April 21, 2018 - April 26, 2018

Microsoft Research @ CHI 2018

Location: Montreal, Canada

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Best Paper Award

Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 513AB

Nicolas Villar (opens in new tab), Daniel Cletheroe (opens in new tab), Greg Saul (opens in new tab), Christian Holz (opens in new tab), Tim Regan (opens in new tab), Oscar Salandin, Haiyan Zhang (opens in new tab)

Let’s Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 517C

Ari Schlesinger, Kenton O’Hara (opens in new tab), Alex S. Taylor

Honorable Mention Papers

Measuring Employment Demand Using Internet Search Data (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 4:30 PM | Room: 516D

Stevie Chancellor, Scott Counts (opens in new tab)

CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 517A

Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Iyengar, Vidhya, Manohar Swaminathan (opens in new tab), Gopal Srinivasa (opens in new tab)

Caption Crawler: Enabling Reusable Alternative Text Descriptions using Reverse Image Search (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517A

Darren Guinness, Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab), Meredith Ringel Morris (opens in new tab)

DataInk: Direct and Creative Data-Oriented Drawing (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517B

Haijun Xia, Nathalie Henry Riche (opens in new tab), Fanny Chevalier, Bruno De Araujo, Daniel Wigdor

The Benefits and Challenges of Video Calling for Emergency Situations (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517B

Carman Neustaedter, Brennan Jones, Kenton O’Hara (opens in new tab), Abigail Sellen (opens in new tab)

Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 517B

Eric Whitmire, Hrvoje Benko, Christian Holz (opens in new tab), Eyal Ofek (opens in new tab), Mike Sinclair (opens in new tab)

Accepted Papers

SurfaceConstellations: A Modular Hardware Platform for Ad-Hoc Reconfigurable Cross-Device Workspaces (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 11:30 AM | Room: 518AB

Nicolai Marquardt, Frederik Brudy, Can Liu, Ben Bengler, Christian Holz (opens in new tab)

Collaborating Around Digital Tabletops: Children’s Physical Strategies From India, The UK And Finland (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 2:30 PM | Room: 517B

Izdihar Jamil, Calkin Montero, Mark Perry, Kenton O’Hara (opens in new tab), Abhijit Karnik, Kaisa Pihlainen, Mark T. Marshall, Swathi Jha, Sanjay Gupta, Sriram Subramanian

Motion Correlation: Selecting Objects by Matching Their Movement (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 2:30 PM | Room: 516D

Eduardo Velloso, Marcus Carter, Joshua Newn, Augusto Esteves, Christopher Clarke, Hans Gellersen

Designing for Bodily Interplay in Social Exertion Games (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 4:30 PM | Room: 514B

Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs, Frank Vetere, Darren Edge (opens in new tab)

Exploring New File Metaphors for a Networked World through the File Biography (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 4:30 PM | Room: 513AB

Siân E. Lindley (opens in new tab), Gavin Smyth (opens in new tab), Robert Corish, Anastasia Loukianov, Michael Golembewski, Ewa A. Luger, Abigail Sellen (opens in new tab)

Regulating Feelings During Interpersonal Conflicts by Changing Voice Self-perception (opens in new tab)
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 4:30 PM | Room: 516C

Jean Costa, Malte F. Jung, Mary Czerwinski (opens in new tab), François Guimbretière, Trinh Le, Tanzeem Choudhury

Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 516C

Ming Yin (opens in new tab), Siddharth Suri (opens in new tab), Mary L. Gray (opens in new tab)

Understanding Chatbot-mediated Task Management (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 516D

Carlos Toxtli, Justin Cranshaw (opens in new tab), Andres Monroy-Hernandez

Design Patterns for Data Comics (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 518AB

Benjamin Bach, Zezhong Wang, Matteo Farinella, Dave Murray-Rust, Nathalie Henry Riche (opens in new tab)

What’s the Difference?: Evaluating Variations of Multi-Series Bar Charts for Visual Comparison Tasks (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 518AB

Arjun Srinivasan, Matthew Brehmer (opens in new tab), Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), Steven M. Drucker (opens in new tab)

