Parmit Chilana

Publications

Journal Articles

Chaudhury, R., and Chilana, P. (2024) Designing Visual and Interactive Self-Monitoring Interventions to Facilitate Learning: Insights from Informal Learners and Experts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG) [To appear].

Khurana, A., Glueck, M., and, Chilana, P. (2024). “Do I Just Tap My Headset?”: How Novice Users Discover Gestural Interactions with Consumer Augmented Reality Applications. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Interactive Mobile Wearable Ubiquitous Technology (IMWUT) - To appear.

Davis, J., Wang, H., Chilana, P., and Yang, X.D. (2023). “It’s not an issue of malice, but of ignorance:” Designing Inclusive Video Conferencing for Presenters Who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Interactive Mobile Wearable Ubiquitous Technology (IMWUT), 7(3), 1-31.

Dubois, P., Maftouni, Ml., McGrenere, J., Chilana, P., and Bunt, A. (2020) Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As: How Community and Site Characteristics Contribute to Gender Gaps in Answering Questions. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, No. CSCW2, Article 113, Oct 2020, 26 pages.

Sadeghi, M., Chilana, P., Yap, J., Tschandl, P., and Atkins, M.S. (2019) Using Content Based Image Retrieval of Dermoscopic Images for Interpretation and Education: A Pilot Study. Skin Research and Technology, 00:1-10.

Mercer K., Giangregorio L., Schneider E, Chilana, P., Li M., and Grindrod K. (2016) Acceptance of Commercially Available Wearable Activity Trackers Among Adults Aged Over 50 and With Chronic Illness: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 4(1):e7.

Chilana, P., Fishman, E., Geraghty, E., Tarczy-Hornoch, P., Wolf, F., and Anderson, N.R. (2010) Characterizing Data Discovery and End-user Computing Needs in Clinical Translational Science. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, special issue on Scientific End-User Computing, 23(4), 17-30.

Boyce, R., Chilana, P. and Rose, T. (2009) iCODEHOP: a new interactive program for designing COnsensus-DEgenerate Hybrid Oligonucleotide Primers (CODEHOPs) from multiply-aligned protein sequences, Nucleic Acids Research, 37 (1), W222-228.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Khurana, A., Subramonyam, H., and Chilana, P. (2024) Why and When LLM-Based Assistants Can Go Wrong: Investigating the Effectiveness of Prompt-Based Interactions for Software Help-Seeking. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’24) - To appear.

Wong-Aitken, D., Rajabi, P., Carpendale, S., and Chilana, P. (2023) TangiBooks: Design and Creation of Paper-Based Tangibles with Embedded Electronics for Teaching Programming Concepts. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 23), pp.1-11.

Chaudhury, R., Liaqat, T., and Chilana, P. (2023) Eliciting Requirements for the Design of a Self-Monitoring Intervention for Informal Learners. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '23), Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp.1-10. Best Paper Award.

Jahanlou, A. Vermeulen, J., Grossman, T., Chilana, P., Fitzmaurice, G., and Matejka, J. (2023) Task-Centric Application Switching: How and Why Knowledge Workers Switch Software Applications for a Single Task. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '23), Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp.1-10.

Ashtari, N., Alamzadeh , P., Ganapathy, G., and Chilana, P. (2022). PONI: A Personalized Onboarding Interface for Getting Inspiration and Learning About AR/VR Creation. Proceedings of the ACM Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2022), pp.1-14.

Chaudhury, R., Guo, P., and Chilana, P. (2022). “There’s no way to keep up!”: Diverse Motivations and Challenges Faced by Informal Learners of ML. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 22), pp.1-11 [29% acceptance rate].

Wong-Aitken, D., Cukierman, D., and Chilana, P. (2022) It depends on whether or not I'm lucky'': How students in an introductory programming course discover, select, and assess the utility of web-based resources . Proceedings of the ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2022), pp.512-518 [29% acceptance rate].

Jahanlou, A., and Chilana, P. (2022) Katika: An End-to-End System for Authoring Amateur Explainer Motion Graphics Videos. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022), Article 502, 1–14 [25% acceptance rate].

Vermette, L., McGrenere, J., Chilana, P. . (2022) Uncovering Instructors’ Diverse Practices and Perceptions: A Field Deployment of a Customization-Sharing Platform that Supports Course Management . Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22), Article 249, 1–15 [12.5% acceptance rate, 1st round].

