Google at CHI 2022

*ACM SIGCHI Awards:

ACM SIGCHI Academy: Google Inductees 2020 - 2022

• 2022
  • Please check back soon for updates!
•  2021
  • Allison Woodruff - Senior Staff UX Researcher
  • Fernanda Viegas - Principal Scientist
• 2020
  • Meredith Ringel Morris - Director, Principal Scientist 
  • Sunny Consolvo - Senior Staff UX Researcher 

*Honorable Mention:

"You have to prove the threat is real": Understanding the needs of Female Journalists and Activists to Document and Report Online Harassment

Authors: NiTesh Goyal, Leslie Park, Lucy Vasserman

Paper Room 283-285 - Thursday, May 5th
9:00 - 10:15 am CST

Link to Paper

*Honorable Case Study:

PromptMaker: Prompt-based Prototyping with Large Language Models

Authors: Ellen Jiang, Kristen Olson, Edwin Toh, Alejandra Molina, Aaron Donsbach, Michael Terry, Carrie J. Cai

Case Studies Room 393 - Tuesday, May 3rd
2:15 - 3:30 pm CST

Link to Paper

Emerging Telepresence Technologies in Hybrid Learning Environments

Google Authors: Irene Rae

Workshop Room 288-289 - Saturday, April 30th
9:00 a.m. — 10:20 a.m. CST
11:00 a.m. — 12:20 p.m. CST
2:00 p.m. — 3:20 p.m. CST
4:00 p.m. — 5:20 p.m. CST 

Link to Workshop Website - Coming soon!

Computational Approaches for Understanding, Generating, and Adapting User Interfaces

Google Organizers: Yang Li

Workshop Room 393-385  - Saturday, April 30th
9:00 a.m. — 10:20 a.m. CST
11:00 a.m. — 12:20 p.m. CST
2:00 p.m. — 3:20 p.m. CST
4:00 p.m. — 5:20 p.m. CST 

Link to Workshop Website - Coming soon!

Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces

Google Organizers: NiTesh Goyal

Workshop Room 395 - Sunday, May 1st
9:00 a.m. — 10:20 a.m. CST
11:00 a.m. — 12:20 p.m. CST
2:00 p.m. — 3:20 p.m. CST
4:00 p.m. — 5:20 p.m. CST

Link to Workshop Website - Coming soon!

InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools

Google Organizers: Elizabeth F. Churchill

Workshop Room 387 - Sunday, May 1st
9:00 a.m. — 10:20 a.m. CST
11:00 a.m. — 12:20 p.m. CST
2:00 p.m. — 3:20 p.m. CST
4:00 p.m. — 5:20 p.m. CST

Link to Workshop Website - Coming soon!

The Deskilling of Domain Expertise in AI Development

Authors: Nithya Sambasivan, Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Paper Room 288-289 - Monday, May 2nd
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m CST

Link to Paper

Predicting and Explaining Mobile UI Tappability with Vision Modeling and Saliency Analysis

Authors: Eldon Schoop, Xin Zhou, Gang Li, Zhourong Chen, Bjoern Hartmann, Yang Li

Paper Room 291 - Monday, May 2nd 
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

Authors: Dhruv Jain, Khoa Huynh Anh Nguyen, Steven M. Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

Paper Room 395 - Monday, May 2nd
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

TypeAnywhere: A QWERTY-Based Text Entry Solution for Ubiquitous Computing

Authors: Mingrui Ray Zhang, Shumin Zhai, Jacob O. Wobbrock

Paper Room 286-287 - Monday, May 2nd
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

Understanding Visual Investigation Patterns Through Digital "Field" Observations

Authors: Irene Rae*, Feng Zhou, Martin Bilsing, Philipp Bunge

Paper Room 393 - Tuesday, May 3rd
11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m. CST

Link to Paper 

"Because AI is 100% right and safe": User Attitudes and Sources of AI Authority in India

Authors: Shivani Kapania, Oliver Siy, Gabe Clapper, Azhagu Meena SP, Nithya Sambasivan

Paper Room 292 - Tuesday, May 3rd
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

Hidden Interfaces for Ambient Computing: Enabling Interaction in Everyday Materials through High-brightness Visuals on Low-cost Matrix Displays

Authors: Alex Olwal , Artem Dementyev

Paper Room 293 - Tuesday, May 3rd
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper 

Probability Weighting in Interactive Decisions: Evidence for Overuse of Bad Assistance, Underuse of Good Assistance

Authors: Andy Cockburn, Philip Quinn, Carl Gutwin, Zhe Chen, Pang Suwanaposee

Paper Room 288-289 - Tuesday, May 3rd
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST 

Link to Paper

A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of Community-Collaborative Approaches to Computing Research

Authors: Ned Cooper, Tiffanie Horne, Gillian R. Hayes, Courtney Heldreth, Michal Lahav, Jess Holbrook, Lauren Wilcox

Paper Room 283-285 - Wednesday, May 4th
9:00 a.m. — 10:15 a.m. CST

Link to Paper

Discovering the Syntax and Strategies of Natural Language Programming with Generative Language Models

