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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-5 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session One Course Add Deadline
Thanksgiving Holiday; No Classes
Thesis Defense: William Odom
Thesis Defense: Kevin Huang
From Typing Without Looking to Communicating With the Eyes
Khai Truong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Khai received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been an active ubicomp researcher for nearly 20 years.
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Anand Kulkarni
HCII Seminar Series: Post-Doc Talks
Paulo's Bio:
Learning Programming at Scale: Code, Data, and Environment
Philip Guo is an assistant professor of Cognitive Science and an affiliate assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. His research spans human-computer interaction, programming tools, and online learning. He now focuses on building scalable systems that help people learn computer programming and data science. He is the creator of Python Tutor (http://pythontutor.com/), a widely-used code visualization and collaborative learning platform.
Teamwork with Robots
Malte Jung is an Assistant Professor in Information Science at Cornell University and the Nancy H. ’62 and Philip M. ’62 Young Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on the intersections of teamwork, robots, and emotion. The goal of his research is to inform our basic understanding of robots in teams as well as to inform how we design technology to support teamwork across a wide range of settings. Malte Jung received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, "Creating Tools To Support Teachers, Their Teaching And To Help Them Improve Their Practices In The Classroom"
Some History and a Biased Perspective of Intelligent Tutoring Systems
J. D. Fletcher is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses where he specializes in manpower, personnel, and training issues. He holds graduate degrees in computer science and educational psychology from Stanford University, where, as a research associate, he directed numerous projects for the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences. He has held university positions in psychology, educational psychology, computer science, and systems engineering.
Seminar: Luke Stark
Luke Stark is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His work interrogates the historical, social, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies, particularly those mediating social and emotional expression. His scholarship highlights the asymmetries of power, access and justice that are emerging as these systems are deployed in the world, and the social and political challenges that technologists, policymakers, and the wider public face as a result.
Personalized access to information with social navigation support
Peter Brusilovsky is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Research Scientist at HCI. His research interests include intelligent tutoring systems, user modeling, adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. He is a co-editor of several books and a guest editor of several special journal issues on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. He has chaired several conferences and multiple workshops on adaptive hypermedia, adaptive Web-based systems, and User Modeling.
HCII Speaker Series - Daragh Byrne
Daragh Byrne is Associate Teaching Track faculty in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He is core faculty in the Computational Design graduate program in the School of Architecture, actively teaches in the IDeATe network, and holds courtesy appointments in the School of Design and Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Daragh's teaching and research focuses on topics including the internet of things, experiential media, and the maker movement.
The Pragmatics of Deep Change—An HCI Case Study
Peter Lucas focuses on breaking down the disciplinary boundaries that lead to technologies that are poorly suited to the needs of individuals and society. He co-founded MAYA Design in 1989 and has guided its growth as a premier venue for interdisciplinary product design and technology research, serving both the private and public sectors. He was formerly MAYA’s President and CEO and continues as Board Chair. He was also co-founder and Board Chair of sister company MAYA Viz prior to its acquisition by General Dynamics in 2005. Peter received his Ph.D.
HCII Seminar Series - Janet Vertesi
Dubbed “Margaret Mead among the Starfleet” in the Times Literary Supplement, Janet Vertesi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She has spent fifteen years studying NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams as a sociologist of science and technology.