2007 Proceeding- Conference Chair:
- Mary Beth Rosson,
- Program Chair:
- David Gilmore
Welcome to the CHI 2007 proceedings. We believe the technical papers and notes herein present some of the best current work in the diverse and dynamic field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
CHI is the leading HCI conference. Creating the technical program requires a huge investment of time and effort from members of the research community. 840 submissions were processed (571 papers, 269 notes), requiring over 3000 reviews. We thank all the reviewers for the dedication with which they undertook this task. We are particularly indebted to the papers and notes program committee members, also known as the Associate Chairs (ACs). Balancing areas of expertise, ACs were selected from the field's leading researchers. The AC role included recruiting all reviewers, moderating and supervising the review process to ensure a high-quality set of reviews was obtained, initiating and organizing author rebuttal and reviewer discussions and approving final submissions. The estimated time expenditure to serve as an AC was 11 days of full-time work; many committee members spent more time than that. Papers ACs came to San Jose in December 2006 from around the world for two intense days of review, debates, and deliberation; Notes ACs who could not attend the parallel notes meeting in San Jose engaged in a virtual conference. The committee was extremely serious and careful in making CHI paper and note decisions, with many submissions receiving multiple discussions, before and during the program committee meetings. No review process can guarantee perfect decisions, but we are confident that every possible effort was made to ensure fair process and high quality decision-making. This year's program committee certainly has our respect and gratitude, and deserves the sincere appreciation of the entire HCI community. We would also like to thank the ACs and their organizations for underwriting the travel expenses for meeting.
CHI is both a journal-quality archival forum and a community-building conference. To encourage quality in the written presentation of accepted work, all of the 142 full paper and 40 note acceptances were provisional. As a result, authors actively responded and incorporated feedback from the reviews into the final versions of the papers that appear here.
Twenty-eight accepted papers and four accepted notes (5% of submissions) deemed to make an especially noteworthy contribution to human-computer interaction research were nominated by the program committee for Best Paper and Best Note Awards; these nominated papers and notes are identified in the Final Program. At the conference, up to six of these will be announced as winners of a CHI Best Paper Award (1% of submissions), and one note will be selected as an exemplary note. While all papers accepted into the CHI technical papers program have passed a rigorous examination of their quality, the Best Paper and Best Notes Awards signal and reward particularly outstanding contributions in each year.
Usability and free/libre/open source software SIG: HCI expertise and design rationale
The usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a new challenge for HCI professionals. Although HCI professionals are working on usability issues in FLOSS, the CHI community has not yet organized with respect to FLOSS. The purpose of this ...
Let's get emotional: emotion research in human computer interaction
Emotion is a topic of growing interest in the HCI community. Studying emotion within the HCI discipline is an exciting interdisciplinary task. This can be facilitated by the exchange of thoughts and ideas with others working on related projects. The aim ...
Comparing internal UXD business models
Experts in the field of HCI have spoken at length about how to increase the strategic influence of User Experience Design (UXD) teams in industry [3]. Some have offered courses in HCI management [1]. Others have presented recommendations on how to prove ...
Interactive technologies for autism
- Daniel R. Gillette,
- Gillian R. Hayes,
- Gregory D. Abowd,
- Justine Cassell,
- Rana el Kaliouby,
- Dorothy Strickland,
- Patrice (Tamar) Weiss
In meeting health, education, and lifestyle goals, technology can both assist individuals with autism, and support those who live and work with them, such as family, caregivers, coworkers, and friends. The uniqueness of each individual with autism and ...
Beyond usability: taking social, situational, cultural, and other contextual factors into account
Design and evaluation in mainstream HCI have often relied on scientific measurements of efficiency and error. Although usability and usefulness are still primary concerns for HCI, researchers and designers in the field are attempting to move beyond, ...
Evaluating experience-focused HCI
A growing trend in the field is the development of experience-focused HCI, which emphasizes the experience of using the technology, rather than the focus on the task that is characteristic of many other approaches HCI. A focus on experience also means ...
Environmental sustainability and interaction
- Jennifer C. Mankoff,
- Eli Blevis,
- Alan Borning,
- Batya Friedman,
- Susan R. Fussell,
- Jay Hasbrouck,
- Allison Woodruff,
- Phoebe Sengers
By its nature, the discipline of human computer interaction must take into consideration the issues that are most pertinent to humans. We believe that the CHI community faces an unanswered challenge in the creation of interactive systems: ...
End user software engineering: CHI 2007 special interest group meeting
Recently, researchers have been working to bring the benefits of rigorous software engineering methodologies to end users who find themselves in programming situations, to try to make their software more reliable. End users create software whenever they ...
Online health communities
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Online health communities raise difficult design challenges because of the ...
Beyond usability for safety critical systems: how to be sure (safe, usable, reliable, and evolvable)?
While a significant effort is currently being undertaken by the CHI community in order to apply and extend current usability evaluation techniques to new kinds of interaction techniques very little has been done to improve the reliability of software ...
Trust 2.1: advancing the trust debate
Trust has a considerable research tradition in the CHI community. It has been investigated in the context of e-commerce, virtual teams, online gaming, social networking. to name a few. In this paper, we give an overview on this research. We delineate ...
Current issues in assessing and improving information usability
The usability of information is vital to successful websites, products, and services. Managers and developers often recognize the role of information or content in overall product usability, but miss opportunities to improve information usability as ...
Dealing with key challenges in international usability and user research
In this SIG, we will present scenarios that exemplify many of the key challenges of doing user research and usability evaluation internationally. We will use these to stimulate discussion about solutions and approaches, and then share our own ...
SIG: capturing longitudinal usability: what really affects user performance over time?
In this Special Interest Group (SIG) the attendees will discuss methods for capturing usability data over time. Specifically, we will share industry best practices, brainstorm alternative solutions, as well as compare and contrast usability engineering ...
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- Claisse C and Durrant A ‘Keeping our Faith Alive’: Investigating Buddhism Practice during COVID-19 to Inform Design for the Online Community Practice of Faith Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (1-19)
- Lindrup M, Skov M and Raptis D Between Egoism and Altruism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Reflections about Energy Use in the Life Cycle of High Preference Grocery Products Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, (1-10)
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Schaefer K, Baker A, Brewer R, Patton D, Canady J, Metcalfe J, Islam M and George T (2019). Assessing multi-agent human-autonomy teams: US Army Robotic Wingman gunnery operations Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XI, 10.1117/12.2519302, 9781510626294, (82)
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Park B, Kim Y, Park C and Manaa S (Industrial Development Strategy in Egypt and its Implications for Cooperation with Korea), SSRN Electronic Journal, 10.2139/ssrn.2773400
- CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHI EA '18 | 3,955 | 1,208 | 31% |
| CHI EA '17 | 5,000 | 1,000 | 20% |
| CHI EA '16 | 5,000 | 1,000 | 20% |
| CHI EA '15 | 1,520 | 379 | 25% |
| CHI EA '14 | 3,200 | 1,000 | 31% |
| CHI EA '13 | 1,963 | 630 | 32% |
| CHI EA '10 | 1,346 | 350 | 26% |
| CHI EA '09 | 1,130 | 385 | 34% |
| CHI EA '07 | 582 | 212 | 36% |
| Overall | 23,696 | 6,164 | 26% |