{"54772":{"#nid":"54772","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CHI Preview Talks","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch6\u003EChristopher\nLe Dantec: Across Boundaries of Influence and Accountability: The\nMultiple Scales of Public Sector Information Systems\u003C\/h6\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe use of ICTs in the public sector has long been touted for its\npotential to transform the institutions that govern and pro- vide\nsocial services. The focus, however, has largely been on systems that\nare used within particular scales of the public sector, such as at the\nscale of state or national government, the scale of regional or\nmunicipal entity, or at the scale of local service providers. The work\npresented here takes aim at examining ICT use that crosses these scales\nof influence and accountability. We report on a year long ethnographic\ninvestigation conducted at a variety of social service outlets to\nunderstand how a shared information system crosses the boundaries of\nthese very distinct organizations. We put for- ward that such systems\nare central to the work done in the public sector and represent a class\nof collaborative work that has gone understudied.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBio: Christopher\nLe Dantec, 2008 Foley Scholar and Microsoft Research Fellow, is a Ph.D.\nCandidate in Human-Centered Computing, advised by Keith Edwards. His\nresearch aims to understand the values of individuals not well served\nby current technologies and to explore the role technology plays and as\nagent of change. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was an interaction designer\nwith Sun Microsystems and helped establish its interaction design\npractice in the Czech Republic.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch6\u003ESvetlana Yarosh: Video Playdate: Toward Free Play across Distance\u003C\/h6\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe present an empirical investigation of video-mediated free play\nbetween 13 pairs of friends (ages 7 and 8). The pairs spent 10 minutes\nplaying with each of four different prototypes we developed to support\nfree play over videoconferencing. We coded each interaction for the\ntypes of play and the amount of social play observed. The children in\nour study were largely successful in playing together across\nvideoconferencing, though challenges in managing visibility, attention,\nand intersubjectivity made it more difficult than face-to-face play. We\nalso found that our prototypes supported some types of play to varying\ndegrees. Our contribution lies in identifying these design tradeoffs\nand providing directions for future design of video-mediated\ncommunication systems for children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBio: Svetlana \u201cLana\u201d Yarosh is a 4th-year Ph.D. student in the\nHuman-Centered Computing program at Georgia Institute of Technology,\nadvised by Prof. Gregory D. Abowd. Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on\ndesigning, implementing, and empirically investigating technologies to\nconnect young children and parents who live apart. She has participated\nin internships at AT\u0026amp;T, IBM, and Microsoft Research. She is the\nrecipient of AT\u0026amp;T Labs Fellowship and the Anita Borg Google\nScholarship. She has received degrees in Computer Science and in\nPsychology from University of Maryland, College Park.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch6\u003EThomas N. Smyth: Where There\u0027s a Will, There\u0027s a Way: Mobile Media Sharing in Urban India\u003C\/h6\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe present the results of a qualitative study of the sharing and\nconsumption of entertainment media on low-cost mobile phones in urban\nIndia, a practice which has evolved into a vibrant, informal\nsocio-technical ecosystem. This wide-ranging phenomenon includes end\nusers, mobile phone shops, and content distributors, and exhibits\nremarkable ingenuity. Even more impressive is the number of obstacles\nwhich have been surmounted in its establishment, from the technical\n(interface complexity, limited Internet access, viruses), to the\nbroader socioeconomic (cost, language, legality, institutional rules,\nlack of privacy), all seemingly due to a strong desire to be\nentertained.\u003C\/p\u003E\n        \n        \n\n\n    \n            \n                      \n              \n                    \n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBio: Thomas Smyth is a Ph.D student in the Technologies and International\nDevelopment Lab at GVU.\u0026nbsp;His research focuses on new media technologies\nand public discourse in the developing world.\u0026nbsp;His recent projects\ninclude developing novel media technologies for post-conflict\nreconciliation in Liberia, and investigating media sharing practices in\nurban India.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPreviews of Georgia Tech students\u0027 research presentations for CHI 2010. CHI is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 will be held in Atlanta, April 10-15.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Previews of Georgia Tech students\u0027 presentations for CHI 2010."}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2010-03-04 11:20:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:57","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-03-18T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-03-18T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-03-18T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-03-18 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-03-18 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-03-18 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}