Giannisakis, E., Alvina, J., Bunt, A., Chilana, P. , and McGrenere, J. (2022) Promoting Feature Awareness by Leveraging Collaborators’ Usage Habits in Collaborative Editors. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '22). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp. 1-13.

Khurana, A., Harjandi, P., Chilana, P. (2021) ChatrEx: Designing Explainable Chatbot Interfaces for Enhancing Usefulness, Transparency, and Trust. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 21), p.1-11, [30% acceptance rate].

Ramesh, K., Vermette, L., and Chilana, P. . (2021) Setting up, Troubleshooting, and Innovating on the Delivery of Online Instruction: A Case Study of an LMS Q&A Forum. Proceedings of the ACM Learning at Scale Conference (L@S’21), pp.59-67 [30% acceptance rate].

Jahanlou, A., Odom, W., and Chilana, P. (2021) Challenges in Getting Started in Motion Graphic Design: Perspectives from Casual and Professional Motion Designers. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '21). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, p.1-11.

Kiani, K., Chilana, P. , Bunt, A., Grossman, T., and Fitzmaurice, G. (2020) “I Would Just Ask Someone”: Learning Feature-Rich Design Software in the Modern Workplace. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 20), pp. 1-10, [30% acceptance rate].

Sabab, S., Khan, A., Chilana, P. , McGrenere, J., and Bunt, A.(2020) An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorial’s Difficulty. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 20), pp.1-10, [30% acceptance rate].

Ashtari, N., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., Nebeling, M., and Chilana, P. (2020) Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), pp. 1-13, [24% acceptance rate]. Best Paper Award (top 1%).

Mahmud, S., Alvina, J., Chilana, P. , Bunt, A., McGrenere, J. (2020) Learning Through Exploration: How Children, Adults, and Older Adults Interact with a New Feature-Rich Application. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), pp. 1-14, [24% acceptance rate].

Vermette, L., McGrenere, J., Chilana, P. . (2020) Peek-through Customization: Example-Based In-Context Sharing for Learning Management Systems. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2020), [24% acceptance rate]. Best Paper Honorable Mention - Top 5%.

Alvina, J., Bunt, A., Chilana, P. , Malacria, S., McGrenere, J. (2020) Where is that Feature? Designing for Cross-Device Software Learnability. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2020) [24% acceptance rate].

Davis, J., Gong, J., Sun, X., Chilana, P. , and Yang, X.D. (2019). CircuitStyle: A System for Peripherally Reinforcing Best Practices in Hardware Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2019), pp. 109-120 [24% acceptance rate].

Wang A., and Chilana, P. (2019). Designing Curated Conversation-Driven Explanations for Communicating Complex Technical Concepts. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '19), pp. 211-215 [33% acceptance rate]

Chaudhury, R., and Chilana, P. (2019). How Learners Engage with In-Context Retrieval Exercises in Online Informational Videos. Proceedings of the ACM Learning at Scale Conference (LOS’19), Article 6, pp. 1–10.

Nawhal, M., Lang, J., Mori, G., and Chilana, P. (2019). VideoWhiz: Non-Linear Interactive Overviews for Recipe Videos. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '19). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, 15:1-15:8.

Kiani, K., Cui, G., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., and Chilana, P. (2019) Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Diversity and Challenges in How Software Newcomers Discover and Make Use of External Help Resources. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), to appear [24% acceptance rate].

Vermette, L., McGrenere, J., Birge, C., Kelly, A., and Chilana, P. (2019) Freedom to Personalize My Digital Classroom Ecosystem: Understanding Teachers' Practices, Motivations, and Barriers. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), to appear [24% acceptance rate].

Chilana, P., Hudson, N., Bhaduri, S., Shashikumar, P., and Kane, S. (2018) Supporting Remote Real-time Expert Help: Opportunities and Challenges for Novice 3D Modelers. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '18), pp. 157-166 [29% acceptance rate].

Hudson, N., Lafreniere, B., Chilana, P. , and Grossman, T. (2018) Investigating How Online Help and Learning Resources Support Children's Use of 3D Design Software. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), Paper 257, 1-14 [26% acceptance rate].

Wang, A., Mitts, R., Guo, P., and Chilana, P. (2018) Mismatch of Expectations: How Modern Learning Resources Fail Conversational Programmers. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), Paper 511, 1-13 [26% acceptance rate]. Best Paper Honorable Mention - Top 5%.

