Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Courses

Amplifying Quiet Voices - Challenges and Opportunities for Participatory Design at an Urban Scale

Explores innovative approaches to empower disadvantaged citizens in smart city projects, highlighting challenges and opportunities for participatory design at an urban scale.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Teaching Language to Deaf Infants with a Robot and a Virtual Human

Innovative multi-agent system using robots and virtual humans to provide visual language exposure for deaf infants, addressing critical developmental needs and exploring human-machine interaction for early language acquisition.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Quantifying the Changeable Self - The Role of Self-Tracking in Coming to Terms With and Managing Bipolar Disorder

Exploring self-tracking practices for managing bipolar disorder, highlighting challenges in self-monitoring and proposing combined manual and automated methods to support both clinical and personal needs.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Interactive Feedforward for Improving Performance and Maintaining Intrinsic Motivation in VR Exergaming

Explores interactive feedforward technique in VR exergaming to improve performance and maintain motivation during high-intensity workouts, comparing self-models and virtual competitors.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Single or Multiple Conversational Agents? - An Interactional Coherence Comparison

Comparison of single vs. multiple chatbots for task completion, analyzing conversation structures, user perceptions, and interaction strategies in a simulated travel planning scenario.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Parody in Place - Exposing Socio-spatial Exclusions in Data-Driven Maps with Design Parody

Explore how design parody exposes socio-spatial exclusions in data-driven maps, challenging the neutrality of neighborhood-based data and prompting reflection on measurement politics.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Fairness and Accountability Design Needs for Algorithmic Support in High-Stakes Public Sector Decision-Making

Exploring challenges and design opportunities for fairness and accountability in algorithmic public sector decision-making, with insights from machine learning practitioners across OECD countries.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Pinpointing - Precise Head- and Eye-Based Target Selection for Augmented Reality

Investigates precise target selection in AR using head and eye movements, comparing speed and accuracy to determine optimal methods for compact menus and calibration drift correction.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Spatial User Interaction Panel

Experts discuss Spatial User Interfaces, exploring field studies, practical applications, and research challenges beyond laboratory settings in this ACM Symposium panel.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Designing and Evaluating Livefonts

Innovative animated text display technique improves legibility on small screens, especially for low-vision users. Study shows livefonts are readable at half the size of traditional letters and are learnable by various user groups.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Learning Visual Importance for Graphic Designs and Data Visualizations

Explore AI-driven models predicting visual element importance in designs and data visualizations, with applications in retargeting, thumbnailing, and interactive design tools.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Codestrates - Literate Computing with Webstrates

Explore literate computing with Codestrates, blending prose and live computation for collaborative notebooks, extensible functionality, and reprogrammable applications built on Webstrates.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Qoom - An Interactive Omnidirectional Ball Display

Innovative spherical display system allowing interactive touch, rotation, and throwing. Explores applications in daily life, utilizing unique advantages of ball-shaped interfaces.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Interactive Room Capture on 3D-Aware Mobile Devices

Explore a novel system for interactive 3D room modeling using mobile devices, combining object recognition and augmented reality for quick, accurate, and effortless indoor space capture.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

ImAxes - Immersive Axes as Embodied Affordances for Interactive Multivariate Data Visualisation

Explore ImAxes, an innovative immersive system for multivariate data visualization using embodied data axes. Learn about its fluid interaction, composability, and emergent visualizations for enhanced data analysis.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk