Psych. 425, Human Computer Interaction, Spring 2020

Clinical and Abnormal Psychology

An eclectic collection of articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and impact of technology on mental health.

HCI and Affective Health: Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions. Pedro Sanches, Axel Janson, Pavel Karpashevich, Camille Nadal, Chengcheng Qu, Claudia Daudén Roquet, Muhammad Umair, Charles Windlin, Gavin Doherty, Kristina Höök, and Corina Sas. 2019. . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 245, 1–17. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300475

Student Perspectives on Digital Phenotyping: The Acceptability of Using Smartphone Data to Assess Mental Health. John Rooksby, Alistair Morrison, and Dave Murray-Rust. 2019. . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 425, 1–14. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300655

Empath: A Continuous Remote Emotional Health Monitoring System for Depressive Illness. Robert F. Dickerson, Eugenia I. Gorlin, and John A. Stankovic. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Wireless Health (WH ’11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2077546.2077552

Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Neurofeedback App for Young Children at School and Home. Alissa N. Antle, Elgin-Skye McLaren, Holly Fiedler, and Naomi Johnson. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 36, 1–13. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300266

Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders. Freeman, D., Reeve, S., Robinson, A., Ehlers, A., Clark, D., Spanlang, B., & Slater, M. (2017). Psychological Medicine, 47(14), 2393-2400. doi:10.1017/S003329171700040X

Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction. Freeman, D., Bradley, J., Antley, A., Bourke, E., DeWeever, N., Evans, N., ... & Slater, M. (2016). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(1), 62-67.

We will also have a round robin show and tell session of Apps that you have found and tried out for some aspect of mental health monitoring, education or treatment. Each of you find one an post it and a brief description on the class Moodle Page Forum called "There is an App for That DSM Diagnosis". Look to see that no one else has posted the App the you found. Each person needs to find a unique one. (First Find and Post claims ownership!).

Day & Date	Topic
W Jan. 22	Introductions, Acronym Game and Overview of Final Website Project. Examples from past classes. Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person? Gamification: Productivity, Self-Improvement, and Pro-sociality through Crowdsourcing Technological Treatments for Depression The Uncanny Valley in Robot-Assistred Therapy Introduction to HCI and Quantified Self Technology Quantified Self is the buzzword that is most often used to describe the use of wearable and sensor based technology used to help people with personal goals of measuring and improving their health and change behaviors. We will be exploring this intriguing topic through 3 technological tools spanning physical health (Fitbit Activity Trackers), mindfulness and emotional health (Wild Divine biofeedback devices) and cognitive health (Lumosity brain training games). Here is an intriguing video talk by a QS researcher on Quantified Self and Mindfulness where she is wearing what looks like christmas tree lights that turn on when she smiles! Articles to Read BEFORE class time! As We May Think, Vannevar Bush (1996). Interactions, March, 1996, 35 - 46. This is a classic paper written by a visionary thinker whose ideas have inspired many of the people who have shaped the development of computing. Read it and be ready to begin a discussion in class. REACTION PAPER. After reading the article, (and before our first class) send Erik an e-mail (nilsen@lclark.edu) addressing these questions. Then be ready to discuss these questions in class. Throughout the essay, Bush writes of future technical possibilities. Which of these have come to pass? What do they look like now? In sections 4 and 5, Bush talks about turning over certain functions to machines, reserving other functions for human beings. Do you agree with his division of labor? If not, how would you reallocate functions between humans and machines? In sections 6 through 8 Bush talks about the Memex. What do we have that is somewhat like this today? How does it compare to the Memex? For an interesting example that embodies some of "the associative trails of the Memex" take a look at the WikiPedia project. Redefining "Computers" shown in Hidden Figures movie. Here is an impressive display of computing power! The whiteboard: the joy of ~~sex~~ psychology, Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, 19 - 22, Interactions, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2001) For Class Discussion - Can you think of any habitual or "superstitious" behavior that you (or people you know ;^) engage in when using a computer? Reflect on your own experience and ask some friends! Try to come up with several poorly designed, difficult to use computer tools that could benefit from a little psychological analysis! Understanding the Human Machine. Deborah Lupton, 25 - 30, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE \| winter 2013 For Class Discussion - This Introduction to the Quantified Self movement is thought (and hopefully discussion!) provoking. What do you think about the author's position concerning the foundational concepts of Neoliberalism, the Body-Machine Metaphor and "Prosumption" as they relate to how people track their health and behavioral data with this new generation of technology? Along with looking at the technological viewpoint, be ready to discuss the political and ethical aspects of how personal data are generated, stored, and interpreted.
W Jan. 29	History of Computing and Human Computer Interaction User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering, Stuart Card and Thomas Moran (1986), Proc. ACM conference on history of personal workstations, Palo Alto, ACM 183-198. Reaction Paper (due by class time, posted up on the moodle) This paper, written by two of the researchers who helped create the field of HCI gives an early view of the positive role that scientific psychology can play in the development of usable computers. Summarize their arguments in several paragraphs. Do you find their arguments to be persuasive? What areas of psychology are the authors focusing on? Finally, take your best shot at describing what is going on in the Model Human Processor (Mr. BubbleHead) shown on page 186! All together this should be a 1500 - 2000 word reaction paper. Psychology as a Mother of Invention. Thomas K. Landauer. CHI '87 Conference Proceedings Paper, 333-335. For class discussion and small group work- Consider the list of "intellectual tasks" that Landauer presents in the last page of this article as being ripe for development in 1987. Which of these are now in existence in 2015? What other "cognitive computer tools" have emerged in the ensuing 28 years? Come up with at least 3 new items you would add to the list for developments in the future? Just how smart are these smartphones really? The most ubiquitious use of technology for most of us is a small rectangular device that we carry with us all the time. There is a burgeoning literature on the impact that smartphones have on us in many dimensions. Here is just sampling of the research to wade into and discuss. Be sure to bring your phones to class tonight! No reaction paper needed, but we will go hammer and tongs in debating the pro's and con's of smartphone use. The Smartphone as a Pacifier and its Consequences: Young adults’ smartphone usage in moments of solitude and correlations to self-reflection. Sarah Diefenbach and Kim Borrmann. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 306, 1–14. Typical phone use habits: intense use does not predict negative well-being. Kleomenis Katevas, Ioannis Arapakis, and Martin Pielot. 2018. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–13. The Race Towards Digital Wellbeing: Issues and Opportunities. Alberto Monge Roffarello and Luigi De Russis. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 386, 1–14. Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. Ward, A. F., Duke, K., Gneezy, A., & Bos, M. W. (2017). . Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(2), 140-154. The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology. Russell Clayton et. al. (2015) Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Interesting Wiki Page on Perceptual Affordances and HCI And a humorous video of affordances gone very very wrong! The Norwegian Book Interface Video! 1981 Personal Computers let you read Newspapers online!!! An honest to goodness "modern" book interface project in 2007!
W Feb. 5	CHIFOO Field Trip! CHIFOO is the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. CHIFOO (pronounced ‘ky - FOO’), Computer-Human Interaction Forum Of Oregon, a local professional chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, serves practicing professionals, academics and students in the Oregon and Southwest Washington region through lecture series, workshops and networking in the areas of User Experience, Usability and Interaction Design. Tonight's talk is by a famous LC alum, Amber Case! Her is a connection to her first TED talk that made quite a splash. Here is 28 minute talk about her research (and book) on calm technology. Hopefully it won't be another version of the talk she is giving tonight! Here is her website that supports the book. It covers the basic principles and gives a variety of examples and guidelines. If you like the talk and are inspired to by the book, here is it on Amazon! Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design for less than $16! The original coining of the term goes back to a 1995 paper! Weiser, M., & Brown, J. S. (1995). Designing Calm Technology. Below is the Blurb for the talk tonight. We will meet at the HCI lab at 6 and carpool to the venue downtown. the link with the description of the talk, intro. to the speaker and google map to the site is below. CALM TECHNOLOGY: DESIGNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF DEVICES‍ ‍How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This talk explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive. PREVIEW Assignment that connects last week to next week! Cognitive Modeling ( KLM put to the test!) Do the KLM analysis That I passed out last week and upload a spreadsheet with your calculations to the moodle before class tonight. It is important that you complete this before you read the Neilsen and Phillips Paper for next week.
Wed. Feb. 12	Cognition and HCI: Cognitive Modeling to Improve Software Interaction and Brain Training Software to Improve Cognitive Processes Cognitive Modeling (GOMS, KLM and Kin!) As we discussed two weeks ago, One thread of research in HCI is to apply principles and findings from Cognitive Psychology to help design software that matches our cognitive abilities and maximizes efficiency. I have 2 papers for you to read that span a 20ish year period of progress in this Cognitive Modeling Approach. This first one features LC students in the first ever HCI class that I taught at LC using their new knowledge of the KLM model to compete with experience Human Factors Professionals to see who can come up with the best predictions! Would I assign it if we didn't come out alright! Jakob Nielsen and Victoria L. Phillips. 1993. Estimating the relative usability of two interfaces: heuristic, formal, and empirical methods compared. In Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '93). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 214-221. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/169059.169173 This second article is a very recent study that uses a more sophisticated Cognitive Model called EPIC and explores ways to improve the model to deal with visual search in modern interfaces. David E. Kieras and Anthony J. Hornof. 2014. Towards accurate and practical predictive models of active-vision-based visual search. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3875-3884. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557324 Reaction Paper (due by class time, posted up on the moodle)Briefly (500 wordish each) summarize the goals, methods, and findings of each paper. In another 500 words or so, contrast the approaches of these articles and what changes and developments do you see in these papers compared to the original Card and Moran paper that your read earlier that introduced you to this type of modeling from 1986? Brain Training: Hype or Hope, Fact or Fad? Each of us now has a Lumosity account. Your Experiential homework is to do the brain training workout at least 4 days before this class period! Be ready to discuss what you like and do not like about the games and this approach to training your mind! The whole class will be reading a short Editorial and a lengthier Review Paper to get an overview of Brain Training Research and Development. Here is one more really good Meta Analytic Paper. Shah, T. M., Weinborn, M., Verdile, G., Sohrabi, H. R., & Martins, R. N. (2017). Enhancing Cognitive Functioning in Healthly Older Adults: a Systematic Review of the Clinical Significance of Commercially Available Computerized Cognitive Training in Preventing Cognitive Decline. Neuropsychology Review, 1-19. be ready to discuss these 3 papers at the beginning of class Internet Search Moodle assignment. I also want each of you to find one empirical study from 2017 or later that purports to find support for the benefits of Brain Training and another study that fails to find evidence for Brain Training benefits. Try to be selective choosing two articles that look at one type of cognitive ability (working memory, peripheral attention, creative problem solving) or a particular user group (e.g. preschoolers, brain trauma patients, Austistic kids, Dementia patients) on our moodle page. I want you to include a link to the articles and write a couple of paragraphs summarizing the research and its findings and critiquing them. Which study do you find more convincing and what other evidence is needed to really prove that brain training can help this ability or this group of people.
Wed. Feb. 19	The Social Psychology of Computer Use - Are Computers People too!?! Clifford Nass has a radical idea that he has been studying for over a decade, people respond to computers as if they were people too! These 5 articles follow the development of his research program over a 13 year period. Read them and be amazed (and maybe a bit incredulous 8^). Computers are social actors. Clifford Nass, Jonathan Steuer and Ellen R. Tauber, Pages 72 - 78, CHI 94 Can Computer Personalities Be Human Personalities?Clifford Nass, Youngme Moon, BJ Fogg, Byron Reeves, & Chris Dryer. Pages 228-229, CHI 95 short papers. Does computer-generated speech manifest personality? an experimental test of similarity-attraction. Clifford Nass and Kwan Min Lee, Pages 329 - 336, CHI 00 Thank You, I did not see that: In-car Speech Based Information Systems for Older Adults by Ing-Marie Jonsson, Mary Zajicek, Helen Harris, Clifford Nass. 1953 - 1956. CHI 2005, Late Breaking Results. Similarity is More Important than Expertise: Accent Effects in Speech Interfaces. Nils Dahlback, QianYing Wang, Clifford Nass and Jenny Alwin, Pages 1553 - 1556, CHI 07 Braun, M., Mainz, A., Chadowitz, R., Pfleging, B., & Alt, F. (2019, May). At your service: Designing voice assistant personalities to improve automotive user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-11). Inspiring Ted Talk by Rupal Patel on personalizing computer voices to empower the voiceless. Reaction Paper - List the social rules that these papers claim to find evidence for in how people interact with computers? For each one, do you find the results and the authors interpretation compelling? Why or why not? Consider some social psychological finding,theory or social rule other than the ones discussed in the readings, (here is a resource containing an extensive list) that could be studied using Clifford Nass's Computers are social actors (CASA) research approach to human computer interaction. We will design a study or two in class tonight inspired by the readings. Social Comparison, Self Esteem and Social Media. Article 1: De Vries, D. A., & Kühne, R. (2015). Facebook and Self-Perception: Individual Susceptibility to Negative Social Comparison on Facebook Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 217-221. Social comparison theory states that we partly base our self-perceptions in relation to how we are doing compared to others, but that happier people process social information differently. So does Facebook and increased social comparisons create two polar opposites, those who are unhappy and have low self-esteem and those who are happy and have high self-esteem? Or is there a middle ground as well? Do happy people also feel the negative effects heightened of social comparisons because of Facebook, as they feel the need to upkeep their positive image? Can teens differentiate between identity on social media sites and identity online? Article 2: Vogel, E. A., Rose, J. P., Roberts, L. R., & Eckles, K. (2014). Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 3(4), 206. Is self-esteem now tied to social media practices? Is it harder to teens to develop a unique identity when they are constantly comparing themselves to others? In what ways are self-esteem and self-worth becoming quantifiable on social media? Linking Both Articles: Since social comparison is so high now thanks to social media, does self-esteem now always require validation from others? Is there a real sense of self being formed or does it remain a constant battle to appear happier than others in order to satisfy social comparison? Is social media increasing self-esteem for anyone? Or is everyone constantly reminded that people are happier than them, making it almost impossible to maintain a positive self-esteem? Burke, M., & Kraut, R. E. (2016). The relationship between Facebook use and well-being depends on communication type and tie strength. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 21(4), 265-281.
