ICRI Cities to Jointly Sponsor CHI Party Event at CHI Toronto, Canada

ICRI Cities are proud to be involved with hosting a small party event to celebrate London researchers and their work at the upcoming CHI Conference, to be held in Toronto on Tuesday 29th April.

The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction and is a hugely popular and well respected event.  ICRI Cities are proud to be involved with this event and are excited to confirm that a number of our researchers have had their papers both accepted at CHI as well as receiving honourable mentions for their exemplary work. The SIGCHI Best of CHI Awards honour exceptional submissions to SIGCHI sponsored conferences.  Receiving an Honourable Mention Award indicates that the paper submitted was identified by the CHI Associate Chairs as being among the top 5% of all submission to CHI 2014.

Honourable mentions include:

“Understanding Sustained Community Engagement: A Case Study in Heritage Preservation in Rural Argentina”.  Authors: Mara Balestrini, Jon Bird, Paul Marshall, Alberto Zaro, Yvonne Rogers.

“Never Too Old: Engaging Retired People Inventing the Future with MaKey MaKey”.  Authors: Rogers, Y., Paay, J., Brereton, M., Vaisutis, K., Marsden, G., and Vetere, F. (2014).

Other papers accepted:

“Bigger is not always better: Display Size, Performance, and Task Load during Peephole Map Navigation”  Authors: Roman Rädle, Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Müller, HaraldReiterer

“Poverty on the Cheap: Estimating Poverty Maps Using Aggregated Mobile Communication Networks”. Authors C. Smith-Clarke, A. Mashhadi and L. Capra.