Authors: Ellen Jiang, Edwin Toh, Alejandra Molina, Kristen Olson, Claire Kayacik, Aaron Donsbach, Carrie J. Cai, Michael Terry

Paper Room 286-287 - Wednesday, May 4th
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts

Authors: Tongshuang Wu, Michael Terry, Carrie J. Cai 

Paper Room 286-287 - Wednesday, May 4th
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope With Hate and Harassment Online

Authors: Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Patrawat Samermit, Elie Bursztein 

Paper Room 393 - Wednesday, May 4th
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

Whose AI Dream? In search of the aspiration in data annotation

Authors: Ding Wang, Shantanu Prabhat, Nithya Sambasivan

Paper Room 286-287 - Wednesday, May 4th
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

SilentSpeller: Towards mobile, hands-free, silent speech text entry using electropalatography

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

Paper Room 386 - Wednesday, May 4th
4:15 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

When is ML data good?: Valuing in Public Health Datafication

Authors: Divy Thakkar, Azra Ismail, Pratyush Kumar, Alex Hanna, Nithya Sambasivan, Neha Kumar

Paper Room 297 - Thursday, May 5th
9:00 am - 10:15 am CST

Link to Paper

VisGuide: User-oriented Recommendations for Data Event Extraction

Authors: Yu-Rong Cao, Xiao Han Li, Jia-Yu Pan, Wen-Chieh Lin

Paper Room 288-289  - Thursday, May 5th
9:00 am - 10:15 am CST

Link to Paper

"You have to prove the threat is real": Understanding the needs of Female Journalists and Activists to Document and Report Online Harassment

Authors: NiTesh Goyal , Leslie Park, Lucy Vasserman

Paper Room 283-285  - Thursday, May 5th
9:00 am - 10:15 am CST

Link to Paper

Considerations for Building Solidarity among Academic and Tech Workers: Thinking through access, positionality and limits to collective action

Authors: Noopur Raval, Rida Qadri, Richmond Y. Wong, Tamara Kneese, Alex Hanna

Panel Room 393 - Tuesday, May 3rd
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST 

Alexa, Tell Me a Joke!: "Voice Interfaces are Truly Inclusive"

Authors: Jaisie Sin, Cosmin Munteanu, Jenny Waycott, Robin N. Brewer, Sergio Sayago, Amanda Lazar, Astrid Weber

Panel Room New Orleans Theater A - Wednesday, May 4th
9:00 a.m. — 10:15 a.m. CST 

Alert Now or Never: Understanding and Predicting Notification Preferences of Smartphone Users

Authors: Tianshi Li, Julia Katherine Haines, Miguel Flores Ruiz de Eguino, Jason I. Hong, Jeffrey Nichols

Room 293 - Thursday, May 5th
9:00 a.m. — 10:15 a.m. CST 

Opportunistic Interfaces for Augmented Reality: Transforming Everyday Objects into Tangible 6DoF Interfaces Using Ad hoc UI

Authors: Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Mathieu Le Goc, Shengzhi Wu, Danhang Tang, Yinda Zhang, Jun Zhang, David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, David Kim

Interactivity Room Exhibit Hall J - Monday, May 2nd
5:45 p.m. — 8:45 p.m. CST

Link to Paper/Video

Hidden Interfaces for Ambient Computing: Enabling Interaction in Everyday Materials through High-brightness Visuals on Low-cost Matrix Displays

Authors: Alex Olwal, Artem Dementyev

Interactivity Room Exhibit Hall J - Monday, May 2nd
5:45 p.m. — 8:45 p.m. CST

Link to Paper/Video

(Case Studies Session - Machine Learning and AI) PromptMaker: Prompt-based Prototyping with Large Language Models

Authors: Ellen Jiang, Kristen Olson, Edwin Toh, Alejandra Molina, Aaron Donsbach, Michael Terry, Carrie J. Cai

Case Studies Room 393 - Tuesday, May 4th
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST

*Honorable Case Study Award

Link to Paper

(Case Studies Session - Understanding Use With Data ) Numeric Forced Rank: A Lightweight Method for Comparison and Decision-making

Authors: Erin Gannon, Barbara Chaparro

Case Studies Room 394 - Wednesday, May 5th
2:15 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

Understanding User Mental Models Through App Sketches from Memory

Authors: Steven Schirra, Shraddhaa Narasimha, Sasha Volkov, Justin W. Owens

Exhibit Hall J - Tuesday, May 3rd 
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Virtual - Tuesday, May 3rd
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

PromptChainer: Chaining Large Language Model Prompts through Visual Programming

Authors: Tongshuang Wu, Ellen Jiang, Aaron Donsbach, Jeff Gray, Alejandra Molina, Michael Terry, Carrie J. Cai

Exhibit Hall J - Tuesday, May 3rd 
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Virtual - Tuesday, May 3rd
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Link to Paper

RaITIn: Radar Based Identification for Tangible Interactions

Authors: Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Ryo Hajika, Yun Suen Pai, Eiji Hayashi, Mark Billinghurst

Exhibit Hall J - Tuesday, May 3rd 
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Virtual - Tuesday, May 3rd
10:15 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. CST
3:30 p.m. — 4:15 p.m. CST

Link to Paper