CHI 2006 Workshop on Public Policy

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Designing user interfaces to technology is a political act. It is political because it influences - sometimes even determines - what people can and cannot do. Human-machine interface issues play an important role in a variety of public policy discussions including domains such as accessibility, privacy, voting and elections - and even spam, spy ware and viruses.

One year ago, SIGCHI formed a committee on U.S. Public Policy. In the first year, we created a new social impact award, wrote several articles, and held a SIG at CHI 2005 attended by about 30 people. We now propose to hold a one-day workshop on U.S. and international issues motivated by the interest at that SIG where the majority of people expressed interest in attending a workshop at the next CHI.

The major goals of the workshop will be to:

Learn about each other's public policy work related to CHI
Define an agenda for the next year's work by this group
Work on how to coordinate with international CHI policy groups

Workshop abstract [pdf]

Workshop Schedule - "Vaudrueil" room (I think)

9:00am START

9:00am Introduction by Ben Bederson (15 minutes)
9:15am Keynote presentation by Jeff Johnson to discuss his work on the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) in 2004 and 2005. (30 minutes) [Slides (PowerPoint)]
9:45am Introductions of workshop attendees (first half). Each participant will be given 5 minutes to introduce themselves and discuss a single thing they have done related to HCI and public policy (45 minutes)

10:30am BREAK (15 minutes)

10:45am Introductions of workshop attendees (second half). The remaining participants will be given 5 minutes to introduce themselves and discuss a single thing they have done related to HCI and public policy (45 minutes)
11:30am Cameron Wilson to talk about USACM activities (30 minutes) [Slides (PDF)]
12:00pm Group brainstorm about possible topics for public policy committee to work on over the next year (60 minutes)

1:00pm LUNCH (90 minutes)

1:30pm (3) 50-minute topic discussions to make plan for specific projects (150 minutes)

4:00pm BREAK (30 minutes)

4:30pm Summing up - Define action items and follow-up steps (60 minutes)

5:30pm END

CHI 2006 Workshop on Public Policy

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Workshop Schedule - "Vaudrueil" room (I think)

Workshop Attendees and Whitepapers