UCL at CHI 2024

We are excited to share UCL’s contributions to the CHI 2024 technical programme. This year’s conference will be held at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, USA, on 11-16 May 2024. In addition to the in-person experience, the conference will accommodate remote participation.

Fourteen of our papers have been accepted for presentation, with three of these receiving a Best Paper Award and three receiving a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. In addition, we will be presenting three journal articles, two alt.chi papers, and four Late Breaking Works. Furthermore, we will co-organise three workshops at the conference and showcase our work during the interactivity session. 

In addition, five groups from our Human-Computer Interaction MSc programme have been selected as finalists in the Student Design Competition. Additionally, two of our PhD students have been selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium. 

 Duncan Brumby, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, will be organising an Editorial Board meeting of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies in his capacity as Editor-in-Chief. This will celebrate the journal's growing impact and its role as a leading publication for research on the design and use of interactive computer technology. 

This year, we will be celebrating Anna Cox, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Vice-Dean (EDI) in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, for her election to the SIGCHI Academy in 2024. The SIGCHI Academy represents an elite group of professionals recognized for their significant contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These esteemed leaders have not only shaped our disciplines and industries but have also spearheaded pivotal research and innovation efforts in human-computer interaction.

PAPERS  

• A Systematic Review of Ability-diverse Collaboration through Ability-based Lens in HCI. Lan Xiao, Maryam Bandukda, Katrin Angerbauer, Weiyue Lin, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar, Michael Sedlmair, Catherine Holloway. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

• Challenges and Opportunities for the Design of Inclusive Digital Mental Health Tools: Understanding Culturally Diverse Young People's Experiences. Ewan Soubutts, Pranita Shrestha, Brittany Davidson, Chengcheng Qu, Charlotte Mindel, Aaron Sefi, Paul Marshall, Roisin McNaney. 

• Cheat Codes as External Support for Players Navigating Fear of Failure and Self-Regulation Challenges in Digital Games. Karla Waldenmeier, Susanne Poeller, Martin Dechant, Nicola Baumann, Regan Mandryk. 

• Controlled-STM: A Two-Stage Model to Predict User’s Perceived Intensity for Multi-point Spatiotemporal Modulation in Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptics. Zhouyang Shen, Zak Morgan, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan,Marianna Obrist, Diego Martinez. 

• Cooking With Agents: Designing Context-aware Voice Interaction. Razan Jaber, Sabrina Zhong, Sanna Kuoppamäki, Aida Hosseini, Iona Gessinger, Duncan Brumby, Benjamin Cowan, Donald McMillan. BEST PAPER AWARD

• Enhancing Communication Equity: Evaluation of an Automated Speech Recognition Application in Ghana. Gifty Ayoka, Giulia Barbareschi, Richard Cave, Catherine Holloway. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

• Exploring Privacy Practices of Female mHealth Apps in a Post-Roe World. Lisa Mekioussa Malki, Ina Kaleva, Dilisha Patel, Mark Warner, Ruba Abu-Salma. 

• FabSound: Audio-Tactile and Affective Fabric Experiences Through Mid-air Haptics. Jing Xue, Roberto Montano Murillo, Christopher Dawes, William Frier, Patricia Cornelio, Marianna Obrist. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

• Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies. Ava Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel. 

• Mindfulness-based Embodied Tangible Interactions for Stroke Rehabilitation at Home. Preetham Nagaraj, Wen Mo, Catherine Holloway. BEST PAPER AWARD

• Navigating the Virtual Gaze: Social Anxiety's Role in VR Proxemics. Beatriz Mello, Robin Welsch, Marissa Christien Verbokkem, Pascal Knierim, Martin Dechant. 

• SolarClub: Supporting Renewable Energy Communities through an Interactive Coordination System. Georgia Panagiotidou, Enrico Costanza, Kyrill Potapov, Sonia Nkatha, Michael Fell, Farhan Samanani, Hannah Knox.  

• StableLev: Data-Driven Stability Enhancement for Multi-Particle Acoustic Levitation. Lei Gao, Giorgos Christopoulos, Prateek Mittal, Ryuji Hirayama, Sriram Subramanian. 

