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Fall Break - No Classes this Week
Designing to Enhance Confidence and Innovation
Liz Gerber is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. She holds courtesy appointments in the Schools of Management and Education. Liz researches how work practices and technology influences creative problem solving. In 2008, Liz founded Design for America, an award winning, nationwide initiative for college campuses that inspires students to use human centered design to create local and social impact. Previously, Liz taught at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school).
HCII Seminar Series - Fei Fang
Before joining CMU, Fei Fang was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University, hosted by David Parkes and Barbara Grosz. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California advised by Milind Tambe (now at Harvard).
Interactive Art and Speculative HCI
Golan Levin’s work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and performance media. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, Levin applies creative twists to new technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity.
HCII PhD Student Review
HCII Seminar Series - David Shamma
Tasty Technology: Creating Multisensory Experiences
Marianna Obrist is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at the University of Sussex, at the School of Engineering and Informatics. She joined Sussex after spending two years as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Culture Lab of the School of Computing Science in Newcastle University. Before that Marianna was an Assistant Professor for Human-Computer Interaction and Usability at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria. The focal point of her research is to create a rich and systematic understanding on users experiences with interactive technologies.
THESIS PROPOSAL: Eliane Wiese
Mini-3 Course Grade Audit Option Deadline
Session Two Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Mini-1 Last Day of Classes
Mini-1 Faculty Course Evaluations
Leading the Startup UX
Uday Gajendar is a proven design leader focused on new product innovation & guiding start-ups on UX fundamentals. Uday has 15 years of versatile expertise at Frogdesign, Citrix, Peel, Netflix, Adobe, CloudPhysics and others, spanning enterprise to consumer, web to mobile domains. He also regularly writes for ACM Interactions and routinely speaks worldwide on design topics at SXSW, UX Australia, IxDA, and other venues. You can read Uday’s thoughts on design at his blog, www.ghostinthepixel.com.
Ph.D. Communication Requirement Talks
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Lee
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.