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Crowds, Communities, and Mixed-Initiative Systems
Haoqi Zhang is an assistant professor at Northwestern University in EECS and the Segal Design Institute. His research spans the fields of social computing, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and decision science. His current work focuses on engaging crowds and communities in problem solving efforts, and on advancing new data-driven design processes. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and B.A. in Computer Science and Economics from Harvard University.
Spring Break
Spring Break - no classes
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as Components of Rich Landscapes of Learning
Gerhard Fischer is a Professor Adjunct and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the Computer Human Interaction Academy (CHI), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a recipient of the RIGO Award of ACM-SIGDOC. His research has focused on new conceptual frameworks and new media for learning, working, and collaborating, human-centered computing, and design.
Independence Day (observed); No Classes
Mini-3 Last Day of Classes
HCII Z-Axis Series: Robin Hunicke
Reading Days
Thesis Defense: Iris Howley
The Role of Cognitive Strategy in Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Anthony Hornof is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. He joined the faculty in 1999 and was promoted with tenure in 2005. Dr. Hornof earned his Ph.D. in 1999 and his Master's degree in 1996, both from the University of Michigan, and both in Computer Science and Engineering. He received a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1988. Though Dr.
2 Billion Gamers: What We Can Learn from Video Games
Brooke White is the Senior Director of UX Research for Yahoo for all consumer products as well as advertising platforms and services. Her previous position was Senior Manager, Games User Research for Disney Interactive. In fact, Brooke started and led user research practices for three different companies: Yahoo, Disney and Volition/THQ. Brooke has decades of experience spanning research, marketing and production in desktop, console and mobile games.
HHI Board Game Meetup
HCII PhD Communication Requirement Talks
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar "DialCrowd: Crowdsourcing for Dummies"
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Fannie Liu
Cognitive Modeling of Complex Dynamic Environments
Christian Lebiere is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the ACT-R research group in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Liege (Belgium) and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interest is cognitive architectures and their applications to psychology, artificial intelligence, economics, decision theory and human-computer interaction.
Christian Lebiere is a candidate for a Research Scientist position in the HCI Institute.
PhD Thesis Proposal, "Practical Privacy Preserving Sensing at Scale"
Research and Emerging Trends in Social Computing
Wendy A. Kellogg is Manager of Social Computing at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center. Her current work involves defining and promoting the emerging field of social computing, as well as designing, building, and evaluating computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems. Dr. Kellogg’s work in human-computer interaction (HCI) over the last two decades spans theory, evaluation methods, multidisciplinary software design, and development. She holds a Ph.D.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Abdelkareem Bedri
How Psychophysics can Inform what Roboticists Build
Roberta Klatzky is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She served as Head of Psychology from 1993–2003. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she was a member of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara.