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SCS4ALL Preregistration Event
ADAPTS: Towards Adaptive Web-based Performance Support Systems
Peter Brusilovsky is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct research scientist at HCII. He received his MS degree (1983, Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degree (1987, Computer Science) from the Moscow State University. In 1996–1998 he was a visiting research scientist at HCII working with Professor John Anderson on the project “Creating more versatile intelligent learning environments on the basis of cognitive analysis of knowledge being learned” supported by McDonnell Foundation.
Robotics Thesis Proposal
Telepresence for Art and Learning
Coppin is a Research Fellow (Special Faculty Appointment) through the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU. Coppin also teaches Telepresence Art and Applications within the School of Art, the Human-computer Interaction Institute and the Robotics Institute at CMU.
Societal Computing Thesis Proposal
Towards Usable Web Privacy and Security
Lorrie Faith Cranor is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is director of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She came to CMU in December 2003 after seven years at AT&T Labs-Research. She is the author of the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002) and co-editor of the book Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use (O'Reilly 2005).
Machine Learning Thesis Defense
More or Less than Usable: The ups and downs of addressing emotional and unspoken needs
Matt Beale and his firm Daedalus have helped bring hundreds of successful hardware and software products to market. With a team of researchers, designers, and engineers, the firm solves problems that require the subtle blend of technology and interaction solutions. Matt Beale’s work has been honored with IDEA, MDEA, and Spark awards and has been featured in publications from the Wall Street Journal to Metropolis.
PA AV Summit
Butler Lies: How Media Attributes Shape Deception in Availability Management
Jeremy Birnholtz is an assistant professor in the Departments of Communication and Information Science at Cornell University, as well as the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research aims to improve the usefulness and usability of communication and collaboration tools, via a focus on understanding and exploiting mechanisms of human attention. Jeremy’s work has been published in the ACM CHI, CSCW and Group Proceedings, as well as in Organization Science and JASIST.
HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks
Grounded Innovation: Strategies for Creating Digital Products
Lars Erik Holmquist leads the Mobile Innovations group at Yahoo! Labs in Santa Clara, CA. Previously, he was Professor in Media Technology at Södertörn University and manager of the Interaction Design and Innovation lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. He was a co-founder and research leader at the Mobile Life Centre, a joint research venture between academia and industry hosted at Stockholm University, with major partners including Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, TeliaSonera and the City of Stockholm. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1996, his Ph.D.
HCII PhD Student Review
The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Departmentof Computer Science, Founding Director (1983–2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
HCII Ph.D. Defense: Nur Yildirim
HCII Seminar: Baking Data Into Design: User Experience at Google
Laura first joined Google in 2004, and now heads the User Experience Research team for Google Social. She spent her first six years at Google with Search, leading research on products like social search and Google Instant, and moved to Google+ in 2011. Laura completed her PhD at Stanford University, with her MS and BS from Cornell University. While at Cornell, Laura used eyetracking to assess how individuals view and select search results, with implications for ranking evaluation.