The di.me project held a session at the HCI 2013
August, 18th, 2013.- Bright lights, addictive bell sounds and impressive hotels and conference centers created the framework for the celebration of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2013). The event, the largest international conference in the field, took place in the city of Las Vegas from 21th to 26th of August.
This year the event counted on the participation of di.me project, which oversaw a session on Friday under the title "Intelligent User Interfaces for Privacy-respecting, Personal Information Management across the Social Web". The session was chaired by Andreas Schuller, Fraunhofer Institute, and consisted of seven different talks. Four of the talks were held by dime members:
- Trust and Privacy in the di.me Userware by Marcel Heupel, Mohamed Bourimi ([email protected]), Dogan Kesdogan.
- A Self-Evaluation Tool for Quantitative User Research Within the digital.me Project by Andreas Schuller, Rafael Gimenez, Fabian Hermann
- Interacting with a Context-Aware Personal Information Sharing System by Simon Scerri, Andreas Schuller, Ismael Rivera, Judie Attard, Jeremy Debattista, Massimo Valla, Fabian Hermann, Siegfried Handschuh
- The di.me User Interface: Concepts for Sharing Personal Information via Multiple Identities in a Decentralized Social Network by Fabian Hermann, Andreas Schuller, Simon Thiel, Christian Knecht, Simon Scerri
The rest of the talks were very interesting initiatives, very complementary to di.me:
- SOCIETY: A Social Reading Application to Join Education and Social Network Experience by Elena Guercio, Fabio Luciano Mondin, Maurizio Belluati, Lucia Longo.
- Trustworthy and Inclusive Identity Management for Applications in Social Media by Till Halbach Røssvoll, Lothar Fritsch.
- Identity Management through "Profiles" - Prototyping an Online Information Segregation Service by Julio Angulo, Erik Wästlund.
The participation at the HCI 2013 comes at a very auspicious time. On the first hand, a trial to validate the key features of di.me has been opened to experienced users and it will be published to every interested people next month. On the other hand, the main outcome of the project, the di.me code, is about to be published as open source.
The project members took then the opportunity of advertising the Open Source publication and try to encourage attendees to actively participate in the future di.me community.