F26 CS 649 Reading List

This page contains a list of readings for CS 649 students, which will be essential for the Research report deliverable. The readings are optional for CS 449 students.

General HCI Research Methodology

Wobbrock, J. O. (2015). Writing a CHI Paper. faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/pubs/Wobbrock-2015.pdf

Wobbrock, J. O., & Kientz, J. A. (2016). Research contributions in human-computer interaction. interactions, 23(3). doi.org/10.1145/2907069

Interviews and Focus Groups

Yuan, L. P., Han, F., Xie, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, J., & Qu, H. (2025). "You'll Be Alice Adventuring in Wonderland!" Processes, Challenges, and Opportunities of Creating Animated Virtual Reality Stories. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714257

Ehsan, U., Liao, Q. V., Muller, M., Riedl, M. O., & Weisz, J. D. (2021). Expanding explainability: Towards social transparency in AI systems. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445188

Chattopadhyay, S., Prasad, I., Henley, A. Z., Sarma, A., & Barik, T. (2020). What's wrong with computational notebooks? Pain points, needs, and design opportunities. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376729

Diaries

Ahmetoglu, Y., Brumby, D. P., & Cox, A. L. (2021). To plan or not to plan? A mixed-methods diary study examining when, how and why knowledge work planning is inaccurate. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW3). doi.org/10.1145/3432921

Rapp, A., & Cena, F. (2016). Personal informatics for everyday life: How users without prior self-tracking experience engage with personal data. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 94. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.05.006

Case Studies

Lin, D., Wang, Y., Yang, Y., & Lan, X. (2025). Unveiling the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasive Cartography: A Case Study of the Design of Octopus Maps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics(TVCG). doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3634776

Wexler, J., Pushkarna, M., Bolukbasi, T., Wattenberg, M., Viégas, F., & Wilson, J. (2019). The what-if tool: Interactive probing of machine learning models. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG), 26(1). doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934619

Amershi, S., Begel, A., Bird, C., DeLine, R., Gall, H., Kamar, E., … & Zimmermann, T. (2019). Software engineering for machine learning: A case study. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP). doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2019.00042

Surveys

Nobre, C., Zhu, K., Mörth, E., Pfister, H., & Beyer, J. (2024). Reading between the pixels: Investigating the barriers to visualization literacy. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642760

Wang, A. Y., Mittal, A., Brooks, C., & Oney, S. (2019). How data scientists use computational notebooks for real-time collaboration. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW). doi.org/10.1145/3359141

Usability Testing

Greenberg, S. and Buxton, B. (2008). Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357074

Lan, X., Wu, Y., Shi, Y., Chen, Q., & Cao, N. (2022). Negative emotions, positive outcomes? exploring the communication of negativity in serious data stories. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517530

Jiang, P., Rayan, J., Dow, S. P., & Xia, H. (2023). Graphologue: Exploring large language model responses with interactive diagrams. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST). doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606737

Alhadreti, O. & Mayhew, P. (2018). Rethinking Thinking Aloud: A Comparison of Three Think-Aloud Protocols. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173618

Controlled Experiments

Zhao, M., Huang, M. X., Huang, N. G., Cai, S., Huang, H., Huang, M. G., … & Bi, X. (2025). Tap&Say: Touch Location-Informed Large Language Model for Multimodal Text Correction on Smartphones. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713376

Tang, J., Yang, F., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Zhou, J., Cai, X., … & Wu, Y. (2024). A comparative study on fixed-order event sequence visualizations: Gantt, extended Gantt, and Stringline charts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG), 30(12). doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3358919

Du, F., Cao, N., Lin, Y. R., Xu, P., & Tong, H. (2017). isphere: Focus+ context sphere visualization for interactive large graph exploration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025741

Xia, H., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2015). NanoStylus: Enhancing input on ultra-small displays with a finger-mounted stylus. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST). doi.org/10.1145/2807442.2807500

Analysis of Quantitative Data

Li, Z., Chan, J., Walton, J., Benko, H., Wigdor, D., & Glueck, M. (2021). Armstrong: An empirical examination of pointing at non-dominant arm-anchored UIs in virtual reality. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445064

McColeman, C. M., Yang, F., Brady, T. F., & Franconeri, S. (2021). Rethinking the ranks of visual channels. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG), 28(1). doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114684

Alper, B., Bach, B., Henry Riche, N., Isenberg, T., & Fekete, J. D. (2013). Weighted graph comparison techniques for brain connectivity analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470724