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PhD Thesis Proposal: Karan Ahuja, "Practical and High-Fidelity User Digitization On-the-Go"
HCI in Living Laboratories
Gregory Abowd is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and GVU Center at Georgia Tech, and co-Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative. His research explores applications of ubiquitous computing technologies, combining both human-centered and technology-driven research themes. Since 1995, Dr.
Theory Lunch Seminar
The ELDeR Project: Designing Pleasurable Technology for Elders
Jodi Forlizzi is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research involves understanding user experience, designing and developing technology products that bring people information in new contexts, and understanding and supporting interdisciplinary design processes. Currently, she is studying how information is communicated effectively in a variety of contexts, using words, pictures, sound, motion, and ambient information, without creating cognitive overload.
Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense
A framework for data-driven adaptive instruction
Joseph E. Beck is a postdoctoral fellow at CMU in the robotics institute working on Project LISTEN. He received his B.S. in math, computer science, and cognitive science from CMU, and recently received his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in applying machine learning techniques to user modeling and intelligent tutoring construction. His areas of interest include reasoning about users, empirical evaluations, machine learning, and intelligent tutoring systems.
Computer Science Speaking Skills Talk
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Use of an Electronic Referral System to Improve the Outpatient Primary Care–Specialty Care Interface
Susan Straus is a Behavioral Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Associate Professor in the HCII. Dr. Straus’s research addresses the social impacts of information and communication technologies. Specific research interests include applications of information technology in health care settings and adoption and use of collaborative technologies for distributed teams.
Global Clean Energy Action Forum
Experts at Being Seen as Experts: Knowledge Management Technology as a Stage for Strategic Self-Presentation
Paul Leonardi (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and (by courtesy) Management and Organizations at Northwestern University where he holds the Breed Junior Chair in Design.
HCII Seminar Series - Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Pedro focuses on integrating computer interfaces with the human body—exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearable computing. Some of these new integrated-devices include: muscle stimulation wearable that allows users to manipulate tools they have never seen before or that accelerate their reaction time, or a device that leverages the sense of smell to create an illusion of temperature.
Expressive Electronics: Sketching, Sewing & Sharing
Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group explores the integration of high and low technology from cultural, material, and practical perspectives, with the goal of engaging diverse groups of people in developing their own technologies. She is a well-known expert in the field of electronic textiles (e-textiles), and her work in this area includes developing the LilyPad Arduino toolkit.
HCII Seminar Series - Narges Mahyar
Narges Mahyar is an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently she holds a position as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Narges’s research falls at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Social Computing, and Design. She designs, develops, and evaluates novel social computing and visualization techniques that help people explore, understand, and make data-informed decisions.
On Digital Anthropology
Jennifer Rode holds a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where she worked with Paul Dourish. In her dissertation she ethnographically studied the programmability of domestic technologies and examined gendered patterns of use. She holds a Masters in HCI, as well as, a BS in Anthropology both from Carnegie Mellon. She has ten years of experience in the HCI industry beyond her formal studies as a usability engineer, ethnographer and consultant, working on product design and evaluation.
HCII Ph.D. Proposal: Kexin "Bella" Yang (Rescheduled to a later date)
THESIS DEFENSE: Derek Lomas
Motivational Environments: Strategies for Personalized Learning, Intelligent Creativity Support,and Open Health Innovation
Dr. Winslow Burleson is an Associate Professor at NYU’s College of Nursing with affiliate appointments in computer science, education, and NYU’s Global Institute of Public Health, where he directs the Inventors’ Workshops network. He earned a BA in Bio-Physics from Rice University, MSE in Mechanical Engineering Product Design from Stanford University, and PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab.