Publications

2024

Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions Facilitating Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: A Parent-Child Perspective

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions Facilitating Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: A Parent-Child Perspective. In Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2024), October 13–16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685382 (In press)

Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play

Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301

An Analytical Framework to Examine and Describe People’s Expectations of Robots

James M. Berzuk. An Analytical Framework to Examine and Describe People’s Expectations of Robots. MSc Thesis (2024). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness

Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702

Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers

Pouya Aghahoseini, Millan David, and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Investigating the Role of Real-Time Chat Summaries in Supporting Live Streamers. In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference.

Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2024. Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 8, CSCW1, Article 101 (April 2024), 27 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3637378

2023

Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software

Afsane Baghestani. Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics When Exploring Feature-Rich Software. 2023. MSc Thesis. University of Manitoba, Canada.

It’s not what you think: shaping beliefs about a robot to influence teleoperator’s expectations and behavior

Daniel J. Rea and James E. Young. 2023. It’s not what you think: shaping beliefs about a robot to influence teleoperator’s expectations and behavior. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 10, (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1271337

Stream Assistant: A Study of Chat Importance, Management Approaches, and Effects of Real-Time Chat Summarization Techniques

Pouya Aghahoseini. Stream Assistant: A Study of Chat Importance, Management Approaches, and Effects of Real-Time Chat Summarization Techniques. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home

Danika Lorraine Passler Bates. SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities

Raquel Reann Thiessen. Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities to Support Play. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics

Afsane Baghestani, Celine Latulipe, Andrea Bunt. 2023. Feature-Rich Software Exploration: Older Adults’ Collaborative Learning Dynamics.Centre on Aging 40th Annual Spring Research Symposium. Poster.

Reflections on Online Child-Centric Participatory Design Approaches: Two Case Studies with Children and Early Adolescents

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Reflections on Online Child-Centric Participatory Design Approaches: Two Case Studies with Children and Early Adolescents. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts, April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.

Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts

Celine Latulipe and Lauren Himbeault. 2023. Using a Two-Stage Final Exam in an Intro CS Course: Student Perceptions and Grade Impacts. In Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’23), May 4–5, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3593342.3593355

Understanding and Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Training Dataset Explanations

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Understanding and Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Training Dataset Explanations. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. 

Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating how women react to sexist robot behaviors

Garcha, D., Geiskkovitch, D., Thiessen, R. et al. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01001-4

Co-Designing with Early Adolescents: Understanding Perceptions of and Design Considerations for Tech-Based Mediation Strategies that Promote Technology Disengagement

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2023. Co-Designing with Early Adolescents: Understanding Perceptions of and Design Considerations for Tech-Based Mediation Strategies that Promote Technology Disengagement. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 198, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581134

Music Co-listening over Video Chat to Support Intergenerational Connectedness: An Exploratory Study

Nabila Chowdhury BSc MSc*, Celine Latulipe BA MMath PhD, James E. Young BSc PhD (2022). Music co-listening over video chat to support intergenerational connectedness: An exploratory study. Gerontechnology, 21(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2023.21.1.778.03

Say What you Want, I’m not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflect

Gonzalez, AL, Geiskkovitch, DY, Young, JE. "Say What you Want, I'm not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflection that does not parse user speech." Journal of Interactive Media. In press.

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements

Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units

Raquel Thiessen. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 784–786. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3579985

Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy: Developing a Framework for Understanding How Users Form Expectations of Social Robots

James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2023. Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy: Developing a Framework for Understanding How Users Form Expectations of Social Robots. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 231–233. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580078

2022

Curating Interactive Art for Online Conferences: Artist, Curator and Technologist Experiences in Gat

Celine Latulipe and Deborah Turnbull Tillman. 2022. Curating Interactive Art for Online Conferences: Artist, Curator and Technologist Experiences in Gather.Town. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 380–391.

Unofficial Proxies: How Close Others Help Older Adults with Banking

Celine Latulipe, Ronnie Dsouza, and Murray Cumbers. 2022. Unofficial Proxies: How Close Others Help Older Adults with Banking. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 601, 1–13.

Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs

Celine Latulipe and Amy De Jaeger. 2022. Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs. Zoom. In Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 411–417.

Using Discrimination Response Ideation to Uncover Student Attitudes about Diversity and Inclusion in

Lina Lee, Celine E Latulipe, and Tonya K. Frevert. 2022. Using Discrimination Response Ideation to Uncover Student Attitudes about Diversity and Inclusion in Computer Science. (August 2022).

Can Robots Help with Loneliness? An Exploration of Social Robot Adoption by Lonely Individuals

Rahatul Amin Ananto. Can Robots Help with Loneliness? An Exploration of Social Robot Adoption by Lonely Individuals. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Aaron Salo, Shariff Am Faleel, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2022. EdgeSelect: Smartwatch Data Interaction with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556586

SnuggleBot: A Simple Cuddly Companion Robot Prototype

Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2022. SnuggleBot: A simple cuddly companion robot prototype. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Designerly HRI, at the ACM International Conference of Human Robot Interaction (HRI'22), 3 pages.

SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics

Fouad Alallah, Shariff Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, Bradley Rey, and Pourang Irani. "SSCA: Situated Space-time Cube Analytics." (2022).

Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered Scenarios

Bradley Rey, Kening Zhu, Simon Tangi Perrault, Sandra Bardot, Ali Neshati, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered Scenarios. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, MHCI, Article 201 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546736

Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices

Marcos Serrano, Andrés Lucero, Pourang Irani, and Anne Roudaut. 2022. Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 447, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519707

Mold-It: Understanding how Physical Shapes affect Interaction with Handheld Freeform Devices

Marcos Serrano, Jolee Finch, Pourang Irani, Andrés Lucero, and Anne Roudaut. 2022. Mold-It: Understanding how Physical Shapes affect Interaction with Handheld Freeform Devices. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 402, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502022

Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures

Anuradha Herath, Bradley Rey, Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Lucas Audette, Huizhe Zheng, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll Gestures. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 292, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519714

One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage Through In-Situ Diary Study

Sandra Bardot, Bradley Rey, Lucas Audette, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Jun Li, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2022. One Ring to Rule Them All: An Empirical Understanding of Day-to-Day Smartring Usage Through In-Situ Diary Study. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 100 (September 2022), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550315

Gender Inclusivity in Online Question and Answer Communities: Investigating Community Member Practices and Perceptions to Work towards Equitable Interfaces

Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois. Gender Inclusivity in Online Question and Answer Communities: Investigating Community Member Practices and Perceptions to Work towards Equitable Interfaces. Ph.D. Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Towards More Gender-Inclusive Q&As: Investigating Perceptions of Additional Community Presence Information

Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, Mahya Maftouni, and Andrea Bunt. 2022. Towards More Gender-Inclusive Q&As: Investigating Perceptions of Additional Community Presence Information. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact, 6, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2022), 23 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3555567

Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Children’s Tutorial Authoring Tool for Digital Art

Ananta Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt. 2022. Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Children’s Tutorial Authoring Tool for Digital Art. In Proceedings of the 48th Graphics Interface Conference. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. https://openreview.net/forum?id=HzgpxFETf5 (Best Paper Award)

“Thank you for being nice”: Investigating Perspectives Towards Social Feedback on Stack Overflow

Mahya Maftouni, Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, and Andrea Bunt. 2022. “Thank you for being nice”: Investigating Perspectives Towards Social Feedback on Stack Overflow. In Proceedings of the 48th Graphics Interface Conference. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. https://openreview.net/forum?id=rrHU3gtETG9

Gender consideration in the design of online knowledge-sharing Q&A platforms

Mahya Maftouni. Gender consideration in the design of online knowledge-sharing Q&A platforms. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults

Adriana Lorena González. Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Persuasive Data Storytelling with a Data Video during Covid-19 Infodemic: Affective Pathway to Influence the Users’ Perception about Contact Tracing Apps in less than 6 Minutes

Sakamoto Y, Sallam S, Leboe-McGowan J, Salo A, Irani P. Persuasive data storytelling with a data video during Covid-19 infodemic: Affective pathway to influence the users’ perception about contact tracing apps in less than 6 minutes. Proceedings of the 2022 Pacific Vis. 2022.

Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Affect, Personality, and Video Content

Sallam S, Sakamoto Y, Leboe-McGowan J, Latulipe C, Irani P. Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Affect, Personality, and Video Content. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots

Skyla Y. Dudek and James E. Young. 2022. Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 746–749.

More than words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs

James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2022. More Than Words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 393–401. (Best Paper Award in Theory and Methods Category)

2021

What happened while I was away? Leveraging visual transition techniques to convey robot states in multi-robot teleoperation

Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. “What happened while I was away? Leveraging visual transition techniques to convey robot states in multi-robot teleoperation,” International Conference on Social Robotics, November 2021. Springer. Singapore.

A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking (Technical Report)

González, A.L. and Young, J.E. 2020. A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking. University of Manitoba MSpace repository. (2020).

Using Trajectory Compression Rate to Predict Changes in Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Games

Diego Monteiro, Hai-Ning Liang, Xiaohang Tang, and Pourang Irani. "Using Trajectory Compression Rate to Predict Changes in Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Games." arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09538 (2021).

Empirical Evaluation of Moving Target Selection in Virtual Reality Using Egocentric Metaphors

Chen Y., Sun J., Xu Q., Lank E., Irani P., Li W. (2021) Empirical Evaluation of Moving Target Selection in Virtual Reality Using Egocentric Metaphors. In: Ardito C. et al. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12935. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_3

CanHap 501: Learning Haptic UX Design in Remote Teams

K. E. MacLean, O. Schneider, A. Weill--Duflos, V. Levesque, P. Irani and J. R. Cooperstock, "CanHap 501: Learning Haptic UX Design in Remote Teams," 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2021, pp. 348-348, doi: 10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517152.

Shaping Affective Robot Haru’s Reactive Response

Y. Vasylkiv et al., "Shaping Affective Robot Haru’s Reactive Response," 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515525.

Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training

S. A. Faleel, B. Raj Joshi and B. Rey, "Writely: Force Feedback for Non-Dominant Hand Writing Training," 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2021, pp. 340-340, doi: 10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517209.

ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands

Sandra Bardot, Surya Rawat, Duy Thai Nguyen, Sawyer Rempel, Huizhe Zheng, Bradley Rey, Jun Li, Kevin Fan, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, and Pourang Irani. 2021. ARO: Exploring the Design of Smart-Ring Interactions for Encumbered Hands. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472037

Global Scene Filtering, Exploration, and Pointing in Occluded Virtual Space

Yuan Chen, Junwei Sun, Qiang Xu, Edward Lank, Pourang Irani, and Wei Li. "Global Scene Filtering, Exploration, and Pointing in Occluded Virtual Space." In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 156-176. Springer, Cham, 2021.

Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you

Young, J. (2021). Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you. Science Robotics, 6(58), eabk3479.

Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening

Chowdhury N, Latulipe C, Young JE. "Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening". In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW '21, poster Track. ACM. doi:10.1145/3462204.3481765

Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.

Sanoubari, E, Munoz, J, Mahdi, H, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) "Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.'' In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC), 2021. ACM.

Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Interventions

Sanoubari, E, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) ``Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Interventions.'' In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man). 2021. IEEE.

Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapp

Choukou, M. A., Polyvyana, A., Sakamoto, Y., & Osterreicher, A. (2021). Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapping review. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 25(12), 4289-4307.

Attitude and perceptions of older and younger adults towards ambient technologyfor assisted living

Choukou, M. A., Sakamoto, Y., & Irani, P. (2021). Attitude and perceptions of older and younger adults towards ambient technology for assisted living. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 25(10), 3709-3717.

SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Fouad Alallah, Bradley Rey, Yumiko Sakamoto, Marcos Serrano, and Pourang Irani. 2021. SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472040. Honourable Mention Award

 

Novel Egocentric Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for Search and Rescue (2021)

Stela H. Seo. Novel Egocentric Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for Search and Rescue. Ph.D. Thesis (2021). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input

Rafael Veras, Gaganpreet Singh, Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Pradeep Patekar, Wei Zhou, Pourang Irani, and Wei Li. 2021. Elbow-Anchored Interaction: Designing Restful Mid-Air Input. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 737, 1–15. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445546

Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2021. Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445736

Investigating Explanations that Target Training Data

Ariful Islam Anik and Andrea Bunt. 2021. Investigating Explanations that Target Training Data. In Proceedings of the ACM IUI workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS). Texas, USA, 7 pages.

BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion

Ali Neshati, Bradley Rey, Ahmed Shariff Mohommed Faleel, Sandra Bardot, Celine Latulipe, and Pourang Irani. 2021. BezelGlide: Interacting with Graphs on Smartwatches with Minimal Screen Occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445201

We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness

Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young. 2021. We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness. In the Companion of 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’21), March 8–11, 2021, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447213

2020

Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency

Ariful Islam Anik. Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency. MSc Thesis (2020). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Child-Centric Tutorial Authoring Tool

Ananta Chowdhury. Tutorials for Children by Children: Design and Evaluation of a Child-Centric Tutorial Authoring Tool. MSc Thesis (2020). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Flex-ER: A Platform to Evaluate Interaction Techniques for Immersive Visualizations

María Jesús Lobo, Christophe Hurter, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Flex-ER: A Platform to Evaluate Interaction Techniques for Immersive Visualizations. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, ISS, Article 195 (November 2020), 20 pages. DOI:https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3427323

Beyond Performance: Considerations for End-User Comfort in the Design of In-Situ User Interfaces

Irani, Pourang. "Beyond Performance: Considerations for End-User Comfort in the Design of In-Situ User Interfaces." In Companion Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, pp. 3-3. 2020.

Exploring the Need and Design for Situated Video Analytics.

Fouad Alallah, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Exploring the Need and Design for Situated Video Analytics. In Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’20), October 31-November 1, 2020, Virtual Event, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385959.3418458

Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As: How Community and Site Characteristics Contribute to Gender Gaps in Answering Questions

Patrick Marcel Joseph Dubois, Mahya Maftouni, Parmit K. Chilana, Joanna McGrenere and Andrea Bunt. 2020. Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As: How Community and Site Characteristics Contribute to Gender Gaps in Answering Questions. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, CSCW2, Article 113 (October 2020), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415184

SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design

Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2020. SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20), November 10-13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3406499.3418772

Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots

Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young, “Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots.” In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.

Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design

Rahatul A. Ananto, Geiskkovitch, D.Y., James E. Young. 2020. Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418749

Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness

Adriana Lorena González. James E. Young. 2020. Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), November 10–13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418764

When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion

A.L. González, D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.

Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust

Vattheuer, C., Baecker, A.N., Geiskkovitch, D.Y., Seo, S.H., Rea, D.J., Young, J.E.: Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust. In: International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer. (2020).

Children’s Overtrust: Intentional Use of Robot Errors to Decrease Trust

D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "Children’s overtrust: Intentional use of robot errors to decrease trust," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (SCRITA Workshop). 2020.

Where Should I Sit? Exploring the Impact of Seating Arrangement in a Human-Robot Collaborative Task

Geiskkovitch, DY, Rea, DJ, Seo, AY, Seo, SH, Postnikoff, B, Young, JE. 2020. Where should I sit? Exploring the Impact of Seating Arrangement in a Human-Robot Collaborative Task. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20).

Visual User Interfaces For Human Motion

Ader, Lilian G. Motti, Brian Caulfied, Benoît Bossavit, Katerina El Raheb, Mathieu Raynal, Nadine Vigouroux, Karine Lan Hing Ting, Pourang P. Irani, and Jean Vanderdonckt. "Visual user interfaces for human motion." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 1-2. 2020.

An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty

S. A. Sabab, A. Khan, P. K. Chilana, J. McGrenere and A. Bunt, "An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty," 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Dunedin, New Zealand, 2020, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127271.

Social Robotics for Non-social Teleoperation: Leveraging Social Techinques to Impact Teleoperator Performance and Experience

Rea, D.J., Seo, S.H. & Young, J.E. Social Robotics for Nonsocial Teleoperation: Leveraging Social Techniques to Impact Teleoperator Performance and Experience. Curr Robot Rep (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43154-020-00020-7

Is Going Unnoticed More Socially Acceptable?: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Social Acce

Sakamoto, Y., Irani, P., & Hasan, K. (2020). Is Going Unnoticed More Socially Acceptable?: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Social Acceptability and Noticeability of Fitness Trackers. Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Adjunct Proceedings from, 117.

Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness

Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Adriana Lorena González and James E. Young. 2020. Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness. In Companion Proceedings of 2020 ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378279

How are Your Robot Friends Doing? A Design Exploration of Graphical Techniques Supporting Awareness of Robot Team Members in Teleoperation

Seo, S.H., Young, J.E. & Irani, P. How are Your Robot Friends Doing? A Design Exploration of Graphical Techniques Supporting Awareness of Robot Team Members in Teleoperation. Int J of Soc Robotics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00670-9

Get a Grip: Evaluating Grip Gestures for VR Input using a Lightweight Pen

Nianlong Li, Teng Han, Feng Tian, Jin Huang, Minghui Sun, Pourang Irani, and Jason Alexander. 2020. Get a Grip: Evaluating Grip Gestures for VR Input using a Lightweight Pen. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376698

Honourable Mention Award

An Investigation on Automatically Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty

Shahed Anzarus Sabab. An Investigation on Automatically Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty. M.Sc. Thesis (2019). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Where is that Feature? Designing for Cross-Device Software Learnability

Alvina, J., Bunt, A., Chilana, P., Malacria, S. and McGrenere, J. (2020) Where is that Feature? Designing for Cross-Device Software Learnability, Proceedings of DIS 2020, 13 pages, to appear.

Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions

Michael Gammon, Ritesh Udhani, Parth Patekar, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Limb-O: Real-Time Comparison and Visualization of Lower Limb Motions. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396360

Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training

Kenny Hong, Yumiko Sakamoto, Ganesh Srinivasan, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Exploring Technology For Neonatal Resuscitation Training. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396359

User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces

Shariff A. M. Faleel, Michael Gammon, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon, and Pourang Irani. 2020. User Gesture Elicitation of Common Smartphone Tasks for Hand Proximate User Interfaces. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396363

Using Guessability Framework: Age-Related Differences In Hand Gesture Interaction (Short paper)

Yurii Vasylkiv, Ali Neshati, Shariff A. M. Faleel, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Using guessability framework: age-related differences in hand gesture interaction. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396394

Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm

Sandra Bardot, Sawyer Rempel, Bradley Rey, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Carlo Menon and Pourang Irani. 2020. Eyes-Free Graph Legibility: Using Skin-Dragging to Provide a Tactile Graph Visualization on the Arm. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396344

A Comparison between Audio and IMU data to Detect Chewing Events Based on an Earable Device

Roya Lotfi, George Tzanetakis, Rasit Eskicioglu, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A Comparison between Audio and IMU data to Detect Chewing Events Based on an Earable Device. In 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’20), May 27–29, 2020, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396362

Learning Through Exploration: How Children, Adults, and Older Adults Interact with a New Feature-Rich Application

Shareen Mahmud, Jessalyn Alvina, Parmit K. Chilana, Andrea Bunt, and Joanna McGrenere. 2020. Learning Through Exploration: How Children, Adults, and Older Adults Interact with a New Feature-Rich Application. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20), 1–14.

Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities

Narges Ashtari, Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere, Michael Nebeling, and Parmit K. Chilana. 2020. Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20), 1–13. "Best Paper" Award (top %1)

A Smart Utensil for Detecting Food Pick-Up Gesture and Amount While Eating

Zuoyi Zhang, Huizhe Zheng, Sawyer Rempel, Kenny Hong, Teng Han, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. A smart utensil for detecting food pick-up gesture and amount while eating. In Proceedings of the 11th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3396339.3396361  (3rd  best paper award)

Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design

Lena T. Schramm, Derek Dufault, and James E. Young. 2020. Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design. HRI'20 Late-Breaking Reports, In proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. DOI=10.1145/3371382.3378280 https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378280

Social Robots Don’t Do That: Exploring Robot-Typical Errors in Child-Robot Interaction

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., & Young, J. E. (2020, March). Social Robots Don't Do That: Exploring Robot-Typical Errors in Child-Robot Interaction. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 200-202).

Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions of Eating Habits

Zuoyi Zhang, Teng Han, John Swystun, Yumiko Sakamoto, and Pourang Irani. 2020. Design to Eat Smart! A Design Framework for Pervasive Interventions of Eating Habits. To appear at Pervasive Health 2020.

2019

Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos

Eun Kyoung Choe, Yumiko Sakamoto, Yanis Fatmi, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Ashkan Haghshenas, and Pourang Irani (2019) Persuasive Data Videos: Investigating Persuasive Self-Tracking Feedback with Augmented Data Videos, Proceedings of AMIA 2019.

PinchList: Leveraging Pinch Gestures for Hierarchical List Navigation on Smartphones

Teng Han, Jie Liu, Khalad Hasan, Mingming Fan, Junhyeok Kim, Jiannan Li, Xiangmin Fan, Feng Tian, Edward Lank, and Pourang Irani. 2019. PinchList: Leveraging Pinch Gestures for Hierarchical List Navigation on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 501, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300731

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Finding Information on Non-Rectangular Interfaces

Florine Simon, Anne Roudaut, Pourang Irani, and Marcos Serrano. 2019. Finding Information on Non-Rectangular Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 102, 8 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300332

Genome-Wide Canonical Correlation Analysis-Based Computational Methods for Mining Information from Microbiome and Gene Expression Data

Shikder R., Irani P., Hu P. (2019) Genome-Wide Canonical Correlation Analysis-Based Computational Methods for Mining Information from Microbiome and Gene Expression Data. In: Meurs MJ., Rudzicz F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11489. Springer, Cham

On-Body Tangible Interaction: Using the Body to Support Tangible Manipulations for Immersive Environ

Saidi H., Serrano M., Irani P., Hurter C., Dubois E. (2019) On-Body Tangible Interaction: Using the Body to Support Tangible Manipulations for Immersive Environments. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11749. Springer, Cham

Designer Led Computational Approach to Generate Mappings for Devices with Low Gestural Resolution

Montano-Murillo R., Han T., Irani P., Martinez-Plasencia D., Subramanian S. (2019) Designer Led Computational Approach to Generate Mappings for Devices with Low Gestural Resolution. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11746. Springer, Cham

Investigating Screen Reachability on an Articulated Dual-Display Smartphone

Pecchioli M., Dubois E., Irani P., Serrano M. (2019) Investigating Screen Reachability on an Articulated Dual-Display Smartphone. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11748. Springer, Cham

TouchGlass: Raycasting from a Glass Surface to Point at Physical Objects in Public Exhibits

Cabric F., Dubois E., Irani P., Serrano M. (2019) TouchGlass: Raycasting from a Glass Surface to Point at Physical Objects in Public Exhibits. In: Lamas D., Loizides F., Nacke L., Petrie H., Winckler M., Zaphiris P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11748. Springer, Cham.

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Interacting with Autostereograms

William Delamare, Junhyeok Kim, Daichi Harada, Pourang Irani, and Xiangshi Ren. 2019. Interacting with Autostereograms. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340141

An OpenMP-based tool for finding longest common subsequence in bioinformatics

Shikder, R., Thulasiraman, P., Irani, P. et al. An OpenMP-based tool for finding longest common subsequence in bioinformatics. BMC Res Notes 12, 220 (2019) doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4256-6

 

#SociallyAcceptableHCI: Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel Interaction Paradigm

Koelle, M., George, C., Schwind, V., Perry, D., Sakamoto, Y., Hasan, K., ... & Olsson, T. (2019, September). # SociallyAcceptableHCI: Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel Interaction Paradigms. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 741-746). Springer, Cham.

Beyond “One-Size-Fits-All”: Understanding the Diversity in How Software Newcomers Discover and Make

Kiani, K., Cui, G., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., and Chilana, P.(2019) Beyond “One-Size-Fits-All”: Understanding the diversity and challenges in how software newcomers discover and make use of external help resources, Proceedings of CHI 2019, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 340, 13 pages.

A Need for Trust in Conversational Interface Research

Edwards, J & Sanoubari, E. "A Need for Trust in Conversational Interface Research”. Provocation Papers of the ACM International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces’19. 2019.

G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches

Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Launa Leboe-Mcgowan, Jason Leboe-Mcgowan, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani. G-Sparks: Glanceable Sparklines on Smartwatches (regular paper). Dans : Graphics Interface (GI 2019), Kingston, Canada, 28/05/19-31/05/19, 2019

Supporting Graphic Designers’ Online Inspiration Seeking Practices via Software Tools (Ph.D. thesis)

Volodymyr Dziubak. Supporting Graphic Designers’ Online Inspiration Seeking Practices via Software Tools. Ph.D. Thesis (2019). University of Manitoba, Canada.

An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies

William Delamare, Ali Neshati, Pourang Irani, and Xiangshi Ren. 2019. An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 368, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300598. Honourable Mention Award.

Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures

Vasylkiv Y, Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Gomez R, Nakamura K, Irani P. Smart Home Interactions for People with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Subtle EMG-Signal Gestures. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 436-443. PMID: 30741236.

The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications

Hong K, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. The Use of Head-Worn Augmented Reality Displays in Health Communications. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 163-169. PMID: 30741190.

Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning

Hammad, N, Sanoubari, E, Finn, P, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning”, Proc. ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019. Honorable Mention Award

AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator

Mahadevan, K, Sanoubari, E, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator”, Proc. ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2019. 

Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens

Neshati A, Sakamoto Y, Irani P. Challenges in Displaying Health Data on Small Smartwatch Screens. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 325-332. PMID: 30741218.

Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour

Zhang Z, Kim J, Sakamoto Y, Han T, Irani P. Applying a Pneumatic Interface to Intervene with Rapid Eating Behaviour. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;257 513-519. PMID: 30741249.

Situated Analytics

Thomas B.H. et al. (2018) Situated Analytics. In: Marriott K. et al. (eds) Immersive Analytics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01388-2_7

What? That’s Not a Chair!: How Robot Informational Errors Affect Children’s Trust Towards Robots

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Thiessen, R., Young, J. E., Glenwright, M. R. (2019). What? That’s not a chair!: How robot informational errors affect children’s trust towards robots. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction. 

Backseat Teleoperator: affective feedback with on-screen agents to influence teleoperation

Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, "Backseat Teleoperator: affective feedback with on-screen agents to influence teleoperation." The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'19). ACM/IEEE. 2019.

Methods and Effects of Priming a Teloperator’s Perception of Robot Capabilities

Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, "Methods and Effects of Priming a Teloperator’s Perception of Robot Capabilities." The ACM International Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop. ACM. 2019.

Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions

Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.

“Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture

Elaheh Sanoubari, Stela H. Seo, Diljot S. Garcha, James E. Young, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez. “Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture”. In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.

2018

Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider when examining the social acceptability of input modalities for head-worn display?

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Yumiko Sakamoto, Khalad Hasan, Edward Lank, Andrea Bunt, and Pourang Irani. 2018. Performer vs. observer: whose comfort level should we consider when examining the social acceptability of input modalities for head-worn display?. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '18), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 10, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3281505.3281541

Software Learning Strategies and Perceptions of Rural Individuals

Patrick Dubois, Andrea Bunt. Software Learning Strategies and Perceptions of Rural Individuals. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'18). 2018. Extended abstract.

HydroRing: Supporting Mixed Reality Haptics Using Liquid Flow

Teng Han, Fraser Anderson, Pourang Irani, and Tovi Grossman. 2018. HydroRing: Supporting Mixed Reality Haptics Using Liquid Flow. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 913-925. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242667

Path Word: A Multimodal Password Entry Method for Ad-hoc Authentication Based on Digits' Shape and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements

Hassoumi Almoctar, Pourang Irani, Vsevolod Peysakhovich, and Christophe Hurter. 2018. Path Word: A Multimodal Password Entry Method for Ad-hoc Authentication Based on Digits' Shape and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 268-277. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3242969.3243008

Counterpoint: Exploring Mixed-Scale Gesture Interaction for AR Applications

Barrett Ens, Aaron Quigley, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Pourang Irani, Thammathip Piumsomboon, and Mark Billinghurst. 2018. Counterpoint: Exploring Mixed-Scale Gesture Interaction for AR Applications. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW120, 6 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188513

Hooked on data videos: assessing the effect of animation and pictographs on viewer engagement

Fereshteh Amini, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bongshin Lee, Jason Leboe-McGowan, and Pourang Irani. 2018. Hooked on data videos: assessing the effect of animation and pictographs on viewer engagement. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 21, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3206505.3206552

A new approach for spatio-temporal data mining

Sabine Cassat, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani, Emmanuel Dubois. A new approach for spatio-temporal data mining. IHM 2018: 163-170

Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.

Maestro: Designing a System for Real-Time Orchestration of 3D Modeling Workshops

Dziubak, V., Lafreniere, B., Grossman, T., Bunt, A., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2018, October). Maestro: Designing a System for Real-Time Orchestration of 3D Modeling Workshops. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 287-298). ACM.

Prism: Enhancing Graphic Designers’ Visual Research with Interactive Search Trails

Dziubak, V., & Bunt, A. (2018, June). Prism: Enhancing Graphic Designers' Visual Research with Interactive Search Trails. In Proceedings of the 2018 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018 (pp. 1283-1294). ACM.

ThumbText: Text Entry for Wearable Devices Using a Miniature Ring

Junhyeok Kim, William Delamare, Pourang Irani. ThumbText: Text Entry for Wearable Devices Using a Miniature Ring. Graphics Interface, May 2018, Toronto, Canada. ⟨hal-03030524⟩

Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability of Spatial User Interactions for Head-Worn Displays

Fouad Alallah, Ali Neshati, Nima Sheibani, Yumiko Sakamoto, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, and Khalad Hasan. 2018. Crowdsourcing vs Laboratory-Style Social Acceptability Studies?: Examining the Social Acceptability of Spatial User Interactions for Head-Worn Displays. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 310, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3173574.3173884

PageFlip: Leveraging Page-Flipping Gestures for Efficient Command and Value Selection on Smartwatche

Teng Han, Jiannan Li, Khalad Hasan, Keisuke Nakamura, Randy Gomez, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Pourang Irani. 2018. PageFlip: Leveraging Page-Flipping Gestures for Efficient Command and Value Selection on Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 529, 12 pages.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174103

Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces

Patrick Dubois, Daniel J. Rea, Kevin Hoang, Meghan Chua, Danielle King, Corey King, James E. Young and Andrea Bunt. Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces. Graphics Interface (GI'18). 2018. Poster. (Best Poster Award)

Mental Health in Online Communities: How University Students Use Online Communities to Discuss Mental Illness

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Bunt, A., & Young, J. E. (2018) Mental Health in Online Communities: How University Students Use Online Communities to Discuss Mental Illness. Graphics Interface. Poster.

D-SWIME: A Design Space for Smartwatch Interaction Techniques Supporting Mobility and Encumbrance

Gaganpreet Singh, William Delamare, and Pourang Irani. 2018. D-SWIME: A Design Space for Smartwatch Interaction Techniques Supporting Mobility and Encumbrance. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 634, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174208

ThumbText: Text-Entry for Wearable Devices using a Miniature Ring

Junhyeok Kim, William Delamare, and Pourang Irani.ThumbText: Text-Entry for Wearable Devices using a Miniature Ring,In Proceedings of the 43rd Graphics Interface Conference (GI '18). 2018.

“Hi human, can we talk?” An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants

Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. “Hi human, can we talk? An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants" in proceedings of the Workshop on the Social Robots in the Wild at the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2018.

Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences in human robot interaction

Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. "Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences in human robot interaction" In adjunct Proceedings of the  13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . ACM. 2018.

It’s All in Your Head: using priming to shape an operator’s perceptions and behavior during teleoperation

Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young. "It’s All in Your Head: using priming to shape an operator’s perceptions and behavior during teleoperation." In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'18). ACM. 2018.

Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot

Stela H. Seo, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Susan Prentice, Veronica Loureiro-Rodríguez. "Investigating people’s rapport building and hindering behaviors when working with a collaborative robot," International Journal of Social Robotics, 2018. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0441-8

2017

Multi-scale gestural interaction for augmented reality

Barrett Ens, Aaron Quigley, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Pourang Irani, and Mark Billinghurst. 2017. Multi-scale gestural interaction for augmented reality. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Mobile Graphics & Interactive Applications (SA '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3132787.3132808

Frictio: Passive Kinesthetic Force Feedback for Smart Ring Output

Teng Han, Qian Han, Michelle Annett, Fraser Anderson, Da-Yuan Huang, and Xing-Dong Yang. 2017. Frictio: Passive Kinesthetic Force Feedback for Smart Ring Output. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 131-142. https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126622

SoundCraft: Enabling Spatial Interactions on Smartwatches using Hand Generated Acoustics

Teng Han, Khalad Hasan, Keisuke Nakamura, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani. 2017. SoundCraft: Enabling Spatial Interactions on Smartwatches using Hand Generated Acoustics. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 579-591. https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126612

Designing for curiosity-driven software learning

Dziubak, V. and Bunt, A. (2017) Designing for curiosity-driven software learning. In Workshop on Designing for Curiosity, CHI 2017, 2 pages.

Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely

Daniel J. Rea, Mahdi Rahmani, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.

Where are the robots? In-feed embedded techniques for visualizing robot team member locations

Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. "Where are the robots? In-feed embedded techniques for visualizing robot team member locations," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.

Monocle: Interactive Detail-in-Context Using Two Pan-and-Tilt Cameras to Improve Teleoperation Effectiveness

Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, Joel Wiebe, James E. Young. "Monocle: interactive detail-in-context using two pan-and-tilt cameras to improve teleoperation effectiveness," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.

Designing a Gaze Gesture Guiding System

William Delamare, Teng Han, and Pourang Irani. 2017. Designing a gaze gesture guiding system. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 13 pages.

Visual Composition of Graphical Elements on Non-Rectangular Displays

Marcos Serrano, Anne Roudaut, and Pourang Irani. 2017. Visual Composition of Graphical Elements on Non-Rectangular Displays. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 4405–4416. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025677

TDome: A Touch-Enabled 6DOF Interactive Device for Multi-Display Environments

Houssem Saidi, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani, and Emmanuel Dubois. 2017. TDome: A Touch-Enabled 6DOF Interactive Device for Multi-Display Environments. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5892–5904. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025661

Designing Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions

Cosmin Munteanu, Pourang Irani, Sharon Oviatt, Matthew Aylett, Gerald Penn, Shimei Pan, Nikhil Sharma, Frank Rudzicz, Randy Gomez, Ben Cowan, and Keisuke Nakamura. 2017. Designing Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 601–608. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3027086

Tell Me More! Soliciting Reader Contributions to Software Tutorials

Dubois, P., Dziubak, V., & Bunt, A. (2017, May). Tell Me More! Soliciting Reader Contributions to Software Tutorials. In Proceedings of the 43rd Graphics Interface Conference (pp. 16-23). Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society.  (Best Paper Award)

Ivy: Exploring Spatially Situated Visual Programming for Authoring and Understanding Intelligent Env

Barrett Ens, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, Michelle Annett, Pourang Irani and George FitzMaurice. 2017. Ivy: Exploring Spatially Situated Visual Programming for Authoring and Understanding Intelligent Environments. In Proceedings of Graphice Interface (GI '17), Edmonton, Alberta. CHCCS, to appear.

Won by a Head: A Platform Comparison of Smart Object Linking in Virtual Environments

Barrett Ens, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, Michelle Annett, Pourang Irani, George W. Fitzmaurice. Won by a Head: A Platform Comparison of Smart Object Linking in Virtual Environments. ICAT-EGVE 2017: 17-20

Evaluating Data-Driven Stories and Storytelling Tools

F. Amini, M. Brehmer, G. Bolduan, C. Elmer, and B. Wiederkehr. “Book chapter: Evaluating Data-Driven Stories and Storytelling Tools”. (CRC Press), 2017. (To appear)

Data Representations for In-Situ Exploration of Health and Fitness Data

Fereshteh Amini, Khalad Hasan, Andrea Bunt, and Pourang Irani. Data Representations for In-Situ Exploration of Health and Fitness Data. In Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2017), Barcelona, Spain. ACM. (To appear)

Soliciting Reader Contributions to Software Tutorials

Patrick Dubois. Soliciting Reader Contributions to Software Tutorials. M.Sc. Thesis (2017). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Wizard of Awwws: Exploring Psychological Impact on the Researchers in Social HRI Experiments

Daniel J. Rea, Denise Geiskkovitch, James E. Young. "Wizard of Awwws: Exploring Psychological Impact on the Researchers in Social HRI Experiments." In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2017.

Picassnake: Robot Performance Art

Stela H. Seo and James E. Young. 2017. Picassnake: Robot Performance Art. HRI'17 Video & Demo Section, In proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2017, Vienna, Austria. DOI=10.1145/3029798.3036650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3036650

An HRI Graduate Course for Exposing Technologists to the Importance of Considering Social Aspects of Technology

James E. Young, "An HRI Graduate Course for Exposing Technologists to the Importance of Considering Social Aspects of Technology". Journal of Human-Robot Interaction: Special Issue on Education in Human-Robot Interaction. 6, 2 (September 2017), 27-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Young

AirPanes: Two-Handed Around-Device Interaction for Pane Switching on Smartphones

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, Junhyeok Kim, and Pourang Irani. 2017. AirPanes: Two-Handed Around-Device Interaction for Pane Switching on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). To appear.

Movers, Shakers, and Those Who Stand Still: visual attention-grabbing techniques in robot teleoperation

Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Movers, Shakers, and Those Who Stand Still: Visual attention-grabbing techniques in robot teleoperation." In Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2017.

2016

WristWhirl: One-handed Continuous Smartwatch Input using Wrist Gestures

Jun Gong, Xing-Dong Yang, and Pourang Irani. 2016. WristWhirl: One-handed Continuous Smartwatch Input using Wrist Gestures. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16). ACM, 861-872.

Thumbs-Up: 3D Spatial Thumb-Reachable Space for One-Handed Thumb Interaction on Smartphones

Khalad Hasan, Junhyeok Kim, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Thumbs-Up: 3D Spatial Thumb-Reachable Space for One-Handed Thumb Interaction on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the 2016 Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '16), 103-106. 

Spatial Analytic Interfaces (PhD Thesis)

Barrett Ens. 2016, Spatial Analytic Interfaces. PhD Thesis, University of Manitoba.

Shared Façades: Surface-Embedded Layout Management for Ad-Hoc Collaboration using Head-Worn Displays

Barrett Ens, Eyal Ofek, Neil Bruce, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Shared Façades: Surface-embedded layout management for ad-hoc collaboration using head-worn displays. Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (CMISS) – Theory and Practice. Craig Anslow, Pedro Campos, Joaquim Jorge, (Eds). Springer, in press.

Exploring Design Factors for Transforming Passive Vibration Signals into Smartwear Interactions

Teng Han, David Ahlström, Xing-Dong Yang, Ahmad Byagowi, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Exploring Design Factors for Transforming Passive Vibration Signals into Smartwear Interactions. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 35, 10 pages.

Combining Ring Input with Hand Tracking for Precise, Natural Interaction with SAIs

Barrett Ens, Ahmad Byagowi, Teng Han, Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Pourang Irani. 2016. Combining Ring Input with Hand Tracking for Precise, Natural Interaction with SAIs. In Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Spatial User Interactions (SUI '16), Tokyo, Japan. ACM, to appear.

Moving Ahead with Peephole Pointing: Modelling Object Selection with Head-Worn Display Field of View

Barrett Ens, David Ahlström, Pourang Irani. 2016. Moving Ahead with Peephole Pointing: Modelling Object Selection with Head-Worn Display Field of View. In Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Spatial User Interactions (SUI '16), Tokyo, Japan. ACM, to appear.

3D Visualization of Astronomy Data Cubes using Immersive Displays

Gilles Ferrand, Jayanne English, Pourang Irani. 2016. 3D Visualization of Astronomy Data Cubes using Immersive Displays. Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA). 

Playing the ‘Trust Game’ with Robots: Social Strategies and Experiences

Roberta C. Ramos Mota, Daniel J. Rea, Anna Le Tran, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin and Mario C. Sousa. "Playing the 'Trust Game' with Robots: Social Strategies and Experiences," Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 2016. New York, USA.

Authoring Data-Driven Videos with DataClips

F. Amini, N. H. Riche, B. Lee, A. M. Hernández, and P. Irani. Authoring Data-Driven Videos with DataClips. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, InfoVis 2016.

Supporting Visual Exploration for Multiple Users in Large Display Environments

S. K. Badam, F. Amini, N. Elmqvist, and P. Irani. Proxemic Lens: Multi-User Visual Exploration using Proxemics and Gestural Interaction. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VAST 2016.

Living on the edge: supporting continuous knowledge seeking among professional digital artists

Dziubak, V. and Bunt, A. Living on the edge: supporting continuous knowledge seeking among professional digital artists. In Workshop on Digital Craftsmanship: HCI Takes on Technology as an Expressive Medium, DIS 2016.

Spatial Analytic Interfaces: Spatial User Interfaces for In-Situ Visual Analytics

Barrett Ens, Pourang Irani. 2016. Spatial Analytic Interfaces: Spatial User Interfaces for In-Situ Visual Analytics. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , vol.37, issue 2, pp.66-79. DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2016.38

Investigating Text Legibility on Non-Rectangular Displays

Marcos Serrano, Anne Roudaut, and Pourang Irani. 2016. Investigating Text Legibility on Non-Rectangular Displays. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 498–508. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858057

Icons for Kids: Can Young Children Understand Graphical Representations of App Store Categories?

Wiebe, M., Geiskovitvch, D.Y.,  Bunt, A., Young, J.E., and Glenwright, M. Icons for kids: Can young kids understand graphical representations of App store categories? Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2016, 4 pages, to appear.

Switter: Supporting Exploration of Software Learning Materials on Social Media

Dziubak, V., Dubois, P., Bunt, A., & Terry, M. (2016, June). Switter: Supporting Exploration of Software Learning Materials on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1209-1220). ACM.

The Frustrations and Benefits of Mobile Device Usage in the Home when Co-Present with Family Members

Erick Odour, Carman Neustaedter, William Odom, Anthony Tang, Niala Moallem, Melanie Tory, and Pourang Irani. 2016) The Frustrations and Benefits of Mobile Device Usage in the Home when Co-Present with Family members. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems. Brisbane, Australia. DIS ’16. ACM Press.

GyroWand: An Approach to IMU-Based Raycasting for Augmented Reality

J. D. Hincapié-Ramos, K. Özacar, P. P. Irani and Y. Kitamura.2016. GyroWand: An Approach to IMU-Based Raycasting for Augmented Reality. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 90-96, Mar.-Apr. 2016. 

Exploring User Attitudes Towards Different Approaches to Command Recommendation in Feature-Rich Software

Michelle Wiebe, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, and Andrea Bunt. "Exploring User Attitudes Towards Different Approaches to Command Recommendation in Feature-Rich Software." Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI'16

Integrating Comments in Video Tutorials

Samiul Alam Anik. Integrating Comments in Video Tutorials. M.Sc. Thesis (2015). University of Manitoba.

Please Continue, We Need More Data: An Exploration of Obedience to Robots

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Seo, S. H., Cormier, D., Young, J. E. (2016). Please continue, we need more data: an exploration of obedience to robots. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

2015

And he built a crooked camera: a mobile visualization tool to view four-dimensional geometric objects

Nico Li, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Mario. C. Sousa, "And he built a crooked camera: a mobile visualization tool to view four-dimensional geometric objects" , Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (SA'15). 2015. Kobe, Japan.

Sensing Tablet Grasp + Micro-mobility for Active Reading

Dongwook Yoon, Ken Hinckley, Hrvoje Benko, François Guimbretière, Pourang Irani, Michel Pahud, and Marcel Gavriliu. 2015. Sensing Tablet Grasp + Micro-mobility for Active Reading. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 477–487. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2807442.2807510

Candid Interaction: Revealing Hidden Mobile and Wearable Computing Activities

Barrett Ens, Tovi Grossman, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka and George Fitzmaurice. 2015. Candid Interaction: Revealing Hidden Mobile and Wearable Computing Activities. In Proceedings of the 28th User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST '15). Charlotte, NC, USA, 467-476.

Desktop-Gluey: Augmenting Desktop Environments with Wearable Devices.

Marcos Serrano, Barrett Ens, Xing-Dong Yang and Pourang Irani. (2015). Desktop-Gluey: Augmenting Desktop Environments with Wearable Devices. Workshop on Mobile Collocated Interactions with Wearables, MobileHCI '15. Copenhagen, Denmark, ACM.

Shared Presence and Collaboration Using a Co-Located Humanoid Robot

Johann Wentzel, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, "Shared Presence and Collaboration Using a Co-Located Humanoid Robot", In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '15). 2015.

Inspector Baxter: The Social Aspects of Integrating a Robot as a Quality Inspector in an Assembly Line

Amy Banh, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, "Inspector Baxter: The Social Aspects of Integrating a Robot as a Quality Inspector in an Assembly Line", In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '15). 2015.

Check Your Stereotypes at the Door: an Analysis of Gender Typecasts in Social Human-Robot Interaction

Daniel J. Rea, Yan Wang and James E. Young (2015) Check Your Stereotypes at the Door: an Analysis of Gender Typecasts in Social Human-Robot Interaction, International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). Springer. 

Women and Men Collaborating with Robots on Assembly Lines: Designing a Novel Evaluation Scenario for Collocated Human-Robot Teamwork

Stela H. Seo, Jihyang Gu, Seongmi Jeong, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, and Susan Prentice. 2015. Women and men collaborating with robots on assembly lines: designing a novel evaluation scenario for collocated human-robot teamwork. In Proceedings of the third international conference on Human-agent interaction (HAI '15). ACM, Daegu, Kyungpook, Republic of Korea. DOI=10.1145/2814940.2814948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2814940.2814948

SAMMI: A Spatially-Aware Multi-Mobile Interface for Analytic Map Navigation Tasks

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2015. SAMMI: A Spatially-Aware Multi-Mobile Interface for Analytic Map Navigation Tasks. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '15), 36-45.

Comparing Direct Off-Screen Pointing, Peephole, and Flick&Pinch Interaction for Map Navigation

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström, and Pourang Irani. 2015. Comparing Direct Off-Screen Pointing, Peephole, and Flick&Pinch Interaction for Map Navigation. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2015). Los Angeles, USA. ACM. 99-102.

Spatial Constancy of Surface-Embedded Layouts across Multiple Environments

Barrett Ens, Eyal Ofek, Neil Bruce and Pourang Irani. 2015. Spatial Constancy of Surface-Embedded Layouts across Multiple Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Spatial User Interactions (SUI '15). Los Angeles, USA. ACM, 65-68.

Gluey: Developing a Head-Worn Display Interface to Unify the Interaction Experience in Distributed Display Environments

Marcos Serrano, Barrett Ens, Xing-Dong Yang and Pourang Irani. 2015. Gluey: Developing a Head-Worn Display Interface to Unify the Interaction Experience in Distributed Display Environments. In Proceedings of MobileHCI'15, August 24, Copenhagen, Denmark. ACM, 161-171.

Elucidating the Role and Use of Bioinformatics Software in Life Science Research

Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, Andrea Bunt, and Jaime Ruiz. 2015. Elucidating the role and use of bioinformatics software in life science research. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (British HCI '15). ACM, 230-238

Culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition.

Ng, A. H., Steele, J. R., Sasaki, J. Y., Sakamoto, Y., & Williams, A. (2015). Culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1620.

How to Manage Robots and People Working Together

Young, J. E. How to Manage Robots and People Working Together. Wall Street Journal Journal Report: Leadership. June 3, 2015. Wall Street Journal

StencilMaps and EphemeralMaps: Spatially Stable Interfaces that Highlight Command Subsets

Scarr, J., Gutwin, C., Cockburn, A. and Bunt, A. (2015) StencilMaps and EphemeralMaps: Spatially Stable Interfaces that Highlight Command Subsets. Behaviour and Information Technology, 34(11), 1092-1106.

Exploring Personalized Command Recommendations based on Information Found in Web Documentation

Khan, M. A. A., Dziubak, V., & Bunt, A. (2015, March). Exploring personalized command recommendations based on information found in Web documentation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 225-235). ACM.

GyroWand: An Approach to IMU-Based Raycasting for Augmented Reality

J. D. Hincapié-Ramos, K. Özacar, P. P. Irani and Y. Kitamura, "GyroWand: An Approach to IMU-Based Raycasting for Augmented Reality," in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 90-96, Mar.-Apr. 2016.
doi: 10.1109/MCG.2016.21

QFRecs - Recommending Features in Feature-Rich Software based on Web Documentation

Md Adnan Alam Khan. QFRecs - Recommending Features in Feature-Rich Software based on Web Documentation. M.Sc. Thesis (2015). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing

Stela H. Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King, and James E. Young. Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing. Robohub, March 2015. http://robohub.org/would-you-feel-sorry-for-a-simulated-robot-study-shows-people-empathize-more-with-the-real-thing/

Smartwatches + Head-Worn Displays: the ‘New’ Smartphone

Marcos Serrano, Khalad Hasan, Barrett Ens, Xing-Dong Yang and Pourang Irani. (2015). Smartwatches + Head-Worn Displays: the ‘New’ Smartphone. Workshop on Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables, CHI 2015. Seoul, Korea. ACM.

The Effect of Signal Expense and Dependability on Family Communication in Rural and Northern Canada

Roberta M. Melvin, Andrea Bunt, Erick Odour and Carman Neustaedter (2015). The Effect of Signal Expense and Dependability on Family Communication in Rural and Northern Canada. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), 717-726

Understanding Data Videos: Looking at Narrative Visualization through the Cinematography Lens

Amini, F., Riche, N. H., Lee, B., Hurter, C., and Irani, P. Understanding Data Videos: Looking at Narrative Visualization through the Cinematography Lens. Proc. CHI: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, 2015. 23% acceptance rate.

PaintBoard - Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviours by Digitally Painting Storyboards (Thesis)

Daniel J. Rea. PaintBoard - Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviours by Digitally Painting Storyboards. M.Sc. Thesis (2015). University of Manitoba, Canada.

A simulated robot versus a real robot (2015)

Stela H. Seo. A simulated robot versus a real robot: an exploration of how robot embodiment impacts people's empathic responses. M.Sc. Thesis (2015). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Autonomy, Embodiment, and Obedience to Robots

Denise Geiskkovitch, Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. “Autonomy, Embodiment, and Obedience to Robots,” In the adjunct proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI’2015, HRI Pioneers Workshop, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Poor Thing! Would You Feel Sorry for a Simulated Robot? A comparison of empathy toward a physical and a simulated robot

Stela H. Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King, James E. Young. “Poor Thing! Would You Feel Sorry for a Simulated Robot? A comparison of empathy toward a physical and a simulated robot,” In proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI’2015, Portland, Oregon, USA.

