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Urban Deployment of Bluetooth
Vassilis Kostakos holds a BSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Bath. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Dept of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal. Vassilis is a member of the Cityware project, which addresses the fusion of urban space and pervasive technologies. His research interests include: mobile and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, interaction techniques, complex network analysis, security and privacy, modelling and simulation, epidemics, and crime.
CMU-PITT Computational Biology Seminar
You’ve Been Warned: Why Nobody Pays Any Attention to Computer Security Warnings (And How We Might Change That)
Lorrie Faith Cranor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She is also Chief Scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. She has authored over 80 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.
Optum Technology: CMU Summer Speaker Series
Spoken Networks: Analyzing face-to-face conversations and how they shape our social connections
Tanzeem Choudhury is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Dartmouth. She joined Dartmouth in 2008 after four years at Intel Research Seattle. She received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. Tanzeem develops systems that can reason about human activities, interactions, and social networks in everyday environments. Tanzeem’s doctoral thesis demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of using wearable sensors to capture and model social networks automatically, on the basis of face-to-face conversations.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Xieyang Michael Liu
Network-Related Personality and the Agency Question: Multi-Role Evidence from a Virtual World
Ronald S. Burt is the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His work concerns the social structure of competitive advantage (e.g., Neighbor Networks, 2010, Oxford University Press).
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Hyeonsu Kang (Remote)
Engaging with Users on Public Social Media
Jeffrey Nichols is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Social Media and Crowd Research group at IBM Research - Almaden. He leads research efforts on crowdsourcing, social media analysis and social engagement. He joined IBM in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He has worked in the areas of mobile computing, automated design, and end-user programming.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Jason Wu
Dream Worlds: Imagining the Worlds of Walden and The Night Journey
Tracy is an experimental game designer and Chair of the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she directs the Game Innovation Lab. This design research center has produced several influential independent games, including Cloud, flOw, Darfur is Dying, The Misadventures of P.B.
When New Technology Is Old: Organizing Surgery in the Face of Legacy Robotic Surgical Systems
I am a fifth year doctoral student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and I study real-world use of robotics in skilled, collective work. I ask questions like: How are robots actually involved in work? What can we do with them that we couldn't before? What might we lose? What does all this mean for organizations? Before coming to MIT for my doctorate, I spent 9 years as a principal consultant in a firm of organizational psychologists. We specialized in helping teams discuss touchy topics productively.
THESIS DEFENSE: Haiyi Zhu
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Thesis Proposal: Kevin Huang
HCII Seminar Series: Steven Dow
Steven P. Dow is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and will soon be an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where he will be thinking fondly of CMU. His research interests include human-computer interaction, social computing, design education, and creativity-support tools. Steven has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER Award in 2015.
Social Capital as a Concept in Human-Computer Interaction - From Bowling Together to Friendsourcing
Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research examines the positive outcomes of interaction in online communities, ranging from development of interpersonal relationships, to nonprofit collective action, to new forms of civic engagement. His work on Facebook and social capital has been heavily cited in a range of disciplines. Dr. Lampe serves as the Vice President of Publications for SIGCHI, the Technical Program Chair for CHI2017, and the Steering Committee Chair for the CSCW community.