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Thesis Proposal: Ruogu Kang
Enabling Creativity Through Better Tools for Designers and Developers
Joel Brandt is a Senior Research Scientist and Engineering Manager at Adobe Research. He is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher who studies how improved tools can help designers and developers be more creative and productive. His research has informed the design of numerous widely used tools, including Generator for Adobe Photoshop (http://bit.ly/psgenerator) and the Brackets code editor (http://brackets.io). Joel completed his Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford University in 2010.
THESIS PROPOSAL: Adrian de Freitas
Mini-4 Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Session One Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Mini-1 Course Audit Grade Option Deadline
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Nesra Yannier
Unlocking Data, Unlocking Interaction
James Fogarty is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty). His broad research interests are in engineering interactive systems, often with a focus on the role of tools in developing, deploying, and evaluating new approaches to the human obstacles surrounding everyday adoption of ubiquitous computing and intelligent interaction.
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Walter Lasecki
Practical Learning Research at Scale (and Relevance to HCI Education)
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.
How to Design with Openness: Shaping a Design Approach for Open and Growing Systems
Joep Frens is an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on the question of ‘how to design for open and growing systems’. He teaches courses on (interaction) design on all academic levels and advises a number of PhD students. In the academic year of 2014-2015 he held the Nierenberg Chair of Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design.
Human+AI Collaboration: Improving the FATE of High Stakes Decision Making
Dr. Kori Inkpen is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Manager of the Social Technologies Research Group. Over the years her work has focused on how video is changing the way we engage and communicate with others, and the potential it offers to transform the way we interact with friends, families, colleagues, and strangers. Her research interests are in the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Human-Computer Interaction and exploring next generation computing to connect people in new ways.
“Knowledge Embodied in Artifacts”: A Problem in Design Epistemology
Jeffrey Bardzell is a Professor of Informatics and Director of the HCI/Design program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University--Bloomington. His research contributes to design theory and investigations of social innovation, with emphases on critical design, design criticism, creativity and innovation, and intimate experiences.
PhD Thesis Defense: Alexandra To
Servicing the Surface Economy, or: The Loneliness of the Virtual Reality
Anne Lorimer’s work draws on fine-grained ethnography of linguistic, aesthetic, and other material practices to examine how people construct “reality” and agency in industrial capitalism. Her dissertation “Reality World” was based primarily on her fieldwork among visitors and staff at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, as well as on archival research and oral histories concerning related Chicago 19th and 20th century business spectacles. She holds a Ph.D.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: "Understanding hybridity in social movements through the dramaturgical lens"
Interfaces for Augmenting Face-to-Face Conversation Using Wearable Computers
Thad Starner is an Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. He is a wearable computing pioneer, having worn a wearable as an everyday personal assistant since 1993. Starner holds four degrees from MIT, including his PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999. Thad has authored over 90 scientific publications on mobile computing, intelligent agents, computer vision, and augmented reality, and Thad’s work focuses on computational assistants for everyday-use wearable computers to segue to practical artificial intelligences.
HCII Seminar Series - Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley is an associate professor in the computer science department at the University of New Mexico, where she directs the Hand and Machine research group. Her work explores integrations of electronics, computing, art, craft, and design. She is a pioneer in paper and fabric-based electronics and her inventions include the LilyPad Arduino, a construction kit for sew-able electronics. Previously, she was a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directed the High-Low Tech group.
Context Aware Computing, Understanding and Responding to Human Intention
Dr. Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media, the Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab, the MIT director of The Voting Technology Project and the Counter Intelligence/ Design Intelligence special interest group on domestic and product-design of the future. Ted’s work strives to demonstrate that peoples intentions can be recognized and respected by the things we design. Context aware computing creates a world in which peoples desires and intentions cause computers to help them.