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MHCI Open House for Accepted Students
Participatory Design as a Practice in the Learning Sciences
Dr. Betsy DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech she leads the Culture and Technology (CAT) Lab, which focuses on research studying cultural values and how they impact technology use, learning, and production. Currently, the CAT Lab is exploring parents’ use of technology for informal learning.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Sauvik Das, "Social Cybersecurity: Reshaping Security Through an Empirical Understanding of Human Social Behavior"
HCII PhD Thesis Defense "Making Fabrication Real: Fabrication for Real Usage, with Real Objects, by Real People"
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Understanding and Scaffolding Parental Support for Children’s Early Literacy in Rural Communities in Côte d’Ivoire
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Toby Li, "A Multi-Modal Intelligent Agent that Learns from Demonstrations and Natural Language Instructions"
In Vivo Interaction: Towards Personal Bioinformatics
Yang Cai is Systems Scientist at HCII and Research Fellow at Studio for Creative Inquiry, CFA. His research interests include Perceptive Computing and Creative Design. Cai is PI for projects: “Computer Vision for Tongue Inspection,” “Default Operation Design,” and Co-PI of “Perceptive Computing for NASA On-Board Processing.” Cai teaches HCI graduate courses: Perceptive Computing (S03-05-899D, S03-05-499D) and Innovation Process (F02-05-899C). For more info: http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/02fall/tongue.html
Seminar: Parmit Chilana
Parmit Chilana is an Assistant Professor in human-computer interaction (HCI) at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Parmit’s core research in HCI focuses on inventing and deploying user-centered software help and learning techniques for feature-rich applications in a variety of domains, such as 3D modeling, education, health, and software development.
In Search of Text Writing Methods for Off Desktop Computing: ATOMIK and SHARK
Shumin Zhai is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His work at IBM spans from basic research, invention and evaluation of advanced interfaces, to product innovation and development. He has done research and published about 80 papers on computer input control devices, 3D UI, laws of action, eye-tracking based multi-modal interaction, text writing interfaces, the research and development of the IBM Scrollpoint Mouse, and computer control systems. He holds over a dozen US and many foreign patents.
Undergraduate Programs Morning Coffee Chat
Recommenders for Commerce, Content, and Community
John Riedl has been a member of the faculty of the computer science department of the University of Minnesota since March 1990. In 1992 he co-founded the GroupLens Research project on collaborative information filtering, and has been co-directing it since. In 1996 he co-founded Net Perceptions to commercialize GroupLens. Net Perceptions was the leading recommender systems company during the Internet boom. In 1999, John and other Net Perceptions co-founders shared the MIT Sloan School’s award for E-Commerce Technology.
PhD Thesis Proposal: Samantha Reig, "Characterizing Agent Identities as Mediators Among Individuals, Embodiments, and Services"
Designing for Rich Interaction: Integrating Form, Interaction, and Function
Joep Frens was born on the 11th of September, 1974 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. After obtaining his master degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) he went to Switserland to pursue a career in research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He returned to the Netherlands as a PhD student. In 2006 he received a doctoral diploma from the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (the Netherlands) on a thesis called: Designing for Rich Interaction: Integrating Form, Interaction, and Function.
Robotics Thesis Defense
Analysts Workbench—A CAD-like GUI for textual search and filter creation
Tom Neuendorffer has been working on user interface issues for over 20 years. After taking some early CS courses from CMU in the mid-70s, Tom got a Master of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. There he created a library system for Carlow College. In 1985 he came back to CMU to work for the Information Technology Center where he helped develop the Andrew User Interface System, which is still in use on campus today. Here he developed and published papers on the Andrew-based ADEW system, which was one of the first widely distributed GUI building systems.
Institute for Policy and Strategy: Policy Forum
The Design of Online Communities: How Educational Theory Can Help
Amy Bruckman is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She and her students in the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) research group do research on online communities and education. Current projects include MOOSE Crossing (a text-based virtual world for kids), AquaMOOSE 3D (a graphical world designed to help teenagers learn about the behavior of mathematical functions, research supported by an NSF CAREER award), and Palaver Tree Online (in which students learn about history by interviewing elders who lived it).
Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
When the Wait isn’t So Bad: A Research Program on Web Delay
Dennis Galletta is Past President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), is an AIS Fellow, and is Professor of Business Administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, where he has been since 1985. He obtained his doctorate in 1985 at the University of Minnesota (major advisor: Gordon B. Davis) with a major in management information systems and a minor in psychology. He teaches Human-Computer Interaction to PhD students and Information Systems to MBA students and executives.