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Spring Break - no classes
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as Components of Rich Landscapes of Learning
Gerhard Fischer is a Professor Adjunct and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the Computer Human Interaction Academy (CHI), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a recipient of the RIGO Award of ACM-SIGDOC. His research has focused on new conceptual frameworks and new media for learning, working, and collaborating, human-centered computing, and design.
Commencement
Mini-3 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Grade Option Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After This Date
Session Two Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Semester & Mini-2 Faculty Course Evaluations
THESIS DEFENSE: Eliane Stampfer Wiese
CANCELLED - HCII Seminar Series: Kellee Santiago
HCII Postdoctoral Fellow Short Talks 3
Zhen Bai: Zhen Bai is a post-doctoral fellow at the ArticuLab. She leads the Sensing Curiosity in Play and Responding (SCIPR) project, which focuses on exploring the design space of playful learning environments that foster curiosity, exploration and self-efficacy for science education. Zhen is passionate to design innovative interfaces that augment our cognitive, emotional and social experiences in a playful and accessible way.
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Kurt Luther
Supporting People with Low Vision with Augmented Reality
Shiri Azenkot is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, Cornell University.4 Minute Madness (Faculty research talks)
PhD Thesis Proposal: Siyan Zhao, "Behavioral Pathways Linking Social Interactions to Mental Health"
PhD Thesis Defense: Nathan Hahn
Visual/Verbal Collaborative Design: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Cross-modal Communication
Susan Hagan recently completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University where she also received her Masters of Design. She focuses her research interests on the interaction of visual and verbal concepts as interdependent contributors in the shaping of audience experience. She has presented on this topic at conferences and in proceedings sponsored by design and rhetorical societies and was an invited commentator to the Design Research News On-line Conference, “Design in the University.” She is presently editing her dissertation for design and rhetorical publications.
Seminar: Ayanna M Howard
Dr. Ayanna Howard is the newly appointed Dean for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. Previously, she was the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor in Bioengineering and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also held a faculty appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Partnership on AI and Autodesk.
Can Privacy be Free?
John Canny is the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering. His research is in human-computer interaction, with an emphasis on modeling methods (usually probabilistic) and privacy approaches using cryptography. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at the MIT AI Lab. His dissertation on Robot Motion Planning received the ACM dissertation award. He received a Packard Foundation Faculty Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
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.