CHI Melbourne 2023 – June 1st

June 1, 09:15 to 16.30, followed by drinks + networking.

CHI-Melbourne is an opportunity for you to engage with CHI 2023 paper authors as they present their work to Melbourne-based university colleagues (i.e. HCI researchers at Monash, Melbourne, RMIT, Deakin, Swinburne, La Trobe, Victoria etc) and practitioners from the Melbourne design and digital industries.

Like last year, CHI-M will be:

  • in-person and single-track only (no concurrent or hybrid presentations)
  • geared more towards discussion and networking rather than endless paper presentations
  • free (no registration costs)

Schedule: 

09:15   Welcome & Intros to different HCI &human-centred computing labs in Melbourne

09:40   SESSION 1: Bodily experiences

·      Dozer: Toward Understanding theDesign of Closed-Loop Wearables for Sleep (Nathan Arthur Semertzidis,Annaelle Li Pin Hiung, Michaela Jayne Vranic-Peters, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller)

·      Message Ritual: A Posthuman Accountof Living with Lamp (Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack)

·      3D Building Plans: SupportingNavigation by People who are Blind or have Low Vision in Multi-Storey Buildings(Ruth G Nagassa, Matthew Butler, Leona M Holloway, Cagatay Goncu,Kim Marriott)

·     Interactive panel (Q&A)

10:30   Morning Tea (30 mins)

11:00   SESSION 2: Designing for human experiences

·      Enabling Digital ParentingInterventions to Promote Empathic Partnerships among Parents, Educators, andAdolescents Targeting School Refusal (Anna Smout, DharshaniChandrasekara, Ling Wu, Glenn Melvin, Joshua Paolo Seguin, Patrick Olivier,Mairead Claire Cardamone-Breen, Tom Bartindale, Roisin McNaney, Marie B H Yap)

·      Weisst Du wieviel Sternlein stehen?– Building older adults’ confidence in technology use through co-designingdigital storytelling (Lan An, Christel Huwald, Diego Muñoz, SonjaPedell, Leon Sterling)

·      Bones of Contention: SocialAcceptance of Digital Cemetery Technologies (Fraser Allison,Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold)

·      The Hidden Rules of Hanabi: HowHumans Outperform AI Agents (Matthew Sidji, Wally Smith, MelissaJ. Rogerson)

 

12:00   Lunch (1 hour)

 

13:00   SESSION 3: Playing with data!

·      DataDancing: An Exploration of theDesign Space For Visualisation View Management for 3D Surfaces and Spaces (JiazhouLiu, Barrett Ens, Arnaud Prouzeau, Jim Smiley, Isobel Kara Nixon, SarahGoodwin, Tim Dwyer)

·      Bias-Aware Systems: ExploringIndicators for the Occurrences of Cognitive Biases when Facing DifferentOpinions (Nattapat Boonprakong, Xiuge Chen, Catherine Davey,Benjamin Tag, Tilman Dingler)

·      Characteristics of Deep and SkimReading on Smartphones vs. Desktop: A Comparative Study (Xiuge Chen,Namrata Srivastava (Monash), Rajiv Jain (Adobe Research), Jennifer Healey(Adobe Research), Tilman Dingler)

·      Volumetric Mixed RealityTelepresence for Real-time Cross Modality Collaboration (AndrewIrlitti, Mesut Latifoglu, Qiushi Zhou, Martin N Reinoso, Thuong Hoang(Deakin), Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere)

 

 

14:00   SESSION 4: Working with communities

·      Older Adults Using Technology forMeaningful Activities During COVID-19: An Analysis Through the Lens ofSelf-Determination Theory (Wei Zhao, Ryan M. Kelly, Melissa J.Rogerson, Jenny Waycott)

·      Action Translate: SupportingStudents in Translation Volunteering (Margherita Angelucci,Harrison Marshall, Meriem Tebourbi, Joshua Paolo Seguin, Delvin Varghese,Patrick Olivier, Tom Bartindale)

·      TactIcons: Designing 3D Printed MapIcons for People who are Blind or have Low Vision (Leona M Holloway,Matthew Butler, Kim Marriott)

 

 

15:00   Afternoon Tea (30 mins) 

15:30   Industry Panel – What is the future of UX?

Amir Ansari, Cheryl Vize, Kirsten Mann, Sadia Mir, Tom Wall, Patrizia Bordignon

16:30   Closing | Networking drinks (Venue TBC)

 

The event will be held at the Monash’s Sky Room (Monash Business School, 30 Collins Street). Light refreshments and beverages will be served during coffee breaks.

Any questions, please email Delvin Varghese <delvin.varghese@monash.edu> or Diego Munoz <dmunoz@swin.edu.au>

From the SIGCHI Melbourne team:
Delvin Varghese
Diego Munoz
Sarah Webber
Jeni Paay
Patrizia Bordignon
Rakesh Patibanda
Anthony Phuc Le
Wally Smith