Contribution & Benefit: This workshop will be the first of its kind at CHI, specifically discussing methodologies in Game User Research - an emerging field focused on studying player' gaming experience.

Contribution & Benefit: We explore the use of a mobile system promoting electricity conservation in the home. Findings provide insight into peoples awareness of consumption and how this may be influenced through design.

Contribution & Benefit: This paper presents a study of the effect of task assignments and instruction types on the number and variability of identified usability problems in a remote asynchronous usability test

Contribution & Benefit: AHNE is a novel interface for spatial interaction that allows the user to locate and manipulate virtual sound objects with natural gestures in a real environment.

Contribution & Benefit: A major contribution of the workshop will be to clarify the applicability and transferability of different theories, theoretical concepts in informing UX design and evaluation in both research and practice.

Contribution & Benefit: Helps to select the right user experience evaluation methods for different purposes. A collection of methods that investigate how people feel about the system under study is provided at www.allaboutux.org.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents guidelines for designers of collaborative video production tools based on a field study of automatic remixing of audience captured video. Can assist in considering memorabilia, control and acknowledgement issues.

Contribution & Benefit: Reviews work on physical interfaces that use shape change as input or output, so-called shape-changing interfaces. Provide an overview of the design space of such interfaces and identify open research questions.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing motivations for affluent people to live in smart home environments. In particular we describe how people use technologies for staging themselves and for exposing their power.

Contribution & Benefit: In this Town Hall on Peer Review, we discuss how to improve and change our reviewing practices to meet the challenge of both ongoing growth and increasing interdisciplinary participation.

Contribution & Benefit: A study where users perceive a product with adaptive movements as expressing agency and it becomes part of their social context. Can assist design and understanding of automated product interaction.

Contribution & Benefit: Articulates the spatial organization of collaborative work practices in neurosurgery theatres by drawing on interaction proxemics and F-formations. Discusses opportunities and difficulties relating to touchless interaction in surgical settings.

Contribution & Benefit: Hands-on workshop for the development of ideas, designs, and prototypes related to collective intelligence and crowdsourcing. Will enable diverse disciplines to rapidly test new ideas.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a discovery-based learning game that teaches people how to use complex software such as Adobe Photoshop using the Jigsaw metaphor. Can scaffold and motivate learning new tools and techniques.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents Codelets, which link interactive documentation with example code in code editors. Codelets allow third parties to write rich in-editor documentation.

Contribution & Benefit: Reports on the design process behind the the digital reading experience developed by Adobe Systems for Wired Magazine.

Contribution & Benefit: This special interest group meeting will bring together the community of researchers and companies focused on creating end-user programming tools, thereby facilitating technology transfer and future collaboration.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents a design process of redesigning a legacy software with millions of users. Provides an insight into how user interface design and user testing are executed in the real world.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes the qualitative findings of a field study that revealed the effects of a tele-operated humanoid robot on facilitating schoolchildren’s cooperation. Can assist in designing effective tele-communication tools in education.

Contribution & Benefit: Investigates how a debugging environment should support cognitive modelers. Suggests design implications as well as validation opportunities for interactive programming tools and languages.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents guidelines from "Jogging over a Distance", a mobile system used by jogging partners with different fitness levels between Europe and Australia. Aids designers of exertion games and sports apps.

Contribution & Benefit: We present the findings of our 31-week long field study and deployment of e-ESAS - the first mobile-based remote symptom monitoring system developed for rural BC patients.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes observations from a field study of children in three developing regions using adaptive educational technology. Presents guidelines for future development of technology that accounts for a collaborative use context.

Contribution & Benefit: This course presents devices and explores methodologies for multimodal detection of affective states, as well as a discussion about presenter’s experiences using them both in learning and gaming scenarios.

Contribution & Benefit: The note describes what communication style a wearable robot avatar offers to daily life situations. Two users can communicate by sharing their vision via the robot avatar.

Contribution & Benefit: The video shows what communication style a wearable robot avatar offers to daily life situations. Two users can communicate by sharing their vision via the robot avatar.

