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Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
Developing Effective Software: The Case for Strong Methods Training
Alonso Vera has been at NASA ten years and leads the Human-Computer Interaction Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center. He is Assistant Chief of the Human-Systems Integration Division and Chief of the Application and Process Integration Office for NASA’s Constellation Program. Dr. Vera received his PhD from Cornell University in 1990 followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.
HCII Seminar Series - Andrew Begel
Andrew Begel is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Software Research department at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this, he spent over 16 years as a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA. Andrew received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, and his Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in Cambridge, MA in 1996 and 1997. His research focuses on the use of AI and HCI to increase the accessibility of technology for those with physical and cognitive disabilities.
Toward a Framework for the Analysis and Design of Educational Games
Dr. Vincent Aleven is an Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He has 20 years of experience in research and development of educational software based on cognitive science theory, with much of his work addressing learning for middle-school and high-school mathematics.
Info Session for HCI Additional Major and Minor
Progress in Integrating Instructional Design and Game Design: Development of Physics Games for Very Young Children
Dr. Vincent Aleven is an Associate Professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and has 20 years of experience in research and development of advanced learning technologies, grounded in cognitive theory.
A recent focus of his work is virtual worlds and game-based learning. He is a firm believer in the notion that the most effective educational games emerge when the best practices and practitioners in game design and instructional design come together.
HCII Seminar Series - Parastoo Abtahi
Parastoo Abtahi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she leads Princeton’s Situated Interactions Lab (Ψ Lab) as part of the Princeton HCI Group. Before joining Princeton, Parastoo was a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, working with Prof. James Landay and Prof. Sean Follmer.
Post Doc Madness!
CMU Spring Carnival - No Classes
Mini-5 Course Add Deadline
Final Examinations
Session All Course Drop or Pass/Fail Grade Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After This Date
Semester & Mini-2 Last Day of Classes
Thesis Defense: Stacey Kuzentsov
THESIS DEFENSE: Jason Wiese
Ph.D. Alumni Event - CHI 2016
Predictive Interaction
Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab and conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction and social computing. The visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Vega, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by researchers, companies and thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. His group's research papers have received awards at the premier venues in HCI (ACM CHI, UIST, CSCW) and Information Visualization (IEEE InfoVis, VAST, EuroVis).