2014

Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction

Ken Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Hrvoje Benko, Pourang Irani, François Guimbretière, Marcel Gavriliu, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Fabrice Matulic, William Buxton, Andrew Wilson. 2014. Sensing techniques for tablet+stylus interaction. Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST 2014). Honolulu, USA. 605-614. (Best Paper Award)

Task-Centric Interfaces for Feature-Rich Software

Ben Lafreniere, Andrea Bunt, and Michael Terry (2014). Task-Centric Interfaces for Feature-Rich Software. In Proceedings of OzCHI, pp. 49 - 58.

Gendering Human-Robot Interaction: exploring how a person's gender impacts attitudes toward and interaction with robots

Yan Wang. Gendering Human-Robot Interaction: exploring how a person's gender impacts attitudes toward and interaction with robots. M.Sc. Thesis (2014). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Alerting Users by Animating Content on a Transforming Tabletop Interface

Stela H. Seo, Kazuki Takashima, Jim Young, Yoshifumi Kitamura, "Alerting Users by Animating Content on a Transforming Tabletop Interface", In Proceedings of the Human Interface Symposium. 2014.

Ethereal Planes: A Design Framework for 2D Information Spaces in 3D Mixed Reality Environments

Barrett Ens, Juan David Hincapié-Ramos and Pourang Irani. 2014. Ethereal Planes: A Design Framework for 2D Information Spaces in 3D Mixed Reality Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Spatial user interactions (SUI '14). Honolulu, USA, 2-12.

FlockViz: A Visualization Technique to Facilitate Multi-dimensional Analytics of Spatio-temporal Cluster Data

Zahid Hossain. 2014. FlockViz: A Visualization Technique to Facilitate Multi-dimensional Analytics of Spatio-temporal Cluster Data. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Can Robots be Managers, Too?

Young, James E., Cormier, Derek. "Can Robots be Managers, Too?." Harvard Business Review.  April 2, 2014. http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/can-robots-be-managers-too/. (invited)

Characterizing Web-Based Tutorials: Exploring Quality, Community, and Showcasing Strategies

Matthew Lount and Andrea Bunt (2014) Characterizing web-based tutorials: Exploring quality, community, and showcasing strategies. Proceedings of SIGDOC 2014, ACM Conference on the Design of Communication, Colorado Spring, CO, article 6, 10 pages

Exploring and evaluating the effects of user-enhanced video browsing

Roiy Shpaner. 2014. Exploring and evaluating the effects of user-enhanced video browsing. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

More Human than Human? A Visual Processing Approach to Exploring Believability of Android Faces

Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, and Neil D. B. Bruce. "More Human than Human? A Visual Processing Approach to Exploring Believability of Android Faces." In the proceeding of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2014.

PaintBoard – Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Digitally Painting Storyboards

Daniel J. Rea, Takeo Igarashi, James E. young, "PaintBoard – Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Digitally Painting Storyboards", In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '14). 2014.  (Best Paper Award)

Airport security measures and their influence on enplanement intentions: Responses from leisure travelers attending a Canadian University

Alards-Tomalin, D., Ansons, T. L., Reich, T. C., Sakamoto, Y., Davie, R., Leboe-McGowan, J. P., & Leboe-McGowan, L. C. (2014). Airport security measures and their influence on enplanement intentions: Responses from leisure travelers attending a Canadian University. Journal of Air Transport Management, 37, 60-68.

Visualizing Geo-temporal Documents: An Application to Data from Crisis Maps

Hina Aman. 2014. Visualizing Geo-temporal Documents: An Application to Data from Crisis Maps. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

A Color Blending Model and A Color Correction Algorithm for Additive Optical See-through Displays

Srikanth S. Sridharan. 2014. A Color Blending Model and A Color Correction Algorithm for Additive Optical See-through Displays. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Are You Comfortable Doing That?: Acceptance Studies of Around-Device Gestures in and for Public Settings

David Ahlström, Khalad Hasan, Pourang Irani. 2014. Are You Comfortable Doing That?: Acceptance Studies of Around-Device Gestures in and for Public Settings. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2014). Toronto, Canada. ACM. To Appear.

Identifying Suitable Projection Parameters and Display Configurations for Mobile True-3D Displays

Marcos Serrano, Dale Hildebrandt, Sriram Subramanian, Pourang Irani. 2014. Identifying Suitable Projection Parameters and Display Configurations for Mobile True-3D Displays. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2014). Toronto, Canada. ACM. To Appear.

SmartColor: Real-Time Color Correction and Contrast for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Ivanchuk, L., Sridharan, S.K. and Irani, P. 2014. SmartColor: Real-Time Color Correction and Contrast for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays. In Proc. ISMAR ’14. ACM. To Appear.

“Kid-in-the-Loop” Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-oriented Content Filtering Approach

Yasmeen Essam Hashish. "Kid-in-the-Loop" Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-oriented Content Filtering Approach. M.Sc. Thesis (2014). University of Manitoba, Canada.

IntelWiki - Recommending Reference Materials in Context to Facilitate Editing Wikipedia

Mohammad Noor Nawaz. (2014) IntelWiki - Recommending Reference Materials in Context to Facilitate Editing Wikipedia. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Manitoba, Canada.

The Impact of Interactivity on Comprehending 2D and 3D Visualizations of Movement Data

Amini, F., Rufiange, S., Hossain, Z., Ventura, Q., Irani, P., and McGuffin, M. J. "The Impact of Interactivity on Comprehending 2D and 3D Visualizations of Movement Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics , no. 1, pp. 1, PrePrints, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2014.2329308. To be presented at IEEEVis 2014.

Tutorial Activity Levels: Exploring Representations and Impacts on the Tutorial Experience

Hayley Guillou and Andrea Bunt. Tutorial Activity Levels: Exploring Representations and Impacts on the Tutorial Experience. GRAND 2014, GRAND NCE Annual Conference, poster.

Investigating Connectivity Challenges and Available Mitigation for Communication in Rural and Remote

Melvin, R., Investigating Connectivity Challenges and Available Mitigation for Communication in Rural and Remote Environments, Master's Thesis, 2014, University of Manitoba

Revisiting Crisis Maps with Geo-Temporal Tag Visualization

Hina Aman, Pourang Irani and Fereshteh Amini. "Revisiting Crisis Maps with Geo-Temporal Tag Visualization." Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2014 IEEE Pacific. IEEE, 2014.

cAR: Contact Augmented Reality with Transparent-Display Mobile Devices

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Roscher, S., Büschel, W., Kister, U., Dachselt, R. and Irani, P. 2014. cAR: Contact Augmented Reality with Transparent-Display Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '14). ACM. To Appear.

The Consumed Endurance Workbench: A Tool to Assess Arm Fatigue during Mid-Air Interactions

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Guo, X., and Irani, P. 2014. The Consumed Endurance Workbench: A Tool to Assess Arm Fatigue during Mid-Air Interactions. In Proc. DIS ’14 Demos. ACM. To Appear.

A Dog Tail Interface for Communicating Affective States of Utility Robots

Ashish Singh. A Dog Tail Interface for Communicating Affective States of Utility Robots. M.Sc. Thesis (2014). University of Manitoba, Canada.

IntelWiki: Recommending Resources to Help Users Contribute to Wikipedia

Mohammad Noor Nawaz and Andrea Bunt (2014) IntelWiki: Recommending Resources to Help Users Contribute to Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), pp. 303-404.

Reflections on U-PriSM 2: The Second Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security for Mobile Devices

Sonia Chiasson, Heather Crawford, Serge Egelman, Pourang Irani. Reflections on U-PriSM 2: The Second Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security for Mobile Devices. Int. J. Mob. Hum. Comput. Interact. 6(2): 73-78 (2014)

Personal Command and Control: A Spatial Interface for Head-Worn Displays as a Platform for Everyday Visual Analytics

Barrett Ens and Pourang Irani. 2014. Personal Command and Control: A Spatial Interface for Head-Worn Displays as a Platform for Everyday Visual Analytics. In Workshop on Personal Visual Analytics (DIS '14), Vancouver, Canada. 4 Pages.

tPad: Designing Transparent-Display Mobile Interactions

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Roscher, S., Büschel, W., Kister, U., Dachselt, R. and Irani, P. 2014. tPad: Designing Transparent-Display Mobile Interactions. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '14). ACM. Honorable Mention Award.

Beyond “Pink” and “Blue”: Gendered Attitudes Towards Robots in Society

Yan Wang and James E. Young (2014) Beyond "Pink" and "Blue": Gendered Attitudes Towards Robots in Society. Proceedings of Gender and IT Appropriation (GenderIT'14), Pages 49 -59

Designing Interactive Transparent Exhibition Cases @ PATCH ’14

Hincapié-Ramos, J. D., Guo, X. and Irani, P. 2014. Designing Interactive Transparent Exhibition Cases. Proceedings of the third international ACM workshop on Personalized access to cultural heritage (PATCH ’14). February 2014. ACM.

ChronoTwigger: A Visual Analytics Tool for Understanding Source and Test Co-Evolution

Barrett Ens, Daniel Rea, Roiy Shpaner, Hadi Hemmati, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. 2014. ChronoTwigger: A Visual Analytics Tool for Understanding Source and Test Co-Evolution. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2014). Victoria, Canada. IEEE, 117-126.

Exploring the Use of Hand-To-Face Input for Interacting with Head-Worn Displays

Marcos Serrano, Barrett Ens and Pourang Irani. 2014. Exploring the Use of Hand-To-Face Input for Interacting with Head-Worn Displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI '14). Toronto, Canada. ACM, 3181-3190.

The Personal Cockpit: A Spatial Interface for Effective Task Switching on Head-Worn Displays

Barrett Ens, Rory Finnegan and Pourang Irani. 2014. The Personal Cockpit: A Spatial Interface for Effective Task Switching on Head-Worn Displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI '14). Toronto, Canada. ACM, 3171-3180.

Involving Children in Content Control:  A Collaborative and Education-Oriented Content Filtering App

Yasmeen Hashish, Andrea Bunt, and James E. Young (2014) Involving Children in Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-Oriented Content Filtering Approach. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), pp. 1797-1806.

TaggedComments: Promoting and Integrating User Comments in Online Application Tutorials

Andrea Bunt, Patrick Dubois, Ben Lafreniere, Michael Terry, and David Cormack (2014) TaggedComments: Promoting and Integrating User Comments in Online Application Tutorials. In Proceedings of the ACM Confererence on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), pp. 4037-4046.

The Usability of CommandMaps in Realistic Tasks

Joey Scarr, Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin, Andrea Bunt and Jared Cechanowicz (2014) The Usability of Command Maps in Realistic Tasks. In Proceedings of the ACM COonference in Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2241-2250.

Consumed Endurance: A Metric to Quantify Arm Fatigue of Mid-Air Interactions

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Guo, X., Moghadasian, P. and Irani, P. 2014. Consumed endurance: a metric to quantify arm fatigue of mid-air interactions. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '14). ACM

2013

Ouch! How Embodied Damage Indicators in First-Person Shooting Games Impact Gaming

James E. Young, Ibrahim Shahin, and Masayuki Nakane. "Ouch! How Embodied Damage Indicators in First-Person Shooting Games Impact Gaming Experience." Advances in Computer Entertainment. Springer International Publishing, 2013. 660-664.

U-PriSM 2: the second usable privacy and security for mobile devices workshop

Sonia Chiasson, Heather Crawford, Serge Egelman, Pourang Irani: U-PriSM 2: the second usable privacy and security for mobile devices workshop. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI' 2013) 630-632, Munich, Germany. ACM.

Ubiquitous Analytics: Interacting with Big Data Anywhere, Anytime

Niklas Elmqvist, Pourang Irani: Ubiquitous Analytics: Interacting with Big Data Anywhere, Anytime. IEEE Computer 46(4): 86-89 (2013)

Adapting the Laban Effort System to Design Affect-Communicating Locomotion Path for a Flying Robot

Megha Sharma. Adapting the Laban Effort System to Design Affect-Communicating Locomotion Path for a Flying Robot. M.Sc. Thesis (2013). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Characterising the Quality of Online Task-Based Application Tutorials

Matthew Lount. (2013) Characterising the Quality of Online Task-Based Application Tutorials. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Manitoba, Canada.

Color Correction for Optical See-Through Displays Using Display Color Profiles

Sridharan, S.K., Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Flatla, D.R. and Irani, P. 2013. Color correction for optical see-through displays using display color profiles. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 231-240. 

Interactive exploration of surveillance video through actionshot summarization and trajectory visual

Amir H. Meghdadi, Pourang Irani. 2013. Interactive Exploration of Surveillance Video through Action Shot Summarization and Trajectory Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 19.12 (2013): 2119 - 2128. IEEE

Surround-See: Enabling Peripheral Vision on Smartphones during Active Use

Xing-Dong Yang, Khalad Hasan, Neil Bruce, Pourang Irani. 2013. Surround-See: Enabling Peripheral Vision on Smartphones during Active Use. In Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'13). St. Andrews, UK. ACM.

