research

recent projects

  • What Happens to Old Mobile Phones?
  • Observing Large Displays in Public Spaces
  • Evaluating the NASA MERBoard Display Ecology
  • IM Here
  • Adoption Factors for Large Display Groupware Applications
  • Semi-Public Displays for Co-Located Group Awareness
  • CAMP: Capture and Access Magnetic Poetry
  • Awareness Module for Unicast, Groupcast, and Outcast
  • AWE: Augmenting Word-of-Mouth Exchanges

    selected publications

    Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008) "Situated sustainability for mobile phones." To appear in ACM Interactions.

    Huang, E. M., Koster, A., Borchers, J. (2008) "Overcoming assumptions and uncovering practices: When does the public really look at public displays?" To appear in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Sydney, Australia. (pdf)

    Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008)"Breaking the paradigm of disposable technology: Opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones." To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. (pdf) BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINEE

    Huang E. M., Truong, K. N. (2007) "Understanding the paradigm of disposable technology: What happens to old mobile phones?" Position paper for the UbiComp 2007 Workshop on Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values. (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M. (2007) "When does the public look at public displays?" In the Companion Proceedings of the Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007). Innsbruck, Austria. (pdf) BEST ONE-MINUTE MADNESS AWARD

  • Huang, E. M., Metcalf, C. (2007). "Talking about 'stuff': Artifacts and expectation in social communication." In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007). San Jose, California.

  • Huang, E. M., Mynatt, E. D., Trimble, J. P. (2007). "When design just isn't enough: The unanticipated challenges of the real world for large collaborative displays." In the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Ubiquitous Computing in the Real World.

  • Huang, E. M., Mynatt, E. D., Trimble, J. P. (2006). "Displays in the wild: Understanding the dynamics and evolution of a display ecology." In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006). Dublin, Ireland. (pdf) BEST PAPER AWARD

  • Huang, E. M., Mynatt, E. D., Russell, D. M., Sue, A. E. (2006). "Secrets to success and fatal flaws: The design of large display groupware." In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Jan-Feb 2006). (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M. (2005). "Design and analysis of groupware for large displays" In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, Oregon. (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M., Russell, D. M., Sue, A. E. (2004). "IM Here: Public instant messaging on large, shared displays for workgroup interactions" In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna, Austria. (pdf)

  • Truong, K. N., Huang, E. M., Abowd, G. D. (2004). "CAMP: A magnetic poetry interface for end-user programming of capture applications for the home" To appear in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2004). Nottingham, UK. (pdf)

  • Truong, K. N., Huang, E. M., Stevens, M. M., Abowd, G. D. (2004). "How do users think about ubiquitous computing?" In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna, Austria.

  • Huang, E. M., Sue, A., Russell, D. M. (2003). "On the adoption of groupware for large displays: Factors for design and deployment" In the Companion Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003). Seattle, Washington. (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2003). "Semi-public displays for small, co-located groups." In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press, pp. 49-56. (pdf)

  • Tyman, J. and Huang, E. M. (2003). "Intuitive visualizations for presence and recency information for ambient displays." In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press, pp. 1002-1003. (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2002). "Tailoring public displays for small, co-located groups." In the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supportede Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). New Orleans, Louisiana. (pdf)

  • Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2002). "Shared displays for small communities: optimizing for privacy and relevance." Position paper and Invited Presentation for the Workshop on Public, Community, and Situated Displays at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). New Orleans, Louisiana.(pdf)

  • Huang, E. M., Tullio, J., Costa, J., McCarthy, J. (2002) "Promoting awareness of work activities through peripheral displays." In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002). Minneapolis, Minnesota: ACM Press, pp. 648-649. (pdf)

  • McCarthy, J., Costa, T., Huang, E., Tullio, J. (2001) "Defragmenting the organization: dissemintating community knowledge through peripheral displays." Position paper for the Workshop on Community Knowledge at the Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2001). Bonn Germany.(pdf)

  • Huang, E. M., Terry, M., Mynatt, E. D., Lyons, K., Chen, A. (2002). "Distributing event information by simulating word-of-mouth exchanges." In the Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (Mobile HCI 2002). Pisa, Italy: ACM Press, pp. 60-68. (pdf)