ZPAC News
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New grant received
Chat Wacharamanotham is appointed as an assistant professor in interaction design
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ZPAC @ CHI 2016
ZPAC members will present research on smart home, IFTTT, fabrics input, and vibrating vest at CHI 2016
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Thesis and project topics for summer break 2016
Two projects are opening for master thesis or master projects
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New professor at ZPAC
Chat Wacharamanotham is appointed as an assistant professor in interaction design
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CHI 2015 Papers, Workshop, and DC Accepted
We're happy to announce that ZPAC members have two full papers at CHI 2015, as well as a workshop ("Smart for Life: Designing Smart Home Technologies that Evolve with Users") and an entry in the doctoral consortium!
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CSCW 2015 Paper Accepted
Nemanja's paper "Capture the Moment: “In the Wild” Longitudinal Case Study of Situated Snapshots Captured Through an Urban Screen in a Community Setting" got accepted to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015) Conference. It will be presented at the conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada in March 2015.
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UbiComp 2014 Paper Accepted
Sarah's paper "From Today's Augmented Houses to Tomorrow's Smart Homes: New Directions for Home Automation Research" got accepted to Ubicomp 2014. It will be presented at the conference in Seattle, WA, USA in September 2014.
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Book Chapter and ICT4S Paper Accepted
Christian's book chapter "Addressing the obsolescence of end-user devices: Approaches from the field of sustainable HCI" has been accepted and will be published in the upcoming book ICT Innovations for Sustainability. The book chapter also has been accepted for presentation at the ICT4S 2014 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
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DIS 2014 Paper Accepted
Helen's paper "A Qualitative Study of Workplace Intercultural Communication Tensions in Dyadic Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions" got accepted to the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2014) conference. The paper will be presented at the conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada in June 2014.
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Interact 2013 Paper Accepted
We are happy to announce that the paper Supporting Voice Content Sharing among Underprivileged People in Urban Indiawas accepted into the INTERACT 2013conference program.
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Proposals Accepted
Three of our PhD students successfully defended their thesis proposals this week. Gunnar Harboe defended his proposal on "Understanding and augmenting a paper arrangement-based process," Sarah Mennicken on "Improving the smart home experience by integrating routines and technologies," and Christian Remy on the "Sustainable design of consumer electronics."
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AppDJ: A new way to Discover the World of Apps
Have you ever sat in front of your phone or tablet on a rainy Sunday afternoon wanting to find a new, cool app and been frustrated with searching through the Play store? Did you ever search through many different categories, having a general idea of the app you would want to install, but never quite finding the right app that fulfills this notion? AppDJ is a ZPAC Bachelor Thesis project that tries to address these issues. The AppDJ app is the result of looking into alternative ways to explore and discover apps.
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Elaine's Antrittsvorlesung
Prof. Elaine M. Huang will hold her Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture), "Practices and perceptions: Environmental sustainability in ubiquitous computing," on Monday, 12. December at 19:30 in the University Aula. The talk is open to the public. (Edit: Previous announcement said it would be at 19:00. 19:30 is the correct time.)
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CSCW 2012 Note Accepted
We're happy to announce that a ZPAC short paper, Computer Support for Collaborative Data Analysis: Augmenting Paper Affinity Diagrams(Harboe, Minke, Ilea and Huang), has been accepted as a note for CSCW 2012.
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New Job Position
A Master student job position is available. The work involves helping to create a new application for tablets, smart phones and PCs.
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IFI Summer School 2011
Sign up for the Summer School at UZH! It will take place from July 4 to 8, 2011 at our institute.
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Talk by David Dearman
ZPAC will host a talk by David Dearman of the University of Toronto entitled, “Identifying and applying place-based activities derived from community authored content” on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 13:30 in the HCI Lab (BIN 1.B.18).
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Colloquium: Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick
On May 26, 2011 Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick will give a talk in the course of the IFI colloquium.
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Pervasive 2011 talk
The paper "Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas" will be presented at the Pervasive 2011 conference.
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CHI 2011 talk
We will present the note "Rendering Physical Effects in Tabletop Controls" at the SIGCHI 2011 conference.
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Leila Takayama at ZPAC
Leila Takayama of Willow Garage is visiting ZPAC on March 10, 2011.
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Nadir Weibel on Pen Computing in the Wild
Nadir Weibel is visiting ZPAC on December 10, 2010 to present his current research.
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James Scott on Gadgeteer
James Scott visits ZPAC on November 5, 2011 to present his research.