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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

CANCELLED - HCII Seminar Series: Kellee Santiago

How UX Techniques Promote Simulation Software for Everyone

Imran Riaz with guest Jared Pryor

Manager of User Experience, ANSYS Inc.

At ANSYS, we create simulation software that is a key component of the product development...

BHCI Information Session

Are you passionate about creating and improving human life through technology? Our mission is to...

If the Shoe Fits: Towards A Conceptual Model for Applied Deep Learning in Social Computing

Carolyn P Rose

Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

For more than a decade, a growing interest in automated processing of behavior traces has...

PhD Communication Requirement Talks

multiple HCII PhD students

10:00 am- Tomohiro Nagashima, "Motivating Factors among University Faculty for Adopting Open Educational Resources" 10:30...

HCII PhD Communication Requirement Talks

Multiple talks; none from noon-1pm

9:15 a.m. Coffee and bagels 9:30-10:00 a.m. Sung-A Jang, "Examining the Analytic Practices & Needs...

PhD Thesis Defense: Fannie Liu

Fannie Liu

Servicing the Surface Economy, or: The Loneliness of the Virtual Reality

Anne Lorimer

Postdoctoral Fellow in Rhetoric & Discourse Studies, Carnegie Mellon University

Designers of interactive science museum exhibits take pains to ensure their exhibitry will provide pleasurable...

HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Megan Hofmann, "The GIST of Medical Making: A Framework For Producing Clinical CAD Tools with Generative Design"

Megan Hofmann

Committee: Scott E. Hudson (HCII), Co-Chair Jennifer Mankoff (UW), Co-Chair Patrick Carrington, (HCII) Jodi Forlizzi...

Interfaces for Augmenting Face-to-Face Conversation Using Wearable Computers

Thad E. Starner

Georgia Tech

Speech is ubiquitous in the office environment; workers spend 35–80% of their time in spoken...

PhD Thesis Proposal: Karan Ahuja, "Practical and High-Fidelity User Digitization On-the-Go"

Karan Ahuja

Committee: Chris Harrison, Co-Chair, Carnegie Mellon University Mayank Goel, Co-Chair, Carnegie Mellon University Nikolas Martelaro...

Context Aware Computing, Understanding and Responding to Human Intention

Ted Selker

Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This talk will demonstrate that Artificial intelligence can competently Improve human interaction with systems and...

Theory Lunch Seminar

SAMSON ZHOU

Postdoctoral Researcher
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Online learning with expert advice is a fundamental problem of sequential prediction. In this problem...

IP Telephony Using SIP and Value-add Using PDAs

Thomas Gentles and Guido Schuster

Internet Communications Business Connectivity Group for 3Com Corporation

“IP Telephony using SIP” by Thomas Gentles In the past, telephony service, especially local telephony...

Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense

DHEERAJ RAJAGOPAL

Ph.D. Student
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Understanding our reasoning process through explanations is spontaneous, ubiquitous and fundamental to our sense of...

Designing With Time

Daniel Boyarski

Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University

We are in the midst of a transition from book culture to digital culture. We...