Prayana: Intermediated Financial Management in Resource-Constrained Settings (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 517D

Apurv Mehra, Srihari Muralidhar, Sambhav Satija, Anupama Dhareshwar, Jacki O’Neill (opens in new tab)

Automatic Diagnosis of Students’ Misconceptions in K-8 Mathematics (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 518C

Molly Q. Feldman, Ji Yong Cho, Monica Ong, Sumit Gulwani (opens in new tab), Zoran Popović, Erik Andersen

Exploring the Role of Conversational Cues in Guided Task Support with Virtual Assistants (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 519AB

Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney (opens in new tab)

Time for Break: Understanding Information Workers’ Sedentary Behavior Through a Break Prompting System (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 516E

Yuhan Luo, Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), Donghee Yvette Wohn, Amanda L. Rebar, David E. Conroy, Eun Kyoung Choe

Collaborative Dynamic Queries: Supporting Distributed Small Group Decision-making (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 516C

Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Nathalie Henry Riche (opens in new tab), Jooyoung Lee, Juho Kim, Mark Zachry

Attending to Slowness and Temporality with Olly and Slow Game: A Design Inquiry Into Supporting Longer-Term Relations With Everyday Computational Objects (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 517A

William Odom, Ron Wakkary, Ishac Bertran, Matthew Harkness, Garnet Hertz, Jeroen Hol, Henry Lin, Bram Naus, Perry Tan, Pepijn Verburg

“I can do everything but see!” – How People with Vision Impairments Negotiate their Abilities in Social Contexts (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 516D

Anja Thieme (opens in new tab), Cynthia L. Bennett, Cecily Morrison (opens in new tab), Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab), Alex S. Taylor

To Put That in Perspective: Generating Analogies that Make Numbers Easier to Understand (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 518AB

Christopher Riederer, Jake M. Hofman (opens in new tab), Daniel G. Goldstein (opens in new tab)

Supporting Workplace Detachment and Reattachment with Conversational Intelligence (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 517C

Alex C. Williams, Harmanpreet Kaur, Gloria Mark, Anne Loomis Thompson (opens in new tab), Shamsi T. Iqbal (opens in new tab), Jaime Teevan (opens in new tab)

Rich Representations of Visual Content for Screen Reader Users (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 517A

Meredith Morris (opens in new tab), Jazette Johnson, Cynthia L. Bennett, Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab)

Crowd-Guided Ensembles: How Can We Choreograph Crowd Workers for Video Segmentation? (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 516C

Alexandre Kaspar, Genevieve Patterson (opens in new tab), Changil Kim, Yagiz Aksoy, Wojciech Matusik, Mohamed Elgharib

Digital Konditorei: Programmable Taste Structures using a Modular Mold (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 516D

Amit Zoran, Dror Cohen

How Social Dynamics and the Context of Digital Content Impact Workplace Remix (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517D

Jessica L. Feuston, Siân E. Lindley (opens in new tab)

Text in Talk: Lightweight Messages in Co-Present Interaction (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517C

Barry Brown, Kenton O’Hara (opens in new tab), Moira McGregor, Donald McMillan

Let’s Play! Digital and Analog Play between Preschoolers and Parents (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 518AB

Alexis Hiniker, Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), Julie A. Kientz, Jenny S. Radesky

ARcadia: A Rapid Prototyping Platform for Real-time Tangible Interfaces (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 513AB

Annie Kelly, Benjamin Shapiro, Jonathan de Halleux (opens in new tab), Thomas Ball (opens in new tab)

Remixed Reality: Manipulating Space and Time in Augmented Reality (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 513AB

David Lindlbauer, Andy D. Wilson (opens in new tab)

Pocket Skills: A Conversational Mobile Web App To Support Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 519AB

Jessica Schroeder, Chelsey Wilkes, Kael Rowan (opens in new tab), Arturo Toledo, Ann Paradiso (opens in new tab), Mary Czerwinski (opens in new tab), Gloria Mark, Marsha M. Linehan

Understanding the Needs of Searchers with Dyslexia (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 516D