Contribution & Benefit: The note describes what communication style a wearable robot avatar offers to daily life situations. Two users can communicate by sharing their vision via the robot avatar.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing the application of user centered design (UCD) for a project using multiple enterprise technologies. Identifies opportunities for successfully integrating UCD into the software development process.

Contribution & Benefit: Affect and assemblage can help us understand the interaction between users and artefacts in interactive systems. This paper provides some theoretical background and shows its application in understanding collaborative creativity.

Contribution & Benefit: Skills and tactics for experienced UX practitioners and managers to successfully adapt user-centered design practices to integrate into an agile team.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing design and development of a touch-driven, 3D modeling application for a mobile device. Can assist designers in tailoring the user experience to accomodate novice and expert users.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing design and development of a touch-driven, 3D modeling application for a mobile device. Can assist designers in tailoring the user experience to accomodate novice and expert users.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes development and evaluations of WebTicket that manages web accounts using paper-based or mobile-phone-based tickets. Demonstrates that WebTicket provides reliable and phishing-resilient user authentication.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents Citeology, a interactive system to explore the relationships between papers through their use of citations. The full CHI and UIST paper database is used as an example corpus.

Contribution & Benefit: We investigate the effect of skin on traditional components for sensing input, providing output, and for communicating, synchronizing and charging wirelessly.

Contribution & Benefit: Proposes a methodology for empirically studying software customization and the impact of customization factors. Shows that increasing exposure and awareness of customization features, and adding social influence affects customization behavior.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a system that aids users in comparing workflows, specifically those used in image-editing tasks. Can assist designers in developing tools for comparing workflows in various domains.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes two experiments to test the effects of latency on video navigation tasks and the Swift technique which is designed to mitigate these effects.

Contribution & Benefit: Explores the design space of modern recommender systems in complex software applications for aiding command awareness. Performs a 6-week real-time within-application field study in user’s actual working environments.

Contribution & Benefit: The vulnerability of magnetic gestural authentication to video-based shoulder surfing attacks is assessed through a realistic scenario by videotaping the authentication interaction from four different angles and providing them to adversaries

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing motivations for affluent people to live in smart home environments. In particular we describe how people use technologies for staging themselves and for exposing their power.

Contribution & Benefit: A study where users perceive a product with adaptive movements as expressing agency and it becomes part of their social context. Can assist design and understanding of automated product interaction.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes the problems encountered reusing clinical data to deliver training in breast cancer screening. Details how data curation processes and tools can be better designed to improve data reuse.

Contribution & Benefit: A large scale study testing the effects of OS, interface presentation and folder depth on personal file navigation. Informs improved folder system design by increasing efficiency in finding files.

Contribution & Benefit: Proposed multitasking metrics to establish a conceptual foundation for future multitasking studies. Understanding the extent to which multitasking occurs can assist designers in improving applications that are used simultaneously.

Contribution & Benefit: We describe a prototype tangible, tabletop interface deployed on a film shoot, which uses a storyboard as a shared data representation to drive team creativity.

Contribution & Benefit: This workshop will be the first of its kind at CHI, specifically discussing methodologies in Game User Research - an emerging field focused on studying player' gaming experience.

Contribution & Benefit: We introduce a new usability walkthrough method called Collaborative Critique, inspired by the human-computer collaboration paradigm of system-user interaction, and present the results of its evaluation with usability professionals.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel relates issues in HCI/arts to innovation policy discourse in order to bring a fresh perspective to the STEM/arts divide in HCI.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents a casual mobile game NerdHerder that involves motion-based puzzle solving. Augmented reality interfaces are integrated to support physical and spatial aspects of gameplay.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents guidelines from "Jogging over a Distance", a mobile system used by jogging partners with different fitness levels between Europe and Australia. Aids designers of exertion games and sports apps.

Contribution & Benefit: We examine the evaluation of Digital Art and how ideas on evaluation can be exchanged between the arts and HCI. We start by a critique of standard approaches to evaluation.

