iSchool researchers to present at CHI 2024

iSchool faculty and students will present their research at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), which will be held from May 11-16 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference, considered the most prestigious in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, attracts researchers and practitioners from around the globe. The theme for CHI 2024 is "Surfing the World."

Presentations and workshops (only iSchool researchers noted):

• "Don't put all your eggs in one basket": How Cryptocurrency Users Choose and Secure Their Wallets, PhD student Yaman Yu, Informatics doctoral candidate Tanusree Sharma, and Associate Professor Yang Wang*
   
• "I Can't Believe It’s Not Custodial!" Usable Trustless Decentralized Key Management, Informatics doctoral candidate Tanusree Sharma and Associate Professor Yang Wang*
   
• SEAM-EZ: Simplifying Stateful Analytics through Visual Programming, Associate Professor Yang Wang
   
• Designing Accessible Obfuscation Support for Blind Individuals' Visual Privacy Management, Informatics doctoral candidate Tanusree Sharma and Associate Professor Yang Wang
   
• Cross-Country Examination of People's Experience with Targeted Advertising on Social Media, PhD students Smirity Kaushik and Yaman Yu, Informatics doctoral candidate Tanusree Sharma, and Associate Professor Yang Wang
   
• Towards Inclusive Video Commenting: Introducing Signmaku for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, PhD students Si Chen and Haocong Cheng, Informatics PhD students Yiren Liu and Yiliu Tang, and Associate Professor Yun Huang
   
• CoQuest: Exploring Research Question Co-Creation with an LLM-based Agent, PhD students Si Chen and Haocong Cheng; Informatics PhD students Yiren Liu, Yiliu Tang, Xiao Ran, and Yiliu Tang; and Associate Professor Yun Huang
   
• AudioXtend: Assisted Reality Visual Accompaniments for Audiobook Storytelling During Everyday Routine Tasks, Associate Professor Yun Huang
   
• MAIDR: Making Statistical Visualizations Accessible with Multimodal Data Representation, Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo and PhD student Yilin Xia
   
• AI-Driven Support for People with Speech & Language Difficulties (Special Interest Group), Associate Professor Yun Huang
   
• Bridging Informational Divides: A Community-Centered Analysis of “Public Safety” Surveillance Technology, PhD students Clara Belitz and Gowri Saini Balasubramaniam and Associate Professor Anita Say Chan
   
• CUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs—From Design to Deployment, doctoral candidate Smit Desai
   
• Metaphors in Voice User Interfaces: A Slippery Fish, doctoral candidate Smit Desai and Professor Michael Twidale
   
• Choosing What You Want Versus Getting What You Want: An Experiment with Choice in Video Ad Placement, Affiliate Professor Karrie Karahalios

*Recipient of an honorable mention paper award, given to the top 5% of conference papers.