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Bonnie Nardi accepted to CHI Academy - January 23rd, 2013

Congratulations to LUCI Lab faculty member, Bonnie Nardi on being accepted to the CHI Academy! An ICS alum, Beki Grinter was also accepted!

The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and/or industry, and led the research and/or innovation in human-computer interaction. The criteria for election to the CHI Academy are:
Cumulative contributions to the field.
Impact on the field through development of new research directions and/or innovations.
Influence on the work of others.

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Posted: 1/23/13 5:00 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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Stories of the Smartphone in Everyday Discourse - December 21st, 2012

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Congratulations to Informatics grad student and faculty Ellie Harmon and Melissa Mazmanian on having their paper, “Stories of the Smartphone in Everyday Discourse: Conflict, Tension & Instability” accepted to CHI 2013.

“As the smartphone proliferates in American society, concerns about addiction and the effects of multi-tasking proliferate as well. In this paper we draw on advertisements and news articles to analyze cultural discourse about the smartphone. We highlight two common tropes: one calling for increased technological integration, the other urging individuals to dis-integrate the smartphone from their lives. We examine the idealized subject positions of these two narratives and show how both simplistic stories call on the same overarching values to compel opposing individual actions. We thereby reveal the conflicts individuals experience in trying to align and account for their own actions in relation to multiple contradictory narratives. We end with a call for the CHI community to tell and provoke more complicated stories of the smartphone and its relationship to core values in conversations, publications, and future designs. ”

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Posted: 12/21/12 3:00 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk - December 11th, 2012

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Congratulations to Informatics Ph.D. students and researchers, Lilly Irani and Six Silberman on having their paper, “Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk” accepted to CHI 2013.

“As HCI researchers have explored the possibilities of human computation, they have paid less attention to ethics and values of crowdwork. This paper offers an analysis of Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular human computation system, as a site of technically mediated worker-employer relations. We argue that human computation currently relies on worker invisibility. We then present Turkopticon, an activist system that allows workers to publicize and evaluate their relationships with employers. As a common infrastructure, Turkopticon also enables workers to engage one another in mutual aid. We conclude by discussing the challenges of sustaining activist technologies in existing, large-scale socio-technical systems.”

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Posted: 12/11/12 3:00 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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CHI Wounds Healed by Passive Aggressive Gaming - November 15th, 2012

Are you recovering from the emotional scarring which is caused by CHI reviews? Well so is Informatics Ph.D. student Bart Knijnenberg. But will he wallow in self-despair, no!

Instead he has produced CHI Paper Review Bingo. Turn your silent stewing into a public airing of your grievances. Try CHI Paper Review Bingo and post your result on Twitter with hash tag #chipaperbingo.

Click to download the pdf

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Posted: 11/15/12 5:20 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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UCI Ranks 15th in Best Paper Awards in Informatics/CS - July 30th, 2012

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According to this analysis, UCI ranks 15th in the world in receiving best paper awards at major CS conferences like CHI, UIST and ICSE. Only one UC school beat us. Read the analysis to find out which one!

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Posted: 7/30/12 11:47 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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How we die in social networks - March 7th, 2012

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Informatics Ph.D. student Jed Brubaker represents in this article on ReadWriteWeb today!

“Jed Brubaker, a PhD Candidate at the University of California at Irvine, jokingly refers to himself as the “death guy.” But he’s not at all morbid. He describes his stumbling into the area of studies in death on social networks as a system error of sorts.

In 2011, he published a paper called “We will never forget you [online],” an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments. Starting with this early social network, Brubaker began identifying trends which bled over into Facebook, where we’re more likely to find online memorial services occurring nowadays.”

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Posted: 3/7/12 1:50 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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LUCI members get many papers accepted by CHI 2011 - January 27th, 2011

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The LUCI lab has had several papers accepted to CHI 2011. The list of accepted works was just released and includes the following by students, researchers, and faculty:

Full Papers:

Situating the Concern for Information Privacy through an Empirical Study of Responses to Video Recording by David Nguyen (LUCI Ph.D.), Aurora Bedford and Alex Bretana (Informatics undergrads) and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

Unpacking Exam-Room Computing: Negotiating Computer-Use in Patient-Physician Interactions by Yunan Chen (LUCI faculty), Victor Ngo and Sidney Harrison (Informatics Masters students) and Victoria Duong (UCI undergrad).