Contribution & Benefit: This paper presents an ethnographic study of instruction compliance in an ambulatory experience. Four levels of compliance are uncovered of broad relevance to instruction design.

Contribution & Benefit: Ethnographic study reveals how artists designed and participants experienced a tabletop interface, shedding light on the design of tabletop and tangible interfaces, spectator interfaces, and trajectories through display ecologies

Contribution & Benefit: This SIG meeting invites researchers and practitioners to get an insight in and to discuss the potential of gaze interaction for diverse application areas, interaction tasks, and multimodal user interfaces.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes the design of an exergaming station for children with cerebral palsy. Results present the design challenges of the station and suggest several lessons for game designers.

Contribution & Benefit: This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this process.

Contribution & Benefit: We present a venue for the discussion of Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technologies.

Contribution & Benefit: Can technologies facilitate comparable cultural experiences for both blind and sighted audiences? The Haptic Lotus is a device that changes its form as people walk through a dark immersive installation.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents a vision for safer, flexible, ubiquitous nomadic computing. Demonstrates a resource-efficient approach to annexing screens in the environment. The next level of mobile computing.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents a formative typology of counterfactual design patterns that can help designers, educators, and players locate interesting fault lines in reality that facilitate the expansion of ARG mythologies.

Contribution & Benefit: Can technologies facilitate comparable cultural experiences for both blind and sighted audiences? The Haptic Lotus is a device that changes its form as people walk through a dark immersive installation.

Contribution & Benefit: Can technologies facilitate comparable cultural experiences for both blind and sighted audiences? The Haptic Lotus is a device that changes its form as people walk through a dark immersive installation.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study presenting a variety of projects that highlight UX challenges and opportunities around internet-connected television. Can inspire developers to exploit this emerging platform to create novel experiences.

Contribution & Benefit: Focused task analysis of a real-world scientific visualization process in the immunology domain. Suggests a classification of strategies in this domain and how this classification can be used to guide design.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a system for human performance modeling that utilizes interaction histories from a crowd of end users. Can assist UI designers in quantitatively evaluating interfaces.

Contribution & Benefit: We presented results from a quantitative user study showing that controlled changes in the interface of an analysis system can be employed to correct deficiencies in users' analytic behavior

Contribution & Benefit: An opportunity for a focused and extended set of presentations and discussions on the use of interactive technologies for preventing, de-escalating and recovering from conflict.

Contribution & Benefit: Investigating the possibility of designing a multi-modal language to enable the crowdsourcing of tactile perceptions of garments and the values that such a process would bring to our society.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes gender differences in spatial communication and navigation in Human-Robot Interaction. Presents a novel methodology and design recommendations for dialogue and navigating systems that equally support users of both genders.

Contribution & Benefit: Investigating the possibility of designing a multi-modal language to enable the crowdsourcing of tactile perceptions of garments and the values that such a process would bring to our society.

Contribution & Benefit: The Sonik Spring is an interface for real-time control of sound that directly links gestural motion and kinesthetic feedback to the resulting musical experience.

Contribution & Benefit: Augments the discourse on sustainable HCI and ICT4D to include notions of preparation for and adaptation to potential societal collapse, suggesting exemplars for interactivity design in response to such scenarios.

Contribution & Benefit: This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this process.

Contribution & Benefit: This paper describes a series of research probe games developed to investigate how real-world activity could be incorporated into digital game systems.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes four approaches to introduce sociality to people who are simultaneously keen but also reluctant to participate in social media. Can assist designers of persuasive technology to utilise social influence.

Contribution & Benefit: With innovation, designers need to ask how they can offer a non-disruptive and enjoyable user experience whilst at the same time not meeting users' expectations. Can defamiliarization assist here?

Contribution & Benefit: Demonstrates a system for conveying 3D video conferencing using a cylindrical display. Provides user studies investigating effects of motion parallax and stereoscopy.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents DisplayStacks, a paper computer that allows physical stacking of digital documents via piles of thin-film flexible E Ink displays, with associated interaction techniques.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel discusses music interaction as a part of digital media research. We consider why music interaction research has become marginal in HCI and how to revive it.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes usability problems identified through a laboratory study to evaluate tools to limit OBA. Designers will be aware of these problems and could use our methodology to evaluate their tools.

