Google at CHI 2021

*ACM SIGCHI Awards:

ACM SIGCHI Academy: Google Inductees 2020 - 2021  

• 2021
  • Allison Woodruff - Senior Staff UX Researcher
  • Fernanda Viegas - Principal Scientist
• 2020
  • Meredith Ringel Morris - Director, Principal Scientist 
  • Sunny Consolvo - Senior Staff UX Researcher 

*Best Paper Award: 

RadarNet: Efficient Gesture Recognition Technique Utilizing a Miniaturized Radar Sensor

Authors: Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Gillian, Leonardo Giusti, Dave Weber, Jin Yamanaka, Lauren Bedal, Ivan Poupyrev

Google Speakers: Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Gillian, Leonardo Giusti, Dave Weber, Jin Yamanaka, Lauren Bedal, Ivan Poupyrev

Paper Room 10: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 10: Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

*Best Paper Award:

"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work": Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI

Authors: Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo

Google Speakers: Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo

Paper Room 13: Mon, May 10 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 13: Tue, May 11 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

*Honorable Mention:

SonicHoop: Using Interactive Sonification to Support Aerial Hoop Practices

Authors: Wanyu Liu, Artem Dementyev, Diemo Schwarz, Emmanuel Flety, Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Frédéric Bevilacqua

Google Speakers: Artem Dementyev

Paper Room 10: Tue, May 11 16:00 - 18:00 JST

Paper Room 10: Wed, May 12 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

*Honorable Mention:

AI as Social Glue: Uncovering the Roles of Deep Generative AI during Social Music Composition

Authors: Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Emily Youngblom, Michael Terry, Carrie J Cai

Google Speakers: Carrie J Cai, Emily Youngblom, Michael Terry, Minhyang (Mia) Suh

Paper Room 02: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 02:Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper 

*Best Case Study:

Onboarding Materials as Cross-functional Boundary Objects for Developing AI Assistants

Authors: Carrie Jun Cai, Dave Steiner, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Terry, Samantha Winter

Google Speakers: Carrie Jun Cai, Dave Steiner, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Terry, Samantha Winter

Case Studies Room: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Case Studies Room: Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Let’s Talk About CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice

Google Organizers: Andrew Ku

Workshop Room: Sat, May 8 22:00 - 02:00 +1 JST

Link to Workshop Website

Realizing AI in Healthcare: Challenges Appearing in the Wild

Google Organizers: Lauren Wilcox

Workshop Room: Sat, May 8 22:00 - 02:00 +1 JST

Workshop Room: Sun, May 9 22:00 - 02:00 +1 JST

Link to Workshop Website

EduCHI 2021: 3rd Annual Symposium on HCI Education

Google Organizers: Elizabeth Churchill

Workshop Room: Sat, May 15 22:00 - 02:00 +1 JST

Link to Workshop Website

"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work": Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI

Authors: Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo

Google Speakers: Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo

Paper Room 13: Mon, May 10 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 13: Tue, May 11 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

TapNet: The Design, Training, Implementation, and Applications of a Multi-Task Learning CNN for Off-Screen Mobile Input

Authors: Michael Xuelin Huang, Yang Li, Nazneen Nazneen, Alexander Chao, Shumin Zhai

Google Speakers: Michael Xuelin Huang, Yang Li, Nazneen Nazneen, Alexander Chao, Shumin Zhai

Paper Room 02: Mon, May 10 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 02: Tue, May 11 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Spacewalker: Rapid UI Design Exploration Using Lightweight Markup Enhancement and Crowd Genetic Programming

Authors: Mingyuan Zhong*, Gang Li, Yang Li

Google Speakers: Gang Li, Yang Li

Paper Room 05: Mon, May 10 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 05: Mon, May 10 16:00 - 18:00 JST

Link to Paper

SonicHoop: Using Interactive Sonification to Support Aerial Hoop Practices

Authors: Wanyu Liu, Artem Dementyev, Diemo Schwarz, Emmanuel Flety, Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Frédéric Bevilacqua

Google Speakers: Artem Dementyev

Paper Room 10: Tue, May 11 16:00 - 18:00 JST

Paper Room 10: Wed, May 12 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Observing Musicians' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors: Carrie J Cai, Michelle Carney, Nida Zada, Michael Terry

