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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.
PhD Thesis Defense: Michal Luria
Towards Triggering Adaptive Collaborative Learning Support Using Automated Conversational Analysis
Carolyn Penstein Rosé joined the faculty at the Language Technologies Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Fall of 2003. A particular focus of her research is in exploring the role of explanation and language communication in learning and in supporting productive learning interactions with language technologies.
Privacy Seminar
Translating User-Centered Design Into The Business World: Goal Centered Strategy
As a founder of the cognitive discipline at ZEFER, Nick takes the lead role in developing both web-based applications to improve and support business processes and long term strategic consulting to guide Internet initiatives down a useful and usable path. He currently is leading the Experience design group for ZEFER Pittsburgh. While at ZEFER, Nick has been involved with the design and usability testing of over fifty web sites and Internet applications. He has designed both business-to-business and consumer-orientated e-commerce sites.
3rd Spring SCS Research Panel
Designing for Interaction Cultures
Timothy Martin specializes in designing professional and consumer interactive products. From desktop software to handheld devices, he strives to improve the experiences defined by the digital world. By using a combination of discovery research, interaction design, and evaluative studies Tim synthesizes existing user models and behaviors to create new products and services.
Timothy is currently freelance consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Vision and Autonomous Systems Seminar
Alice—A look toward the future
Dr. Wanda Dann, an active member of the Alice team for the last decade, has recently assumed leadership of the team. She is currently transitioning into a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University from Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ithaca College. She is co-author of Learning to Program with Alice (Prentice-Hall, 2006, and brief edition, 2007), with Randy Pausch and Steve Cooper. Two additional textbooks on Alice are currently under contract with Pearson (Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall).
HCII Seminar Series - Ken Koedinger
Kenneth R. Koedinger is a professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Koedinger has an M.S. in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, and experience teaching in an urban high school. His multidisciplinary background supports his research goals of understanding human learning and creating educational technologies that increase student achievement.
Advanced Technology Systems (HATS) for Enhanced Mobile Communication
Mr. Naimo is a life long Oregonian who graduated from University of Portland in 1988 with a BA in History. Upon graduation, he spent 12 years in Sales and Management with a focus on product research and market development.
In 2002, Doug began work with a product development company to commercialize his product research. Triggerfinger Software was created out of his efforts to develop new technologies for the communication market.
Triggerfinger Software website: www.triggerfingersoftware.com