High-Precision Pointing on Large Wall Displays using Small Handheld Devices

Mathieu Nancel, Olivier Chapuis, Emmanuel Pietriga, Xing-Dong Yang, Pourang P. Irani, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. High-Precision Pointing on Large Wall Displays using Small Handheld Devices. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France. ACM. 831-840

Would You Do as a Robot Commands? An Obedience Study for Human-Robot Interaction

Derek Cormier, Gem Newman, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Stephane Durocher. Would You Do as a Robot Commands? An Obedience Study for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, iHAI'13.

User-Centered Programming by Demonstration: Stylistic Elements of Behavior

James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. User-Centered Programming by Demonstration: Stylistic Elements of Behavior. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI '13. To appear.

CrashAlert: Enhancing Peripheral Alertness for Eyes-Busy Mobile Interaction while Walking

Hincapié-Ramos, J.D. and Irani, P. 2013. CrashAlert: Enhancing Peripheral Alertness for Eyes-Busy Mobile Interaction while Walking. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France. ACM. 3385-3388

Enabling User Interactions with Video Contents

Khalad Hasan, Yang Wang, Wing Kwong and Pourang Irani. 2013. Enabling User Interactions with Video Contents. In Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2013). Regina, Saskatchewan. IEEE. 234-241.

AD-Binning: Leveraging Around Device Space for Storing, Browsing and Retrieving Mobile Device Content

Khalad Hasan, David Ahlström and Pourang Irani. 2013. AD-Binning: Leveraging Around Device Space for Storing, Browsing and Retrieving Mobile Device Content. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France. ACM. 899-908.

Animal-Inspired Peripheral Interaction: Evaluating a Dog-Tail Interface for Communicating Robotic States

Ashish Singh, James E. Young. Animal-Inspired Peripheral Interaction: Evaluating a Dog-Tail Interface for Communicating Robotic States. In proceedings of the Workshop on Peripheral Interaction: Embedding HCI in Everyday Life at the 14th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT'13, 33-38.

Improving Tutorial Selection and Use Through Enhanced User Commenting Facilities

Patrick Dubois, Andrea Bunt, Matthew Lount, Ben Lafreniere and Michael Terry. Improving Tutorial Selection and Use Through Enhanced User Commenting Facilities. GRAND 2013, GRAND NCE Annual Conference, poster.

An Interface for Remote Robotic Manipulator Control That Reduces Task Load and Fatigue

Ashish Singh, Stela H. Seo, Yasmeen Hashish, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt. An Interface for Remote Robotic Manipulator Control That Reduces Task Load and Fatigue. In proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2013. RO-MAN'2013, to appear.

A Dog Tail for Utility Robots: Exploring Affective Properties of Tail Movement

Ashish Singh, James E. Young. A Dog Tail for Utility Robots: Exploring Affective Properties of Tail Movement. In proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT'13, 403-419.

Understanding the Roles and Uses of Web Tutorials

Ben Lafreniere, , , and . (2013) Understanding the Roles and Uses of Web Tutorials. Proceedings of the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013), 303–310.

Design and Evaluation Techniques for Authoring Interactive and Stylistic Behaviors

James E. Young, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Jeffrey Allen. Design and Evaluation Techniques for Authoring Interactive and Stylistic Behaviors. ACM Transactions on intelligent and interactive Systems (TiiS). In Press. ACM.

Teaching Robots Style: Designing, Evaluating Style-by-Demonstration for Interactive Robot Locomotion

James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi. Teaching Robots Style: Designing and Evaluating Style-by-Demonstration for Interactive Robotic Locomotion. Human-Computer Interaction, 28(5), 2013. Taylor.

Exploring the Role of Affect Recognition in Web-Capable Applications

Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, and Andrea Bunt. 2013. Exploring the Role of Affect Recognition in Web-Capable Applications. GI '13 Poster Section Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013. Regina, Saskatchewan.

Communicating affect via flight path: exploring use of the laban effort system for designing affective locomotion paths

Megha Sharma, Dale Hildebrandt, Gem Newman, James E. Young, and Rasit Eskicioglu. 2013. Communicating affect via flight path: exploring use of the laban effort system for designing affective locomotion paths. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI '13). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 293-300. best paper nomination

A Dog Tail for Communicating Robotic States

Ashish Singh and James E. Young. 2013. A dog tail for communicating robotic states. In adjunct proceedings (video abstracts) of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot interaction - HRI '13 (2013), 417-418. Best Video Award 2nd Prize.

Challenges and Opportunities for Mathematics Software in Expert Problem Solving

Andrea Bunt, Michael Terry, Edward Lank. 2013. Challenges and Opportunities for Mathematics Software in Expert Problem Solving. Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 28(3), 222-264.

2012

Are Explanations Always Important? A Study of Deployed, Low-Cost Intelligent Interactive Systems

Andrea Bunt, Matthew Lount, and Catherine Lauzon. 2012. Are explanations always important?: a study of deployed, low-cost intelligent interactive systems. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '12), 169-178.

Animal-Inspired Human-Robot Interaction: A Robotic Tail for Communicating State

Ashish Singh and James E. Young. 2012. Animal-Inspired Human-Robot Interaction: A Robotic Tail for Communicating State. In adjunct proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI’12 (2012), 237–238.

EdgeSplit: Facilitating the Selection of Off-Screen Objects

Zahid Hossain, Khalad Hasan, Hai-Ning Liang and Pourang Irani.. 2012. EdgeSplit: Facilitating the Selection of Off-Screen Objects.. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2012). San Francisco, CA. ACM.

See Me, See You: A Lightweight Method for Discriminating User Touches on Tabletop Displays

Hong Zhang, Xing-Dong Yang, Barrett Ens, Hai-Ning Liang, Pierre Boulanger and Pourang Irani. 2012. See Me, See You: A Lightweight Method for Discriminating User Touches on Tabletop Displays. In Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas. ACM, 2327-2336.

Evaluating Finger Orientation for Position Awareness on Multi-touch Tabletop System

Hong Zhang. 2012. Evaluating Finger Orientation for Position Awareness on Multi-touch Tabletop System. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

A-Coord Input: Coordinating Auxiliary Input Streams for Augmenting Contextual Pen-Based Interactions

Khalad Hasan, Xing-Dong Yang, Andrea Bunt and Pourang Irani. 2012. A-Coord Input: Coordinating Auxiliary Input Streams for Augmenting Contextual Pen-Based Interactions. In Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas. ACM, 805-814.

A-Coord Input: Augmented Pen-Based Interactions by Combining Auxiliary Input Channels

Khalad Hasan. 2012. A-Coord Input: Augmented Pen-Based Interactions by Combining Auxiliary Input Channels. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Putting your best foot forward: investigating real-world mappings for foot-based gestures

Jason Alexander, Teng Han, William Judd, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2012. Putting your best foot forward: investigating real-world mappings for foot-based gestures. In Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas. ACM, 1229-1238.

A Review of Common Tasks Supported by Information Communication Technology for Times of Emergency

Hina Aman, Pourang Irani and Hai-Ning Liang. 2012. A Review of Common Tasks Supported by Information Communication Technology for Times of Emergency. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2012). Vancouver, Canada. ISCRAM.

How to Position the Cursor? An Exploration of Absolute and Relative Cursor Positioning for Back-of-Device Input

Khalad Hasan, Xing-Dong Yang, Hai-Ning Liang and Pourang Irani.. 2012. How to Position the Cursor? An Exploration of Absolute and Relative Cursor Positioning for Back-of-Device Input. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2012). San Francisco, CA. ACM.

Guidelines for Designing Awareness-Augmented Mobile DUIs

Barrett Ens, Rasit Eskicioglu, Pourang Irani. 2012. Guidelines for Designing Awareness-Augmented Mobile DUIs. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 28, 730-736.

Style by Demonstration for Interactive Robot Motion

Jeffrey allen, James E. Young, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Takeo Igarashi. Style by Demonstration for Interactive robot Motion. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2012, DIS '12, 592-601. ACM

The Roomba Mood Ring: An Ambient-Display Robot

Daniel Rea, James E. Young and Pourang Irani. 2012. The Roomba Mood Ring: An Ambient-Display Robot. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2012). Boston, Massachusetts. ACM, 217-218.

Branch-explore-merge: facilitating real-time revision control in collaborative visual exploration

Will McGrath, Brian Bowman, David McCallum, Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Niklas Elmqvist, and Pourang Irani. 2012. Branch-explore-merge: facilitating real-time revision control in collaborative visual exploration. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITS '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 235–244. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396673

Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots

James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2012, IUI '12, 41-50. best paper award

Developing guidelines for in-the-field control of a team of robots

Megha Sharma, James E. Young, and Rasit Eskicioglu. 2012. Developing guidelines for in-the-field control of a team of robots. In adjunct proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 233-234.

Designed for Work, but not from Here: Rural and Remote Perspectives on Networked Technology

Melvin, R. and Bunt, A. (2012) Designed for Work, but not from Here: Rural and Remote Perspectives on Networked Technology, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), pp. 176-185.

Improving Command Selection with CommandMaps

Joey Scarr, Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin, and Andrea Bunt. 2012. Improving command selection with CommandMaps. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). 257-266. Best Paper Award

A review of information communication technology applied on common tasks during times of emergency

Hina Aman, Pourang Irani, Hai-Ning Liang. A review of information communication technology applied on common tasks during times of emergency. ISCRAM 2012

An exploration of interaction styles in mobile devices for navigating 3d environments

Hai-Ning Liang, James Trenchard, Myron Semegen, and Pourang Irani. 2012. An exploration of interaction styles in mobile devices for navigating 3d environments. In Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction (APCHI '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 309–313. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2350046.2350062

User-defined surface+motion gestures for 3d manipulation of objects at a distance through a mobile d

Hai-Ning Liang, Cary Williams, Myron Semegen, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and Pourang Irani. 2012. User-defined surface+motion gestures for 3d manipulation of objects at a distance through a mobile device. In Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction (APCHI '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 299–308. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2350046.2350098

An Exploratory Study on Joystick-Based Directing Interfaces for a Collocated Robot

Self Published, University of Manitoba Technical report. Number forthcoming.

TZee: A Tangible Device for 3D Interactions on Tabletop Computers

Cary Williams. 2012. TZee: A Tangible Device for 3D Interactions on Tabletop Computers. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

2011

OA-Graphs: Orientation agnostic graphs for improving the legibility of simple visualization on horizontal display

Fouad Alallah. 2011. OA-Graphs: Orientation agnostic graphs for improving the legibility of simple visualization on horizontal display. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

AdaptableGIMP: Designing a Socially-Adaptable Interface

Benjamin Lafreniere, Andrea Bunt, Matthew Lount, Filip Krynicki, and Michael A. Terry. 2011. AdaptableGIMP: designing a socially-adaptable interface. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology (UIST '11 Adjunct) 89-90, poster.

Designing Snakey: A tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning

John Harris, James E. Young, Nicole Sultanum, Paul Lapides, Ehud Sharlin, Mario Costa Sousa. Designing Snakey: A tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning. In the IFIP TCI3 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011, Interact 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5--9, 2011. IFIP.

How to Walk A Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface

James E. Young, Youichi Kamiyama, Juliane Reichenbach, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. How to Walk A Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface. In proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011, RO-MAN 2011, Altanta, US, July 31-Aug 3, 2011. IEEE

Effects of Reduced Connectivity in Rural and Remote Communities

Roberta Melvin and Andrea Bunt. 2011. Effects of Reduced Connectivity in Rural and Remote Communities. In Workshop on Everyday Practice and Sustainable HCI: Understanding and Learning from Cultures of (Un)Sustainability (CHI 2011), Vancouver, Canada

FpMapViz: A Space-Filling Visualization for Frequent Patterns

C. K. Leung, F. Jiang and P. P. Irani, "FpMapViz: A Space-Filling Visualization for Frequent Patterns," 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2011, pp. 804-811.
doi: 10.1109/ICDMW.2011.86
keywords: {Visualization;Itemsets;Color;Data visualization;Data mining;Joining processes;Educational institutions;Large scale visual analytics;visual data mining;association analysis;human-machine interaction;pattern discovery;data and result visualization;frequent itemsets},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6137463&isnumber=6137352

TouchCuts and TouchZoom: Enhanced Target Selection for Touch Displays using Finger Proximity Sensing

Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Pourang Irani and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. TouchCuts and TouchZoom: Enhanced Target Selection for Touch Displays using Finger Proximity Sensing. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, BC. ACM, 2585-2594.

Kick: Investigating the Use of Kick Gestures for Mobile Interactions

Teng Han, Jason Alexander, Abhijit Karnik, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2011. Kick: Investigating the Use of Kick Gestures for Mobile Interactions. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI '11). Stockholm, Sweden. ACM.

Impact of Group Size on Spatial Structure Understanding Tasks

Taylor Sando, Melanie Tory and Pourang Irani. 2011. Impact of Group Size on Spatial Structure Understanding Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium PacificVis '11). Hong Kong, China. IEEE.

