Program Designing Technologies to Support Human Problem Solving

Presentation timing:

Including time for questions and answers, the expected presentation times are as follows: long papers: 25 minutes, short papers: 15 minutes, and position papers: 10 minutes. Presenters should plan so that approximately 5 of the minutes are available for questions and answers.

Program

8:30 AM: Registration

9:00 AM: Opening Session

• Welcoming Remarks (Steven Tanimoto)
• Keynote Talk: Alan Blackwell and Luke Church (Cambridge University, UK)
  Designing for the Wicked Problem of Inequality
• Steven Tanimoto and Sandra Fan (University of Washington, USA)
  Collaborative Problem-Solving Technologies: A Taxonomy of Issues (Long paper)

10:30 AM: Coffee Break

10:45 AM: Tools for Software Engineering Problems

• Michael Xieyang Liu, Nathan Hahn, Angelina Zhou, Shaun Burley, Emily Deng, Jane Hsieh, Brad A. Myers and Aniket Kittur (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
  UNAKITE: Support Developers for Capturing and Persisting Design Rationales When Solving Problems Using Web Resources (Long paper)
• Elham Moazzen, Robert Walker, Joerg Denzinger and Lora Oehlberg (University of Calgary, Canada)
  Incremental Understanding and Coordination of Software Re-architecting (Long paper)
• Dastyni Loksa and Andrew Ko (University of Washington, USA)
  Problem Solving and the Future of Computing Position Statement (Position paper)

11:45 AM: Design to Engage Communities

• Daniel Rough and Aaron Quigley (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
  Towards End-User Development for Chronic Disease Management (Long paper)
• Luke Church, Alexander Simpson, Rita Zagoni, Sharath Srinivasan and Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK)
  Building socio-technical systems for representing citizens voices in humanitarian interventions (Short paper)
• Additional comments, questions, and answers

12:30 PM: Lunch

14:00 PM: Avoiding Bias and Misconceptions in Problem-Solving Tools

• Michelle Ichinco (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
  Position Paper: Broadening Participation in Online Problem Solving by Increasing Awareness of Common Contributor Qualities (Position paper)
• Margaret Burnett, Anita Sarma, Christopher Mendez, Alannah Oleson, Claudia Hilderbrand, Zoe Steine-Hanson and Andrew J. Ko (Oregon State University and University of Washington, USA)
  Gender Biases in Software for Problem-Solving (Short paper)
• Alan Blackwell, Luke Church, Ian Hales, Matthew Jones, Richard Jones, Matthew Mahmoudi, Mariana Marasoiu, Sallyanne Meakins, Detlef Nauck, Karl Prince, Ana Semrov, Alexander Simpson, Martin Spott, Alain Vuylsteke and Xiaomeng Wang (Cambridge University, UK and other institutions)
  Computer says ‘don’t know’ - interacting visually with incomplete AI models (Long paper with short presentation)
• Angela Barriga, Rogardt Heldal and Adrian Rutle (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
  A Visual Framework for Transparent and Accessible Machine Learning (Short paper)
• Additional comments, questions, and answers

15:05 PM: Discussion Session 1 -- Biases and Misconception in Tools for Problem Solving

• Goal setting: Identifying research issues, best practices, and useful insights
• Breakouts
• Conclusions

15:30 PM: Coffee Break

15:45 PM: Discussion Session 2 -- Integrating Technologies to Amplify Human Problem Solving

• Background presentation on technologies for sensemaking and collaborative visualization
• Goal setting: Identifying research issues, best practices, and useful insights
• Breakouts
• Conclusions

16:30 PM: Closing Remarks

16:45 PM: Adjourn

19:00 PM: Optional Group Dinner (no host)