Contribution & Benefit: Lab study exploring whether intuitive access-control policies can be made from photo tags created for organizational and access-control purposes. Can increase understanding of user engagement with tag-based access control systems.

Contribution & Benefit: Discusses themes relevant to personal informatics in practice, such as practical lessons from prior work in designing systems, requirements for building effective tools, and development of infrastructures.

Contribution & Benefit: Reviews energy-related literature from within and outside of HCI. Characterizes a dominant cluster of work related to "energy consumption feedback", and points to design and research opportunities with emerging energy systems.

Contribution & Benefit: Results from a think-aloud study provide insight into interaction between student rapport and learning gains with a teachable agent. Contributions include theoretical perspectives and practical recommendations for implementing rapport-building agents.

Contribution & Benefit: Our study found that hierarchical communication patterns improve delivery performance but hinder quality outcomes in new product development projects. On the other hand, small-world communication structures exhibited opposite effects.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes observations from a field study of children in three developing regions using adaptive educational technology. Presents guidelines for future development of technology that accounts for a collaborative use context.

Contribution & Benefit: Hands-on workshop for the development of ideas, designs, and prototypes related to collective intelligence and crowdsourcing. Will enable diverse disciplines to rapidly test new ideas.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents and interprets field evidence related to people's perceptions of personal digital things kept in Cloud Computing environments. Findings are interpreted to detail design and research opportunities.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents findings from a study that looks at how different types of disclosure options can influence users' privacy preferences for location sharing. Can help in building better privacy configuration UIs.

Contribution & Benefit: Existing mind mapping software applications have been evaluated, ethnographic research performed, and a framework of principles has been developed to inform the design of future tools for collaborative knowledge management.

Contribution & Benefit: We present system for creating large displays from a collection of smaller devices, opening opportunities for creating large displays using individuals mobile phones at events such as conferences and concerts.

Contribution & Benefit: Sketch It, Make It is a modeling tool that lets non-experts to design specifications for items for fabrication with laser cutters.

Contribution & Benefit: Contributes new knowledge about the design of technologies to support (and potentially complicate) inheriting, living with and passing down treasured digital content among family members and across generations.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents Codelets, which link interactive documentation with example code in code editors. Codelets allow third parties to write rich in-editor documentation.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes Voice Typing, a new speech interaction technique, where utterances are transcribed as produced to enable real-time error identification. Reduces user corrections and cognitive demand for text input via speech.

Contribution & Benefit: Addresses end of life issues and technology use, with a focus on the design and development of systems that engage with death, dying, mortality, and bereavement.

Contribution & Benefit: Critically analyzes persuasive technology as a modernist approach to solving social problems. Identifies structural limitations of persuasive technology as an approach to sustainability and offers alternatives.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes development and evaluations of WebTicket that manages web accounts using paper-based or mobile-phone-based tickets. Demonstrates that WebTicket provides reliable and phishing-resilient user authentication.

Contribution & Benefit: Case study describing a simple design exercise called “I like, I wish.” Findings from this exercise relevant to the design of more human-centered HCI research environments are discussed.

Contribution & Benefit: In this note, we suggest using a largely unutilized touch input dimension: shear (force tangential to a screen's surface). This provides a supplemental analog 2D input channel.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes an experiment on inducing communication in online game groups. Examines the influence of communication topic and communicator role on group commitment. Extends our understanding of commitment in online groups.

Contribution & Benefit: Time Travel Proxy enables interactive, asynchronous meetings through recorded videos. A field study in actual usage reflects on the design concepts and identifies opportunities for future refinement.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes usability problems identified through a laboratory study to evaluate tools to limit OBA. Designers will be aware of these problems and could use our methodology to evaluate their tools.

Contribution & Benefit: Describe a long-term field study of a social delivery robot in a workplace. Can assist the development of agents, avatars, and robots for individuals and organizations.

Contribution & Benefit: Field study discussing the extent to which productive training - enabled by speech-recognition-supported games - is superior to receptive vocabulary training for reading skills. Benefits development of speech-user interfaces for literacy.

Contribution & Benefit: This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this process.

Contribution & Benefit: Lab study exploring whether intuitive access-control policies can be made from photo tags created for organizational and access-control purposes. Can increase understanding of user engagement with tag-based access control systems.

Contribution & Benefit: We show that 'distributed sensemaking' -sensemaking while leveraging the sensemaking efforts of previous users- enables schema transfer between users, leading to improved sensemaking quality and helpfulness.

Contribution & Benefit: Time is a difficult concept for parents to communicate with young children. We developed TimeBlocks, a novel tangible, playful object to facilitate communication about concepts of time with young children.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a system for crowdsourcing itinerary planning called Mobi. Illustrates a novel crowdware concept for tackling complex tasks with global constraints by using a shared, collaborative workspace.

Contribution & Benefit: Motivates and develops the question: To what extent and in what ways should the intentional negation of technology be an acknowledged and legitimate area of design research activity within HCI?

Contribution & Benefit: Investigates the phenomena of posting personal, revealing, and controversial images online. Provides recommendations for the development of systems that support these activities and directions for future work.

Contribution & Benefit: Do online recommendations sway people's own opinions? The results of this paper show that this is indeed the case, with important consequences for consumer behavior research and marketing strategies.

Contribution & Benefit: This workshop focuses on exploring the centrality of visual literacy and visual thinking to HCI, foregrounding the notion that imagery is a primary form of visual thinking.

Contribution & Benefit: To become successful, online communities must meet challenges, including starting up and encouraging contributions. This tutorial reviews social science theory and research on these topics and translates it into design recommendations.

Contribution & Benefit: Small lights (e.g., LEDs) are used as indicators in a wide variety of devices. Although exceedingly simple in their output, varying light intensity over time, their design space can be rich.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents and interprets findings from user enactments with teenagers investigating 4 design concepts that advance the form and behavior of virtual possessions.

Contribution & Benefit: Presents the design, development, and evaluation of TimeBlocks. TimeBlocks is a novel tangible, playful object to facilitate communication about time between young children and adults.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a longitudinal study examining how initial topical focus influences communities' ability to attract a critical mass. Can assist in understanding the development of online social networking structures.

Contribution & Benefit: This special interest group meeting will bring together the community of researchers and companies focused on creating end-user programming tools, thereby facilitating technology transfer and future collaboration.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes an example-based web design tool that automatically generates hierarchical questions and explanations about existing website styling information. Can help designers understand how to recreate desired appearances from examples.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes three explorations of using contextual information to support reflection on factors that affect physical activity. Informs the design of physical activity awareness systems and, generally, personal informatics systems.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes three explorations of using contextual information to support reflection on factors that affect physical activity. Informs the design of physical activity awareness systems and, generally, personal informatics systems.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a remote touch study, showing communicative touch accompanied by speech can significantly influence people's sense of connectedness. Identifies perception of communication intention as an important factor in touch communication design.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a remote touch study, showing communicative touch accompanied by speech can significantly influence people's sense of connectedness. Identifies perception of communication intention as an important factor in touch communication design.

Contribution & Benefit: User-centered exploration of user motivations in choosing eyes-free technologies for mobile interaction. Increase understanding of eyes-free interaction by systematically examining motivations and establish high level design implications for satisfying user motivations.

Contribution & Benefit: This research suggests three possible textual visualizations of a book, which may help users to find a desirable book, with the use of intuitive information out of large book data.

Contribution & Benefit: This research suggests three possible textual visualizations of a book, which may help users to find a desirable book, with the use of intuitive information out of large book data.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel includes designers, product managers, and executives from various industries. The discussion focuses on how designers can collaborate effectively with executives to create a design-driven strategy from concept to implementation.