Wed. Feb. 26	Developmental Psychology Perspective in HCI User Interfaces for Young and Old. Maddy D. Brouwer-Janse, Jane Fulton Suri, Mitchell Yawitz, Govert de Vries, James L. Fozard, Roger Coleman. interactions magazine, march/april 1997, 34 - 46. Dev Psych "Interwebs" Assignment. Due by class time Wed. Feb. 26th Search the internet for information regarding computing and the following groups: 1) Senior Citizens (55+), (2) Children (16 and under). - Create a Web page on your Web Site that contains at least 6 annotated sources (link with a sentence or two describing the contents of the linked pages) for each age group (a total of 12 links minimum). Among your links, try to include at least one from each of the following categories; Organization focusing on computing issues related to the age group, Software designed and targetted for the age group, A research paper related to computing and the age group. a mobile or tablet-based app targetting the age group chat rooms, blogs, SNS or discussion forums designed specifically for the age group. A Tasty Selection of Age-Targeted Studies For Your Mental Palate Guernsey, L. (n.d.). Can Your Preschooler Learn Anything From an iPad App? Retrieved February 1, 2015, from http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/05/interactive_screen_time_for_kids_do_educational_ipad_apps_teach_toddlers_anything_.html Why yes they can! Tangible Technology Improves Creativity and Shape Recognition in Preschoolers. Erik Nilsen, Joel Schooler, Karma Rose Zavita, Raiven Greenberg, Noah Callaghan, Susan Camp (In Progress). Designing for Digital Playing Out. Gavin Wood, Thomas Dylan, Abigail Durrant, Pablo E. Torres, Philip Ulrich, Amanda Carr, Mutlu Cukurova, Denise Downey, Phil McGrath, Madeline Balaam, Alice Ferguson, John Vines, and Shaun Lawson. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 679, 1–15. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300909 Nostalgia: an evocative tangible interface for elderly users. Nilsson(2003) Making Well-being: Exploring the Role of Makerspaces in Long Term Care Facilities. Kayla Carucci and Kentaro Toyama. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 469, 1–12. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300699 Ticket to Talk: Supporting Conversation between Young People and People with Dementia through Digital Media. Daniel Welsh, Kellie Morrissey, Sarah Foley, Roisin McNaney, Christos Salis, John McCarthy, and John Vines. 2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 375, 1–14. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3173574.3173949
Wed. Mar. 4	Clinical and Abnormal Psychology An eclectic collection of articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and impact of technology on mental health. HCI and Affective Health: Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions. Pedro Sanches, Axel Janson, Pavel Karpashevich, Camille Nadal, Chengcheng Qu, Claudia Daudén Roquet, Muhammad Umair, Charles Windlin, Gavin Doherty, Kristina Höök, and Corina Sas. 2019. . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 245, 1–17. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300475 Student Perspectives on Digital Phenotyping: The Acceptability of Using Smartphone Data to Assess Mental Health. John Rooksby, Alistair Morrison, and Dave Murray-Rust. 2019. . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 425, 1–14. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300655 Empath: A Continuous Remote Emotional Health Monitoring System for Depressive Illness. Robert F. Dickerson, Eugenia I. Gorlin, and John A. Stankovic. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Wireless Health (WH ’11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2077546.2077552 Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Neurofeedback App for Young Children at School and Home. Alissa N. Antle, Elgin-Skye McLaren, Holly Fiedler, and Naomi Johnson. 2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 36, 1–13. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300266 Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders. Freeman, D., Reeve, S., Robinson, A., Ehlers, A., Clark, D., Spanlang, B., & Slater, M. (2017). Psychological Medicine, 47(14), 2393-2400. doi:10.1017/S003329171700040X Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction. Freeman, D., Bradley, J., Antley, A., Bourke, E., DeWeever, N., Evans, N., ... & Slater, M. (2016). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(1), 62-67. We will also have a round robin show and tell session of Apps that you have found and tried out for some aspect of mental health monitoring, education or treatment. Each of you find one an post it and a brief description on the class Moodle Page Forum called "There is an App for That DSM Diagnosis". Look to see that no one else has posted the App the you found. Each person needs to find a unique one. (First Find and Post claims ownership!).