Vermette, L., Dembla, S., Wang, A., McGrenere, J., & Chilana, P. (2017) Social CheatSheet: An Interactive Community-Curated Information Overlay for Web Applications. Proceedings of the ACM : Human-Computer Interaction (1,1), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), pp.1-19 [27% acceptance rate].

Ranaweera, W., Chilana, P. , Cohen-Or, D., and Zhang, H. (2017) ExquiMo: An Exquisite Corpse Tool for Co-creative 3D Shape Modeling. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics), Zhangjiajie, China. Best Paper Award.

Alcock, C., Hudson, N., and Chilana, P. (2016) Barriers to Using, Customizing, and Printing 3D Designs on Thingiverse. Barriers to Using, Customizing, and Printing 3D Designs on Thingiverse. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2016). [32% acceptance rate]

Chilana, P., Singh, R., and Guo, P. (2016) Understanding Conversational Programmers: A Perspective from the Software Industry. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). [23% acceptance rate]

Hudson, N., Alcock, C., and Chilana, P.(2016) Understanding Newcomers to 3D Printing: Motivations, Workflows, and Barriers of Casual Makers. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). [23% acceptance rate]

Lafreniere, B., Chilana, P., Fourney, A., Terry, M. (2015) These Aren't the Commands You're Looking For: Addressing False Feedforward in Feature-Rich Software. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2015). [24% acceptance rate]

Chilana, P., Alcock, C., Dembla, S., Ho, A., Hurst, A., Armstrong, B., Guo, P. (2015). Perceptions of Non-CS Majors in Intro Programming: The Rise of the Conversational Programmer. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '15). [29% acceptance rate]

Hudson, N., Chilana, P., Guo, X., Day, J., and Liu, E. (2015) Understanding Triggers for Clarification Requests in Community-Based Software Help Forums. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '15). [29% acceptance rate]

Vermette, L., Chilana, P., Terry, M., Fourney, A., Lafreniere, B., and Kerr, T. (2015). CheatSheet: A Contextual Interactive Memory Aid for Web Applications. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '15). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp. 241-248.

Chilana, P.K., Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O. (2015) From User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1749-1758. [23% acceptance rate] Best Paper Award (top 1%).

Nassar, L., Chilana, P., Kamel, S., Karray, F. HCI in VANET IR-CAS: Multimodal Interface for VANET Context Aware IR Systems. Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet'15), pp. 51-58.

Fourney, A., Lafreniere, B., Chilana, P., Terry, M. (2014) InterTwine: Creating Interapplication Information Scent to Support Coordinated Use of Software. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2014). New York: ACM Press, pp. 429-438. [22% acceptance rate]

Chilana, P., Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O., and Grossman, T. (2013) A Multi-Site Field Study of Crowdsourced Contextual Help: Usage and Perspectives of End-Users and Software Teams . Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). New York: ACM Press, pp. 217-226. [20% acceptance rate].

Chilana, P., Ko, A.J., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2012) LemonAid: Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help for Web Applications. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1549-1558. [23% acceptance rate]

Chilana, P., Grossman,T., and Fitzmaurice, G.(2011) Modern Software Product Support Processes and theUsage of Multimedia Formats. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 3093-3102. [26% acceptance rate]

Chilana, P., Ko, A.J., Wobbrock, J.O., Grossman,T., and Fitzmaurice, G.(2011) Post-deployment Usability: A Survey of Current Practices. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2243-2246. [26% acceptance rate]

Ko, A.J., and Chilana, P.(2011) Design, Discussion, and Dissent in Open Bug Reports. Proceedings of the iConference, 2011. New York: ACM Press, pp. 106-113.

Chilana, P., Ko, A.J., and Wobbrock. J.O.(2010) Understanding expressions of unwanted behaviors in open bug reporting. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC '10). Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 203-206. [12% acceptance rate for short papers]

Chilana, P., Wobbrock. J.O., and Ko, A.J. (2010) Understanding Usability Practices in Complex Domains. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 2337-2346. [22% acceptance rate]

Ko, A.J., and Chilana, P. (2010) How Power Users Help and Hinder Open Bug Reporting. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1665-1674. [22% acceptance rate] Best Paper Honorable Mention - Top 5% .

Revere D., Chilana P., Helgerson S. and Fuller S. Building and piloting a customizable knowledge management environment to support public health practice: myPublicHealth. Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2008.

