Program Overview

CHIMIT'07 Technical Program spans over two days and includes two plenary speeches, papers, posters, experience reports sessions, and a panel session that brings together experts. On the first day of the program there is a symposium reception and dinner.

Below is an overview of the CHIMIT'08 Program:

Friday — November 14, 2008
07:30AM
Registration
08:00AM
Breakfast
08:30AM
09:00AM
Plenary  Grand Ballroom F&G

I Got My Jet Pack and I'm Still Not Happy
David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern
09:30AM
10:00AM
10:30AM
Break
11:00AM
Paper Session: Work Practice  Grand Ballroom F&G

Work Practices of System Administrators: Implications for Tool Design
Nicole F. Velasquez, IBM, Suzanne P. Weisband, University of Arizona

Understanding and Supporting Personal Activity Management by IT Service Workers
Victor M. Gonzalez, University of Manchester, Leonardo Galicia, CICESE, Jesus Favela, CICESE

Towards Virtualizing the Helpdesk: Assessing the Relevance of Knowledge across Distance
Kevin F. White, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Wayne G. Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Anita H. Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

11:30AM
12:00AM
12:30PM
Lunch Break
01:00PM
01:30PM
02:00PM
Paper Session: Tools  Grand Ballroom F&G

Sysadmins and the Need for Verification Information
Nicole F. Velasquez, University of Arizona, Alexandra Durcikova, University of Arizona

Information Displays for Managing Shared Files
Tara Whalen, Dalhousie University, Elaine G. Toms, Dalhousie University, James Blustein, Dalhousie University

02:30PM
03:00PM
Experience Report Session  Grand Ballroom F&G

Strategies to influence and accelerate adoption of User Centered Design Best Practices in a company
Vijay Agrawal, Cisco Systems, Inc, Ken Chizinsky, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Configuration Tool Development Experiences
Narayan Desai, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

03:30PM
04:00PM
Break
04:30PM
05:00PM
05:30PM
06:00PM
06:30PM
07:00PM Reception  Sierra 5&6
07:30PM Dinner  Sierra 5&6
08:00PM
08:30PM
09:00PM

 

Saturday — November 15, 2008
07:30AM
Registration
08:00AM
Breakfast
08:30AM
09:00AM
Plenary  Grand Ballroom F&G

Human-Centered Design: Finding the Sweet Spot Among the Many Stakeholders in the Design of a Complex System
William B. Rouse, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology
09:30AM
10:00AM
10:30AM
Break
11:00AM
Invited Talk  Grand Ballroom F&G
Ergonomic Issues in System Configuration
Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh

11:30AM
Poster Session  Grand Ballroom F&G

12:00AM
12:30PM
Lunch Break
01:00PM
01:30PM
02:00PM
Paper Session: Security  Grand Ballroom F&G

Network Authentication using Single Sign-On:The Challenge of Aligning Mental Models
Rosa Heckle, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Wayne G. Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, David Gurzick, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Guidelines for Designing IT Security Management Tools
Pooya Jaferian, University of British Columbia, David Botta, University of British Columbia, Fahimeh Raja, University of British Columbia, Kirstie Hawkey, University of British Columbia, Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia

02:30PM
03:00PM
Break

03:30PM
Panel Session  Grand Ballroom F&G

Designing for Complexity: New Approaches to System Administration UI's
Jeff Calcaterra, IBM, Eddie Chen, BMC, Vinay Gupta, Hewlett-Packard, Luke Kowalski, Oracle Corp., Ian Lucas, Microsoft, Craig Villamor, Salesforce.com

Moderator: AEleen Frisch
04:00PM
04:30PM
05:00PM
Closing Remarks  Grand Ballroom F&G
05:30PM