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HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Amy Shannon Cook, "Using Interactive Learning Activities to Address Challenges of Peer Feedback Systems"

Amy Shannon Cook

Committee: Jessica Hammer, HCII/ETC (co-chair) Steven Dow, UCSD (co-chair) Ken Koedinger, HCII/Psychology Marsha Lovett, Psychology/Eberly...

Thesis Proposal: Anhong Guo, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access"

Anhong Guo

Committee: Jeffrey Bigham, HCII and LTI, CMU (Chair) Chris Harrison, HCII, CMU Jodi Forlizzi, HCII...

Understanding Human Behavior for Better Assistive Robots

Henny Admoni

Assistant Professor Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab

Human-robot interaction has the potential to transform the way people work and live, particularly when...

No Laggers: the Effects of Network Delays on Real-Time Groupware

Carl Gutwin

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Saskatchewan

Delay is a fact of life in real-time groupware that operates on the real-world Internet...

Seminar: Anne Marie Piper

Anne Marie Piper

Associate Professor, University of California Irvine

"Rethinking Design for Accessibility" Approximately 61 million Americans, or one in four U.S. adults, have...

How We Spent Five Years and $5 Million Learning How to Design Software Applications for the Elderly

Jeff Pepper

Founder, President, and CEO of Touchtown, Inc.

Designing graphical user interfaces for older adults is a challenge, but that problem is dwarfed...

DEI in CS Seminar: Jeff Forbes

Jeff Forbes

NSF Program Director for Education and Workforce and Broadening Participation in Computing

“ Exploring the National Science Foundation’s Work in Broadening Participation in Computing” The National Science...

Embodied and tangible interaction design

Cornelis (Kees) Overbeeke

Distinguished Nierenberg Chair, Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Products, computers and systems are becoming adaptive, pro-active, intelligent, ambient etc. This shift towards “behavioral”...

HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks

6 PhD students will give talks (20 minutes + 10 minute Q&A)

9:30-10:00 AM Anna Fang (Talk Title) Algorithmic Matching for Online Mental Health Communities 10:00-10:30 AM...

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Research Scientists, IBM’s Visual Communication Lab

Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the elite in academia, business, and government...

Theory Seminar

AARON POTECHIN

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago

Graph matrices are a type of matrix whose entries are functions of a random input...

Interaction Design Methods and Social Communication on the Jam-O-Drum

Tina Blaine

Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Faculty Member, Entertainment Technology Center and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

At Interval Research, Tina Blaine led a creative team in the development of collaborative audiovisual...

Machine Learning / Duolingo Seminar

WILLIAM W. COHEN

Principal Scientist
Google Research
Consulting Professor, Machine Learning Department/Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

The goal of open-domain question answering (QA) is simply to answer questions about any subject...

Alice: A System for Teaching Computer Programming to the Rest of Us

Randy Pausch

Professor of Computer Science, HCI, and Design, Co-Director, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Programming computers is an intrinsically difficult activity, but our current methods and technologies for teaching...