Northeastern University Researchers present research findings, receive honors at ACM CHI 2023

Seventh in the World: Northeastern Publications at ACM CHI 2023

In the last week of April, researchers from across the globe will descend on Hamburg, Germany for ACM CHI, the most prestigious conference in the field of human–computer interaction (HCI). There, 27 papers, late-breaking works, panels, special interest groups, and other events will bear the names of Khoury College researchers.

In terms of published papers, Northeastern ranks seventh in the world, sixth in the United States, and first in Massachusetts, further cementing its status as a global HCI leader. To get there, it took 25 faculty and student researchers from Khoury College, as well as nine from the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) and seven from the College of Engineering (CoE). Many of the accepted works involve cross-college collaborations, reflecting Northeastern’s interdisciplinary ethos.

Megan Hofmann (left) and Gregory Abowd

Among the honored researchers at CHI is Khoury College’s Megan Hofmann, a recently announced winner of SIGCHI’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for her groundbreaking work in the computing-driven manufacture of customized devices for people with disabilities. She, along with Khoury and CAMD professor Dakuo Wang, is also serving on the conference’s organizing committee. Joining Hofmann in the award category is CoE Dean Gregory Abowd, who recently won SIGCHI’s Lifetime Research Award for his applications of ubiquitous computing, including within education, health care, and the household.

In addition, Northeastern is taking home one Best Paper award and three Honorable Mentions. The Best Paper nod goes to a paper parsing the research community’s inconsistent definitions of trust in social media — a paper counting Khoury College doctoral student Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, CAMD professor Miso Kim, and CoE professor Jacqueline Griffin among its authors. The honorable mentions went to:

  • An evaluation of the role of race and ethnicity data in HCI research, with CAMD and Khoury professor Alexandra To contributing
  • A study on the use of video chat technology by parrots, for which Khoury and CAMD professor Rébecca Kleinberger was lead author
  • A paper on the use of sustainable materials’ physical transiency for electronics, co-authored by CoE dean Gregory Abowd

Northeastern CHI23 Schedule

Papers to be presented include:

For a full rundown of Khoury College’s work and when it’s being showcased, see the schedule below (all times local).

Key

Bold = Khoury College
() = CAMD or CoE
(+) = interdisciplinary appointee
* = Khoury College courtesy appointee

Jump to: Monday, April 24 | Tuesday, April 25 | Wednesday, April 26 | Thursday, April 27

Monday, April 24

SwellSense: Creating 2.5D Interactions with Micro-Capsule Paper
Time: 11:52–12:06
Session: Interactive Surfaces
Type: Paper
Authors: Tingyu Cheng, Zhihan Zhang, Bingrui Zong, Yuhui Zhao, Zekun Chang, Ye Jun Kim, Clement Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd* (CoE), HyunJoo Oh

Corsetto: A Kinesthetic Garment for Designing, Composing for, and Experiencing an Intersubjective Haptic Voice (read more)
Time: 12:06–12:20
Session: Designing and Understanding Embodied Experiences
Type: Paper
Authors: Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Yoav Luft, Kelsey Cotton, Ekaterina R. Stepanova, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Rébecca Kleinberger (Khoury + CAMD), Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Hiroshi Ishii, Kristina Höök

“Who is the right homeless client?”: Values in Algorithmic Homelessness Service Provision and Machine Learning Research (read more)
Time: 14:44–14:58
Session: Inclusive Futures
Type: Paper
Authors: Dilruba Showkat, Angela D. R. Smith, Wang Lingqing, Alexandra To (CAMD + Khoury)

Why, When, and From Whom: Considerations for Collecting and Reporting Race and Ethnicity Data in HCI (read more)
Winner: Honorable Mention
Time: 15:26–15:40
Session: Inclusive Futures
Type: Paper
Authors: Yiqun T. Chen, Angela D.R. Smith, Katharina Reinecke, Alexandra To (CAMD + Khoury)

Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment (read more)
Winner: Honorable Mention
Time: 15:40–15:54
Session: Nature and Environment
Type: Paper
Authors: Rébecca Kleinberger (Khoury + CAMD), Jennifer Cunha, Megha M. Vemuri, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

Tuesday, April 25

Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms (read more, full paper)
Time: 9:42–9:56
Session: Immersive & Ubiquitous Analytics
Type: Paper
Authors: David Saffo, Andrea Batch, Cody Dunne, Niklas Elmqvist

Functional Destruction: Utilizing Sustainable Materials’ Physical Transiency for Electronics Applications
Winner: Honorable Mention
Time: 10:10–10:24
Session: Human-Robot Interaction
Type: Paper
Authors: Tingyu Cheng, Taylor Tabb, Jung Wook Park, Eric M. Gallo, Aditi Maheshwari, Gregory D. Abowd* (CoE), HyunJoo Oh, Andreea Danielescu

SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Panel
Time: 11:10–12:35
Session: N/A
Type: SIGCHI Event
Authors: Dhruv Jain, Kai Lukoff, Megan Hofmann

Auditory Seasoning Filters: Altering Food Perception via Augmented Sonic Feedback of Chewing Sounds (read more)
Time: 14:58–15:12
Session: Health Behaviour Change
Type: Paper
Authors: Rébecca Kleinberger (Khoury + CAMD), Akito Oshiro van Troyer, Qian Janice Wang

Model Sketching: Centering Concepts in Early-Stage Machine Learning Model Design (read more, full paper)
Time: 14:58–15:12
Session: Tools for Data Scientists and Literature Reviews
Type: Paper
Authors: Michelle S. Lam, Zixian Ma, Anne Li, Izequiel Freitas, Dakuo Wang (Khoury + CAMD), James A. Landay, Michael S. Bernstein

