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  • Online Learning with Courseware and Virtual Labs

    Professor Scheines received his Ph.d in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1987, and joined the faculty in Philosophy in 1990. His research has focused on the connection between statistical evidence and causal claims, and on educational computing. In addition to his appointment in Philosophy, he is a member of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and is the director of the undergraduate major in HCI.

  • Language, Poetry and Interaction Design

    Jon received both his undergraduate BFA in Industrial Design as well as his Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work at Trilogy, in Austin, TX, focused on interface-level interaction design for Fortune 500 clients such as Ford, Sun and IBM. After working at several start-ups in Austin, he joined the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA in 2003.

  • Designing the Brand Experience; Creating Compelling Digital Products

    Terry Swack is a 20-year veteran of the design profession as well as a leading digital strategist. Formerly, Terry was founder and CEO of TSDesign, an Internet strategy and product design firm which was acquired by Razorfish in 1999.

    The development of the User Experience Audit, in 1996, was the first offering of its kind and positioned TSDesign as an industry leader in design analysis and user experience management. Clients included 3M, Compaq, BankBoston, WebCriteria, Tripod, Dell and Cendant Mortgage.

  • Artwork as an Interface between Audience(s)

    Noriyuki Fujimura began to make interactive artworks using his experience in the field of architecture and urban design. He has a BA in architecture (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and a Masters degree in Media and Public Policy (Keio University). He is currently a Visiting Artist/Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in the College of Fine Arts, supported by the Japanese Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He will present his artwork as part of a group exhibition “Healing the Environment” at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts this November.

  • Automotive Enhanced Vision Systems: Issues Arising from Placing Users in the Loop

    Tom is the Lab Group Manager of the Human Machine Interface group within the Vehicle Development Research Lab at GM. He is responsible for developing next generation interfaces that enable safer, more efficient and pleasurable human interactions with GM vehicle interiors. This technical domain is comprised of User Centered Design process development, use of Design Language for brand differentiation and harmonious experience, in addition to the traditional focus of information management, display and control, and user human factors/usability testing.

  • Social Information Access: The Other Side of the Social Web

    Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the field of adaptive educational systems, user modeling, and intelligent user interfaces for more than 20 years. He published numerous papers and edited several books on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. Peter is currently an Associate Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab.

  • HCII Seminar Series - Julian Brinkley

    Dr. Julian Brinkley is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at Clemson University and the director of the Design and Research of In-Vehicle Experiences Lab (DRIVE Lab). His research is focused on the intersection between human factors, automotive engineering, and computer science; work that has been supported by grants from the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, Google, the US Army, the US Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

  • Merckx and the Machine: Governing Bodies, Banned Technologies, and the Future of Sport

    Rayvon Fouché is an Associate Professor of History and Research Associate Professor of the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological use. His first book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press) created a broader textured understanding of black inventive experiences.

  • HCII Seminar Series - Ding Wang

    Ding Wang, is a senior HCI researcher from Google AI, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology Group. Her research focuses on the norms, processes and production of data (e.g. the collection, annotation and documentation on data) and responsible data practices that are essential to ML and AI systems.

  • HCII Seminar Series - Amy Bruckman

    Amy Bruckman is Regents’ Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on social computing, with interests in online collaboration, CSCW, and content moderation. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1997, and a B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1987. She is a Fellow of The ACM and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. She is the author of the book “Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge” (2022).