Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces SS 2019

Intelligent User Interfaces

Course information:

This seminar will cover current topics connecting HCI and machine learning. How can intelligent systems improve the interaction with a device? Topics will range from voice controlled systems to image recognition to adapting UIs. The focus will be on the interaction with intelligent systems rather than the technical foundations of machine learning.

Mandatory kick-off meeting:

Dependent on the date of the final allocation of seminar/practical course seats.

SS19 Kick-off Slides
See seminar schedule below.

Mandatory course dates :

Course time & location:

Course Aim:

After having achieved a general overview of the area of Human-Computer Interaction, this seminar will provide students with an idea of the current research topics that are being tackled in the research community. After the seminar, students will have some in-depth knowledge about one current area of HCI, and will have heard talks about numerous others. The seminar also provides students with an opportunity to refine their scientific writing and presentation skills, and since the topics are assigned to groups of two students each, it is also another chance to learn how to work efficiently as a team.

Allocation:

Field of study:

• Informatik (Master)
• Informatik (Bachelor, if you already attended a Proseminar)
• Media Informatics (M.Sc.)/Multimediabenutzung und -wirkung/in Aachen
• System Software Engineering (SSE) Communication and Software Engineering

ECTS Credits: 4
The seminar will be held in English.

Attendance Policy

To pass the course the student have to attend all presentations (14:30 - 16:00) at the following dates: 04.04.2019, 11.04.2019, 18.04.2019, 25.04.2019, 02.05.2019.

Lecturer:

• Philipp Wacker

Quotes From Past Student Feedback:

"The discussion of the presentation style and drawbacks was really useful so one can improve his skills, and now I find presentations with less text and images just amazing. :) I have completely changed my opinion of what a good presentation looks like." — Anonymous student feedback, 2011.
"I really liked the extensive feedback on the presentation. I feel like I really learned a lot from this feedback and I know what to work on in future presentations now. Also, the rather rigid structure of the seminar was very good. My weaker self didn't like all the deadlines but after all it helped actually dividing the amount of work over the whole semester." — Anonymous student feedback, 2011.

Course requirements:

Please agree to the Ethical Guidelines for the Authoring of Academic Work (Ethische Richtlinien für das Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten) by signing the Declaration of Compliance (Erklärung zur Seminararbeit). Return the signed declaration on the first day of the seminar meeting.

The RWTH CS library offers a course to literature review (Literaturrecherche für Informatiker). This course is mandatory for all bachelor students to participate in our seminar.

Required reading (before kick-off meeting):

Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel (available at RWTH library & Informatik library)

• Chapter 10: Doing Research
• Chapter 9: Writing Up

"How to Read an Engineering Research Paper"

• http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html

Online Learning Room

To be announced.

Topics

This seminar deals with topics in HCI that go beyond the desktop. In groups of two, you will work on one of the topics listed below. The topics will be assigned in the kick-off meeting. We provide starting papers for each topic.
The topics this year will be about the interaction with intelligent UIs. This includes interaction with autonomous vehicles, the interaction with virtual assistants, and recognizing lies as well as understanding how an intelligent system reaches its conclusion.

1 Explainable AI

• Zeiler, M. D., & Fergus, R. (2014). Visualizing and understanding convolutional networks (Vol. 8689, pp. 818–833). Presented at the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10590-1_53
• Jonathan Dodge, Sean Penney, Claudia Hilderbrand, Andrew Anderson, and Margaret Burnett. 2018. How the Experts Do It: Assessing and Explaining Agent Behaviors in Real-Time Strategy Games. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 562, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174136

2 Algorithmic Fairness

• Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek, Michael Veale, Ulrik Lyngs, Jun Zhao, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2018. 'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage': Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 377, 14 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173951
• Oscar Alvarado and Annika Waern. 2018. Towards Algorithmic Experience: Initial Efforts for Social Media Contexts. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 286, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173860

3 Voice

• Martin Porcheron, Joel E. Fischer, Stuart Reeves, and Sarah Sharples. 2018. Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 640, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174214
• Chelsea Myers, Anushay Furqan, Jessica Nebolsky, Karina Caro, and Jichen Zhu. 2018. Patterns for How Users Overcome Obstacles in Voice User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 6, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173580

4 Chatbots

• Ari Schlesinger, Kenton P. O'Hara, and Alex S. Taylor. 2018. Let's Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 315, 14 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173889
• Q. Vera Liao, Muhammed Mas-ud Hussain, Praveen Chandar, Matthew Davis, Yasaman Khazaeni, Marco Patricio Crasso, Dakuo Wang, Michael Muller, N. Sadat Shami, and Werner Geyer. 2018. All Work and No Play?. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 3, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173577

5 Design

• Changhoon Oh, Jungwoo Song, Jinhan Choi, Seonghyeon Kim, Sungwoo Lee, and Bongwon Suh. 2018. I Lead, You Help but Only with Enough Details: Understanding User Experience of Co-Creation with Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 649, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174223
• Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Ye Tao, Guanyun Wang, Runchang Kang, Tovi Grossman, Stelian Coros, and Scott E. Hudson. 2018. Forte: User-Driven Generative Design. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 496, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174070