Google Speakers: Carrie J Cai, Michael Terry, Michelle Carney, Nida Zada

Paper Room 13: Tue, May 11 16:00 - 18:00 JST

Paper Room 13: Wed, May 12 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper 

RadarNet: Efficient Gesture Recognition Technique Utilizing a Miniaturized Radar Sensor

Authors: Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Gillian, Leonardo Giusti, Dave Weber, Jin Yamanaka, Lauren Bedal, Ivan Poupyrev

Google Speakers: Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Gillian, Leonardo Giusti, Dave Weber, Jin Yamanaka, Lauren Bedal, Ivan Poupyrev

Paper Room 10: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 10: Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

AI as Social Glue: Uncovering the Roles of Deep Generative AI during Social Music Composition

Authors: Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Emily Youngblom, Michael Terry, Carrie J Cai

Google Speakers: Carrie J Cai, Emily Youngblom, Michael Terry, Minhyang (Mia) Suh

Paper Room 02: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 02:Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper 

Isolation in coordination: challenges of informal caregivers in the USA

Authors: Mark William Schurgin, Mark Schlager, Laura M Vardoulakis, Laura Pina, Lauren Wilcox

Google Speakers: Mark William Schurgin, Mark Schlager, Laura M Vardoulakis, Laura Pina, Lauren Wilcox

Paper Room 07: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 07: Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Automatic Generation of Two Level Hierarchical Tutorials from Instructional Makeup Videos

Authors: Anh Truong*, Peggy Chi, David Salesin, Irfan Essa, Maneesh Agrawala*

Google Speakers: David Salesin, Peggy Chi

Paper Room 05: Thu, May 13 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 05: Fri, May 14 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

PhraseFlow: Designs and Empirical Studies of Phrase-Level Input

Authors: Mingrui "Ray" Zhang, Shumin Zhai

Google Speakers: Shumin Zhai

Paper Room 08: Thu, May 13 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 08: Fri, May 14 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

"It's Just Everything Outside of the IDE that's the Problem": Information Seeking by Software Developers with Visual Impairments

Authors: Kevin Mark Storer*, Harini Sampath, Alice Merrick

Google Speakers: Harini Sampath, Alice Merrick

Paper Room 01: Thu, May 13 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 01: Fri, May 14 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Accessibility of Command Line Interfaces

Authors: Harini Sampath, Alice Merrick, Andrew Macvean

Google Speakers: Harini Sampath, Alice Merrick, Andrew Macvean

Paper Room 01: Thu, May 13 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Paper Room 01: Fri, May 14 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Videoconferencing in the Age of COVID: How Well Has It Worked Out?

Authors: Daniel Russell

Google Speakers: Daniel Russell

Panel Room: Wed, May 12 02:00 - 04:00 JST

Hidden Interfaces for Ambient Computing: Interacting with High-brightness Visuals through Everyday Materials

Authors: Alex Olwal, Artem Dementyev

Google Speakers: Alex Olwal, Artem Dementyev

Interactivity Room: Mon, May 10 10:00 - 12:00 JST

Interactivity Room: Tue, May 11 02:00 - 04:00 JST

Link to Paper/Video

Mobile, Hands-free, Silent Speech Texting Using SilentSpeller

Authors: Naoki Kimura, Tan Gemicioglu, Richard Li, Yuhui Zhao, Abdelkareem Bedri, Alex Olwal, Jun Rekimoto, Thad Starner

Google Speakers: Alex Olwal

Interactivity Room: Tue, May 11 10:00 - 12:00

Interactivity Room: Tue, May 11 18:00 - 20:00

Link to Paper/Video

Onboarding Materials as Cross-functional Boundary Objects for Developing AI Assistants

Authors: Carrie Jun Cai, Dave Steiner, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Terry, Samantha Winter

Google Speakers: Carrie Jun Cai, Dave Steiner, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Terry, Samantha Winter

Case Studies Room:: Wed, May 12 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Case Studies Room: Thu, May 13 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper

Countdown Timer Speed: A Trade-off between Delay Duration Perception and Recall

Authors: Moojan Ghafurian, David Reitter, Frank E. Ritter

Google Speakers: David Reitter

Journal Room: Mon, May 10 08:00 - 10:00 JST

Journal Room: Tue, May 11 00:00 - 02:00 JST

Link to Paper