STAR group members will be presenting five papers at CHI this year: Dombrowski, L., Voida, A., Hayes, G.R., Mazmanian, M. (2012). The Labor Practices of Service Mediation: A Study of the Work Practices of Food Assistance Outreach. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). [...]

Congratulations to Jed Brubaker and Janet Vertesi on the acceptance of their paper on death and social networking sites to the CHI 2010 workshop HCI at the End of Life. Death and the Social Network Jed R. Brubaker & Janet Vertesi We analyze profiles and associated comments on social network sites following the death of [...]

vSked: Evaluation of a System to Support Classroom Activities for Children with Autism by Sen Hirano, Michael Yeganyan, Gabriela Marcu, David Nguyen, and Gillian Hayes accepted for CHI 2010.

The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) to be co-located with CHI 2010 in April in Atlanta promises to be a fantastic venue for discussion of all things Healthcare, Informatics, and HCI. Please consider submitting!

CareLog: A Selective Archiving Tool for Behavior Management in Schools was just accepted for CHI 2008