IIIT Hyderabad hosted the Leading Human-Computer Interaction Research Conference, India HCI 2019 in co-operation with SIGCHI & ACM from 1 – 3 November. This year the theme was Agents and Agency: HCI in the age of Machine Intelligence. The programme included cutting edge research papers, posters, demos, student research & design tracks.
The domain of HCI is being significantly shaped by intelligent, autonomous and self-learning systems and technologies. The HCI and Design communities in both academia and industry are seeking an innovative competitive edge by investing in AI-driven machine intelligence. HCI has long recognized agency, the sense of human freedom to manipulate interactions with technology. Today, as our everyday agentive interactions increase the involvement of technology there is a need to examine the possible intersections between technology, human agents and the rise of intelligent systems in HCI. As we explore the overlap between HCI, the sense of agency, and interactions among humans and computers, an overarching consideration is to discuss the potential implications of self-learning systems for interaction design in a community of technology users and intelligent machine interfaces.
India HCI 2019 focused and examined the interplay of human and machine agency in an increasingly complex world of intelligent HCI. The participants discussed and built models of human-computer interdependency and new spaces of opportunity in HCI. As machines traverse the realms of intelligent decision making and predictive analytics what are the ways to reimagine human agency as an influential and invaluable force in HCI system building?
India HCI gave participants deeper insights about agents and agency in the times of AI-driven intelligence. At a time when human-machine interfaces permeate the breath of situated to virtual and augmented reality, the conference endeavors to extend inter-disciplinary capacities to address the question of the agency of humans and machines as intertwined capabilities.
Keynote Talks
- Keynote 1: Talk by Shashank Tripathi, Partner, PwC & Leader, Jagriti
- Keynote 2: The Ironies of Autonomy by Maya Indira Ganesh, Technology Researcher, Leuphana University
- Keynote 3: Technical Panel: Lab to Land- A technical tear-up of the Start-up Ecosystem
- Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Ojas Medtech Incubator, IIIT
- Prof. Kavita Vemuri, Cognitive Science Lab, IIIT Hyderabad
- Dr. N. Madhusudhana Rao, CCMB
- Prof. Manish Shrivastava, IIIT
- J Ramachandran, Chief Mentor, Gramener Technologies
- Moderated by Professor Ramesh Loganathan, IIITH
- Keynote 4: Talk by Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, IIT Madras
- Keynote 5: New Dynamic Graphics by Jeffery Scudder, Digital Artist, Southern Oregon University
- Keynote 6: Talk by Amol Gurwara, Country Manager, Kindle- Amazon Singapore
Special Sessions
- Weaving Cognition Technology by Dr. Uzramma, Founder, Malkha Trust
- Tete a Tete Panel : Extended Reality for Social Good – Lead by Jayati Bandopadhyay and Saurabh Srivastava
- Mr. Pete Draper, Division Head & Chief Technical Director, Makuta Visual Effects
- T-Hub Panel
- Ramesh Byrapaneni, Founder, Endiya Partner
- Ramesh Loganathan, Professor, IIIT
- Rama Iyer, CIO, Thub
- Jay Krishnan, Ex CEO, Thub
- Moderated by Rakesh Bhatia, Founder and CEO, TheCapitalNet
- Start-up Track Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Habib Ali, BeAble
- Sai Bharadwaj and Abhay Tanksali, Kvayat Medical
- Manoj Sanker and Pratyusha Pareddy, NemoCare
Workshops
- Workshop on Privacy: Understanding the Concepts and Implications of Privacy in the Global South
- Practical guidelines to design Calm Technology
- A ‘Live’ Document for Emergent User Research
- Technology and Imagination: Exploring Trends in Society, Culture and Design
- Creative Expression in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics Sprint
- What Indian HCI Doctoral researchers study?
Conference chairs were Prof. Nimmi Rangaswamy and Prof. Ramesh Loganathan.
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