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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Upcoming

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.

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!

Archive

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.

This is a partial and still growing list.

• Communication Analysis and Design Laboratory at Northeastern University
• Design Rationale Group at MIT CSAIL
• Graphics, Vision, & Interaction (GVI) group at Harvard
• GSLIS Usability Lab at Simmons College
• Haystack Group at MIT CSAIL
• House_n Group at MIT Department of Architecture
• Humans and Automation Lab at MIT Department of Aerononautics and Astronautics
• Human-Computer Interaction Group at Northeastern
• Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Tufts
• Human-Robot Interaction Group at WPI
• Intelligent Interactive Systems Group at Harvard
• Relational Agents Group at Northeastern University
• Robotics Lab at UMass Lowell
• Scientists' Discovery Room Lab at Harvard
• Software Agents Group at the MIT Media Lab
• Speech+Mobility Group at the MIT Media Lab
• User Interface Design Group at MIT CSAIL
• Wellesley College HCI Lab