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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Recent events

Joint event with BostonCHI, Wednesday, May 12, 6:30-9pm, ground floor of 33 Oxford St at Harvard: a talk by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg on Social Data Visualization. Please tell us if you are coming and see the BostonCHI page for more information.

Pre-CHI Practice Talks, Wednesday, April 7 at 6pm, MIT Stata Center, room 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 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, reply to eagapie@seas.harvard.edu with your name, talk title and the conference track (paper, note, poster, demo, etc). Food will be served and exciting research will be presented. Please RSVP to the Doodle poll if you will be attending the event.

Thursday, January 28 at 7pm: CHI Bar! Hang out, eat, drink, and meet other HCI researchers and students at Muddy Charles Pub at MIT (moved from Cambridge Brewing Company because of an event taking place there).

Boston Area HCI Dinner and "Madness" on Wednesday, November 11 at Harvard
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.

Post-CHI deadline beer, September 17 at John Harvard's Pub
Once the CHI papers were in, we unwound over food and drinks.

This is a partial and still growing list.

• 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