Author: aakash

Reflection on Kriplean, T., Toomim, M., Morgan, J., Borning, A., & Ko, A. (2012, May). Is this what you meant?: promoting listening on the web with reflect. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1559-1568). ACM. Summary: The paper presents a tool called Reflect to promote active listening. The paper argues…

Reflection on Aaron Hertzmann’s Can Computers Create Art? Summary: No, not yet. In this three-part blog post (based on his academic paper), Aaron Hertzmann presents a holistic perspective on the relationship between arts and machines. People thought realistic painting would be obsolete with the advent of photography but artists adapted, and we got newer styles…

Reflection on Wang, H. C., Fussell, S. R., & Cosley, D. (2011, March). From diversity to creativity: Stimulating group brainstorming with cultural differences and conversationally-retrieved pictures. In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 265-274). ACM. Summary: This paper aims to support group brainstorming by introducing diversity. In particular, the paper…

Reflection of Klemmer, S. R., Thomsen, M., Phelps-Goodman, E., Lee, R., & Landay, J. A. (2002, April). Where do web sites come from?: capturing and interacting with design history. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-8). ACM. Summary: The goal of the research is to support web designers to…

Reflection on Luther, K., Caine, K., Ziegler, K., & Bruckman, A. (2010, November). Why it works (when it works): Success factors in online creative collaboration. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (pp. 1-10). ACM. Summary: The paper presents a study of online collaboration to create animated movies (called “collabs”) which were…

Reflection on: Fraser, C. A., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017, May). WeBuild: Automatically distributing assembly tasks among collocated workers to improve coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1817-1830). ACM. Summary: The paper sets out a goal to improve group efficiency and coordination by developing a system that…

I have stared too long! A sort-of-reflection of Henrikson, R., Araujo, B., Chevalier, F., Singh, K., & Balakrishnan, R. (2016, October). Multi-device storyboards for cinematic narratives in VR. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 787-796). ACM. Disclaimer: I have limited experience of using VR (certainly not more than 3…

Reflection on Dow, S. P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D. L., & Klemmer, S. R. (2010). Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 17(4), 18. Summary: The paper presents a controlled experiment where participants created online advertisement banners under two different conditions: (1)…

Reflection of Yu, L., Kittur, A., & Kraut, R. E. (2014, April). Searching for analogical ideas with crowds. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1225-1234). ACM. Summary: The paper investigates using crowd with real-world dataset to search for analogical ideas. The workers were presented with a problem wherein…

Not exactly Aakash’s alone though … Idea 1: Making micro-tasks attainable to semi-literate/illiterate population There are various types of micro-tasks – some are complex and require extensive reading and writing while others are simpler and could potentially be completed by illiterate population. I want to see if we can formulate a process by using audio…