Meredith Morris (opens in new tab), Adam Fourney (opens in new tab), Abdullah Ali, Laura Vonessen

CFar: A Tool to Increase Communication, Productivity, and Review Quality in Collaborative Code Review (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 513AB

Austin Z. Henley, Kıvanç Muşlu, Maria Christakis, Scott D. Fleming, Christian Bird (opens in new tab)

Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Navigate Virtual Reality with a Haptic and Auditory Cane Simulation (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 517B

Yuhang Zhao, Cynthia L. Bennett, Hrvoje Benko, Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab), Christian Holz (opens in new tab), Meredith Morris (opens in new tab), Mike Sinclair (opens in new tab)

Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 517B

Eric Whitmire, Hrvoje Benko, Christian Holz (opens in new tab), Eyal Ofek (opens in new tab), Mike Sinclair (opens in new tab)

CLAW: A Multifunctional Handheld Haptic Controller for Grasping, Touching, and Triggering in Virtual Reality (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 517B

Inrak Choi, Eyal Ofek (opens in new tab), Hrvoje Benko Mike Sinclair (opens in new tab), Christian Holz (opens in new tab)

Emotional Dialogue Generation Using Image-Grounded Language Models (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 516AB

Bernd Huber, Daniel McDuff (opens in new tab), Chris Brockett (opens in new tab), Michel Galley (opens in new tab), Bill Dolan (opens in new tab)

Animated Edge Textures in Node-Link Diagrams: a Design Space and Initial Evaluation (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Room: 521ABC

Hugo Romat, Caroline Appert, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche (opens in new tab), Emmanuel Pietriga

GrowKit: a Kit for Organisms to promote personalized STEAM learning. (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 5:30 PM | Room: 517D

Helene Steiner, Seokbin Kang, Asta Roseway (opens in new tab), Richard Banks (opens in new tab)

How Teens with Visual Impairments Take, Edit, and Share Photos on Social Media (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517A

Cynthia L. Bennett, Jane E, Martez E. Mott, Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab), Meredith Morris (opens in new tab)

Understanding the Accessibility of Smartphone Photography for People with Motor Impairments (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517A

Martez E. Mott, Jane E, Cynthia L. Bennett, Edward Cutrell (opens in new tab), Meredith Morris (opens in new tab)

PolarTrack: Optical Outside-In Device Tracking that Exploits Display Polarization (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 521ABC

Roman Rädle, Hans-Christian Jetter, Jonathan Fischer, Inti Gabriel, Clemens N. Klokmose, Harald Reiterer, Christian Holz (opens in new tab)

InfoNice: Easy Creation of Information Graphics (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:00 AM | Room: 517B

Yun Wang, Haidong Zhang (opens in new tab), He Huang, Xi Chen, Qiufeng Yin (opens in new tab), Zhitao Hou (opens in new tab), Dongmei Zhang (opens in new tab), Qiong Luo, Huamin Qu

Measuring Response Rate and Increasing Satisfaction in Innovative Environments: The Impact of Feedback (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 514C

Lanen J. Vaughn, Michael J. Bortnick, John Carey, Vince Orgovan, Joseph Munko

Effects of Individual Differences in Blocking Workplace Distractions (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 518AB

Gloria Mark, Mary Czerwinski (opens in new tab), Shamsi T. Iqbal (opens in new tab)

Haptic Links: Bimanual Haptics for Virtual Reality Using Variable Stiffness Actuation (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 11:00 AM | Room: 516D

Evan Strasnick, Christian Holz (opens in new tab), Eyal Ofek (opens in new tab)Mike Sinclair (opens in new tab), Hrvoje Benko

Voicesetting: Voice Authoring UIs for Improved Expressivity in Augmentative Communication (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 515ABC

Alexander J. Fiannaca (opens in new tab), Ann Paradiso (opens in new tab), Jon Campbell (opens in new tab), Meredith Morris (opens in new tab)

HomeFinder Revisited: Finding Ideal Homes with Reachability-Centric Multi-Criteria Decision Making (opens in new tab)
Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 2:00 PM | Room: 518C

Di Weng, Heming Zhu, Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, Yingcai Wu