Comet and Target Ghost: Techniques for Selecting Moving Targets

Khalad Hasan, Tovi Grossman and Pourang Irani. 2011. Comet and Target Ghost: Techniques for Selecting Moving Targets. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, BC. ACM, 839-848.

Visual Separation in Mobile Multi-display Environments

Jessica R. Cauchard, Markus Löchtefeld, Pourang Irani, Johannes Schoning, Antonio Krüger, Mike Fraser and Sriram Subramanian. 2011. Visual Separation in Mobile Multi-display Environments. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '11). Santa Barbara, U.S.A. ACM.

Identity Awareness on Tabletop Computers

Grant Partridge. 2011. Identity Awareness on Tabletop Computers. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba.

Improving cascading menu selections with adaptive activation areas

Erum Tanvir, Andrea Bunt, Andy Cockburn and Pourang Irani. 2011. Improving cascading menu selections with adaptive activation areas. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(11), 769-785.

TZee: Exploiting the Lighting Properties of Multi-touch Tabletops for Tangible 3D Interactions

Cary Williams, Xing-Dong Yang, Grant Partridge, Joshua Usiskin-Miller, Arkady Major and Pourang Irani. 2011. TZee: Exploiting the Lighting Properties of Multi-touch Tabletops for Tangible 3D Interactions. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, BC. ACM, 1363-1372.

Visually Augmented Interfaces for Co-located Mobile Collaboration

Barrett Ens, Rasit Eskicioglu and Pourang Irani. 2011. Visually Augmented Interfaces for Co-located Mobile Collaboration. In Distributed User Interfaces: Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem. Springer, 169-176.

Characterizing User Performance with Assisted Direct Off-Screen Pointing

Barrett Ens, David Ahlström, Andy Cockburn and Pourang Irani. 2011. Characterizing User Performance with Assisted Direct Off-Screen Pointing. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI '11). Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, 485-494.

Evaluating human-robot interaction: Focusing on the holistic interaction experience

James E. Young, JaYoung Sung, Amy Voida, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi, Henrik Christensen, and Rebecca Grinter. Evaluating human-robot interaction: Focusing on the holistic interaction experience. International Journal on Social Robotics, 2011, 3(1). Springer.

2010

Exploring Social Interaction Between Robots and People

James Young. Exploring Social Interaction Between Robots and People, PhD Dissertation, University of Calgary, August 2010.

What is Mixed Reality, anyway? Considering the boundaries of mixed reality in the context of robots

James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi. What is Mixed Reality, anyway? Considering the boundaries of mixed reality in the context of robots. In Mixed Reality and Human-Robot Interaction, Springer (invited). 2010.

Characterizing Large-Scale Use of a Direct Manipulation Application in the Wild

Lafreniere, B., Bunt, A., Whissell, J., Clarke, C., and Terry, M. (2010) Characterizing Large-Scale Use of a Direct Manipulation Application in the Wild. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2010), pp. 11-17.

The Use of Computational Tools within Mathematical Work Practices

Andrea Bunt, Michael Terry and Edward Lank. (2010) The Use of Computational Tools within Mathematical Work Practices. Workshop on Bridging the Gap: Moving from Contextual Analysis to Design, CHI 2010.

Showing Robots how to Follow People Using a Broomstick Interface

James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Showing robots how to follow people using a broomstick interface. In Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2010, Late-Breaking Reports. HRI LBA '10. 133-134, ACM/IEEE.

LensMouse: Augmenting the Mouse with an Interactive Touch Display

Xing-Dong Yang, Edward Mak, David C. McCallum, Pourang Irani, Xiang Cao and Shahram Izadi. 2010. LensMouse: Augmenting the Mouse with an Interactive Touch Display. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. ACM, 2431-2440.

OA-graphs: Orientation Agnostic Graphs for Improving the Legibility of Charts on Horizontal Displays

Fouad Alallah, Dean Jin and Pourang Irani. 2010. OA-graphs: Orientation Agnostic Graphs for Improving the Legibility of Charts on Horizontal Displays. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces(ITS' 10). Saarbrucken, Germany. ACM, 211-220.

Improving cascading menu selections with adaptive activation areas

Erum Tanvir. 2010. Improving Cascading Menu Selections with Adaptive Activation Area. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

GesText: Accelerometer-Based Gestural Text-Entry Systems

Eleanor Jones, Jason Alexander, Andreas Andreou, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2010. GesText: Accelerometer-Based Gestural Text-Entry Systems. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. ACM, 2173-2182.

Why It’s Quick to be Square: Modelling New and Existing Hierarchical Menu Designs

David Ahlström, Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin and Pourang Irani. 2010. Why It's Quick to be Square: Modelling New and Existing Hierarchical Menu Designs. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. ACM, 1371-1380.

2009

The haptic tabletop puck: providing tactile feedback for interactive tabletops

Nicolai Marquardt, Miguel A. Nacenta, James E. Young, Sheelagh Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, and Ehud Sharlin. The haptic tabletop puck: providing tactile feedback for interactive tabletops. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, 2009. Tabletop '09, Banff, Canada, November 23-25, 2009. ACM Press.

Dual-Surface input: augmenting one-handed interaction with coordinated front and behind-the-screen i

Xing-Dong Yang, Edward Mak, Pourang Irani, and Walter F. Bischof. 2009. Dual-Surface input: augmenting one-handed interaction with coordinated front and behind-the-screen input. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '09). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1613858.1613865

Opportunities for user involvement within interface personalization

Andrea Bunt and Michael Terry (2009) Opportunities for user involvement within interface personalization. Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction.

Situated Messages for Asynchronous Human-Robot Interaction

Nicolai Marquardt, James Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Saul Greenberg. 2009. Situated messages for asynchronous human-robot interaction. In Adjunct Proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction (HRI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 301-302. DOI=10.1145/1514095.1514186 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1514095.1514186

Puppet Master: A technique for designing the actions of interactive agents by demonstration

James E. Young, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin. Puppet Master: A technique for designing the actions of interactive agents by demonstration. Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) Symposium 2009, Dec. 2009, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Friend or Foe? Examining CAS Use in Mathematics Research

Andrea Bunt, Michael Terry, and Edward Lank. 2009. Friend or foe?: examining CAS use in mathematics research. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), 229-238. 

Touch and Toys: new techniques for interaction with a remote group of robots

Cheng Guo, James E. Young, and Ehud Sharlin. Touch and Toys: new techniques for interaction with a remote group of robots. In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. CHI '09, Boston, US, April 4-9, 2009, ACM Press

Effects of Animation, User-Controlled Interactions, and multiple static views in Understanding 3D Structures

Taylor Sando, Melanie Tory and Pourang Irani. 2009. Effects of Animation, User-Controlled Interactions, and multiple static views in Understanding 3D Structures. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV '09). Chania, Crete, Greece. ACM, 69-76.

An Evaluation Of Techniques For Selecting Moving Targets

Tyler J. Gunn, Pourang Irani and John Anderson. 2009. An Evaluation Of Techniques For Selecting Moving Targets. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 3329-3334.

An Evaluation of One-handed Techniques for Multiple-target Selection

Tyler J. Gunn, Hong Zhang, Ed Mak and Pourang Irani. 2009. An Evaluation of One-handed Techniques for Multiple-target Selection. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4189-4194.

Analyzing Animated Representations of Complex Causal Semantics

Nivedita R. Kadaba, Pourang P. Irani and Jason Leboe. 2009. Analyzing Animated Representations of Complex Causal Semantics. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV '09). Chania, Crete, Greece. ACM, 77-84.

Facilitating Multiple Target Tracking using Semantic Depth of Field (SDOF)

Nivedita Kadaba, Xing Dong Yang and Pourang Irani. 2009. Facilitating Multiple Target Tracking using Semantic Depth of Field (SDOF). In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4375-4380.

Chucking: A One-handed Document Sharing Technique

Nabeel Hassan, Md. Mahfuz Rahman, Pourang Irani and Peter Graham. 2009. Chucking: A One-handed Document Sharing Technique. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), 264-278.

Two Novel Off-Screen Navigation Techniques

Mahtab Nezhadasl. 2009. Two Novel Off-Screen Navigation Techniques. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba.

Tilt Techniques: Investigating the Dexterity of Wrist-based Input

Mahfuz Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2009. Tilt Techniques: Investigating the Dexterity of Wrist-based Input. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), 1943-1952.

Evaluating Factors that Influence Path Tracing with Passive Haptic Guidance

Kurosh Zarei-nia, Xing-Dong Yang, Pourang Irani and Nariman Sepehri. 2009. Evaluating Factors that Influence Path Tracing with Passive Haptic Guidance. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID '09), 21-30.

PressureMove: Pressure input with mouse movement

Kang Shi, Sriram Subramanian and Pourang Irani. 2009. PressureMove: Pressure input with mouse movement. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), 25-39.

Let loose with WallBalls, a collaborative tabletop instrument for tomorrow

Grant Partridge, Pourang Irani and Gordon Fitzell. 2009. Let loose with WallBalls, a collaborative tabletop instrument for tomorrow. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME '09), 78-81.

IdenTTop: A Flexible Platform for Exploring Identity-Enabled Surfaces

Grant Partridge and Pourang Irani. 2009. IdenTTop: A Flexible Platform for Exploring Identity-Enabled Surfaces. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4411-4416.

Detecting and Leveraging Finger Orientation for Interaction with Direct-Touch Surfaces

Feng Wang, Xiang Cao, Xiangshi Ren and Pourang Irani. 2009. Detecting and Leveraging Finger Orientation for Interaction with Direct-Touch Surfaces. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'09). Victoria, BC, Canada. ACM, 23-32.

ARC-Pad: absolute+relative cursor positioning for large displays with a mobile touchscreen

David C. McCallum and Pourang Irani. 2009. ARC-Pad: absolute+relative cursor positioning for large displays with a mobile touchscreen. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09), 153-156.

PressureText: Pressure Input for Mobile Phone Text Entry

David C. McCallum, Edward Mak, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2009. PressureText: Pressure Input for Mobile Phone Text Entry. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4519-4524.

A Model for Steering with Haptic-Force Guidance

Xing-Dong Yang, Pourang Irani, Pierre Boulanger and Walter F. Bischof. 2009. A Model for Steering with Haptic-Force Guidance. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), 465-478.

One-Handed Behind-the-Display Cursor Input on Mobile Devices

Xing Dong Yang, Pourang Irani, Pierre Boulanger and Walter Bischof. 2009. One-Handed Behind-the-Display Cursor Input on Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4501-4506.

Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology

James E. Young, Richard Hawkins, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi. Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology. Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Social Robotics 1(1) (Jan 2009). Springer

Mixed-initiative interface personalization as a case study in usable AI

Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, and Joanna McGrenere (2009) Mixed-initiative interface personalization as a case study in usable AI. In Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Usable AI, 30(4), 58-64

2008

Who cares what the outgroup thinks? Testing an information search model of the importance individuals accord to an outgroup member's view of them during intergroup interaction.

Vorauer, J. D., & Sakamoto, Y. (2008). Who cares what the outgroup thinks? Testing an information search model of the importance individuals accord to an outgroup member's view of them during intergroup interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(6), 1467–1480. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012631

Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration

James E. Young, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration. In proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SCA '08, Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9 2008, pages 183-191, Eurographics Association

A model of non-preferred hand mode switching

Jaime Ruiz, Andrea Bunt and Edward Lank. 2008. A model of non-preferred hand mode switching. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008, 49-56. 

Analyzing the kinematics of bivariate pointing

Jaime Ruiz, David Tausky, Andrea Bunt, Edward Lank and Richard Mann. 2008. Analyzing the kinematics of bivariate pointing. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008, 251-258. 

AAMU: adaptive activation area menus for improving selection in cascading pull-down menus

Erum Tanvir, Jonathan Cullen, Pourang Irani, and Andy Cockburn. 2008. AAMU: adaptive activation area menus for improving selection in cascading pull-down menus. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1381–1384. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357270

The Concept of a Robot

James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi. The Concept of a Robot. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop, 2008. Pioneers '08, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 12-15, 2008

Wedge: Clutter-Free Visualization of Off-Screen Locations

Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin and Pourang Irani. 2008. Wedge: Clutter-Free Visualization of Off-Screen Locations. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 787-796.

Visualizing Off-Screen Locations on Small Mobile Displays

Sean Gustafson. 2008. Visualizing Off-Screen Locations on Small Mobile Displays. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba.

The effect of animated transitions in zooming interfaces

Maruthappan Shanmugasundaram and Pourang Irani. 2008. The effect of animated transitions in zooming interfaces. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '08), 396-399.

PressureFish: A Method to Improve Control of Discrete Pressure-based Input

Kang Shi, Pourang Irani, Sean Gustafson and Sriram Subramanian. 2008. PressureFish: A Method to Improve Control of Discrete Pressure-based Input. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 1295-1298.

