26th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2008)
Conferences & Talks

Program [pdf]

5 April 2008 - 10 April 2008
Florence, Italy

description

PARC presentation topics include:

• “Lifting the Veil: Improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with WikiDashboard”
  
• “Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and algorithmic web aids for the information long tail”
  
• “Keyhole Tagging: Selective sharing in close collaboration”
  
• “Escape: A target selection technique using visually-cued gestures”
  
• “Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk”
  
• “Activity-Based Serendipitous Recommendations with the Magitti Mobile Leisure Guide”
  
• “Responsive Mirror: Fitting information for fitting rooms” -- at workshop on Surrounded by Persuasive Ambient Intelligence
  
• "Social Information Foraging and Sensemaking"; "We digital sensemakers"; "Tracing the microstructure of sensemaking" -- at Sensemaking workshop
  
• "Cognitive engineering and the psychology of human-computer interaction" -- at Invited Season: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction (by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell)