GVU Community Participates and is Honored @ CHI 2007

Several members of the GVU community are participants and two are honored at CHI 2007. Scheduled April 28 - May 3 in San Jose, California, CHI is the premier conference on human factors in computing systems.

James Foley, Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications at Georgia Tech and former GVU Director, is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award. He gives a talk, "Human-Centered Computing Education - What We Teach, How We Teach - Looking Back, Looking Ahead" on Wed., May 2 at 9 a.m. during the conference.

Gregory Abowd, College of Computing professor at Georgia Tech, is the recipient of the Social Impact Award. He gives a talk, "Using Computing Technologies to Face the Challenges of Autism," on Thurs., May 3 at 11:30 a.m. also during the conference.

For more information about the awards and the honorees, see story "Foley and Abowd are CHI 2007 Award Recipients."

Other GVU-related participation in the conference include the following:

PAPERS:
"Presence and Engagement in an Interactive Drama," Steven Dow, Manish Mehtama, Ellie Harmon, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
"Can Customization Affect User Perception of and Performance with Embodied Conversational Agents?" Jun Xiao, John Stasko, Richard Catrambone
"Grow and Know: Understanding Record-Keeping Needs for the Development of Young Children." To appear in the Proceedings of CHI 2007. Julie Kientz, Rosa Arriaga, Marshini Chetty, Gillian Hayes, ]Jahmeilah Richardson, Swetak Patel, Gregory Abowd
"Home Networking and HCI: What Hath God Wrought?" Erika Shehan, W. Keith Edwards
"Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice," Andrew Miller, W. Keith Edwards

EXPERIENCE REPORT:
"Pottering: A Design-Oriented Investigation," to appear in extended abstracts, CHI 2007, Susan Wyche, Alex Taylor, Joseph "Jofish" Kaye

CHI NOTES:
"Revisiting and Validating a Model of Two-Thumb Text Entry," Edward Clarkson, Kent Lyons, James Clawson, Thad Starner
"Consistency, Multiple Monitors, and Multiple Windows," Dugald Hutchings, John Stasko
"Mobile Interaction with Visual and RFID Tags - A Field Study on User Perception," Kaj Mäkelä, Sara Bel, Dan Greenblatt, Jonna Häkkilä

WORKSHOPS:
"Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices," Erika Shehan
User Centered, Design and International Development," Michael Best, Celeste Buckhalter, Daniel Greenblatt, Shanks Krishnan, Nithya Sambasivan

CHI SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP:
"Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices," Erika Shehan
"Interactive Technologies for Autism," Daniel Gillette, Gillian Hayes, Gregory Abowd, Justine Cassell, Rana el Kaliouby, Dorothy Strickland, Patrice Weiss

WORK-IN-PROGESS:
"HCI4D: HCI Challenges in the Global South," Marshini Chetty, Rebecca Grinter
"Exploring Large Display Use in American Megachurches," to appear in extended abstracts, CHI 2007, Susan Wyche, Yevgeniy "Eugene" Medynskiy, Rebecca Grinter
"On Context of Content: A Comparative Methodology Review of How HCI and Mass Communication Analyze Blogs and Social Media," Lo Ping Wei, Ellen Yi-Luen Do