6 Emotion & Lying

• Aske Mottelson, Jarrod Knibbe, and Kasper Hornbæk. 2018. Veritaps: Truth Estimation from Mobile Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 561, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174135
• Daniel McDuff, Amy Karlson, Ashish Kapoor, Asta Roseway, and Mary Czerwinski. 2012. AffectAura: an intelligent system for emotional memory. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 849-858. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208525

7 Gaze

• Xucong Zhang, Michael Xuelin Huang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. 2018. Training Person-Specific Gaze Estimators from User Interactions with Multiple Devices. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 624, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174198
• Mohamed Khamis, Anita Baier, Niels Henze, Florian Alt, and Andreas Bulling. 2018. Understanding Face and Eye Visibility in Front-Facing Cameras of Smartphones used in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 280, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173854

8 Autonomous Cars

• Karthik Mahadevan, Sowmya Somanath, and Ehud Sharlin. 2018. Communicating Awareness and Intent in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 429, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174003
• Shadan Sadeghian Borojeni, Susanne C.J. Boll, Wilko Heuten, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, and Lewis Chuang. 2018. Feel the Movement: Real Motion Influences Responses to Take-over Requests in Highly Automated Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 246, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173820

9 Making Sense of Sensors

• Yang Zhang and Chris Harrison. 2018. Pulp Nonfiction: Low-Cost Touch Tracking for Paper. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 117, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173691
• Yang Zhang, Chouchang (Jack) Yang, Scott E. Hudson, Chris Harrison, and Alanson Sample. 2018. Wall++: Room-Scale Interactive and Context-Aware Sensing. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 273, 15 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173847

10 Research & Data Exploration

• Megh Marathe and Kentaro Toyama. 2018. Semi-Automated Coding for Qualitative Research: A User-Centered Inquiry and Initial Prototypes. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 348, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173922
• Enamul Hoque and Giuseppe Carenini. 2015. ConVisIT: Interactive Topic Modeling for Exploring Asynchronous Online Conversations. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 169-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2678025.2701370

Submission Milestones

All submissions have to be sent to the supervisor until 12:00 (noon) via mail. Include the tag [PDUI] and the name of the topic as well as the milestone (e.g., "[PDUI] Explainable AI, Report Outline").

Literature Review

List of 7+ topic-related research papers with a contribution and benefits statement stating the contribution type each with a consistent storyline on how these papers are related to each other.

Report Outline

Clear structure of the final paper submission. What is the storyline you want to convey? How are you introducing the topic? What are the arguments you are providing? How are you connecting the papers to each other and your arguments?

First Report

This is the first complete draft of your seminar paper (10 content pages in the ACM Journal Template). We expect you to submit a version which you consider complete. No spelling mistakes, a closed argumentation, a complete bibliography, including all figures. The better your submission the better the feedback we can provide. If we need to fix spelling mistakes we have less time for in-depth feedback.

You can download the template or set up a collaborative Latex project using Overleaf. In both cases, make sure that you use the "Journal Small" documentclass: \documentclass[acmsmall]{acmart}

Slides

The first complete version of your presentation slides (Powerpoint, Keynote, Prezi, ....). The same applies as for the First Report. Hand in slides which you would confidently use for a presentation on the next day.

Camera-ready Slides

The next version of your presentation slides that include your supervisor's feedback. You will get even more in-depth feedback again for these slides.

Presentation (50% der Note)

The presentation in front of the other students and your supervisor. We expect a well-prepared presentation. Test your talk at least once in the room where you are going to present to familiarise yourself with the equipment and test your slides on the beamer in the room. The presentation time will be 20 minutes followed by a 20 minutes discussion where you will get feedback and questions from your supervisor and your peers. We encourage a constructive feedback interaction where you can learn from each other and have a fun conversation on how to improve your presentation style.

Final Report (50% der Note)

Your final submission of your seminar paper. You have time during the presentation week to include your supervisor's feedback.

Milestone Dates

* No meeting.

Additional Information:

Example presentation from Marcel Lahaye and Aaron Krämer

• How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan (:wink:)
• Hints on how to prepare and present a seminar topic
• Jan's presentation guidelines
• Polish your presentations (Macworld.com)
• The Elements of Style improve your writing style
• Writing concisely
• Ethics Policy for Courses Taught at i10

Past seminars:

• PDUI SS 2018
• PDUI SS 2017
• PDUI SS 2016
• PDUI SS 2015
• PDUI SS 2014
• PDUI SS 2013
• PDUI WS 1011
• PDUI WS 0910
• PDUI WS 0809
• PDUI WS 0708
• PDUI WS 0607
• PDUI WS 0506
• PDUI SS 2005
• PDUI SS 2004