Dark Patterns and the Emerging Threats of Deceptive Design Practices (read more, full paper)
Time: 16:35–18:00
Session: N/A
Type: Special Interest Group
Authors: Colin M. Gray, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Nicole Tong, Thomas Mildner, Arianna Rossi, Johanna T. Gunawan, Caroline Sinders

Thought Bubbles: A Proxy into Players’ Mental Model Development (read more, full paper)
Time: 17:17–17:31
Session: Theory and Model Development
Type: Paper
Authors: Omid Mohaddesi (CoE), Noah Chicoine (CoE), Min Gong (CoE), Ozlem Ergun (CoE), Jacqueline Griffin (CoE), David Kaeli* (CoE), Stacy Marsella (Khoury + CoS), Casper Harteveld* (CAMD)

Rapid Convergence: The Outcomes of Making PPE during a Healthcare Crisis (read more, full paper)
Time: 17:45–17:59
Session: Journals: Health
Type: Journal
Authors: Kelly Mack, Megan Hofmann, Udaya Lakshmi, Jerry Cao, Nayha Auradkar, Rosa I. Arriaga, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff

Wednesday, April 26

Simphony: Enhancing Accessible Pattern Design Practices among Blind Weavers (read more, full paper)
Time: 9:14–9:28
Session: Creativity Support
Type: Paper
Authors: Maitraye Das (Khoury + CAMD), Darren Gergle, Anne Marie Piper

“That’s important, but…”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research Innovations (read more, full paper)
Time: 10:10–10:24
Session: Reflexions
Type: Paper
Authors: Kimberly Do, Rock Yuren Pang, Jiachen Jiang, Katharina Reinecke

Algorithmic Power or Punishment: Information Worker Perspectives on Passive Sensing Enabled AI Phenotyping of Performance and Wellbeing (full paper)
Session: Explainable, Responsible, Manageable AI
Time: 10:10–10:24
Type: Paper
Authors: Vedant Das Swain, Lan Gao, William A. Wood, Srikruthi C. Matli, Gregory D. Abowd* (CoE), Munmun De Choudhury

OPTIMISM: Enabling Collaborative Implementation of Domain-Specific Metaheuristic Optimization (read more)
Time: 10:10–10:24
Session: Supporting Users in AR and VR
Type: Paper
Authors: Megan Hofmann, Nayha Auradkar, Jessica Birchfield, Jerry Cao, Autumn G. Hughes, Gene S-H Kim, Shriya Kurpad, Kathryn J. Lum, Kelly Mack, Anisha Nilakantan, Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Emily Warnock, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson

Is “Categorical Imperative” Metaversal?: A Kantian Ethical Framework for Social Virtual Reality (read more)
Time: 10:30–11:10
Session: Late Breaking Work Posters
Type: Late-Breaking Work
Authors: Eyup Engin Kucuk, Caglar Yildirim

Exploratory Thematic Analysis of Crowdsourced Photosensitivity Warnings (read more)
Time: 10:30–11:10
Session: Late Breaking Work Posters
Type: Late-Breaking Work
Authors: Laura South, Caglar Yildirim, Amy Pavel, and Michelle Borkin

Improving Multiparty Interactions with a Robot using Large Language Models (read more)
Time: 10:30–11:10
Session: Late Breaking Work Posters
Type: Late-Breaking Work
Authors: Prasanth Murali, Ian Steenstra, Hye Sun Yun, Ameneh Shamekhi, Timothy Bickmore

Understanding Dark Patterns in IoT Devices (read more)
Time: 11:10–11:24
Session: Design with New Technologies (including AI)
Type: Paper
Authors: Monica Kowalczyk, Johanna T. Gunawan, David Choffnes, Daniel J. Dubois, Woodrow Hartzog (external affiliate at Northeastern’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute), Christo Wilson

SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Talk
Time: 11:10–12:35
Session: N/A
Type: SIGCHI Event
Authors: Gregory D. Abowd* (CoE)

Sustainable HCI Under Water: Opportunities for Research with Oceans, Coastal Communities, and Marine Systems
Time: 11:38–11:52
Session: More Than Human Interactions
Type: Paper
Authors: Laura J. Perovich (CAMD), Catherine Titcomb (D’Amore McKim + CAMD), Tad Hirsch (CAMD), Brian Helmuth (CoS), Casper Harteveld* (CAMD)

What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review (read more, full paper)
Winner: Best Paper
Time: 11:52–12:06
Session: Social Media and Moderation
Type: Paper
Authors: Yixuan Zhang, Joseph D. Gaggiano, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Nurul M. Suhaimi, Miso Kim (CAMD), Yifan Sun, Jacqueline Griffin (CoE), Andrea G. Parker

Emerging Transdisciplinary Perspectives to Confront Dark Patterns (full paper)
Time: 14:30–15:55
Session: N/A
Type: Panel
Authors: Colin M. Gray, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Kerstin Bongard-Blanchy, Arunesh Mathur, Johanna T. Gunawan, Brennan Schaffner

Exploring the Use of Personalized AI for Identifying Misinformation on Social Media (read more, full paper)
Time: 15:40–15:54
Session: Communication and Social Good
Type: Paper
Authors: Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Yannis Katsis, Dakuo Wang (Khoury + CAMD), Lucian Popa, Michael Muller

Thursday, April 27

“Everyone is Covered”: Exploring the Role of Online Interactions in Facilitating Connection and Social Support in Black Churches (read more)
Time: 9:14–9:28
Session: Social Network and Support
Type: Paper
Authors: Darley Sackitey, Teresa K. O’Leary, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Timothy Bickmore, Andrea G. Parker