I’m remotely following the #chi2011 hashtag on twitter (tweets from the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Here are some of the things that have caught my eye:

Workshops

The 2nd International Workshop on Persuasion, Influence, Nudge & Coercion through mobile devices (link)

Workshop on Crowd sourcing and Human Computation (link)

Including this paper called “Why I Hate Mechanical Turk Research (And Workshops)”

Workshop: Data Collection By the People, For the People (link)

Feminism and Interaction Design Workshop (link)

Research, Papers, Fun

Motivating Reductions in Domestic Energy Consumption Using Social Networks (link)

The Trouble With Social Computing Systems Research (pdf)

Make music with your brain & heart beat (video)

How do you feel anger, joy, sadness, love? (site)

Analytics of CHI 2011 tweets (link)

The Social Media Classroom (link)

CHI Sustainability Wiki (link)

The Tiramisu-Transit App Field trial is presented. This is very close to what I’m building right now!

We’ve done all this research… so now what? (slideshare)

Playing with cats & technology (youtube)

Twitter - don’t we all love it?

The program has sessions on

• “Twitter Systems” (Monday 11AM, 4 papers)
• “Microblogging Behavior” (Tuesday 11AM, 4 papers)

Here is a paper by Haewoon Kwak (who I have remotely collaborated with on a SIGIR 2009 paper) looking at unfollow dynamics… and another one that also looks at unfollowing, from the sociological perspective.

Other Companies

Microsoft at CHI (link)

Google at CHI (link)

(Interesting comment on) Apple at CHI (tweet)

CHI 2011 also clashes with Google I/O.

Post-Conference

A Google document has been set up for people to add links to notes/posts/slides.

A blog post summarising the RepliCHI panel.

The “extended-dance remix” of the final keynote (by @ethanZ) is available here.

This post will be updated as the tweets roll in. The conference closed with a keynote by Ethan Zuckerman: a detailed blog post of his talk is here.

And here is the link to CHI 2012!