Hsiao, W., Chilana, P., Lowden, B. Coombes, B. Finlay, B., and Brinkman, F.S.L. Computational characterization of prokaryotic genomic islands and evidence of a large novel gene pool associated with these islands. International Conference on Microbial Genomes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2005.

Juried Conference Papers and Abstracts

Chilana, P., Czerwinski, M., Grossman, T., Harrison, C., Parikh, T., and Zhai, S. Technology Transfer of HCI Research Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities.(2015) Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (Panels). [To appear].

Chilana, P., Holsberry, C., Oliveira, F., and Ko, A.J.(2012) Designing for a Billion Users: A Case Study of Facebook. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts(CHI 2012), Case Study Track. New York: ACM Press, pp. 419-432

Revere D,. Bugni, P., Hillringhouse, E., Chilana P., Helgerson S., Sorensen, S., Fuller S. Piloting a Customizable Knowledge Management System to Support Public Health Practice. 6th Annual Public Health Information Network Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2008.

Chilana, P., Matsui. H, Lim, A. ChicTech Soars at SFU. Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (CCWEST) Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 2006.

Hsiao, W., Langille, M., Fedynak, A., Chilana, P., Brinkman, F.S.L. Genomic island analysis: Improved web-based software and insights into an apparent gene pool associated with genomic islands. American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Northwest Branch Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006.

Matsui, H., Chilana, P. The Rise and Fall: Women and Computer Science. Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (CCWEST) Conference, St. Catharines, Ontario, 2004.

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers

Chilana P., Palmer C., and Ko, A.J. (2009) Comparing Bioinformatics Software Development by Computer Scientists and Biologists: An Exploratory Study. ICSE '09 Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering, Vancouver, BC, May 2009.

Conference Posters

Anderson, N., Chilana, P., Anderson, K., Wynden, R., and Tarczy-Hornoch, P. (2009) Implementing Cross-Institutional Clinical Discovery for Population Based Translational Research. AMIA Spring Congress, Orlando, FL, May 2009.

Chilana P., Ko, A.J., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2009) Designing Software for Unfamiliar Domains. ICSE '09 Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Vancouver, BC, May 2009.

Choe, E.K., Shinohara, K.,Chilana, P., Dixon, M. and Wobbrock, J.O. Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets.(2009) Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, April 2009.

Cheung, G., Chilana, P., Kane, S., and Pellett, B. Designing for Discovery: Opening the Hood for Open-Source End User Tinkering. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, April 2009.

Hsiao, W., Chilana, P., Fedynak, A., Brinkman, F.S.L. IslandPath 2: web application aiding integrated analysis of genomic islands (Poster E-44). International Meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB), Detroit, MI, 2005.

Workshop and Non-Archived Papers

Vermette, L., McGrenere, J., Chilana, P. (2019) The Future of Work in Teaching and Digital Classroom Contexts. Proceedings of The Future of Work(places) Workshop at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’19), 5 pages, Nov 2019.

Hudson, N., Alcock, C., and Chilana, P.(2016) Walk-Up-and-Use 3D Printing: Experiences of Casual Makers. CrossFab Workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016).

Chilana, P., Ko, A.J., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011) Using Crowdsourcing in the Design of Context-Sensitive Help for Web Applications. CHI '11 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation- Systems, Studies, and Platforms, Vancouver, BC, May 2011.

Ko, A.J., and Chilana, P. (2010) How Do Open Source Developers Talk about Users? CHI '10 Workshop on The Future of FLOSS in CHI Research and Practice, Atlanta, GA, April 2010.

Anderson, N., Chilana, P., and Tarczy-Hornoch, P. (2009) Challenges of Implementing Anonymized Cross-Institutional Federated Querying for Clinical Translational Research. CHI'09 Workshop: The Changing Face of Digital Science -New Practices in Scientific Collaborations, Boston, MA, April 2009.

Chilana, P., Revere, D., Fuller, S. Facilitating Scientific Discovery: Information Extraction Approaches for Biomedical Literature. NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop, 2007.

Barrera, A., Chilana, P., Clarke, K., Giarlo, M. 2007 Code4Lib Conference Report. Library Hi-Tech News, 24(6), pp 4-7, 2007.

Chilana, P. Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program, Year 1 (Panel presentation), ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, NC, 2006.