Pre-CHI Day 2025
Date
10 April 2025, 10:00-16:00 GMT
Location
Hybrid / Advanced Research Centre (237C), University of Glasgow, G11 6EW
About
The ACM CHI conference is the premier publication venue in the field of HCI, and Scotland-based researchers are contributing extensively to the programme for the 2025 conference which will be held in Japan in late April. The Pre-CHI day is a chance for the Scottish HCI community to see some of the world-leading research going on across Scotland, and allow those not travelling to Japan to talk to authors first-hand and hear about their work.
The event will be hybrid, and virtual attendance and virtual presentation will both be supported. We expect a mixed audience, including researchers of the Scottish HCI community as well as interested students, designers, industry, practitioners etc., as well as newcomers to the field of HCI.
Attendance is free for students and academics based in Scotland.
Programme
The programme will consist of in-person talks, online talks, and poster presentations of accepted CHI work from authors at Scottish institutions.
Organisers
This event is being organised by Dr Mary Ellen Foster at University of Glasgow with support from SICSA. Please email admin@sicsa.ac.uk if you have any questions.
09:30 – 10:00
09:30 – 10:00
Registration & Coffee
Welcome & Opening remarks
Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow
10:05-11:20
Session 1: Safety, Security & Privacy
Human-Precision Medicine Interaction: Public Perceptions of Polygenic Risk Score for Genetic Health Prediction
Yuhao Sun, University of Edinburgh
Judging Phishing Under Uncertainty: How Do Users Handle Inaccurate Automated Advice?
Tarini Saka, University of Edinburgh 
Hear Us, then Protect Us: Navigating Deepfake Scams and Safeguard Interventions with Older Adults through Participatory Design
Yuxiang Zhai, University of Edinburgh
Fairness by Design: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Children on AI and Fair Data Processing in their Education Futures
Ayca Atabey, University of Edinburgh
11:20 – 11:30
Short break
11:30 – 13:00
Session 2: Culture & Inclusivity
The World is Not Enough: Growing Waste in HPC-enabled Academic Practice
Adrian Jackson, University of Edinburgh
Labour Provenance as a Lens to Reveal More-Than-Human Ecologies in Biological Design and HCI
Yuning Chen, University of Edinburgh
All-inclusive TORs: Cross-Cultural and Age-Sensitive Design for Take-Over Requests in Level 3 Cars
Rawan Srour Zreik, University of Glasgow
What Brings You Here Today?: Challenges for Clinicians Communicating Data to Patients
Sarah Dunn, University of Edinburgh
People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior: Insights from Cognitive Science for Explainable AI
Balint Gyevnar, University of Edinburgh
Understanding Social Interactions in Reality Versus Virtuality
Julie Williamson, University of Glasgow
Robots, Chatbots, Self-Driving Cars: Perceptions of Mind and Morality Across Artificial Intelligences
Ali Ladak, University of Edinburgh
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch & Poster session
On Error Classification from Physiological Signals within Airborne Environment
Niall McGuire, University of Strathclyde
Nurturing Self-aware Learning through Facial Expression Interpretation
Xingran Ruan, University of Edinburgh
What Brings You Here Today?: Challenges for Clinicians Communicating Data to Patients
Sarah Dunn, University of Edinburgh
When Scales Fail to Measure Up: How Not to Measure Social Media Privacy–Findings of a Representative Survey in 16 Countries
Habiba Farzand, University of Glasgow
14:00 – 14:50
Session 3: Perception & Behaviour
Designing Progressive Model Elicitation Tools to Support Complex Cognitive Activities
Alice Toniolo, University of St Andrews
Prototyping and Evaluation of Emotionally Resonant Vibrotactile Comfort Objects as a Calming Social Anxiety Intervention
Shaun Macdonald, University of Glasgow
The Spin Doctor: Leveraging Insensitivity to Passive Rotational & Translational Gain For Unbounded Motion-Based VR Experiences
Graham Wilson, University of Glasgow
Reshaping Human-animal Relationships: Exploring Lemur and Human Enrichment through Smell, Sound, and Sight
Jiaqi Wang, University of Glasgow
14:50 – 15:05
Coffee break
15:05 – 15:55
Session 4: Interactions & Interfaces
InterFACE: Establishing a Facial Action Unit Input Vocabulary for Hands-Free Extended Reality Interactions, From VR Gaming to AR Web Browsing
Graham Wilson, University of Glasgow
Everything to Gain: Combining Area Cursors with increased Control-Display Gain for Fast and Accurate Touchless Input
Kieran Waugh, University of Glasgow
Stretch Gaze Targets Out: Experimenting with Target Sizes for Gaze-Enabled Interfaces on Mobile Devices
Omar Namnakani, University of Glasgow