University of Maryland

2017 Symposium Program

8:15 – 9:00 Registration & Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Plenary Talks

Welcome/Introduction
Niklas Elmqvist
Personalization to Expand Inclusion
Gregg C Vanderheiden, Bern Jordan
Rocking the Research: A Handbook from HCIL’s History
Ben Shneiderman
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:45 Morning Talks

Wearables, the Quantified Self, and Protecting Your Data: Privacy Challenges for Fitness Tracking Devices
Jessica Vitak
Algorithm Tips: Jumpstarting the Investigation of Algorithms in Use by the Federal Government
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Daniel Trielli, Jennifer Stark
Features of Credibility in Social Media Conversations
Cody Buntain
Diversity in Matching Markets
John P Dickerson, Candice Schumann, Jeff Foster, Faez Ahmed, Mark Fuge
Project Sidewalk
Manaswi Saha, Jon Froehlich
Full-Day Tutorials

Introduction to Usability Testing
Bill Killam
10:30 – 5:00
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch  Lunch Lunch
1:00 – 2:45 Communities and Crowds

HCI Community Partners Speak Out: True Stories from the Front Lines
Tamara Clegg, Carol Boston, et al
Panel: 1:00 – 2:00
Science Everywhere: Illuminating Children’s Scientific Ways of Knowing Through Social Media Sharing
Kelly Mills, Tamara Clegg, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Daniel Pauw, Lautaro Cabrera
Crowd Problem Solving Discussions: Successes and Failures
Yla Tausczik, Mark Boons
Crowdsourcing Mobile HCI Performance Experiments
Leah Findlater
Privacy and Security

GeoPrivacy Beyond Coordinates
Grant McKenzie
Staying Safe Online: Kids Edition
Priya Kumar, Shalmali Naik, Utkarsha Devkar, Tammy Clegg, Jessica Vitak
User Interactions and Permission Use on Android
Kristopher Micinski, Daniel Votipka, Rock Stevens, Nikolaos Kofinas, Jeffrey S. Foster, Michelle L. Mazurek
Comparison of Different Hacker/Software Testing Communities
Daniel Votipka, Elissa Redmiles, Rock Stevens, Jeremy Hu, Michelle Mazurek
Usability Challenges in Searching End-to-End Encrypted Data
Wei Bai, Michelle Mazurek, Babis Papamanthou
Challenges in HTTPS Configuration / Certificate Installation for Site Administrators
Yehuda Katz, Michelle Mazurek, Sascha Fahl, Yasemin Acar
Full Day Tutorials (cont’d)

Half-Day Tutorials

Cognitive Science in HCI
Tim Clausner
1:00 – 4:30
Social Media Analytics in the Wake of Crises
Cody Buntain
1:00 – 5:00

Half-Day Workshops

Design Thinking Workshop for YX Specialization (Open to YX Students Only)
Tamara Clegg, Mega Subramaniam, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Amanda Waugh
2:00 – 5:00
2:45 – 3:00 Break  Break Break
3:00 – 3:45 Human Dimensions in HCI

Redesigning StreamBED
Alina Striner, Jenny Preece
Not Just Playing Around: Game Design in the Interaction Design Classroom
Liese Zahabi
Visual Analytics

Using Visual Analytics to Analyze Design Processes
Senthil Chandrasegaran, Karthik Badam, Niklas Elmqvist
Supporting Team-First Visual Analytics through Group Activity Representations
Karthik Badam, Zehua Zeng, Niklas Elmqvist
User Driven Text Mining with Word Embeddings
Deokgun Park, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Niklas Elmqvist
Full Day Tutorials (cont’d)

Half-Day Tutorials (cont’d)

Half-Day Workshops (cont’d)

3:45 – 4:00 Break  Break Break
4:00 – 4:45 Human Dimensions in HCI (cont’d)

Cyberpsychology: State of the Art
Kent Norman
Towards Understanding Human Mistakes of Programming by Example
Tak Yeon Lee
Minding the Human Computer Interface: the Value of Cognitive Science in HCI
Tim Clausner
Visual Analytics (cont’d)

Interactive Topic Modeling
Alison Smith, Varun Kumar, Leah Findlater
Lessons Learned from the EventFlow Project: Successes & Near Misses
Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
Finding Similar People to Guide Life Choices
Catherine Plaisant, Fan Du, Ben Shneiderman
Full Day Tutorials (cont’d)

Half-Day Tutorials (cont’d)

Half-Day Workshops (cont’d)

4:45 – 6:00 Demo & Poster Session