Comparing Activity Theory with Distributed Cognition for Video Analysis: Beyond “Kicking the Tires.” by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Bill Tomlinson (LUCI faculty)

Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
Ruy Cervantes (Informatics Ph.D.), Mark Warschauer (Ed. Dept.), Bonnie Nardi (LUCI Faculty), and Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.)

Designing a Phone Broadcasting System for Urban Sex Workers in India
Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.) and Ed Cutrell (Microsoft)

Classroom-Based Assistive Technology: Collective Use of Interactive Visual Schedules by Students with Autism
Meg Cramer (LUCI Ph.D.), Sen Hirano (LUCI M.S.), Monica Tentori (UABC), Michael Yeganyan (LUCI M.S.), and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI Faculty)

Homebrew Databases: Complexities of Everyday Information Management in Nonprofit Organizations
Amy Voida (Informatics PostDoc), Ellie Harmon (LUCI Ph.D.), Ban Al-Ani (Informatics Faculty)

Why Do I Keep Interrupting Myself?: Environment, Habit and Self-Interruption
Laura Dabbish (CMU), Gloria Mark (Informatics Faculty), Victor Gonzalez, (ITAM)

Refraining from Technological Intervention by by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Six Silberman (former LUCI Ph.D. Student)

Congratulations
Alex, Aurora, Bill, David, Eric, Gillian, Sidney, Six, Victor, Yunan, Ruy, Bonnie, Nithya, Meg, Sen, Monica, Michael, Amy, Ellie, Ban, and Gloria!

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Posted: 1/27/11 7:36 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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Javascript demo of a Bubble Cursor - September 23rd, 2010

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Bubble Cursor Demo

See this paper for more info: The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor’s activation area

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Abstract of paper that explains what this is about:

“We present the bubble cursor – a new target acquisition technique based on area cursors. The bubble cursor improves upon area cursors by dynamically resizing its activation area depending on the proximity of surrounding targets, such that only one target is selectable at any time. We also present two controlled experiments that evaluate bubble cursor performance in 1D and 2D target acquisition tasks, in complex situations with multiple targets of varying layout densities. Results show that the bubble cursor significantly outperforms the point cursor and the object pointing technique [8], and that bubble cursor performance can be accurately modeled and predicted using Fitts’ law.”

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Posted: 9/23/10 9:20 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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Where We Twitter - February 2nd, 2010

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Congratulations to Informatics undergraduate student Samuel J. Kaufman and Informatics Ph.D. student Judy Chen on having their paper, ‘Where We Twitter’ accepted to the CHI 2010—microblogging workshop.

“Users who enter new spaces, especially urban spaces, naturally explore. Increasingly, exploration is augmented by mobile, digital information systems such as mobile phone versions of Google Maps or Yelp. These system’s provide statistics, logistical information, and service reviews written for a general audience, but do not typically inform the user about the personalities of space occupants (the character and culture of a space), recent happenings and other kinds of local knowledge. The system described herein hopes to do just that–provide a novel method for the “colorful” understanding of places, drawing from newly-available corpora of geotagged tweets.”

Congratulations Sam and Judy!

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Posted: 2/2/10 8:04 am UTC by Add Your Comment
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`America Is Like Metamucil`: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in . . . Blogs - January 5th, 2010

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Congratulations to Informatics Post-doc Eric P. S. Baumer, Informatics undergraduate alumnus Jordan Sinclair, and Informatics professor Bill Tomlinson on having their paper,
‘”America Is Like Metamucil:” Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking about Metaphor in Political Blogs’ accepted to CHI 2010.

Abstract:Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium—socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such analytic techniques might be incorporated into tools for blog readers. A new tool, metaViz, analyzes political blogs for potential conceptual metaphors and presents them to blog readers. This paper presents a study exploring the types of critical and creative thinking fostered by metaViz as evidenced by user comments and discussion on the system. These results indicate the effectiveness of various system features at fostering critical thinking and creativity, specifically in terms of deep, structural reasoning about metaphors and creatively extending existing metaphors. Furthermore, the results carry broader implications beyond blogs and politics about exploring alternate configurations between computation and human thought.

Get a copy of this paper here: http://ericbaumer.com/publications/pap1573-baumer.pdf

Congratulations Eric, Jordan, and Bill!

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Posted: 1/5/10 12:43 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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