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Jan 2020: Welcome CHI

In January 2020 I was invited to deliver the closing seminar at the RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction – Welcome CHI 2021, thinking of the future of HCI together at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University Sendai, Japan.

“To assure quality of life of people in a society in which the information level has been highly developed, the importance of human-technology and human-computer interaction further increases. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction, and provides a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest topics. It has been annually held mainly in North America and Europe since 1982, and the CHI 2021 will be the first CHI to be held in Japan. It is expected to be the largest ever, having more than 4,000 participants from more than 50 countries or regions. In addition, it is also expected to be the best CHI ever with enhanced rich content. For this purpose, this symposium invites internationally active researchers including key CHI 2021 committee members to discuss and think the future of HCI together.

人と情報システムの相互作用について，情報科学，認知科学，心理学，デザイン学等，多岐に渡る分野の研究者や技術者，学生等が世界中から集まり議論する学際的な場として，ACM SIGCHI が主催する国際会議CHIは，この分野で最大かつ最も権威がある国際会議として1982年から毎年開催されてきました．これまで北米と欧州を中心に開催されてきましたが，2021年5月には初めて日本で開催されます．そしてCHI 2021には世界50か国から4000人以上が参加し，これまでで最大のCHIになると予想されています．またプログラム等の内容もそれに見合うように充実させ，皆さんの記憶に長く残るCHIとすることが期待されています．そこで本シンポジウムではこの機会に，CHI 2021のCommitteeを務めるキーメンバーを中心に国際的にご活躍中の皆さんに集まっていただき，人と情報システムの相互作用やHuman Computer Interactionとばれる分野の未来を一緒に考えてみたいと思います． “

Mar 2009 Session Chair Pervasive 2009

I’ve been asked to be a session chair on Navigation during Pervasive 2009. This is the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. This session includes papers I’m looking forward to hearing more about including, “Realistic Driving Trips for Location Privacy” by John Krumm, “Enhancing Navigation Information with Tactile Output Embedded into the Steering Wheel” by Dagmar Kern, Eva Hornecker, Paul Marshall, Albrecht Schmidt, Yvonne Rogers, “Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation with Enhanced Spatial Reasoning” by Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Alan Liu, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Jana Kosecka, Gaetano Borriello.

This annual conference is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing. My colleague Albrecht will chair the session our paper is in on the final morning of the conference.

Read more about the program or register for the conference.

Feb 2009 – LoCA program chair meeting and decisions


Myself and Tanzeem Choudhury from Dartmouth College are the program chairs for the Fourth International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness to be held in Tokyo Japan from the 7-8 May 2009. LoCA 2009 is colocated with Pervasive 2009 the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan.

A total of 77 abstracts and 54 papers were submitted to LoCA 2009 and after careful peer review by the program committee and discussion by the chairs, 18 papers were selected to form what we feel is a high-quality program. Best paper and presentation awards will be presented during the symposium. And all accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.

While we had more good papers than we could accept, those in the program will form an exciting and engaging research program for everyone who attends LoCA 2009. Some of the terms and expressions (adapted a little to preserve anonymity) used in the reviews of these accepted papers include:

  • “New Concept”, “Novel Concept”, “An interesting novel idea”
  • “…the research jumps head-on into a large open problem”
  • “…strong rigorous evaluations which are well written and well argued”
  • “…the authors offer insightful descriptions”
  • “… well written, well explained, and thoroughly evaluated research contribution that is quite relevant for …”
  • “… an interesting paper, well-presented and -evaluated and addressing an important problem.”
  • “..the paper makes good use of state-of-the art techniques to solve the problem of …”
  • “..I think this is a real problem of interest to the community”

Peer review can be a both upliftting and shocking process but the tireless efforts of all those on the LoCA PC are to be very much commended as hundreds of reviews had to be written to help select just 18 papers.

Dr.Shonozaki of Koozyt (PlaceEngine) will be a Keynote Speaker for LoCA 2009 and the early bird registration for LoCA 2009 is March 5.

I would like to thank all the members of the PC, our reviewers, general and local chairs and in particular my program co-chair Dr. Tanzeem Choudhury for a very smooth, professional and high quality peer-review process for LoCA 2009.

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