VL/HCC 2022
Mon 12 - Fri 16 September 2022 Rome, Italy
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Mon 12 Sep

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09:00 - 10:30
Graduate Consortium Session 1Graduate Consortium at DIAG Aula Magna
09:00
40m
Day opening
Introductory Remarks and Opening Activity
Graduate Consortium
G: Andrew Fish University of Brighton, G: Thomas LaToza George Mason University
09:40
25m
Improving Real-time Collaborative Data Science Through Context-Aware MechanismsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
April Wang University of Michigan
DOI
10:05
25m
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Human-Computer Interaction: Using a Smart Topic Extraction SystemGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Parinaz Tabari University of Salerno
DOI
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Graduate Consortium Session 2Graduate Consortium at DIAG Aula Magna
11:00
25m
Tools for Creating UI Automation MacrosGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Rebecca Krosnick University of Michigan
DOI
11:25
25m
Time-Travel Debugging with Visualization of Data-Structures Based on InstrumentationGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Kim Mönch Bundeswehr University Munich
DOI
11:50
25m
A model-driven approach for DevOpsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Hugo da Gião University of Porto & HASLab/INESC Tec
DOI
12:15 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:30
14:15
25m
Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Tools for the Future of Education with AIGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Randi Williams Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI
14:40
25m
Helping TAs Help StudentsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Yana Malysheva Washington University in St. Louis
DOI
15:05
25m
Poster
Early Design of a Conversational AI Development Platform for Middle SchoolersPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Amit Kumar University of Florida, Xiaoyi Tian University of Florida, Mehmet Celepkolu University of Florida, Maya Israel University of Florida, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer University of Florida
DOI
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Graduate Consortium Session 4Graduate Consortium at DIAG Aula Magna
16:00
25m
Assurance of Machine Learning/TinyML in Safety-Critical DomainsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Zain Iqbal University of Padova
DOI
16:25
25m
A Platform for the Reproducibility of Computational ExperimentsGC Showpiece
Graduate Consortium
Lázaro Costa INESC TEC
DOI
16:50
40m
Day closing
Panel discussion & Closing Remarks
Graduate Consortium
G: Andrew Fish University of Brighton, G: Thomas LaToza George Mason University, G: Margaret Burnett Oregon State University, G: Brittany Johnson George Mason University

Tue 13 Sep

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10:30 - 17:30
Poster PresentationPosters and Showpieces / Graduate Consortium at Corridor of San Francesco Room

Authors will attend only during breaks.

10:30
7h
Poster
Dear Diary: On Documenting Novices' Development ProcessPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Juan Pablo Sáenz Politecnico di Torino, Luigi De Russis Politecnico di Torino
DOI
10:30
7h
Poster
High Resolution Explanation Maps for CNNs using Segmentation NetworksPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Alessio Mascolini Politecnico di Torino, Francesco Ponzio Politecnico di Torino, Enrico Macii Politecnico DI Torino, Elisa Ficarra Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Santa Di Cataldo Politecnico Di Torino
DOI
10:30
7h
Poster
Early Design of a Conversational AI Development Platform for Middle SchoolersPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Amit Kumar University of Florida, Xiaoyi Tian University of Florida, Mehmet Celepkolu University of Florida, Maya Israel University of Florida, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer University of Florida
DOI
10:30
7h
Poster
fableBlocks: Toward Mitigating Programming Anxiety with Storytelling-based Tangible Block Programming EnvironmentsPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira University of Florida, Pedro Feijóo-García University of Florida, Stephanie Carnell University of Central Florida, Eduardo Gabriel Queiroz Palmeira Santa Catarina State University, Andrew Maxim University of Florida
DOI
10:30
7h
Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Tools for the Future of Education with AIGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Randi Williams Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI
10:30
7h
Improving Real-time Collaborative Data Science Through Context-Aware MechanismsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
April Wang University of Michigan
DOI
10:30
7h
Time-Travel Debugging with Visualization of Data-Structures Based on InstrumentationGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Kim Mönch Bundeswehr University Munich
DOI
10:30
7h
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Human-Computer Interaction: Using a Smart Topic Extraction SystemGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Parinaz Tabari University of Salerno
DOI
11:00 - 12:30
Poster & Showpiece MadnessPosters and Showpieces / Research Papers / Graduate Consortium at San Francesco Room
Chair(s): Paolo Bottoni Sapienza University of Rome

All poster & showpiece authors.

Wed 14 Sep

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10:30 - 15:30
Showpiece & Poster PresentationPosters and Showpieces / Graduate Consortium at Foyer of the Auditorium

Authors will attend only during breaks.

10:30
5h
Demonstration
Quintessence: An Intersectional Reflexivity Tool for Data-Centric Research & DevelopmentShowpiece
Posters and Showpieces
Alicia Boyd DePaul University, Jibiana Jakpor Mockingbird Preparatory High School, Brittany Johnson George Mason University
DOI
10:30
5h
Demonstration
Dockerlive: A live development environment for DockerfilesShowpiece
Posters and Showpieces
David Reis Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Filipe Figueiredo Correia Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
DOI
10:30
5h
Demonstration
Enabling Cross-Domain Robot Programming By End-Users: The ROBxTASK PlatformShowpiece
Posters and Showpieces
Till Bieg Austrian Insitute of Technology GmbH, Mathias Schmoigl-Tonis Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Nadine Sturm Johanniter Österreich Ausbildung und Forschung gem. GmbH, Chloé Nativel RIC Regionales Innovations Centrum GmbH, Andreas Sackl Austrian Insitute of Technology GmbH
DOI
10:30
5h
Demonstration
CoopFinder: Finding Collaborators Based on Co-Changed FilesShowpiece
Posters and Showpieces
Kattiana Constantino Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Eduardo Figueiredo Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
DOI
10:30
5h
A Platform for the Reproducibility of Computational ExperimentsGC Showpiece
Graduate Consortium
Lázaro Costa INESC TEC
DOI
10:30
5h
A model-driven approach for DevOpsGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Hugo da Gião University of Porto & HASLab/INESC Tec
DOI

Thu 15 Sep

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10:30 - 15:30
Poster PresentationPosters and Showpieces / Graduate Consortium at Corridor of San Francesco Room

Authors will attend only during breaks.

10:30
5h
Poster
Making the Invisible Visible in Computational NotebooksPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Mauricio Verano Merino Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, L. Thomas van Binsbergen University of Amsterdam, Mazyar Seraj Eindhoven University of Technology
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
A technique to improve text editing on smartphonesPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Maria Giovanna Albanese Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno, Gennaro Costagliola Università di Salerno, Mattia De Rosa University of Salerno, Vittorio Fuccella University of Salerno
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Chaldene: Towards Visual Programming Image Processing in Jupyter NotebooksPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Fei Chen , Philipp Slusallek German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarland University, Martin Muller Saarland University, Tim Dahmen German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Feasibility of using YouTube Conversations for Pair Programming Intent ClassificationPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Jacob Hart University of Tulsa, Jake AuBuchon University of Tulsa, Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Evaluating Gender Bias in Pair Programming Conversations with an AgentPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Alex McAuliffe The University of Tulsa, Jacob Hart University of Tulsa, Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Estimating Foraging Values and Costs in Stack OverflowPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Abim Sedhain The University of Tulsa, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan Microsoft Research; School of EECS, Oregon State University, Brett McKinney The University of Tulsa, Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Information Seeking Behavior for Bugs on GitHub: An Information Foraging PerspectivePoster
Posters and Showpieces
Abim Sedhain The University of Tulsa, Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Developers’ Foraging Behavior on Stack OverflowPoster
Posters and Showpieces
Vaishvi Diwanji The University of Tulsa, Abim Sedhain The University of Tulsa, Grey Bodi The University of Tulsa, Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa
DOI
10:30
5h
Poster
Which Technologies are Most Frequently Used by Data Scientists?Poster
Posters and Showpieces
Paula Pereira University of Minho, João Paulo Fernandes LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Jácome Cunha University of Porto
DOI
10:30
5h
Tools for Creating UI Automation MacrosGC Poster
Graduate Consortium
Rebecca Krosnick University of Michigan
DOI