• The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI. Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel. BEST PAPER AWARD

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM 

• Designing and Prototyping Applications Using Acoustophoretic Interfaces. Lei Gao. 

• Translating Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Decision Support Systems into Practice: A Medical Retina Case Study. Josie Carmichael. 

WORKSHOPS 

• Building a Metaverse for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Future Inclusive and Accessible Virtual Environments. Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Frederick, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Julie Williamson, Youngho Lee, Woontack Woo. 

• HCI and Aging: New Directions, New Principles. Bran Knowles, Aneesha Singh, Aloha Ambe, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar, Helen Petrie, John Vines, Jenny Waycott. 

• The CHI’24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics. Max Wilson, Jwan Shaban, Horia Maior, Christina Schneegass, Anna Cox. 

ALT.CHI 

• ChatTL;DR – You Really Ought to Check What the LLM Said on Your Behalf. Sandy Gould, Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox. 

• Exploring Gender, Computational Making and E-Textiles using the BBC micro:bit. Jennifer A. Rode, Louise Barkhuus, and Andri Ioannou. 

INTERACTIVITY 

• Examining approaches to personalized 3D printed wheelchair cushions. Andreas Polydorides, Yvonne Rogers. 

LATE BREAKING WORK 

• Context matters: Investigating information sharing in mixed-visual ability social interactions. Maryam Bandukda, Yichen Wang, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Catherine Holloway. 

• Exploring Information Needs for Tracking to Support Using Wheelchairs in Everyday Life. Wen Mo, Aneesha Singh, Catherine Holloway. 

• Knowledge Work on Airplanes: Challenges, Workarounds, and Design Implications. Wen Mo, Martin Dechant, Nicolai Marquardt, Amid, Ayobi, Aneesha Singh, Catherine Holloway. 

• WheelSkills: Prototyping Manual Wheelchair Training through Immersive Visual Feedback. Merlin Kelly, Lingqian Yang, Alexander Thomas, Pete Donelly, Youngjun Cho. 

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 

• Connectopia: A Modular Board Game Simulating Digital Interfaces to Assist Refugee and Asylum Seeker Integration. Sarah Shokr, Yvonne Chang, Stella Loukeri Woestman, Hugo Roman Ward, Tang Rongzeng. 

• EcoFashion Scanner: Bridging the Gen Z and Millennial 'Green Gap' by Facilitating Sustainable Fashion Consumption Behaviours. Bokyung Um, Catarina Santos, Sharihan Abdirahman, Aoife Power, Zainab Uddin. 

• EcoWatt: An Electricity Management App to Illuminate Community-Driven Sustainability in Student Accommodations. Julia Wernersbach, Douglas Ng, Sophie Ka Ling Lau, Wenqi Zhu, Ziyue Lai. 

• Verifone: Building Trust in the Second-Hand Phone Market. Michelle Muller, Rita Luis Costa, Jenna Kam, Anya Emmons, Zhiqing Zhang. 

• VestiCare: A Holistic and Smart Digital Platform to Improve the Vestibular Rehabilitation Experience. Roshni Wadhwa, Xin Xu, Yanting Liu, Zeyu Chen, Ziqi Han. 

JOURNAL ARTICLE PRESENTATIONS 

• “Customization is Key”: Reconfigurable Textual Tokens for Accessible Data Visualizations. Shuli Jones, Isabella Pedraza-Pineros, Daniel Hajas, Jonathan Zong, Arvind Satyanarayan. 

• “Sometimes it’s Like Putting the Track in Front of the Rushing Train”: Having to Be ‘On Call’ for Work Limits the Temporal Flexibility of Crowdworkers. Laura Lascău, Duncan Brumby, Sandy Gould, Anna Cox. 

• Umwelt: Accessible Structured Editing of Multi-Modal Data Representations. Jonathan Zong, Isabella Pedraza-Pineros, Mengzhu (Katie) Chen, Daniel Hajas, Arvind Satyanarayan.