Improving Selection in Cascading Pull-Down Menus

Erum Tanvir, Jonathan Cullen, Pourang Irani and Andy Cockburn. 2008. Improving Selection in Cascading Pull-Down Menus. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 1381-1384.

Multi-Flick: An Evaluation of Flick-Based Scrolling Techniques for Pen Interfaces

Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Pourang Irani, Andrés Lucero and Sriram Subramanian. 2008. Multi-Flick: An Evaluation of Flick-Based Scrolling Techniques for Pen Interfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 1689-1698.

WiFIsViz: Effective Visualization of Frequent Itemsets

Carson Kai-Sang Leung, Pourang P. Irani and Christopher L. Carmichael. 2008. WiFIsViz: Effective Visualization of Frequent Itemsets. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.

FIsViz: A Frequent Itemset Visualizer

Carson Kai-Sang Leung, Pourang Irani and Christopher L. Carmichael. 2008. FIsViz: A Frequent Itemset Visualizer. In Proceedings of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD '08), 644-652.

The Need for an Interaction Cost Model in Adaptive Interfaces

Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani and Craig Boutilier. 2008. The Need for an Interaction Cost Model in Adaptive Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '08), 458-461.

2007

Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization

Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere and Cristina Conati. 2007. Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization. In Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007), 147-156. 

Moving a Media Space into the Real World through Group-Robot Interaction

James E. Young, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Moving a Media Space into the Real World through Group–Robot Interaction. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive ’07, Toronto,

Matching Attentional Draw with Utility in Interruption

Jennifer Gluck, Andrea Bunt, and Joanna McGrenere. 2007. Matching attentional draw with utility in interruption. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 41-50.

Feline Fun Park: A Distributed Tangible Interface for Pets and Owners

JAMES E. YOUNG, Neko Young, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Feline Fun Park: A Distributed Tangible Interface for Pets and Owners. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive ’07, Toronto, Canada, May 13–15. Video 1:13, paper 4 pages

Adaptive Content Presentation for the Web

Andrea Bunt, Giuseppe Carenini and Cristina Conati. 2007. Adaptive Content Presentation for the Web. In Brusilovsky, A. Kobsa, & W. Nejdl (Eds.), The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4321, 409-432, Springer-Verlag. 

Techniques for Interacting with Off-Screen Content

Irani P., Gutwin C., Partridge G., Nezhadasl M. (2007) Techniques for Interacting with Off-Screen Content. In: Baranauskas C., Palanque P., Abascal J., Barbosa S.D.J. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007. INTERACT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4663. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_19

Robot Expressionism through Cartooning

James E. Young, Min Xin, and Ehud Sharlin. Robot Expressionism through Cartooning. In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2007. ACM HRI '07, Washington D.C., USA, March 9-11, 2007, pages 309-316, ACM Press

One family, many voices: Can multiple synthetic voices be used as navigational cues in hierarchical

Shajahan, P., Irani, P. One family, many voices: Can multiple synthetic voices be used as navigational cues in hierarchical interfaces?. Int J Speech Technol 9, 1–15 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-006-9000-7

Supporting Interface Customization Using a Mixed-Initiative Approach

Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, and Joanna McGrenere. 2007. Supporting interface customization using a mixed-initiative approach. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI '07), 92-101. Best Paper Award.

Evaluation of Guiard’s Theory of Bimanual Control for Navigation and Selection

Xu Xia, Pourang Irani and Jing Wang. 2007. Evaluation of Guiard's Theory of Bimanual Control for Navigation and Selection. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers. Proceedings from HCI International, 368-377.

Bimanual and dual-cursor control for constrained navigation and selection

Xu Xia. 2007. Bimanual and dual-cursor control for constrained navigation and selection. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Improving recognition and characterization in groupware with rich embodiments

Tadeusz Stach, Carl Gutwin, David Pinelle and Pourang Irani. 2007. Improving recognition and characterization in groupware with rich embodiments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 11-20. (Honourable Mention Award)

Comparing Visualizations for Tracking Off-Screen Moving Targets

Sean Gustafson and Pourang Irani. 2007. Comparing Visualizations for Tracking Off-Screen Moving Targets. In Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 2399-2404.

Techniques for Interacting with Off-Screen Targets

Pourang Irani, Carl Gutwin, Grant Partridge and Mahtab Nezhadasl. 2007. Techniques for Interacting with Off-Screen Targets. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact '07), 234-249.

Visualizing Causal Semantics using Animations

Nivedita Kadaba, Pourang Irani and Jason Leboe. 2007. Visualizing Causal Semantics using Animations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6), 1254-1261.

Can smooth view transitions facilitate perceptual constancy in node-link diagrams?

Maruthappan Shanmugasundaram, Pourang Irani and Carl Gutwin. 2007. Can smooth view transitions facilitate perceptual constancy in node-link diagrams? In Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '07), 71-78.

Quantifying the effects of smooth view transitions on perceptual constancy in node-link diagrams

Maruthappan Shanmugasundaram. 2007. Quantifying the effects of smooth view transitions on perceptual constancy in node-link diagrams. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Facilitating Visual Queries in the TreeMap Using Distortion Techniques

Kang Shi, Pourang Irani and Pak Ching Li. 2007. Facilitating Visual Queries in the TreeMap Using Distortion Techniques. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Proceedings from HCI International, 345-353.

Augmenting the mouse with pressure sensitive input

Jared Cechanowicz, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2007. Augmenting the mouse with pressure sensitive input. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 1385-1394. (Honourable Mention Award)

A Comparison of Navigation Techniques across Different Types of Off-Screen Navigation Tasks

Grant Partridge, Mahtab Nezhadasl, Pourang Irani and Carl Gutwin. 2007. A Comparison of Navigation Techniques across Different Types of Off-Screen Navigation Tasks. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact '07), 716-721.

Visualizing the Decision-Making Process in a Face-to-Face Meeting

Fouad Alallah, Mahtab Nezhadasl, Pourang Irani and Dean Jin. 2007. Visualizing the Decision-Making Process in a Face-to-Face Meeting. In Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization (IV '07), 168-176.

2006

AIBO Surrogate - A Group-Robot Interface

James E. Young, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. AIBO Surrogate – A Group-Robot Interface. Demonstration at ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006. ACM CSCW ’06, Banff, Canada, November 4–8, 2006.

Implementing Bubblegrams: The Use of Haar-like Features for Human-Robot Interaction

James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Jeffrey E. Boyd. Implementing Bubblegrams: The Use of Haar-like Features for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006. IEEE CASE ’06, Shanghai, China, October 8-10, 2006, pages 308--313, IEEE Computer Society Press.

I Thought We Could Be Friends, but …: Systematic Miscommunication and Defensive Distancing as Obstacles to Cross-Group Friendship Formation

Vorauer, J. D., & Sakamoto, Y. (2006). I thought we could be friends, but… Systematic miscommunication and defensive distancing as obstacles to cross-group friendship formation. Psychological Science, 17(4), 326-331.

Sharing Spaces with Robots: an Integrated Environment for Human-Robot Interaction

James E. Young and Ehud Sharlin. Sharing Spaces with Robots: an Integrated Environment for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 2006. ISIE ’06, Cambridge, UK, April 5–7, 2006, pages 103–110, Cambridge, UK, April 2006. Microsoft Research Ltd., Microsoft Research Ltd. Press

VoiceMarks: restructuring hierarchical voice menus for improving navigation

Pourang Irani, Peer Shajahan and Christel Kemke. 2006. VoiceMarks: restructuring hierarchical voice menus for improving navigation. International Journal of Speech Technology, 9(3--4), 75-94.

Human perception of structure in shaded space-filling visualizations

Pourang Irani, Dean Slonowsky and Peer Shajahan. 2006. Human perception of structure in shaded space-filling visualizations. International Journal for Information Visualization, 5(1), 47-61.

Improving Selection of Off-Screen Targets with Hopping

Pourang Irani, Carl Gutwin and Xing Dong Yang. 2006. Improving Selection of Off-Screen Targets with Hopping. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06), 299-308.

Perceptual based visualizations for time-dependent semantics

Nivedita Kadaba. 2006. Perceptual based visualizations for time-dependent semantics. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

2005

Manipulating Synthetic Voice Parameters for Navigation in Hierarchical Structures

Peer Shajahan and Pourang Irani. 2005. Manipulating Synthetic Voice Parameters for Navigation in Hierarchical Structures. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Auditory Displays (ICAD '05), 49-54.

Supporting navigation in auditory interfaces using personalization and multiple synthetic voices

Peer Shajahan. 2005. Supporting navigation in auditory interfaces using personalization and multiple synthetic voices. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

Visualizing Time Dependent Semantics: An Application to Quantum Algorithms

Nivedita Kadaba, Pourang Irani and Michel Toulouse. 2005. Visualizing Time Dependent Semantics: An Application to Quantum Algorithms. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (IV '05), 182-187.

Target Tracking in Dynamic Systems

Nivedita Kadaba and Pourang Irani. 2005. Target Tracking in Dynamic Systems. IEEE InfoVis (poster compendium).

An Evaluation of Content Browsing Techniques for Hierarchical Space-Filling Visualizations

Kang Shi, Pourang Irani and Pak Ching Li. 2005. An Evaluation of Content Browsing Techniques for Hierarchical Space-Filling Visualizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (IV '05), 81-88.

Rapid content browsing in hierarchical space-filling representations using distortion techniques

Kang Shi. 2005. Rapid content browsing in hierarchical space-filling representations using distortion techniques. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba.

2004

What Role Can Adaptive Support Play in an Adaptable System?

Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, and Joanna McGrenere. 2004. What role can adaptive support play in an adaptable system?. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI '04), 117-124. 

The Effect of Shading in Extracting Structure from Space-Filling Visualizations

Pourang Irani, Dean Slonowsky and Peer Shajahan. 2004. The Effect of Shading in Extracting Structure from Space-Filling Visualizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (IV '04), 209-216.

The Effect of a Perceptual Syntax on the Learnability of Novel Concepts

Pourang Irani and Colin Ware. 2004. The Effect of a Perceptual Syntax on the Learnability of Novel Concepts. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (IV '04), 308-314.

Notations for Software Engineering Class Structures

Pourang Irani. 2004. Notations for Software Engineering Class Structures. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, 441-445.

Representing Hierarchies Using Multiple Synthetic Voices

Peer Shajahan and Pourang Irani. 2004. Representing Hierarchies Using Multiple Synthetic Voices. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (IV '04), 885-891.

2003

Displaying English Grammatical Structures

Pourang Irani and Y. Shi. 2003. Displaying English Grammatical Structures. IEEE InfoVis (poster compendium).

A Space-filling Visualization Technique for Cellular Network Data

Pourang Irani and Rasit Eskicioglu. 2003. A Space-filling Visualization Technique for Cellular Network Data. In International Conference on Knowledge Management (IKNOW-03), 115-120.

Diagramming Information Structures using 3D Perceptual Primitives

Pourang Irani and Colin Ware. 2003. Diagramming Information Structures using 3D Perceptual Primitives. ACM Transactions on Computer Human-Interaction, 10(1), 1-19.

Improving Navigation in Touch-Tone Interfaces

Peer Shajahan and Pourang Irani. 2003. Improving Navigation in Touch-Tone Interfaces. In Proceedings from Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT '03), 8.

2002

Labeling Nodes in 3D Diagrams: Using Transparency for Text Legibility and Node Visibility

Pourang Irani and C. Iturriaga. 2002. Labeling Nodes in 3D Diagrams: Using Transparency for Text Legibility and Node Visibility. Technical Report TR02-152, University of New Brunswick.

Geon Diagrams: a Perception Based Method for Visualizing Structured Information

Pourang Irani. 2002. Geon Diagrams: a Perception Based Method for Visualizing Structured Information. PhD thesis, University of New Brunswick. (Nominated for Best Dissertation Award)

Learnability of Diagram Semantics

Pourang Irani. 2002. Learnability of Diagram Semantics. In International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, 335-338.

2001

Using Perceptual Syntax to Enhance Semantic Content in Diagrams

Pourang Irani, Colin Ware and Maureen Tingley. 2001. Using Perceptual Syntax to Enhance Semantic Content in Diagrams. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 21(5), 76-85.

Should the Elements of Diagrams Be Rendered in 3D?

Pourang Irani and Colin Ware. 2001. Should the Elements of Diagrams Be Rendered in 3D? In IEEE InfoVis (Hot Breaking Topics), 21-24.

2000

3D Diagrams Based on Theories of Structural Perception

Pourang Irani and Colin Ware. 2000. 3D Diagrams Based on Theories of Structural Perception. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '00), 61-67.

1998

A Graphical Shell for a Protocol Simulation Testbed

B. Ashfield and Pourang Irani. 1998. A Graphical Shell for a Protocol Simulation Testbed. Proceedings of the APICS Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick.