adar, Matthew Kay, John Joon Young Chung

Milliways: Taming Multiverses through Principled Evaluation of Data Analysis Paths
Session: Immersive Experiences: Design and Evaluation
Type: Papers
Authors: Abhraneel Sarma, Kyle Hwang, Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay

Evaluating the Utility of Conformal Prediction Sets for AI-Advised Image Labeling
Winner: Honorable Mention
Session: Evaluating AI Technologies
Type: Papers
Authors: Dongping Zhang, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Negar Kamali, Jessica Hullman

Exploring Collaborative Movement Improvisation Towards the Design of LuminAI - a Co-Creative AI Dance Partner
Session: Sound, Rhythm, Movement
Type: Papers
Authors: Milka Trajkova, Duri Long, Manoj Deshpande, Andrea Knowlton, Brian Magerko

Wednesday, May 15th

In Dice We Trust: Uncertainty Displays for Maintaining Trust in Election Forecasts Over Time
Winner: Best Paper
Session: Governance and Public Policies
Type: Papers
Authors: Fumeng Yang, Chloe Rose Mortenson, Erik Nisbet, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Matthew Kay

Xylocode: A Novel Approach to Fostering Interest in Computer Science via an Embodied Music Simulation
Session: Learning and Teaching Technologies
Type: Papers
Authors: Duri Long, Jiaxi Yang, Cassandra Naomi Monden, Brian Magerko

V-FRAMER: Visualization Framework for Mitigating Reasoning Errors in Public Policy
Session: Governance and Public Policies
Type: Papers
Authors: Lily W. Ge, Matthew Easterday, Matthew Kay, Evanthia Dimara, Peter Cheng, Steven L Franconeri

Watching the Election Sausage Get Made: How Data Journalists Visualize the Vote Counting Process in U.S. Elections
Winner: Honorable Mention
Session: Governance and Public Policies
Type: Papers
Authors: Mandi Cai, Matthew Kay

"Oh My God! It's Recreating Our Room!" Understanding Children's Experiences with A Room-Scale Augmented Reality Authoring Toolkit
Session: Learning and Teaching Technologies 
Type: Papers 
Authors: John Chen, Lexie Zhao, Yinmiao Li, Zhennian Xie, Uri Wilensky, Mike Horn

Testing, Socializing, Exploring: Characterizing Middle Schoolers' Approaches to and Conceptions of ChatGPT
Session: Education and AI
Type: Papers
Authors: Yasmine Belghith, Atefeh Mahdavi Goloujeh, Brian Magerko, Duri Long, Tom McKlin, Jessica Roberts

A Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model Training
Session: Politics of Data
Type: Papers
Authors: Heila Precel, Allison McDonald, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent

Thursday, May 16th

Erie: A Declarative Grammar for Data Sonification
Session: Visualization and Sonification
Type: Papers
Authors: Hyeok Kim, Yea-Seul Kim, Jessica Hullman