News & Events
You're in the right place to keep up with department news and upcoming events at the HCI Institute.
View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
Leveraging Contexts, Expertise, and Instructional Design in Educational Technology Research
David Feldon is an Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina. His research integrates principles of human cognition with instructional design methods and educational technologies to optimize the contributions of experts to the instructional process. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Feldon’s current work analyzes the effects of online instruction derived from experts’ cognitive task analyses for undergraduate science majors.
Wells Fargo - Campus Analytics Challenge 2022
Bridging the Intellectual Divide: Integrating Research and Education via the Vertically-Integrated Projects Program
Edward J. Coyle received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1982. From 1982 through 2007, he was a faculty member at Purdue University, where he served at various times as assistant vice provost for research, co-director of the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications, and co-founder of both the Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program and the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Dr.
Machine Learning Department 25th Anniversary
Event Maps: A Collaborative Calendaring System for Navigating Large-Scale Events
Jingtao Wang is an assistant professor in computer science and LRDC at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research direction is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Jingtao’s current research interests include mobile interfaces, education/learning technology, social computing, machine learning and its applications in HCI, novel input and interaction techniques, and online handwriting/gesture recognition algorithms. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
HCII Seminar Series - Hari Subramonyam
Hari Subramonyam is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Graduate School of Education and Computer Science (by courtesy). He is also the Ram and Vijay Shriram Faculty Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI. Hari's research looks at enabling multidisciplinary teams to design and develop ethical, responsible, and human-centered experiences with AI. A specific application area of his research is AI in education, where he draws from cognitive psychology and learning sciences to augment human learning experiences. Hari received his Ph.D.
Males and Females Developing Software: Are Programming Tools Getting in the Way?
Margaret Burnett is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. Her current research focuses on end-user programming, end-user software engineering, information foraging theory as applied to programming, and gender issues in those contexts. She has a long history of research in these issues and others relating to human issues of programming.
HCII Seminar Series - Alvitta Ottley
Dr. Alvitta Ottley is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. Her research uses interdisciplinary approaches to solve problems such as how best to display information for effective decision-making and how to design human-in-the-loop visual analytics interfaces that are more attuned to how people think. Dr.
A Psychological Approach to Designing Systems and Creating Interventions: Case studies from Autism, Asthma and Diabetes
Dr. Arriaga is a developmental psychologist in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her emphasis is on using psychological theories and methods to address fundamental topics of human computer interaction. Her current research interest is in the area of chronic care management. Recently she has addressed some of the following questions: how software solutions can improve asthma management in children, how crowd sourcing can aid individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their caregiver, and how lab-based technologies can be scaled and deployed to broaden their impact.
HCII Ph.D. Proposal: Steven Moore
PhD Communication Requirement Talks
Socio-technical Systems Under Stress
Brian Keegan is a computational social scientist and research associate at the Harvard Business School's HBX massively open online course (MOOC) platform. He was previously a post-doc in David Lazer's lab at Northeastern University where his work focused on online political behavior and web experiments. He received his Communication PhD in 2012 from Northwestern University and his dissertation examined the history, structure, and dynamics of Wikipedia's coverage of breaking news events.
Semester Course Add Deadline
Session All & Mini-6 Final Exams
HCII Seminar Series: Jon Froehlich
Jon Froehlich is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where he is member of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and founder of the HCIL Hackerspace. His research group, the Makeability Lab, focuses on designing and studying novel interactive experiences that cross between bits and atoms—the virtual and the physical—and back again to confront some of the world's greatest challenges in environmental sustainability, health and wellness, education, and universal accessibility.
Semester Course Drop and Pass/Fail Grade Option Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After this date.
Modeling Human Communication Dynamics
Louis-Philippe Morency is Assistant Professor in the Language Technology Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University where he leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab). He received his Ph.D. and Master degrees from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2008, Dr. Morency was selected as one of "AI's 10 to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems.
MHCI UX Portfolio Night
Aesthetics of Intelligence: Designing User Experience for Systems of Smart Things
Lin-Lin Chen is professor in the department of industrial and commercial design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) and in the faculty of industrial design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. She received B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the United States.