CHI 2007 SIG: Let’s get emotional: Emotion research in Human Computer Interaction 2007

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CHI 2007 Website New: Mailing list Summary Abstract Session Plan Enquiries Organizers	Special Interest Group at CHI 2007 Topic: Let’s get emotional: Emotion research in Human Computer Interaction took place on Monday, April 30 4:30-6 pm in Room: C4
	Done! Wow! What an interest, what a success! This SIG really exceeded all our expectations. More than 50 interested colleagues came to discuss, debate, and exchange their ideas on the wide field of emotion in their respective field! We even had to decline attendance to numerous latecomers due to the limited space in the room ... We will provide you with more information soon. If you attended the SIG and want to share your view on the event, please do so! Drop us a line at: contact at emotion-in-hci dot net Also, if you took some pictures, we would be glad to get them to put them on the web. Discussion mailing list A lot of people asked for a mailing list to continue discussions and exchange of ideas. We set up a list under this domain. You can sign on here.
	What was it about Abstract Emotion is a topic of growing interest in the HCI community. Studying emotion within the HCI discipline is an exciting interdisciplinary task. This can be facilitated by the exchange of thoughts and ideas with others working on related projects. The aim of this SIG was to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners actively working on projects where emotion is an essential component. The goals of the SIG were to identify current themes related to emotion specific HCI work and to discuss strategies for moving forward. Proposed Session Plan (we had to improvise here due to the number of attendees!) Introduction of the SIG goals and the organizers. The organizers will provide an example of the diversity of emotion in HCI by briefly describing questions they are pursuing within their emotion related research. (10 minutes) Participant introductions. The purpose of the introductions is to meet other academics and practitioners actively working on and thinking about emotion related HCI projects. Because numerous issues arise when working with emotion we will ask participants to briefly describe the top issue they face in their project. (20 minutes) Synopsis by organizers of emotion-related HCI issues identified in the introductions. It is expected that common categories of issues will present themselves. (5 minutes) Interactive small group discussions to address a question each in one of the themes identified above. (20 minutes) Presentation of small group findings. (15 minutes) Discussion of future plans. At the end of the SIG the group will define the next steps and review strategies for moving forward. This could be plans for workshops, collaborations, formation of expert groups, creation of a wiki or mailing list or other collaboration means to support further interdisciplinary discussion. (20 minutes) Enquiries can be sent to contact at emotion-in-hci dot net or the organizers directly: Elizbeth Crane: bcrane at umich dot edu N. Sadat Shami: sadat at cornell dot edu Christian Peter: cpeter at igd-r dot fraunhofer de Organizers Elizabeth Crane, University of Michigan, USA N. Sadat Shami, Cornell University, USA Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany

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