Category: Computer Science & AI
Less is More! Visual Suppression for Bottom-up and Top-down Attention in Dynamic Environments
Study of suppression-based visual filters (Dim and Blur) to enhance attention in dynamic virtual environments with competing objects. Results show Dim-Strong filtering achieves optimal performance.
Thoth: Uncovering Data-Dependent Memory Access Patterns via Annotation-Directed Load Sampling
Thoth hardware prefetcher improves performance on sparse data structures by tracking producer-consumer load pairs and using annotation-directed sampling to capture complex memory access patterns.
Does Peer Review Need to Change? A Panel on Reporting Standards and Checklists in the Age of AI
Panel discussion on whether CHI should adopt formal reporting standards to improve research quality, transparency, and peer review processes, informed by experiences in adjacent fields.
Participatory AI & Social Justice
Panel analysis of participatory AI’s limits in promoting social justice, examining tensions between localized knowledge production and AI system scalability.
SPIRIT: A Design Framework To Support Technology Interventions for Spiritual Care Within and Beyond the Clinic
Research presents SPIRIT, a design framework guiding technology interventions for spiritual care in clinical and community settings. Six design dimensions operationalize spiritual support delivery.
“We Still Use Spreadsheets.” Understanding Business Decision-Makers’ Perceptions and Barriers to AI Analytics
Study reveals why business leaders still prefer spreadsheets over AI analytics tools, identifying skill gaps and design barriers preventing adoption of advanced analytics platforms.
How Well do LLMs Assist Parents in Assessing Child Appropriateness of Videos?
Study evaluates large language models’ ability to help parents assess video appropriateness for children under 7, finding models work better as descriptive aids than standalone decision-makers.
I Can SE Clearly Now: Investigating the Effectiveness of GUI-based Symbolic Execution for Software Vulnerability Discovery
Controlled experiment examining how GUI versus API interfaces affect expert performance in symbolic execution for software vulnerability discovery and tool usability.
Counting the Wait: Effects of Temporal Feedback on Downstream Task Performance and Perceived Wait-Time Experience during System-Imposed Delays
Experiment examining how different types of time feedback affect user frustration and task performance during system-imposed wait periods in digital workflows.
Reducing Food Waste Through Pre-Decision Interaction Design
Research on pre-decision design for reducing household food waste through competence-supportive interfaces that constrain meal choices based on available ingredients.
