CHI 2010 Personal Recap
Phew! Last day of CHI 2010 in Atlanta and I’m really glad I went and worked as a student volunteer (SV). I had a great time, met interesting people and was introduced to some great ideas. Here are my highlights:
Fave Plenary:
I love and adore Genevieve Bell’s work and her as a person. She’s flippin’ hilarious and spunky, and I’m kinda a big fan girl of her and her work.
My roommate, Binaebi (http://siriomi.com/), did some great sketches of her opening talk “Messy Futures: Culture, Technology, and Research” (http://www.flickr.com/photos/siriomi/4514432497), and got her signature too (http://www.flickr.com/photos/siriomi/4515363454).
Fave Talk:
Shaowen Bardzell’s Feminism and HCI talk was by far my favorite.
Binaebi’s Sketch Notes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/siriomi/4519703786)
Shaowen’s both a CHI superstar, and my personal mentor and thesis advisor, it naturally follows that I love her work.
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Another great talk was Lilly Irani’s (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lirani/) Postcolonial Computing.
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Funniest Happening:
On Wednesday, I was speaking with a Korean SV, and had asked her if she knew Heekyoung, a Korean PhD student in the HCI program at IU. This woman did in fact know Heekyoung, well of course I gush about Heekyoung, because I think she is fantastic. Well, the next day this SV comes up to me and we begin to chat again, and starts to tell me, “Yeah… I meet with Heekyoung last night, and told her you said you two were lovers”. I start laughing and tell her, “No I meant we all love” paused for a second “her at informatics. Everybody at IU’s Informatics program loves Heekyoung. Love [space] her.” The SV and I had a good chuckle about this, and went on to say, “Oh that makes a lot more sense now.”.
I thought it was a cute moment, that illustrates how tricky communication can be sometimes. 
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- Lynn
