BostonCHI Labs


 

About BostonCHI Labs

Boston CHI Labs is an emerging alliance of university- and industry-based HCI researchers. The main focus of the Labs is to provide students doing HCI research with a strong peer community and with access to the broad range of HCI expertise available throughout Boston area. Our activities will likely involve social and research events, creating a shared calendar of HCI-related events, and curriculum coordination. Our activities complement those of BostonCHI, which is an organization of HCI professionals from the New England area.

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Events

Upcoming

HCI Student Short Presentations
12-Dec-2012 @ 6pm, 3rd floor, Google, 5 Cambridge Center

Before the semester ends, we would like to invite you and your research groups to an evening of food and informal student presentations:

All students are strongly encouraged to participate and others are warmly welcome to do so. We will also provide food, (sponsored by Yahoo!).

1. Please RSVP and let us know if you would like to present: RSVP HERE!
2. By December 11, please prepare 1-3 minute presentation on your research and send your slide(s) to bestefiliz@gmail.com
3. Faculty: please forward to your research groups (and anyone else who might be interested)

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Ongoing

Crowdfoo Reading Group
Wednesdays at 4pm (rotating location)
A reading group on crowdsourcing and human computation, covering topics in computer science, economics, social science, and more. Join the mailing list and find out what we're reading now!

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Fall Event Yahoo! logo
16-Oct-2012 @ 6pm, Harvard, Maxwell-Dworkin Building
Do you find yourself staring blankly at your screen now that all your papers and ideas are sent off to CHI? We're here to help you through this time with an inspirational talk by Lars Erik Holmquist of Yahoo! Research, who will tell us about innovative technologies that make your life more interesting and fun.

To get a feeling for how much extra yummy food we should order (sponsored by Yahoo! Research!), please RSVP.

Tentative plan: food at 6pm, talk at 6:30pm, more mingling after the talk.

Deadline Drinks
19-Sep-2012 @ 9pm, John Harvard's, 33 Dunster St, Cambridge
In what's becoming an annual tradition, we unwind over food and drinks to celebrate CHI submissions.

Summer Drinks
7-Aug-2012 @ 8:00pm @ Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center
It's time to hear what everyone else has been doing this summer -- and what those CHI submission plans are :) Come and join us for a refreshing after work beer or two at Meadhall in Kendall Sq.
This is your last chance to see all of us before the annual post-CHI deadline drinks! And please bring along summer interns or new CHI people in town.

Pre-CHI Talks
25-Apr-12 @ 6:00pm @ Google, 5 Cambridge Center
Are you going to CHI and are participating in papers, notes, posters, demos, chairing workshops, etc? Are you missing CHI this year but would still like to hear about what BostonCHI Labs research will be appearing at the conference? Please join us in a Pre-CHI event organized by BostonCHI Labs!
We'd like to offer anyone who has work appearing at any venue in the conference the chance to share it with our community first. Think of it as a quick practice talk with a friendly community, or a chance to share your enthusiasm. If you're interested, sign up here

March Meetup
2-Mar-12 @ Maxwell-Dworkin room 119 @ 5pm
Join us for highlights on CSCW and TEI '12! Share, listen, or just catch up with the group since the winter breaks, hope to see everyone there!
And for anyone interested after - we'll head out for drinks (maybe John Harvards, Cambridge Commons, or any other suggestions)!

Deadline Drinks
22-Apr-11 @ (location TBA) @ 9pm
Expanding our annual tradition of post-deadline drinks, we will unwind over food and drinks to celebrate the UIST submission deadline.

Pre-CHI Talks
26-Apr-11 @ MSR NERD @ 6:30pm
Are you going to CHI and are participating in papers, notes, posters, demos, chairing workshops, etc? Are you missing CHI this year but would still like to hear about what BostonCHI Labs research will be appearing at the conference? Please join us in a Pre-CHI event organized by BostonCHI Labs!
We'd like to offer anyone who has work appearing at any venue in the conference the chance to share it with our community first. Think of it as a quick practice talk with a friendly community, or a chance to share your enthusiasm. If you're interested, sign up here and reply to mstrait@cs.tufts.edu with your name, talk title and the conference track (paper, note, poster, etc).
RSVP to the Doodle poll if you will be attending.

CHI Cloud
28-Mar-11 @ MSR NERD
A very special socializing event hosted by NERD where we all turned into one big tag cloud!

Deadline Drinks
24-Sep-10 @ John Harvard's Pub
In what's becoming an annual tradition, we unwound over food and drinks to celebrate CHI submissions.

Lecture Series
12-May-10 @ Maxwell-Dworkin (33 Oxford St, Cambridge)
Joint event with BostonCHI: a talk by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg on Social Data Visualization.

Pre-CHI Talks
07-Apr-10 @ MIT Stata Center (32-G449)
Are you going to CHI and are participating in papers, notes, posters, demos, chairing workshops, etc? Are you missing CHI this year but would still like to hear about what BostonCHI Labs research will be appearing at the conference? Please join us in a Pre-CHI preview!

Lab Social
28-Jan-10 @ Muddy Charles Pub
Hang out, eat, drink, and meet other HCI researchers and students at Muddy Charles Pub.

CHILab Madness
11-Nov-09 @ Harvard University (33 Oxford St, Cambridge)
This event was attended by over 60 students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Olin College, Tufts, Wellesley College, WPI, IBM research, and Bank of America. Over 30 people presented their research at the "Madness" part of the event.

Deadline Drinks
24-Sep-09 @ John Harvard's Pub
We unwound over food and drinks to celebrate CHI submissions.

HCI Research Groups in Boston Area

This is a partial and still growing list.

Contact

Contact us at team@bostonchilabs.org