PROGRAMME iHCI 2018

University of Limerick, November 2nd, 2018

9:30     Registration & Coffee
10:00   Welcome address – Dr. Gabriela Avram/on behalf of the organisers

10:05   Keynote: 2007-2018: Themes, Trends and Challenges in (Irish) HCI and the Road Ahead
Prof. Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

10:45   PhD Madness – a series of 1 min presentations by PhD candidates studying HCI

11:00   Paper Session 1 – Humans and Technologies

• • Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin
    Subliminal semantic number processing on smartphones, presented at Mobile HCI 2018, September 2018
  • Julie Doyle, Dundalk Institute of Technology
    Designing Digital Goal Support Systems for Multimorbidity Self-Management: Insights from Older Adults and their Care Network presented at Pervasive Health, May 2018
  • Kellie Morrissey, Newcastle University
    From Her Story, to Our Story: Digital Storytelling as Public Engagement around Abortion Rights Advocacy in Ireland, presented at CHI 2018, April 2018

12:00   Keynote:  Deep Digitality
Prof. Alan Dix,  Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales, UK

12:40   Lunch

13:40  Paper Session 2 – Technologies Augmenting Human Activities

• Kieran Nolan, Trinity College Dublin – Indie Game and Media Art Exhibition Spaces as Interface Layers, CHI PLAY ’17, Amsterdam, October 2017
• Eric Mc Namara, Limerick Institute Of Technology – Visitor Perceptions of the Potential for Virtual Reality in a Small Museum, Proceedings of British HCI 2018, Belfast, June 2018
• Gareth W. Young, Maynooth University – A Functional Analysis of Haptic Feedback in Digital Musical Instrument Interactions, Book Chapter in Musical Haptics. The Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems book series

14:40  Poster session discussion

15:10   Session 3: Postdoctoral Projects (5 min presentations)

• Gareth W. Young, Maynooth University – “Formative Research on Student Learning Experiences in Virtual Environments”
• Ana Guerberof, ADAPT Centre, DCU – “Correlations between localisation quality and usability on machine and human translated user interface strings: a study using eye-tracking and telemetry”
• Lilian Genaro Motti Ader, ARCH / Insight Centre, UCD – “HCI Challenges in Human Movement Analysis: Quantitative Assessment of Gait and Balance”
• Benoit Bossavit, Dept. of Computer Science and Statistics, TCD – “MotorSense: an obstacle game towards monitoring gross motor skills development”

15:30 MDI followed by discussion

16:20   Keynote:  Framing the Human in HCI – An Ongoing Project
Prof. Liam J. Bannon, Founding Director of the Interaction Design Centre, Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick

17:00  Closing: Drinks at the bar – to be joined by IxDA Limerick guests