Google drive for Organizers: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PLG3fqrHKbHG-39tHK-qpFsiFfgy36gf?usp=drive_link

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TODO

~~[#TODO1 - Yuna - ASAP] We should explore it more deeply with when2meet!!~~

• collect responses by Wednesday 11:59pm

[#TODO 1.5 — Ben, Yujin, Julia]

• [Ben] Send When2Meet message to MadAbility Slack
• [Yujin] Send When2Meet over Bilge Teams
• [Ben] Ask Julia/Naman to send message in Rahul’s slack
• [Ben] Send…

[#TODO2 - Yujin] Zoom link [#TODO3 - Yujin] Place reservation [#TODO4 - Ben] Making Slides to introduce our group

• Yuna can make Google form/QR Code for paper topic recommendations and embed into the slides ← check slack group chat

[#TODO5 - Ben] Send out announcements on your topic to the mailing list

[#TODO6 - Yujin] Send professors email to ask possible attendees in their labs (Yuhang, Bilge, Rahul, Michael, Josiah)

[#TODO7 - Ben/Yuna] Contact point per lab + getting advice for reading group

• Ben can talk to Julia Nonnencamp / Naman for Chatterjee student PoC
• Yuna can ask Yaxin for previous reading group org + Carter Sifferman for CV reading group org

[#TODO8 - Yujin, Yuna] Find out where HCI is in other departments (iSchool (Yujin —> let Yuna know ASAP), Industrial Engineering, etc?)

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Organizing team meeting (May 12th, 2025)

• Organizing People’s Availability Over the Summer
  • Ben — Here in the summer except June 1st - June 22nd
  • Yuna — last week of May and first week of June (out of town)
  • Yujin — Until end of the June

HCI Reading Group Scheduling

• When does it start?
  • 2nd week of May (Monday~Sunday)
  • 1 hour for each session
    • 30 min for each paper
      • 10 min for each presentation
      • 20 min for discussion and Q&A
    • 2 papers (Light; popular, highly-cited paper, Deep; presenter’s paper)
• How does it start?
  • For this summer, we can start for general topic. (1 large group for various topics.)
    • 1 person present
      • one person should sign up for at least one session
      • do other people have to come prepared (at least read the paper, or just come to the meetings)?
    • First session presenter: Ben Kosa (on his CHI25 talk, and another accessibility talk)
  • From the Fall, or next Spring, maybe we can also adopt small group setting to explore more deeper topics.
  • Paper presentation Incentives?
    • If people present, they have less obligations in other activites (e.g. reading group)
    • If people don’t sign up to lead a paper reading session, then they don’t get access to mailing list?

Activity ideas (based on discussion and survey)

• Paper Reading Group
  • Paper Reading for each of the topic
  • After every session, choose topic/paper for the following week
    • should prepare some list/receive paper options via email etc
• Socializing to know each other and their works in HCI
  • Colloquium: posters, presentations, lightening talks
  • HCI Social Event
    • picnics
    • kayaking
• Paper Writing Practice
  • Paper Swap (optional)
    • In smaller increments and not just storming towards the end
  • Group Writing Sprint / Session
    • No procrastination! One section for each of the camp
    • Just different people working towards paper deadline getting together to help motivate eachother to during paper writing (hold eachother accountable).
• Presentation practice
  • Conference practice talk
• Career exploration
  • (Academia) Faculty/Postdoc Talk
  • (Industry) Industry Guest Talk

Paper/discussion topics (April 28th, 2025)

• direct manipulation: Ben Schneiderman’s classic paper, ImagineThat from HRI 2025 (Karthik Mahadevan)
• end-user programming: Amy Ko’s classic paper, David Porfirio’s Bodystorming paper
• accessibility research guidelines
• co-design/participatory design
• trust, agency

Reading group revamp (April 21st, 2025)