HDS lab member, Ray Hong, will present a talk titled, “Improving Game Experiences” at the 2015 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Seoul, Korea. Hong will present empirical data on the usability and usefulness of the Vizmo prototype, a new way of browsing video games based on their visual style and mood. The CHI talk is based on a paper title “VIZMO Game Browser: Accessing Video Games by Visual Style and Mood,” co-authored by Jin Ha Lee, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Hyerim Cho, and Yea-Seul Kim. More about Vizmo can be found here: http://vizmo.mooo.com/.
Posted by Cecilia Aragon
on April 13, 2015
Two members of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to Human Centered Design and Engineering. Daniel Perry received the 2015 HCDE Student Innovator Award for Research, and Taylor Scott received the 2015 HCDE Student Innovator Award for Teaching. Recipients of the departmental Innovator Awards are in turn nominated for the College of Engineering’s Community of Innovators Awards, which will be announced in May 2015.
Posted by Daniel Perry
on February 22, 2015
Lab Director and HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Jose, California on Feb. 15th. In a talk titled “Future Career Paths for Data Scientists in Academia,” she addressed the human dimensions of data science that will be important for academic careers in the field. The talk was part of a larger session titled “Advancing University Career Paths in Interdisciplinary Data-Intensive Science,” led by University of Washington faculty, as well as additional members of the five-year Moore/Sloan data science initiative from UC Berkeley, and New York University.
An article about the presentation was recently featured in UW Today: http://www.washington.edu/
Posted by Daniel Perry
on February 20, 2015
Research conducted by Lab Director Cecilia Aragon and HCDE PhD Student Nan-Chen Chen was recently presented in a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Jose, California on Feb. 14th. Aragon presented their findings as part of a larger symposium on “Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Bases of Communication: New Analytic Approaches.” In the research Aragon and Chen analyzed chat logs from astrophysicists collaborating in the U.S. and France, finding that native French speakers in the scientific collaboration used more emoticons when they communicated in English. Their findings have implications for how bilinguals use emoticons to assist in communication when wording or phrasing might be challenging.
An article on the research was recently featured in UW Today: http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/02/13/aaas-talk-some-bilinguals-use-emoticons-more-when-chatting-in-non-native-language/