Call for Participation

The primary goal of this year's event is to stimulate graduate students' and other researchers' thinking about “Human-Centric AI”, addressing issues such as how to ensure that tools and explanations for AI fit the needs of the broad populations they need to serve. Research areas could involve the design, building, or evaluation of technologies involving or relating to human-centric AI and issues of human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness. This goal aligns with the theme of the 2022 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of VL/HCC are also welcome.

Why You Should Participate

  • Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience
  • Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of experts
  • Meet other students working on similar problems
  • Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending VL/HCC (details below).

Who Can Participate?

The consortium is open to both master’s and PhD students worldwide. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years.

Application Process

Email the following items with VLHCC22-GC in the subject line to Andrew Fish at andrew.fish@brighton.ac.uk and Thomas LaToza tlatoza@gmu.edu :

  • A 2-page research abstract, formatted as a PDF in the standard IEEE Conference Proceedings format. NOTE: Accepted participants’ abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. To make it easier for you to write a successful abstract, we provide examples from past years below. Your curriculum vitae (CV), as a second PDF file. This CV should mention whether you have previously participated in any graduate consortia at any conferences.

  • A letter of recommendation sent directly by your thesis advisor. This letter should summarize your accomplishments and describe how far along you are in your master’s or PhD program, why attending the GC this year would be important for you, and please ask them to mention if you have already attended VL/HCC GC in any past year. In addition, if you are a member of a group designated by NSF as underrepresented, then the letter may mention this fact.

Selection Process

For one-third of the slots, students who have participated once before will be given priority. The remaining slots will be given to students who are new to the event. Each student from the returning group will be linked with new students in a mentoring arrangement. See Who Can Participate? above for additional selection criteria.

Posters

Selected students will be asked to present a poster on their work at the Showpieces Reception during the main conference. Details will be provided to accepted applicants.

Travel Support

We expect to be able to offer partial funding for travel expenses for US participants to attend, contingent on the availability of funds.

Schedule

The consortium event will be a full day the Monday before the main conference. All participating students are expected to attend the main conference as well as the graduate consortium. Other conference attendees are invited to attend the consortium, to listen to the presentations, to interact with participants, and to give feedback to presenters. More details will be provided, closer to the event, including times and locations.

Examples of Successful Applications

To be successful, a submission to the VL/HCC Graduate Consortium generally has to have the following parts:

  1. The paper starts with a sentence or two that describes a real-world setting.
  2. It then identifies a problem in that setting.
  3. The remainder of the paper’s introduction outlines an approach for solving that problem.
  4. In a subsequent section, the paper describes a prototype or preliminary study showing the feasibility of that approach.
  5. The paper explains why more work is still required in addition to this prior work.
  6. The paper concludes by describing future work that will build on this prior work in order to finish completing the approach.
  7. Somewhere along the way, the paper explains how the approach builds on, or differs from, other related work.

We have annotated three excellent submissions that exemplify the pattern described above. We hope that you will find these examples thought-provoking and helpful as you design your own submission this year.

Panel Members and Organizers

  • Andrew Fish, University of Brighton (chair)
  • Thomas LaToza, George Mason University (chair)
  • Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
  • Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University

Important Dates

  • Submission by e-mail: May 12, 2022 June 8, 2022
  • Notification of final decision: June 2, 2022 June 13, 2022
  • Camera-ready deadline: June 9, 2022 June 19, 2022
  • Consortium date: September 12, 2022