Contribution & Benefit: The goal of this panel is to launch a dialog on women in UX leadership in business. Our panelists of women leaders will share their insights with the UX community.

Contribution & Benefit: Facilitate the exchange of approaches, solutions, and ideas about how to better support end users' interactions with intelligent and autonomous systems between academic and industrial researchers.

Contribution & Benefit: A user study exploring the effects of mental model soundness on end users personalizing an intelligent agent. Can help designers understand the impact of providing structural information about intelligent agents.

Contribution & Benefit: The rise of ubiquitous computing leads to a convergence between architectural design and HCI. This workshop brings digital interaction and the build environment together to map future research and collaboration.

Contribution & Benefit: This SIG meeting invites researchers and practitioners to get an insight in and to discuss the potential of gaze interaction for diverse application areas, interaction tasks, and multimodal user interfaces.

Contribution & Benefit: The efficacy of Gaze-Augmented Think Aloud for teaching visual search strategy to learners is demonstrated empirically. An expert's gaze visualization indicates what to look for and what to avoid.

Contribution & Benefit: Explores the explicit use of biodata as part of a narrative for television and film. Raises some key research challenges about “acting” biodata and the nature of accessible biodata visualisations.

Contribution & Benefit: This SIG is the forum where to discuss the state of the engineering community and how to strengthen its role in CHI

Contribution & Benefit: This tutorial aims to help user interface designers and developers to understand the issues involved in multi-device interactive applications accessed through mobile and stationary devices even exploiting different interaction modalities

Contribution & Benefit: Presents the design and evaluation of a tool that supports community-based health advocacy. Provides recommendations for HCI research focused on health inequalities and the ecological influences on behaviors and attitudes.

Contribution & Benefit: In this Town Hall on Peer Review, we discuss how to improve and change our reviewing practices to meet the challenge of both ongoing growth and increasing interdisciplinary participation.

Contribution & Benefit: Study of households living with bandwidth caps. Challenges assumptions about users having unlimited Internet connections and suggests design implications for those on capped bandwidth plans.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes the concept of virtualizing optical projections as a metaphor for interacting between handhelds and stationary displays. We present characteristics, implementation and evaluation of such virtual projections.

Contribution & Benefit: SnapAR is a magic-lens–based hand-held augmented reality application that allows its user to store snapshots of a scene and revisit them virtually at a later time.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel relates issues in HCI/arts to innovation policy discourse in order to bring a fresh perspective to the STEM/arts divide in HCI.

Contribution & Benefit: Discussion about review process at CHI focusing on 1) ways to improve reviewing, 2) alternative peer review models, and 3) educational materials for new reviewers.

Contribution & Benefit: Our first attempt to deploy a crowd-sourced monolingual translation system to the wild finds interesting lesson dealing with crowds with different sizes simultaneously.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel includes designers, product managers, and executives from various industries. The discussion focuses on how designers can collaborate effectively with executives to create a design-driven strategy from concept to implementation.

Contribution & Benefit: A qualitative study exploring how romantic partners make Facebook-related decisions and how Facebook's affordances support them. Provides examples/ideas for thinking about designs and theorizing about ways people manage privacy and relationships.

Contribution & Benefit: We introduce a multitouch system capable of identifying the finger and hand corresponding to each touch, and show how we use it in a multitouch 3D authoring tool.

Contribution & Benefit: Are complex lifestyles unsustainable? Do they contribute to environmental unsustainability? Should HCI design technologies that support simple living for human and environmental sustainability? This workshop discusses these questions.

Contribution & Benefit: We present a venue for the discussion of Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technologies.

Contribution & Benefit: We describe a mouseless, near-surface version of the Bimanual Marking Menu system. The system offers a large number of accessible commands and does not interfere with multi-touch interactions.

Contribution & Benefit: Experimental study exploring effects of available time and notifying observed parties on gathering awareness information. Provides a framework for understanding these behaviors, and results suggesting urgency and notification reduce gathering.

Contribution & Benefit: Critically analyzes persuasive technology as a modernist approach to solving social problems. Identifies structural limitations of persuasive technology as an approach to sustainability and offers alternatives.

