CHI 2009 Sensemaking Workshop - Saturday Morning

I could not stay in the session the whole time and not sure if I can make it back for the PM session. Here are some of the notes I was able to take.

Sensemaking Workshop
Classifaction of Sensemaking Representations - UCLIC
What do people want from sensemaking? Great question!
Conducted case study
Implications for Design - conceptual fit, representation classifaction
six characteristics
  • spatial - maps
  • argumentational - spatial hypertexts for digital library system, integration of a series of claims where conclusions are inferred
  • faceted - table identifying characteristics of an item, film finder, select desired characteristics
  • hierarchical - org. chart,
  • sequential
  • networked
classification helps to determine the best visual layout.

shiftr - CMU app to combine cognitive, hci and datamining to help people explore, visualize and make sense of lrge scale graph data. Gave demo in talk. Planning to run user studies.

Dan Russell from Google just gave great directions for lunch using tag cloud, visual representation and heuristic advice to "just follow your friend" in an effort to support all of the sensemakingtalks that were given this morning. Very much appreciated from the group.

My thoughts on presentations - do not use color for emphasis on slides, it may not show up well on screen. Make sure you always have a good dongle to connect your computer to the display cable and try it out at home to make sure it all works well. The primary role of a slide is to support, supplement and enhance your presentation - it should not detract, take away or diminish it.
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CHI 2009 Images from Saturday Morning Workshops

IU HCI/d Master's Students Chad Camara, Brandon Stephens, Matt Snyder, Yujia Zhao hanging out in the Student Volunteer Room

Sensemaking Workshop

     
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CHI 2009 Day One - Crowd Computer Interaction Workshop

Eighteen people in the room. London, Norway, Korea, San Diego, Boston (MIT), Montreal, UC-Irvine and Bloomington are represented as well as some other places that I didn't catch. PhD students, professors and researchers. Kind of intimidating listening to the detail and passion that they have for their area of research interest. The professor from Seoul, Korea flew 14 hours to JFK, spent the night in the airport because of weather delays and came straight to the workshop from the airport this morning. It is so exciting to see people from all over the world coming together for this

Some of the topics of conversation - How to measure and characterize crowds? What are the effects of CCI on crowds, how do we design for crowds of certain types - soccer game, concert, protest, etc. CCI Exemplars - mechanisms, applications, scale. Interleaving events vs. perpetual CCI, track social change - will CCI alter self-consciousness (facebook). I could only stay for about an hour but may try to get back in there and stay for the day.

I love seeing what is going on in this area and I am thinking back to the conversation that Brandon, Chad and I had in the car on the way here from Bloomington. We were talking about knowing whether or not we are a designer or a researcher. As I listen to researchers talk about research, I find myself thinking how interesting it is and I am constantly amazed at the insightfulness and quality of their research. When each person introduced themselves, they not only gave their name and where they are from but they also shared briefly about what their area of research was. I think every single one of them could have given a talk right there. It really made an impact. CHI2009 is only one hour old but I already know that the 18 hours in the car to get here was definitely worth it. Of course, the drive home is another story! Perhaps I can catch a workshop on teleportation while I am here and then I won't have to worry about it.

This is Jay Steele, reporting from Boston at CHI2009.
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