HCIC 2017

• Thought for the day – board games to explain paper production (Journal and conference) and proposal writing
  • John Walton (Board games, etc) Elizabeth Swenson (Application Crunch)
    • Joe Dumit – Science studies Fracking simulation board games
• John Tang, Gina Venolia and Kori Inkpen, Microsoft
  • Breaking the Future of Social Media
  • Discussant: Dan Russell
  • Multi stream clusters – how do we view? (Scoop)
  • Interactions among the streamers and between the streamers and the viewers. Also, how does the design scale? Twitch doesn’t scale, BTW – you can’t keep up
  • Likes as a percentage of viewers upvoting affects who sees what Paper at CHI
  • Can be hard to stream under particular circumstances. High crowds, degrated conditions, etc. Leads to short viewing due to frustration
  • SXSW covered with multiple parallel streams
    • Note – stabilized shoulder mount for a streamer with extra batteries? Better mic? Camera?
  • If there is a crash, the preview allows an overview and lets people continue an interrupted stream.
  • Many short glances, most of the time is in long watches/views. Browse/browse/browse/stay
  • Interaction engagement – all deliberate. Lurking is the absence of action, but there is a surprisingly low percentage of that.
  • Sweet spot is high flexibility environments like trade shows, where the remote audience can interact.
  • How do you get effects at at sale with a prototype
    • Recruit crowds from Turk – reflects incentives. Can test usability and engagement at a higher level of interaction, which exercises the platform more
    • Corporate Volunteers – viewed by interest. very linear. More interested in the talks, rather than the wandering.
    • Unknown – power law. many short, few long (and much higher lurking)
  • Breaking existing commercial boundaries to enable the future
    • Many semi-overlapping ecosystems. How to standardize? Standards didn’t work. incentivised to lock-in
    • Maybe a standard for subsets of data to support a commons? Universities may be a good place to take the lead on this?
    • How to unify?
• Dan Russell discussant
  • We already have a lot of streaming cameras
  • 911 Truthers based on self-selected partial information.
  • Can’t reverse engineer context
  • Reverse effects cause and effect can get confused
  • Google moderator wound up requiring an intermediary to select the questions
  • Only studies with real money matter
  • Is the MCR mechanism of handling multiple feeds the way to handle social media? Possible for ABC to buy feeds from Fox?
• Questions
  • Sharing PII is also a problem. Not only costs but risks
  • Is the value in the liveness, or in the history? Attention value is value.
  • Value is transparency? Authenticness? David Brin, the transparent society Trustworthiness of the messenger, rather than the anonymous streamer?
  • Social information proximity vs IR gatekeeping?
  • We’re having trouble differentiating between perspectives? There are different small groups that don’t relate to a giant company. A small group may be important.
  • Events of civic interest vs. novel and entertaining live streams
  • Gare Steinberg’s incredible sad true love story
  • There is a difference between a trained, effective producer? What about predators choosing prey from a flock? What does an effective liver performer do?
  • Becoming a temporary media company that produces a curated stream. An improvisational theatre company
  • Tweak the Tweet Palen & Starbird
  • It is very interesting to watch representatives of Google and MSFT discuss research as startups, where acquisition is the large scale corporate research model.
• Short talk and working session: Charlotte Lee 
  • HCDE Comics – Reflecting on Living in the Present and Designing for the Future
  • Philip Agre – Critical Technical Practice
  • Check out the memex as inspiration for the Research Browser
  • You can draw in pencil all day long at a coffee shop, but when you start inking people will stop and notice.
• See if ASRC could support HCIC. What’s he cost/value proposition. What does it mean to be part of the consortium?
• Reworking Design as Critical Fabulations – Daniela Rosner
  • Building core memory as quilts
  • Core rope memory
  • “Valorization of individuals has to recede” in collaborative processes.
  • To believe what is physically impossible might be possible in a different way
• Discussant – Stacy
  • It’s a book chapter! In what book?
  • Design shift from individualism (includes small teams) to collective
  • Situated, and contextual
  • Not having a solution and moving on, but creating a process.
  • Who gets to tell the stories
  • There is a reviewer 2 meme. I did not know that.
  • Interviews are fabulating?
  • Grounded theory is a way of academically acknowledging and defining path dependency.
  • corememoryshield.com/report.html
  • Creating different physical instantiations that provide different audiences.
  • Inquire into your method’s history. What are the ways of knowing, and Who is knowing?
  • Who are the actual people doing the tasks, and what are the behind-the scenes work to create the product (Read papers by Lilly Irani. Such command of the language!)
  • Identifying devalued labor. How. And what does it mean to track and understand than that. There is a difference between the dialogic practice of group work and the business model of an industry that maximises profit through celebrity creation.
  • There is a difference between a performer and a creator of the source material for that performance.
• Michael Muller and Q. Vera Liao, IBM
  • Exploring AI Ethics and Values through Participatory Design Fictions
  • The developers of robots believe that they represent the user. THis may be true in that there are no customers yet. Except for LAWS systems?
  • Value Sensitive Design (chlorine water treatment and chlorine gas)
    • Theoretical
    • Contextual
    • Ethnographic
  • We do not have an agreed-upon list of values.
  • Value sensitive inquiry instead? Descriptive ethics. Not at normative ethics yet
  • How do you speak your values about something that you don’t yet have?
  • Using design fictions
  • Problems with current popular fictions (Books – personal view, and media – complex interweavings of corporate interests)
  • Ponder a spectrum from utopia to dystopia and timeframes
  • Exercise that was confusing and too fast. But generally on story completion
  • Slideshare.net slides
• Discussant: Kristin Eschenfelder
  • Would you kill the fat robot?
  • An echo chamber (like Nazi-ism) might be indicated by the alignment of philosophies around a desired outcome. Because there is no external validity?
  • Moral Machine MIT Media Lab
  • There is a difference in commercial ethics and philosophical ethics.