Contribution & Benefit: Discussion about review process at CHI focusing on 1) ways to improve reviewing, 2) alternative peer review models, and 3) educational materials for new reviewers.

Contribution & Benefit: This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this process.

Contribution & Benefit: In this panel, we explore the state of the art of humanist scholarship in HCI and consider its future trajectories.

Contribution & Benefit: A qualitative study exploring how romantic partners make Facebook-related decisions and how Facebook's affordances support them. Provides examples/ideas for thinking about designs and theorizing about ways people manage privacy and relationships.

Contribution & Benefit: Presentation and discussion of children using a variety of tangible interfaces, the challenges and benefits they encountered, and the importance of looking at the connection between psychological factors and design.

Contribution & Benefit: The panel will capture some of the breadth and depth of the current CHI discourse on Social Sustainability, and discuss a forward-looking research agenda.

Contribution & Benefit: Experimental study exploring effects of available time and notifying observed parties on gathering awareness information. Provides a framework for understanding these behaviors, and results suggesting urgency and notification reduce gathering.

Contribution & Benefit: This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this process.

Contribution & Benefit: User studies on a pen-gesture-based interactive paper system for Active Reading. Can help understand how such a system is learned and used in typical scenarios and how researchers evaluate it.

Contribution & Benefit: Zero-fidelity simulation develops and invokes the principle of abstraction, focusing on human-information and human-human transfers of meaning, to derive design from work practice.

Contribution & Benefit: Will teach you how to analyze, design and evaluate social interaction for online video and television, giving practical tools, techniques and guidelines to apply directly in your own work.

Contribution & Benefit: Study how saliency of relevant information impacts user engagement metrics, namely, focused attention and affect. Of interest to website owner, entertainment-oriented or other, interested in understanding user engagement.

Contribution & Benefit: This panel relates issues in HCI/arts to innovation policy discourse in order to bring a fresh perspective to the STEM/arts divide in HCI.

Contribution & Benefit: This SIG initiates an essential step in establishing the Digital Arts at CHI by working with the audience to articulate traditions of contribution.

Contribution & Benefit: This case study describes the decision-making process, the opportunities, and the difficulties of designing and rolling out a NFC-based system to help provide clean water in Haiti.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a workshop on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into practice. Can help designers, users and other stakeholders account for values in design.

Contribution & Benefit: A virtual reality exposure therapy system designed to expose patients with social phobia to various social situations. Patients can engage in a free speech dialogue with avatars while being monitored.

Contribution & Benefit: A major contribution of the workshop will be to clarify the applicability and transferability of different theories, theoretical concepts in informing UX design and evaluation in both research and practice.

Contribution & Benefit: We examine the potential of utilizing the affected population and prevalent mobile technology (with GPS) as distributed active sensors, sharing observations from the disaster areas, while guiding themselves to safety.

Contribution & Benefit: Helps to select the right user experience evaluation methods for different purposes. A collection of methods that investigate how people feel about the system under study is provided at www.allaboutux.org.

Contribution & Benefit: Describes a workshop on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into practice. Can help designers, users and other stakeholders account for values in design.

Contribution & Benefit: A virtual reality exposure therapy system designed to expose patients with social phobia to various social situations. Patients can engage in a free speech dialogue with avatars while being monitored.

Contribution & Benefit: We examine the potential of utilizing the affected population and prevalent mobile technology (with GPS) as distributed active sensors, sharing observations from the disaster areas, while guiding themselves to safety.

Contribution & Benefit: We investigate the effect of skin on traditional components for sensing input, providing output, and for communicating, synchronizing and charging wirelessly.

Contribution & Benefit: The requirements for funding for HCI research are changing globally. We review with panel members and high-level grant decision makers from different continents how requirements change and what that means.

Contribution & Benefit: Proposes design as accessing, aligning, and navigating “constituents” of the object of design. People interact with the object of design through its constituents, combining creativity, participation and experience in drawing-things-together.