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EMPATHY AND TECHNOLOGY: FOCUS ON THE
END USER
SESSION CHAIR: Jettie Hoonhout, Philips Research Europe,
Netherlands
PAPER | Empathy, Participatory Design and
People with Dementia %
Stephen Lindsay, Katie Britain, Daniel Jackson, Cassim Ladha,
Karim Ladha, Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
We present a participatory design approach for people with dementia
focusing on their experiences by developing an empathic relationship
with them illustrated through the design of a safe walking aid.
PAPER | From Death to Final Disposition: Roles of
Technology in the Post-Mortem Interval
Wendy Moncur, Jan Bikker, University of Dundee, UK
Elaine Kasket, London Metropolitan University, UK
John Troyer, University of Bath, UK
Describes technology roles in collaborative processes, in the time
from user death to final disposition. Provides insights into design
for end of life and repurposing of data.
PAPER | On Saliency, Affect and Focused Attention
Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, Canada
Mounia Lalmas, Vidhya Navalpakkam, Yahoo! Research, USA
Study how saliency of relevant information impacts user
engagement metrics, namely, focused attention and affect. Of
interest to website owner, entertainment-oriented or other,
interested in understanding user engagement.
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NOTE | The Way I Talk to You: Sentiment Expression in
an Organizational Context
Jiang Yang, Lada Adamic, Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, USA
Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Empirically identifies the relationships between sentiment expression
and the four primary dimensions of social interactions in organizations:
involvement, tie strength, network size, and performance.
CASE STUDY | Eustressed or Distressed? Combining
Physiology with Observation in User Studies
Avinash Wesley, Peggy Lindner, Ioannis Pavlidis, University of
Houston, USA
Case study presents method that enables quantification and
disambiguation of emotional arousal states. Emotional analysis in
human-centered computing can benefit from this method that
efficiently combines quantitative and qualitative information.
14:30—15:50 | Afternoon | Monday
n ALT.CHI | 12AB
ALT.CHI: REFLECTIONS AND TRANSGRESSIONS
SESSION CHAIR: Daniela Rosner, UC Berkeley, USA
alt.chi | UCD: Critique via Parody and a Sequel
Gilbert Cockton, Northumbria University, UK
This alt.chi paper abandons technical writing conventions to
parody user-centred design, and having predicted its imminent
demise, more seriously derives a position (BIG design) on what
could follow.
alt.chi | Massively Distributed Authorship of Academic
Papers
Bill Tomlinson, Joel Ross, University of California, Irvine, USA
Paul André, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eric Baumer, Cornell University, USA
Donald Patterson, University of California, Irvine, USA
Joseph Corneli, The Open University, UK
Martin Mahaux, University of Namur, Belgium
Syavash Nobarany, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marco Lazzari, University of Bergamo, Italy
Birgit Penzenstadler, Technische Universität München, Germany
Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas, USA
David Callele, TRLabs Saskatoon, Canada
Gary Olson, University of California, Irvine, USA
Six Silberman, Bureau of Economic Interpretation, USA
Marcus Ständer, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Fabio Romancini Palamedi, Methodist University, Brazil
Albert Ali Salah, Bo ˘gaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey
Eric Morrill, University of California, Irvine, USA
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, RMIT University, Australia
Joseph ‘Jofish’ Kaye, Nokia, USA
Rebecca Black, Marisa Cohn, Patrick Shih, University of California,
Irvine, USA
Johanna Brewer, frestyl, USA
Nitesh Goyal, Cornell University, USA
Pirjo Näkki, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Jeff Huang, University of Washington, USA
Nilufar Baghaei, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Craig Saper, UMBC, USA
This work provides the first empirical evidence of the experiential
aspects of large-scale collaborative research and writing using
online tools, and reveals opportunities and complexities of this
process.
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