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HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Humphrey Yang
Expanding Games
Robin Hunicke is the Co-Founder of the independent game studio Funomena, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. A game designer and producer by training, she has a background in fine art, computer science and applied game studies. She has been designing, making and teaching about games for over 12 years, and began working full time in the industry in 2005.
Your Brain on Typography
Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her exhibitions Beautiful Users and Process Lab are open through spring 2015. Past exhibitions include Graphic Design—Now in Production, co-organized by Cooper-Hewitt and the Walker Art Center, and the National Design Triennial series.
THESIS DEFENSE: Stephen Oney
Mini-3 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Mini-1 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Thesis Defense: Sunyoung Kim
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Ph.D. Open House for Accepted Students
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Franklin
Design at the Interface
Daniel Cardoso Llach is Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. His recent work includes the book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015), which identifies and documents the theories of design emerging from postwar technology projects at MIT, and traces critically their architectural repercussions. His writings have been published in journals including Design Issues, Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), and Thresholds, among others, and in several edited collections.
Can I Use That?! Ethics, Law, and Norms for Other People’s Data
Dr. Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor and founding faculty in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily conducts research at the intersection of social computing and regulation, including social norms, internet law, research ethics, and ethics education.
Cautionary Tales and Better Futures for Social Technologies
John Cain is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Design in Chicago where he is devising courses for a new graduate curriculum at the intersection of design, data and technology.
PhD Thesis Defense, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access"
Creating technologies usable by the full range of human condition, personal, situational and environmental
Gregg C. Vanderheiden directs the Trace Research & Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Professor in Industrial Engineering (Human Factors) and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Vanderheiden has been working in the area of access to technology for over 30 years. He pioneered in the field of Augmentative Communication (a name taken from his writings) and assistive technology, looking at issues for physical and cognitive disabilities.
PhD Thesis Proposal: Michal Luria
UI at Google: Guiding Principles and Practices
Marissa Mayer has been with Google since June, 1999. Currently the Director of Consumer Web Products, she has managed the user experience on Google’s website for the past 6 years. While at Google, she has been a software engineer and product manager (and occasionally designer and usability analyst) working on projects including the main web search, image search, Google News, Froogle, Groups, Desktop Search, and Orkut. Several patents have been filed on her work.
HCII Seminar Series - Shunichi Kasahara
Shunichi Kasahara Ph.D. Researcher, Group leader at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. Received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2017. He is leading “Superception” research: computational extension of human perception and investigation of the self in human-computer integration. The result of his research has been presented at the major international conferences in the fields of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and media technology showcases.
Notions of Design, with an Emphasis on Sustainability-Centered Interaction Design
Eli Blevis is on the faculty of the School of Informatics at Indiana University at Bloomington. His primary arena of teaching and research is Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d), by which is meant the now established confluence of HCI and design. He has a special interest in design theory and sustainability-centered interaction design. Prior to this point in his career, (i) Dr.