Wed. Mar. 11	Topic 1: Human- Infant Robot Interaction Breazeal(2000).pdf Infant-like Social Interactions between a Robot and a Human Caregiver. Enjoy this reading about the cute Kismet robot for today's class. Class discussion will revolve around how Kismet embodies theories of emotion and expressive states. Pay particular attention to the experiments described (and graphed) of Kismet interacting with faces and stuffed animals! Kismet is a sociable robot being developed at MIT which uses facial expressiveness as a central feature. Browse around the Kismet web site to get a feel for the goals of the project and what they have accomplished to date! Be sure to check out Kismet's "space of emotive facial expressions" and look at the pages concerning social interaction and how Kismet "learns". Leonardo is Kismet's kin that has taken some major steps forward in abilities, most notably, it has arms, understands some language and has a fairly sophisticated representation about the beliefs of others in reference to it's world of faces and objects. check out the Leonardo project web site and this video of Leo learning a new concept from a human! Meet Leonardo, Kismet's Kousin at the MIT Personal Robot Lab. Breazeal(2009). An Embodied Cognition Approach to Mindreading Skills for Socially Intelligent Robots. For your reaction paper address the following questions about the Breazeal (200, 2009) papers on Kismet and Leonardo respectively. 1. What commonalities does Leonardo have with Kismet? 2. What can Leonardo do that Kismet would never dream of!? 3. What is Theory of Mind and how does Leonardo exhibit this in it's behavior? Starting at section 6 on pg. 669, the authors describe 2 human and 2 robot experiments. What are the purposes of these studies, What conclusions can be drawn from them, and how do the robot and human results compare? Topic 2: Human - Robot Interaction: Social Robots and Ethics Murphy, R., & Woods, D. D. (2009). Beyond Asimov: the three laws of responsible robotics. IEEE intelligent systems, 24(4), 14-20. Onyeulo, E. B., & Gandhi, V. (2020). What makes a social robot good at interacting with humans?. Information, 11(1), 43. We will also be spending the second half of class pilot testing for an Earthquake Education Research project conducted here at LC.
Wed. Mar. 18	Cyborgs and Brain Machine Interface - Where Software and Hardware meet "Wetware" Here is a former HCI student's web site project on Transhumanism that I recommend to you for a good overview of the topic and model for what your website can become! A scientifically sound and accessible overview of the approaches to BMI (Brain Machine Interfaces). Lebedev, M. (2014). Brain-machine interfaces: an overview. Translational Neuroscience, 5(1), 99-110. For a more "out there" approach to Technologically Driven Logical Positivism I give you Cyborgs: Elon Musk and the new era of neuroscience.
Wed. Mar. 25	Spring Break!
Wed. Apr. 1	Zoom Class Connection from Now to the end of the Term! Tonight's Topic - Website Usability Guidelines and Best Practices. Aliaksei Miniukovich, Michele Scaltritti, Simone Sulpizio, and Antonella De Angeli. 2019. Guideline-Based Evaluation of Web Readability. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 508, 1–12. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300738 I just ran across a mindblowing article online that I have to share with you about 3d printing food to help in healthy eating!! This reminded me that in preparing for the term, I found 3 recent CHI articles related to Human Food Interaction! I am attaching them here. Don't feel like you have to read them unless they seem appetizing!! Altarriba Bertran, F., Jhaveri, S., Lutz, R., Isbister, K., & Wilde, D. (2019, May). Making sense of human-food interaction. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). Ilaria Zonda, Dan Xu, Mick Jongeling, and Gijs Huisman. 2019. Growkit: Using Technology to Support People Growing Food at Home. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW1421, 1–6. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290607.3312834 Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson, Mark D. Holton, Shashank Ahire, and Matt Jones. 2019. Sustainabot - Exploring the Use of Everyday Foodstuffs as Output and Input for and with Emergent Users. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 226, 1–12. DOI:https://doi-org.library.lcproxy.org/10.1145/3290605.3300456 I am requesting that each of us bring a favorite comfort food (or picture of it if you don't currently have it on hand) to share with the group at our Zoom class on Wednesday!! Tell us what it is why you like it and anything else you want to about it and its roll (intentionally misspelling) in your life!
Wed. Apr. 8	Student Led Final Website Presentations (3-4 per night)
Wed. Apr. 15	Student Led Final Website Presentations (3-4 per night)
Wed. Apr. 22	Student Led Final Website Presentations (3-4 per night)
Wed. Apr. 29	Work on Revising Websites based on Peer and Professorial Feedback!
Wed. May 6 FINAL Exam Period 6 - 9 p.m.	Tentatively planning a JackBox Extavaganza over Zoom!

ACM Digital Library The source for most of our class readings, free downloads of full text files from on campus	Tech Encyclopedia A place to search for the meaning of those Computer Acronyms and "Geek Speak" terminology	Acronym Finder A 2nd site for elucidating High Tech obfuscation
ACM TechNews News article summaries and links that can serve as stimulus ideas for your Web Site Project	ACM SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction	HCI Index HCI Specific

Course Learning Objectives

Just how smart are these smartphones really?

CHIFOO Field Trip!

Internet Search Moodle assignment.

Social Comparison, Self Esteem and Social Media.

Spring Break!

Student Led Final Website Presentations (3-4 per night)

Work on Revising Websites based on Peer and Professorial Feedback!